 Hi everyone, this is Chichur. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another politics-related video. And what we're going to do in this video is basically I'm going to go through and give you sort of a list of my primary sources of news and information. And this is sort of a follow-up to a similar video we put out in 2016 where I did the same thing when I went through and I sort of gave you guys a list of sort of my trusted sources of news and information. And after that we sort of did a live stream, did the same thing and I sort of went through some of the websites and stuff. And the live stream we held on Twitch, right? And if you want further information on politics and politics and economics, I sort of treat in the same breath basically. So we do have a playlist of politics and economics where you can go through and take a look at some of the political discussion and economic discussion we've had on this channel so far. And we sort of create a subcategory of that where we've talked about personal finance. If you want to know my personal take on what's going on politically, economically, those two playlists will give you a pretty good idea of what my political slants or my political biases are, right? But right now what I want to do is give you sort of a list of some of my primary sources of news. And these ones that I, these are basically the main ones that I actively seek out. There are other ones that I go to as well, other sources of news that I have. But these are the ones that I thought of you while we're sharing because they are the ones that I check on a regular basis, okay? And I will provide links in the description of this video and links and names and the people that we're talking about right now. And you're definitely welcome to join us on Twitch because every now and then we do open discussions, politics and economics open discussions. So you're definitely welcome to join us on Twitch when we do have those discussions going on. And I usually announce those either on Twitch or I definitely announce them on Twitch or I do announce them on Patreon and Twitter as well, okay? And I sort of broken this down into four main categories, okay? The first one is basically technology-related news, internet-related news, copyright and intellectual property. The second one that we're going to go through is sort of where I get my politics and economics news. These are mainly individual, individual trusted sources that I followed over the years no matter which platform they have been in, okay? The fourth one we're going to take a look at is some podcasts that I listened to, okay? And these are mainly politics-related podcasts that I sort of follow, okay? And the fourth category that I have here is basically sort of collectives or institutions or organizations that provide news and information, okay? So I thought I'd break it down in that form just in case you're interested in one or the other. You can go directly to these sources if you would like, okay? And one other thing I'll mention as well, okay? If you're getting your news from only one platform and there's a lot of platforms right now that are censoring information, filtering information, and they're not allowing a certain type of discourse, dialogue to be had, I highly recommend diversifying, decentralizing where you get your information, right? Because the name of the game right now is to make sure you're getting a nice spectrum of news information coming your way. Since there are a lot of political biases, there's a lot of disinformation, misinformation, and a lot of tremendous amount of propaganda and censorship happening on multiple platforms, okay? I won't start naming names, but I would highly recommend if you're getting your news on some of the main western social media sites that you diversify and actively seek out political and economic news if you're seriously interested in that information, okay? So I thought I'd give you this list, okay? For the first category of news that I seek out, which is basically technology-related information related to copyright and intellectual property, trade deals, and how they're going to affect the internet and the way we consume information, right? I only have one main trusted source that I go to, and that's Michael Geist, and I will provide links in the description of this video to everything that we talk about, right? And he has one main website where he posts his take. He writes articles, fairly in-depth articles dealing with some of the issues that we're dealing with right now regarding the internet, net neutrality, copyrights, intellectual property, or whatever technology is related. And in a big way, how the trade deals that are taking place right now, they're going to affect the way we are able to access the internet, okay? Very, very well-informed individual with fantastic articles that he puts out, okay? He is Canadian-based, just to let you know, he is Canadian-based, but in regards to Europe, Canada and the United States, how certain laws are going to affect us, he is the only source that I 100% trust, okay? As far as straight-up politics, and there are some economics here as well, but straight-up politics that I go to, the sources that I actively check out on a regular basis, for those of you who've seen the previous video that we put out, there are some that have taken out of this my regular routine where I check out news because I found