 This is Chichu, welcome to my channel. Now what I want to do in this video is do a follow-up to the politics video that we put out a few weeks ago, because in that video what I mentioned was basically if you're getting most of your news, your main source of news being mainstream media, then you're basically going to be left out in the dark, right? And we sort of talked about some of the things that were going on in that video and whatnot. And I had a few people leave comments and send me messages saying, you know, we're not supposed to get our news from mainstream media, then where do we get our news, right? So people were asking me what some of my main sources of news are, right? And I replied to people and the question kept on coming up, so I figured it was a good idea to put a video together and sort of give you some links, some sites, some people share with you some of the sources where I get my information from, maybe economics or politics. These are specific, almost strictly economics politics related, okay? So I figured I'd share this with you just in case you're interested and you do want to expand beyond where it is that you are getting your information from right now, okay? Just a small disclaimer, I don't agree with everything that all of these sources share. There isn't any one particular source that I agree with everything that they share, right? So take the information coming from these sources if you want with a grain of salt, if you want layer it with other sources of information that you may have, that's what I basically do. You know, if I'll follow a certain topic, I don't rely on one source to give me all the information. I sort of jump around the fair bit and you might notice that with some of these links that I'm going to be sharing with you, some of these sources that I'm going to be listing, okay? So basically what I did is sort of break this down into two main categories. The first category, my main category that I always go to is my trusted sources of information and these are just individuals, people, right? They're not associated with any organization that I follow, right? So some of these people have jumped around from different organizations, different groups, different channels, I guess, different publications. Some of them have their own website or their own YouTube channel where they're making streaming video, updated news and stuff like this, okay? So the first type of sources that I go to are trusted sources that I found throughout the years that I, you know, some of these I check out almost everything they put out, necessarily from beginning to end, not as entirety, the stuff they put out, but definitely what interests me or what I'm following. If they put out an article or some kind of streaming news summary or what not. I do tend to read or watch the entirety of whatever they put together regarding this regarding certain topics and I do skim through, if not watch the whole thing, the rest of the stuff that they put out, okay? So the first type of source that I have is individuals, people that I trust and that's huge, journalists, analysts, whatever they might be, right? And the second type of news I have here is basically either programs or sites that I go to, to either read articles or watch broadcasts around tables or summary or interviews or what not, okay? And again, I don't agree with everything all of these people have to say or all these sources have to say, but I do pay attention to them because I believe they're authentic, okay? So and one other thing I'll mention is if you're interested in following this stuff, you know, seeing who some of these people are, I will provide the links in the description of this video. So there will be links in the description pointing towards whoever I am listing here, okay? Now, as far as journalists, analysts, individuals that I follow and I basically check out everything that they put out to see if I'm going to wash the whole thing or what not, okay? And this is not in any specific order. I'm not organizing this from the best to the worst or most common to the least that I go to. It's just randomly put together, okay? Some of these I follow way more. Check out more of their material. Some of them I check out everything they put out, right? I'll leave that up to you if you, you know, if you the information resonates with you or what not, okay? As far as individuals go, Paul Craig Roberts, I check out almost everything that he puts out. And he's been around, he's old school. He's been around a long time. He was in Reagan's administration and he puts out a lot of articles and he does get interviewed a lot. So I, you know, whenever he puts out a new interview, video interview, whoever's interviewing him, I watch that 100%. And I do read almost all of his articles that he puts out. It's a great source of info politics, geopolitics specifically. And he's really straight out. He just lays it out the way he sees it, right? There is no agenda there for him. No secondary agenda anyway. Another person that I check out is Richard Wolff. And specifically I check out the stuff he puts out on Democracy at Work, where he does a monthly summary of what's going on on the economic front, okay? Then politics as well, but a lot of economics. So he gives it like an hour and a half lecture or something, a talk and summarizes all the stuff that he's gathered throughout the month, okay? It's a good source of info. Another person that I check out and you would have heard me mention him before through either how to read a textbook where we took a look at one of his books or through other stuff that I've, other videos that I put out. And that's Chris Hedges. And right now he's on RT and he's got his own program. It's called On Contact with Chris Hedges. Well worth checking out. And he jumps around a lot, goes local and global. Well worth it, well worth it, okay? Another person that I check out almost everything that he puts out regarding his main channel is James Corbett and he does amazing analysis. And again, he's really