Gringo, what do you think of George Monbiot and Double Down News? His videos are good.
Have not read Double Down before but having just had a look at their website I will give it a read. There are writers on there who I have read plenty of articles by, Glenn Greenwald and Naomi Wimborne-idrissi to name two, whose writing I generally regard as truthful and honest. Monbiot is, in my opinion, a kind of allowed opposition. His stances on important issues are too often in step with the establishment lies. Anyone who is paid to write regularly in the Guardian, knows where the bounds are and what is allowable dissent.
Having said that, we only have a hope of finding the truth if we listen to all views and use our discernment from there.
Unz review is a good site for those willing to have their thinking challenged. There are articles on there by extremely right wing and left wing writers and everything in between. I don't endorse every writer on there, it would be intellectually impossible, but Ron Unz site is what free speech looks like.
Jonathon Cook, who previously wrote for the Guardian as middle East correspondent but whose views on Zionism and Israel are now seen as taboo in the Western MSM, is regularly given a platform for his articles. He is an excellent writer, based in Nazareth and Jewish himself but the "wrong kind of jew" for the MSM. He is also pretty vocal about the decline in the editorial independence of the Graun and has written about this. There was a change at the Guardian after the Snowden leaks and the GCHQ visit and it is no longer the paper that allowed the kind of reporting that Nick Davies performed forcing the Leveson Enquiry.
There are so many good informed writers given a platform at Unz that you can't list them all.
Michael Hudson is excellent on the wider economic financial war and its consequences and implications. Pepe Escobar is good on middle eastern politics and the geopolitical picture generally but there are lots of good informed commentators whose work is platformed there.
Excellent archives, including entire history books written in the aftermath of WW2 whose truth is now not allowed and therefore not available in print anymore. QC recommended it once, as I recall, so I assume that he also is a reader.
Moon of Alabama is an excellent one man blog, which has been running more or less since the internet was a thing, originally as Billmon blog. Particularly on the ongoing Syrian war that the UK media has to perform contortions reporting on in order to paint Al Qaeda, Al Nusra Front and various other flavours of extreme foreign Islamic jihadists as legitimate moderate rebels. It is a sick media that can portray head chopping foreign jihadists slaughtering Syrian Army, Police and citizens of all religious denominations as the good guys and the Syrians under their legitimate President fighting these invaders as the bad guys. There is a really informed and diverse commentariat in the comments section with plenty of links to opinions and voices not readily heard in our media. Also archives of all previous pieces, which allows those discerning enough to assess the credibility of the writer.
From what I can see with Double Down it deals largely with domestic politics so will definitely have a good look over next few days. Platforms like this are hopefully the future of media because we need media that functions. The mainstream does even bother to veil its hypocrisy and lies anymore. The treatment of Corbyn, whatever ones view of him, opened a few more peoples eyes to their lies and one sided narratives, the Skripal and Navalny narratives are so preposterous and full of holes that they should be embarrassed.
Meandered a bit more than intended, but if you haven't read those sites then they worth a look.