them to be extremely biased in one way or the other, or outright lying in some cases, so I sort of stopped, filtered some of that new sources that I used to go to if you've seen the previous video, okay? In regards to politics and economics, Caitlin Johnson, okay? She's fairly recent. In the last couple of years, she's been, or last year really, she's hit my radar. She writes fantastic, specifically geopolitics-related articles, well worth reading, well worth reading. Another place where I get information as much as I can from them, they're not releasing information very rapidly, very frequently anymore, and I would have mentioned this in the previous video as well, and previous videos as well, okay? And this is juice media. You guys would have known them when I mentioned them as rap news, where they used to do rap news sort of cast for 10, 15 minutes or so, they were fantastic, right? But they sort of changed their platform, or changed the way they're communicating information, and they've sort of started creating short sort of advertisements that are honest advertisements from governments. Fantastic, it's got a lot of humor in it, and sometimes they are tear-jerkers, okay? So juice media, and I mainly check out their YouTube channel, okay, that's where they're uploading a lot. Another person that I've mentioned before, well worth checking out is Paul Craig Roberts. He's been in politics for a very long time through the 1970s even, right? He served on the Reagan administration in the 1980s, and he's very direct and open with the way he perceives the world to be right now. Well worth checking out, and I'll mention this here right now, but I should have mentioned in the beginning of this video, is everybody that I'm listing here, it doesn't mean that I agree with their complete whole philosophy. I like the way they're presenting information. I like the way they're sharing information, the reason that they're sharing information, right? Intentions matter, right? So I don't necessarily agree with everything being said by everyone here that I'm mentioning. I just like them because I believe they are authentic, sincere, and sharing what they can to the best of their abilities, okay? And that was Paul Craig Roberts. Another person that I check out, and I've been checking them out for a number of years now, I've read one of their books that they put out, and I've read numerous articles that they put out, and that's Chris Hedges, and he's got a program right now on RT, okay? And it's called On Contact, where he brings in people that he believes are important, okay? Have something important to share, or they're involved politically or economically in some type of system that he believes is worth sharing with his audience. It's basically a talk show where he interviews people and they present information, they either talk about the books that they've written, the articles that they've put out, the institutions they're involved with, right? Well worth reading, and if you want to know where Chris Hedges is at, and I've mentioned this in numerous times, you want to read his not latest book, I haven't read his latest book, but I've read the book beforehand, what he did with Joe Sockel, which is Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a fantastic book, well worth reading. And that was Chris Hedges, and his show is On Contact on RT, okay? Another person that I check out, I don't check out as often now as I used to, but I used to check out James Corbett, okay? And the Corbett report is his main platform where he shares information, and he puts out documentaries, he interviews people, and he does little shorts, he does news briefings and stuff like this. There's a tremendous amount of information there, and I highly recommend checking out his website as well as checking out his Bichut and YouTube channel. He's uploading to both platforms right now, and the odds are you probably get more information through the Bichut channel, since YouTube is in a big way turning out to be censoring, filtering information in a way that they believe their audience is going to like. So there is a certain amount of censorship being done on YouTube, so the odds are you might find some stuff on James Corbett's Bichut channel that you will most likely not find on his YouTube channel, which is sort of the way I'm approaching things as well, right? Another person that I followed, I followed for a while now wherever she's gone to, which is Abby Martin, okay? And her main gig has been the Empire Files, and she does artwork as well. She has a website where she does paintings and drawings and shares prints of her work and some original art and whatnot, right? But Abby Martin is one of the trusted people where I acquire information, right? And she has, you know, the Empire Files TV and her stuff has been censored in a big way, okay? So the frequency of information she's been able to share is not as much as she was before, and she has a YouTube channel, and most of the people that I'm mentioning here, they will also have Patreon accounts, right? Patreon Spaces, and I highly recommend following their work on Patreon as well, okay? Just the same way I do that I have a Patreon site where I'm doing some crowdfunding to support the work that I'm doing. Most of these people that are sharing information, they also have Patreon accounts, as does Abby Martin and Colbert and Juice Media, okay? And for