How many of you are sick & tired of celebrity news? How many of you think it funny that the antics of Justin Bieber makes it into serious news, just after another explosion in Iraq and before the sectarian civil war in Syria?The stars of the entertainment/sports worlds are the drugs pushed for public consumption & distraction -the electronic opiates of the masses. We are literally entertaining ourselves to death. It is sickening. A way out of this wasteland & of (re)thinking the world beyond the standard stories/narratives of the mainstream corporate media in the USA.is to check out alternative resources like the following:
Al Jazeera Documentaries
Baffler
Big Think
Bulleting of the Atomic Scientists
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Business Week
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Colorlines
Consortium News
CorpWatch
Counterpunch
Dandelion Salad
Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
The Democracy Center
Democracy Now
Dissent
Dissident Voice
Documentary
Earth First! Newswire
Electric Sheep
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Empire
Entitled Opinions
Everyday Feminism
Fare Forward
Faultlines
Film Studies for Free
Floating Sheep Free Speech Radio
Frontline
The Funambulist
Gawker
Genders
Global Issues
Global News
Global Research
Global Voices
Green is the New Red
The Guardian
Guernica Daily
History Commons
History News Network
Informal Encyclopedia of Education
Infoshop News
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology
Jump Cut
Law and Disorder Radio
Libcom
Lifehacker
London Review of Books
London School of Economics and Political Science
Los Angeles Review of Books
Making Contact
Matt Bors
Media Lens
The Medium and the Message
Monthly Review
Moyers & Company
Mute
n+1
Naked Capitalism
National Center foe Case Study Teaching in Science
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
The National Police Misconduct Reporting Project (NPMRP)
NewBlackMan (In Exile)
New Politics
The New York Review of Books
On Being
Online University of the Left
Open Culture
Organizing Upgrade
People and Power
Police State USA
Practical Ethics
Prison Radio
Project Censored
Pro Publica
Public International Radio
Radical Criminology
Radiolab
Radio Open Source
Radio West
Reader Supported News
The Real News
Religion Dispatches
ROAR (Reflections on a Revolution)
Richard D. Wolff
RSA Animate
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Security and Liberty
Smiley and West
The Sociological Cinema
Sociological Images
The Stone
Tavis Smiley
Teaching Media
Teaching Tolerance
Think Africa Press
Thought Maybe
Tim Wise
TomDispatch
True African Original
Truthdig
Truthout
The Understory
Union of Concerned Scientists
Unwelcome Guest
Uprising Radio
Uprooting Criminology: A Reasoned Plot (
Verso Books Blog
Waging Non-Violence
Wikileaks
Words Without Borders
ZineLibrary
Z Net
OneLove
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