Alternative Information Sources  

The category list sites that provide alternatives to the mainstream news media.

AlterNet
This site offers original journalism and utilizes the best of other independent news sources. The aim is to promote citizen action on the environment, social justice, human rights and civil liberties, and health care issues.

Disinformation
This site fills the needs of people who are looking for information on current affairs, politics, new science and the "hidden information" that seldom seems to slip through the cracks of the huge media conglomerates.

Common Dreams
This site provides breaking news from a progressive perspective, concentrating on the kind of information that is hard to find in the current corporate-dominated media.

Unknown News
This site specializes in lesser known stories that are often overlooked or intentionally avoided by the mainstream news organizations. The site includes an extensive archive of previously-published stories arranged by by subject matter. There are also sections for political cartoons, births and deaths, and letters to the editor.

The Center for Public Integrity
The mission of this center is to sponsor journalistic investigations of corruption in government and in the corporate world.

Other Categories  

• Social Causes
  Websites that speak out for the rights of repressed minority groups or neglected segments of society

• Personal Freedom
  Websites that oppose attempts to take away personal freedom and civil liberties

• Political Dissent
  Websites that take unpopular political positions or call for radical changes to existing governmental systems

• Anti-Corporate
  Websites that oppose the policies and practices of large corporations and institutions. Such practices might include collusion, artificial price controls, exploitation of people, lobbying for special tax benefits, unfair awarding of contracts, and exploitation of natural resources.

• Religious Dissent
  Websites that oppose the beliefs and practices of major established religious groups, or that promote the beliefs of small lesser-known groups.

• Peripheral Science
  Websites which put forward theories about phenomena that lie outside the scope of conventional science.

• Alternative Healthcare
  Websites that oppose the policies of established healthcare systems and/or advocate alternative methods of treatment such as natural remedies.

• Skepticism
  This page lists websites which express doubts about majority opinions or offer counter-arguments to conventional beliefs. This can include commonly accepted ideas about political systems, religious practices, and social policies.

• Nature and Environment
  Websites and organizations that fight to protect the natural world from human exploitation and encroachment. This could include the advocacy of animal rights, the protection and expansion of park lands, and opposition to commercial development of unspoiled land.

• Other Resources
  Other useful online resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and reference materials.

• More Resources
  Some additional resources.

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