sure, Caitlin has as well, I believe. Okay? So you can follow their work on all their platforms, which sort of goes towards, you know, making sure that you're decentralized from one platform, only getting your information from one source, right? You need to be diversified. You need to decentralize. If you want to really find out what's going on in the world, okay? No matter if you're leaning left, center, right, or you believe that whole scale system is completely obsolete and irrelevant, right? Another person that I follow, I check out, and she's on a grassroots level and a trusted source of news and information. And she is fantastic. And then that's Laura Flanders. And she has a website, Laura Flanders, and she has the Laura Flanders show being loaded on YouTube and whatnot. And it's very grassroots. They talk about people who are doing grassroots organizations or they're involved in certain projects affecting things on a very local basis, right? But a lot of that is scalable to other communities and whatnot. So I do, you know, make an effort to at least keep track of the topics she's covering and some of the people she's interviewing. Okay? Someone that I follow regarding geopolitics, especially what's occurring in Central and South America, South America, more so than Central and Asia. And that's Pepe Escobar. Okay? And if you follow my work, you know that, you know, I've mentioned Pepe Escobar before, as I have Laura Flanders and I have Yvonne Corbett in the rest, right? Some of the rest anyway. But Pepe Escobar does fantastic work on reporting on what's going on with the One Road, One Belt regarding China, what's going on in Asia with Russia, as well as South America. Well-informed articles. And he does have a personal bias, but there's a reason why he has a personal bias, as does everybody else, right? Another person that I follow, and he's partnered up with someone else, and I've been following this person for a long time, and this is Max Blumenthal. And his reporting regarding what's going on in terms of U.S. domestic policy, as well as U.S. foreign policy, specifically in regards to the Middle East. Okay? Fantastic reporting. Trust the source of news. He's released some information that, you know, been the first to release some of that information that other people have been reporting on. And I basically, right now, follow Max Blumenthal. I follow his Twitter feed. Okay? And I follow him with the work that he's doing with Ben Norton. And Ben Norton is just recently that I've really gotten to know through the project that he's working on with Max Blumenthal, which is the Grey Zone project. Okay? And they have a website and they do in-depth articles and stuff like this, both Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton. They do fantastic investigative reporting. And they have a podcast called Moderate Rebel, where they talk about geopolitics and they interview people. And I highly recommend following that podcast as well. And I will mention it when we come, when we hit the podcast section. And Ben Norton is also involved with the Real News Network. And the Real News Network is something that I will mention here as well in the organizations that have been following for a long time as well. Okay? So Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton from the Grey Zone project as well as the Moderate Rebel. Okay? Someone else I follow, if you want to know what's going on in the Middle East, specifically in regards to Palestine, Israel, Syria, and greater Middle East, Levant region, right? As well as domestic policy, U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy, which is Norman Finkelstein. And I've followed Norman Finkelstein's work for a very long time. I've gone to his lectures, or at least one lecture anyway, and I highly recommend if he's doing a presentation talk in your area, track him out, go listen to him. Okay? And if you see him being interviewed on any programs, listen to him. And definitely if you're into it, follow his work, and he does have a Twitter account that you can follow his work as well. Okay? Very important information. Okay? Another person that I just recently started following, and I'm basically following their Twitter feed. They're very active on Twitter. I don't go to his website. I'm reading his book right now, which is Nicholas Nassim Taleb. Okay? I like his perspective and the book that I'm going through right now, which is Skin in the Game, where we've done a sort of open discussion of skin in the game, sort of talking about the introduction. First, you know, 50 pages of the book when we went through some of the info that I came across. We did a live stream on Twitch, and I sort of cut some of that live stream into a little pieces that I loaded on YouTube and Bitshoot, and the live stream is only available on Bitshoot. Okay? But if you want to know who Nassim Nicholas Taleb is, and if you're into reading books, I highly recommend reading Skin in the Game. I'm sort of halfway through it right now. And most likely, I'll give a sort of a book review when I do finish it. Okay? And his Twitter feed is the link that I'm going to provide in the description of this video, which is the main thing that I follow from him, aside from reading his book. Another person that I have tremendous amount of respect for, okay, is Aaron Maté. I came across him in Canada because of his political activity, some of the stuff that he was doing when he was going to university, when he was just getting his footing, right? And then I followed him, you know, found him to be doing some news work on Democracy Now. Okay? And then he disappeared off Democracy Now and went to the Real Newsnet. Okay? So he does a lot of work on the Real Newsnet. And he is active on Twitter. So I follow him on his Twitter feed and I follow him on the Real Newsnet where he does interviews with people. I highly recommend it. He is doing his best to make sure he's presenting as much information as possible and trying to make sure that he has the right type of information to present. Okay? And for those of you in Canada, if you want to know who Aaron Maté is, he's, sorry, Aaron, if you see this video, I know you don't want the attachment there to a certain degree. I don't think anyone really does, but I do follow his work as well, his father's work as well, which is Gabo Maté. And Gabo Maté is a local physician, really. I believe he's a physician. And he does a lot of academic work and he's done a lot of grassroots work in Vancouver, in Canada, where he's dealt with drug addicts and dealing with people with addiction and stuff like this. And if you're interested in that, following Gabo Maté's work is extremely important as well. But that's not really... Well, there is a certain amount of politics involved and economics involved in there as well. Okay? But you will get some of that sense through some of the other people that I'm sharing. Okay? But that's who Aaron Maté is. He's Gabo Maté's son. And he's come to his own in a big, in a big way. Tremendous respect to him. Okay? Another person I follow, and I've mentioned this person before, which is John Pilger. And John Pilger, I don't follow his daily activity. He really doesn't have any. He presents... He creates documentaries. Okay? And Year Zero is one of them, the documentary he created regarding Cambodia. Okay? And he's done a few other documentaries. Like, I lost track of how many documentaries he's done. And his... He has a website that you can go to where he shares information. But with John Pilger, what you want to do is make sure that you watch every documentary that he puts out, as well as many interviews that you can find from him. Because other people and other organizations and newscasts, right, channels have interviewed John Pilger. So if you don't know who John Pilger is, find interviews with John Pilger and watch his interviews and watch his documentaries. And follow his website, the work he does on his website. I check it basically once a month or so. Okay? Another person, which I've been following specifically in regards to economics. Okay? And I've mentioned him before, which is Martin Armstrong. Okay? And he has a website called Armstrong Economics. And I mainly follow his blog posts, right? I make sure I follow every blog post that he puts out. And for those of you who recognize the name Martin Armstrong, he's the person that we talked about during the video that I put out regarding automation, the personal finance section of my channel, right? Personal finance and politics, economic section, but it goes into the personal finance section big way, right? And the economic stuff. We sort of put out a video regarding automation. And I reference Martin Armstrong's article that he put out called Behind the Curtain, where he shared his story regarding what happened to him in the 1980s with Wall Street and how he wrote code to automate trading and start getting some triggers. And he has a program running on his website called Socrates, where, you know, data is fed into the program and he, you know, automated alerts are given regarding certain events, specifically politics, but politics and economics occur. Sorry, specifically economics, but politics and economics occur. You know, they go hand in hand. So there's certain triggers that he talks about. And his blog is well worth following. And I'll say this again. I don't agree with everything everyone that I'm listening says, but I like their take. I want to be informed about their perspective and about their biases. That way I can take that information and use it the way I interpret what's happening in the world. Right? Another person, a show that I've been following for last year or so is the Jimmy Dore show. Fantastic. Follow it. Very good. Very well informed. It has this funny aspect. There's a fair bit of humor in there. They bring people to interview. Okay. Well worth following. I don't watch everything in this entirety, but I do check his YouTube channel. Okay. I don't know. Hopefully he's got something going on, but shoot as well. I don't think so. Not yet. He will at some point. Okay. But anybody covering politics at some point will have to make sure they have a bit shoot channel as well. But I check out mainly his YouTube channel. Okay. So the Jimmy Dore show. Another person that I follow specifically in regards to Canada. And I check out her website at least once a week. Right? Three or four times a month. Okay. And depending on what's going on, she mainly blogs about Canada, but she does cover geopolitics as well. And a lot of stuff happening in the United States. Okay. And she's an individual and I've known her for a long time. Okay. We got in touch. We sort of linked up back in the mid-2000s when I was blogging on my site doing a lot of politics, what she's doing, where I sort of decided to deviate and stop that type of blogging and sharing information and create content like this more. Okay. But she's stuck to it. She took a break for a little period, but stuck to it. And she's Corinne Allen. Okay. And she blogs under Yaya Canada. Okay. And I'll provide the link in the description of this video. And her, you know, her main story is basically she's a senior citizen, a grandmother, and cares about what's going on politically in Canada and globally. Okay. And if you're a Canadian, she is definitely one person, one perspective you should be following. I'll say this straight up. Really. Okay. I've got a couple of three other people here that I follow. Okay. Not everything they put out, but I do check out their channels just to see what it is they're covering. Okay. One of them is Sargon of Akad. Okay. I do follow his work on YouTube and he has a Bechoo channel as well. And I'm going to start following him a little bit more than I have in the past. I'd like to interview he did with Bannon. He put out like three weeks ago or so. Right. And I've checked out his, some of his work previously and some of the interviews he's done and stuff like this. And suffice it to say, I don't agree with everything he says, but I think he has a legitimate perspective and it is worth knowing about and it is worth paying attention to because some of the points being made are very, very valid points. Right. So Sargon of Akad and definitely follow his work on Bechoo as well because just recently in the last few days Patreon has kicked them off their platform and I believe PayPal has is preventing transactions to be made for him. Okay. He's fairly big. He has a huge following. But both Patreon and PayPal have censored him have banned him from their platforms. So if some of these main huge platforms especially in regards to funding if they're preventing people from being funded to share their work I tend to follow their work a little bit more. Okay. Not all of them, but Sargon of Akad I will be following more. Okay. Another person that I've just recently started following is Stix Hexen Hammer 66. Okay. He has a YouTube channel. He has a Bechoo channel. He has a Patreon page. I'm not following his Patreon stuff but I am following him on Bechoo and YouTube and most likely I'm going to start following him more on Bechoo than YouTube because the odds are they're playing with fire. Both Sargon of Akad in regards to YouTube channel anyway and Stix Hexen Hammer 66, right? Which is okay. You can play with fire if you like because they're a disruptive innovation that was talked about in personal finance, economics as soon as certain institutions certain powers that be those who pre-order our society some of the stuff that we talked about regarding economics specifically when it came to differential accumulation pre-order and capitalist power some of the information that we've come across we've talked about with Jonathan Midsant in regards to economics, right? As soon as certain institutions those who pre-order society they start trying to prevent information from being shared disruptive innovation comes into play and new ways of being new ways of sharing information are given life, right? Disruptive innovation and Bechoo is one of them, right? Another person that I just recently started following on the same level well, I don't want to say on the same level as Sargon and Stix but because I haven't followed them long enough to know what their take is but I'm following the videos that they're putting it out putting out which is Mouthy Buddha and it's basically the YouTube channel that I've been keeping track of and I like some of the shorts that they're putting out some of the information that they're putting out again, I don't agree with everything but it is sincere, authentic, honest information presented the best way they can there is no other agenda as far as I can tell from the people that I've listed here including the last three or all of them really, okay? Now those are the individuals I consider those people sort of be sort of solo operators presenting information or whatnot or working together with one or two other people where I get my politics, economics and news As for podcasts because people have been asking me if there's doing a live stream that we're doing on Twitch the politics, economics, live streams we're doing on Twitch, right? and you're welcome to join those live streams that we do sort of open discussion where we do a live stream, we're talking about politics, economics and whatnot where people start sharing information and chat and we sort of try to figure out what's going on politically, both locally, domestically and globally foreign policy as well as economics, right? You're welcome to join those on Twitch and one thing that's been happening during those live discussions people have been asking me about if there's any podcast that I listen to so here's four that I've put together for you one of them as I mentioned and the people that I trust the information that I trust is the moderate, rebelradio.com and that's Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton creating that content so I do follow their work I don't listen to everything here that I'm mentioning but I do check out what it is they're talking about and I sometimes skip through the podcast that they're doing if I'm not listening to its entirety so Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton on moderaterebelradio.com another one that I check out as often as I can which is the global research news hour and global research has been around for a long time it should be I believe I've listed in the institutions organizations that I follow sort of aggregating news but I do follow their news hour as well their podcast they don't put it out as often as I would like they are on the radio as well so if you're following co-op radio and certain university news channels the global research news hour might pop up there are people sharing that information there as well but they do have a section which is sort of podcast where they talk about foreign and domestic foreign policy both for Canada and the United States while worth checking out while worth checking out okay another podcast that I recently started following is Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill Scahill and his podcast is available on theintercept.com and I do follow the Intercept for some of their blog posts some of the articles that they write specifically Glenn Greenwald I follow that work and Jeremy Scahill if he shares any information and Matt Talabi is actually really good for Rolling Stone as well and I believe he also posts his articles on theintercept as well but if you go to their podcast section the podcasts are done as far as I can tell by two people one of them is Jeremy Scahill I follow the podcast I try to anyway as many of them as possible there's another person there that I've come across that does podcast which is Mehdi Hassan I stay away from his podcast I found him creating content which is extremely biased and not sincere and being presented from the perspective of someone or institutions that are backing him up or institutions that he is connected with I don't believe that everything that Mehdi Hassan has to say is everything that he fully believes in I believe it is second hand information that he's being recommended to share Jeremy Scahill I trust right now 100% ok so if you want to follow a political podcast Jeremy Scahill it's fantastic on the intercepted another person that I follow not as often as I used to in the past but he's well worth mentioning he's sincere he's honest and that's the Richie Allen show he's he made it on my permanent radar because his channel was being banned I think his channel got killed on youtube that it was on there and he came back on there and has his own website where he podcasts he does a lot of podcasts so I don't follow everything but I do check his site once or twice a month just to see where he's at so I sort of touch base with him the Richie Allen show ok as far as institutions go I sort of categorize this not as individuals just because they have an institution backing them up it could be their own institutions that they've come up with or organizations one of the places that I check everything they put out every youtube video they put out they're not on bit shoot yet and they do have a website which is the Ron Paul Liberty report I have tremendous amount of respect for Ron Paul even though I don't agree with everything he has to say huge respect ok so the Ron Paul Liberty report I follow his work on youtube and hopefully I haven't found their work on bit shoot yet hopefully at some point they'll create a bit shoot account and start sharing that information there as well and they do have a website called Ron Paul Liberty Report I don't go there very often I mainly follow all their videos like literally I watch everything from beginning to end 99% of what they put out 95% of what they put out from beginning to the end all the way to the end where Ron Paul does his same ending and all of a sudden he sometimes ends probably his thought ends what he's saying sincere information and that's the best thing you can do if you try to seek out economic and political news is to seek out people who are sharing information to the best of the abilities ok and Ron Paul Liberty report trusted authentic news another place I go to is the real news network and I've been following the real news network since they came online from like day one back in the day in the mid 2000s when they came out I even wrote a blog post about the real news network coming up and they actually linked my blog post recommending the real news channel on my site to their site at the time when I was blogging I was getting a fair bit of traffic so I guess I made their radar but the real news net I follow their work I don't check out all the videos they do but I do check out all the content that they're putting out and if I'm interested in the topic that they're covering I watch their interviews that they do and they mainly do interviews but it's mainly interviews that they're doing sharing a little bit of information doing a little introduction and then interviewing someone who has skin in the game and whatever it is the topic that they're covering so I check out all the topics that they're putting out and I do check out certain videos that I'm interested in and certain videos that I don't know any information on plastic information both politics, economics, environmental as well a lot of environmental another place that I've been checking news out for a long time I was checking them out for a long time since mid-1990s or let's say late 1990s and I stopped following them for a year or so a year and a bit after Trump during the 2016 election I wasn't following them too much because I found their information to be extremely biased and I didn't like what I was seeing they were leaning in one way they weren't doing a fair job but presenting information but recently I've started following them again a little bit I'm not checking everything and that's democracy now and one of the things I do I sort of check out the little news summaries they do maybe once, twice a week if something dramatic is happening maybe I check it out three, four times a week I don't check out anything they do really too much in regards to US domestic policy because I find them to be too biased they're caught up in the loop of who tweeted what which is ridiculous so I don't follow their work in regards to US domestic policy too much but I do try to follow their work with their what they cover in regards to US foreign policy and geopolitics in general what's going on in the Middle East some stuff in South America some stuff in Asia and Europe and Eastern Europe and stuff like this basically I follow their work democracy now to a certain degree of anything they're talking about US domestic policy okay another organization institution or talk show that I follow is crosstalk crosstalk is an RT it's sort of a basically 25 minute or 35 minute sort of half an hour round table where they talk about foreign policy and it's Peter Leval that is hosting it and I follow everything crosstalk is putting out okay same with Chris Edges I follow everything Chris Edges is putting out I follow everything Paul is putting out and I follow all round table discussions that they put out in regards to the TV program called crosstalk hosted on RT well worth knowing especially for anyone in Canada United States since a lot of information that they're sharing is not presented anywhere else unless you're getting your information from some of the sites that I've already mentioned because it won't be on anything mainstream corporate broadcast channels in Canada United States the odds are you won't hear that perspective and there's important perspective to be had as I mentioned I go to the intercept not often I go there and I specifically go there to listen to podcast by Jeremy Scahill or I go there to read articles by Glenn Greenwald sometimes I seek out I read articles by Jeremy Scahill yes but some of the other people that I might know some people that write articles there I do not read at all because I don't trust them and one of them being Mehidi Hassan okay don't follow his I've looked at some stuff he's done just cringe worthy okay another website I go to that I try to go there at least two to three times a month aside from listening to the podcast is Global Research okay Global Research TV they do have a YouTube channel the YouTube channel doesn't get updated very often they're mainly focused on putting out articles related to geopolitics well worth checking out okay a perspective you will not be getting through mainstream propaganda sources okay another place that I get information from that I check out what articles they're putting out I don't read everything I don't read many of the articles but I do read some of them which is Tom Dispatch Tom Dispatch he's been around for a long time this is his website and he does a little intro and he has the rights to print a lot of the articles being put out by a lot of important people a lot of people have a certain skin in the game regarding certain topics so there's a lot of articles by a lot of different people on Tom Dispatch okay worth checking out long articles in general another place that I've been checking out and this place I've been checking out since the 1980s really okay and that's Alternative Radio okay so alternativeradio.org and it's Alternative Radio by David Barsameon okay they do have a website you can go to their website unfortunately they don't share openly all the lectures all the interviews or lectures that they've had because they're mainly a radio broadcaster and if you if you listen to co-op radio alternative radio or radio broadcast for universities and stuff you would have come across alternative radio by David Barsameon sort of our podcast to a certain degree should be considered a podcast but I haven't followed them in a podcast format I listen to the interviews that they do and just to let you know the first time I ever heard I ever interacted with alternative radio was in the 1980s where I believe it was 1980s or it could have been early 1990s where I ordered I had to write down I was listening to them on the radio okay it wasn't the internet I was listening to them on the radio and they were doing a lecture presenting a lecture by Philip Aji he was a CIA sort of a hitman economic hitman that sort of became a whistleblower and once he became a whistleblower he had to escape the United States otherwise he would have been suicided and he went to Cuba and I don't think this lecture I believe this lecture I don't know where it was being given but Philip Aji was at the time in Cuba where he was giving this lecture okay it was either in Cuba or Europe or wherever it was he was giving this into your lecture that I was listening to and I found it extremely intriguing it was a lecture about Cuba the history of U.S. foreign policy has been with Cuba so I quickly wrote down because it was on the radio I listened to it and I brought pen and paper during the middle you know David Barstelman interrupts lectures and he says you can order tapes and stuff through you know they can send checks and stuff so I remember going to the bank and getting a money order for alternative radio putting an envelope, sending it out mailing it out and having a tape come to me of that lecture that Philip Aji gave and I listened to that lecture again with a tape and I still have that tape alternative radio really if you want to know what's the long game in regards to economics and politics globally, domestically alternative radio just start listening to the lectures if you've never been exposed to it very very important and the last website institutional organization I have listed here which is extremely extremely important which is basically the only website online where we know that everything that they're sharing is 100% accurate 100% fact that's a huge huge title to have the only place online where if you do a search and they have a search ability, if you do a search whatever comes up is 100% accurate really nobody can say this and that's WikiLeaks WikiLeaks is extremely important it is the most important website that we have right now without a doubt it's survival is crucial I'll link it up to the survival of you can fill in the blank if you want I could go extreme on this but WikiLeaks is to me the most important website online because what they're doing is providing transparency for us for individuals, citizens human beings they're giving us transparency to our governments, to corporations as the saying goes I believe this is something that Jonathan Nitzat with differential accumulation capitalist power pre-ordering society with those in power WikiLeaks and Massange and other people have mentioned this as well that those who pre-order society those with power in society the power to govern to dictate how our society evolves those people, those institutions must have transparency individuals me and you, those of us who do not wield that type of power in the whole society the way we choose we deserve a tremendous amount of privacy and anonymity but institutions organizations those in power must have must provide transparency and WikiLeaks does that for us extremely important website one of the reasons why one of the ASMR soft spoken whispering videos that we did was reading one of the most important leaks that came out of one of the most important bits of information on WikiLeaks which was Vault 7 we did a whisper soft spoken reading in front of this fireplace I believe of Vault 7 reading that release you can follow that go to the website WikiLeaks website take a look at Vault 7 do a search for Vault 7 what we read is just one chunk there's a lot of information connected to that as well right and WikiLeaks being as important as it is as far as I'm concerned we will be just to let you know we will be doing more readings either soft spoken and whisper in an ASMR format the way we did with Vault 7 so just in case I'll put this out there right now if you do access WikiLeaks and if you have information any of the because there's a tremendous amount of information there if you know of any of the leaks that are well worth reading post comments in the description of this video and preferably putting chunks the leaks directly providing to the pages where the leaks are available where we can do a full on reading from beginning to the end and put out more content regarding some of the most important information that is available online and making it more accessible to people because I know WikiLeaks can be hard to navigate and from my experience I found that many people who would have had a lot of their questions answered if they had just gone to WikiLeaks and read some of the leaks some of the more important leaks that they've released such as the collateral damage video from regarding Iraq and Vault 7 for sure and many of the other leaks right people have never read that information which is unfortunate if anyone is talking about politics or geopolitics domestically as well as foreign policy and stuff like this so for us to make that information more available if you know of any leaks that are available on WikiLeaks that you think would be phenomenal for soft spoken or whisper type of video the way we did with Vault 7 please post the links to WikiLeaks directly in the description of this video and we'll take a look and maybe we'll start a discussion in YouTube or on Bitshoot and see what we can put together and create more content like this especially the information that is that sort of pre-orders our society which is certain institutions and organizations those in power that are doing to make sure that the playing field is the world works in a way that is more preferable to them than being just and equal and beneficial for all of us instead of just a small segment of society ok aside from that those are some of my main news sources and the odds are we'll probably do another video like this in a couple of years and maybe filter out some of the some of the people we've noted here and introduce new sources of information because everything is in flux right now aside from that thank you for being here thank you for hanging around if you like this work please consider subscribing following, liking and if you can afford it please consider supporting this work on Patreon because with that support we can roll out a lot of other things that we have planned to do ok that's it for now and I'll see you guys in the next video