straight out. He tells it the way he sees it and he doesn't pretend to know it all or know everything about a certain topic. He doesn't know a lot about certain topics, that's for sure. But he does a lot of interviews and brings a lot of people onto his show and talks to them. And it's very much worth checking out. And he does have secondary site, secondary information with the extras and stuff. And I sometimes do check those out as well. Another person that huge respect, one of the best journals out there and 100% sincere, very passionate about her work is Abby Martin, okay? And right now she has her own show called Empire Files and she's with Tela Sera from Venezuela and that's where it's being broadcast or that's the hosting company where he's putting her show together. Then she was with the RT before and someone else before that, she was independent before that. But her stuff is worth checking out. I do tend to watch at least segments of everything that she puts out and the stuff that I'm really into, I watched the whole thing 100%. Another amazing show, 100% real, 100% worth checking out is the Laura Flanders show. And she's a journalist that's been around for a long time. And again, she's sincere. She brings a lot of people onto her show and talks to them and interviews them. Well worth checking out, well worth checking out. A lot of local activists and activities with Laura Flanders, okay? Another person, a journalist, he's Brazilian and he's lived in Asia a lot and he's had an amazing perspective on Asia. Just basically, if you wanna know what's going on with Asia and all the economics involved there and what's going on geopolitically, Asia and South America is a Pepe Escobar and his articles are absolutely fantastic. He's got an interesting sense of humor and he does get interviewed a lot on different shows. So you will catch him, same with Paul Craig Roberts. Their interviews are well worth watching and he does have lectures out as well and his lectures are well worth watching, especially the economics stuff that he talks about in regards to Asia. Another journalist, which blows most journalists out of the water with the in-depth articles that he puts together is Max Blumenthal and he takes deep investigative journalism as best and his articles are well worth reading and Max Blumenthal as well gets interviewed on a fair bit of different sites, a lot of independent because a lot of these people you won't find in the mainstream media and if you did in the past, you won't find them anymore, most likely because it doesn't fit the narrative of the propaganda coming out from the mainstream media. So Max Blumenthal for sure, check out, especially if he's being interviewed on any channels any shows that you're following. Another analyst, geopolitics, global, mainly, would be Tarik Ali and he's got an amazing perspective on, a good perspective on the Middle East and Asia as well as South America. He knows his stuff inside out and he's been around for a long, long time. Well worth reading his articles and he does have sort of lectures, talks that he does, either it's sort of irregular, weekly, bi-weekly. He puts them out and he talks about geopolitics, global anyway, in large part. Another person, which is 100% worth checking out is Norman Finkelstein or Finkelstein. Very few people know the Middle East better than him. I don't know anyone that knows the Middle East better than him. And the stuff that he puts out is straight up as you can get. He paints a pretty grim picture of what's going on in the world. Rightfully so because there are things that are happening, there are pretty grim, right? So those are some of the main ones that I look up. If not daily, weekly, 100% monthly, I do visit them and see what they've put out. Some of these people put out multiple stuff per week so I do visit them on at least a weekly basis to check out what they've put out. Two other people that I have checked out a lot in the past and I do tend to check out when they put out extensive articles, in-depth articles really and some of them, especially when they're being interviewed on shows, one of them would be Noam Chomsky, more so in the past than in the present. And the other one would be Seymour Hirsch, okay. And Seymour Hirsch's articles, I tend to read what he puts out because he does really in-depth analysis, sort of investigative journalism. You know, he's one of the grandfathers of investigative journalism and his in-depth articles are well worth reading. So those are sort of the individuals that I follow no matter where they're going. You know, if they change their shows, Chris Etges just started on contact a few months ago. Well, within the last year anyway, before that he was being interviewed a lot. He didn't have his own talk show but he put out a lot of articles on different sites so I would definitely follow that and read that. And if you want to get a feel for Chris Etges, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, the book that he did with Joe Sacco, absolutely fantastic. And if you want to know what's going on globally, he pretty much sums it up with sacrifice zones in that book, right? Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Two other people that I do follow but they're not, I don't know if they call them journalists but they share information, their perspective and their political cartoonists, okay? And political cartoons are huge. They provide a lot of information just in one image, right? It's the same goes, what is a thousand, a picture's worth a thousand words. Well, a political cartoon is worth a thousand, I wouldn't say thousand articles but dozens of articles, political articles. One of them is Mr. Fish and he's sort of I guess left leaning and I like his work and not all of it but I do like his work. And the other one is Ben Garrison and I guess he's right leaning and I like his work as well and not all of it but I like his work. So it's a really good idea with political cartoons to get both sides of the spectrum, okay? Well worth watching or well worth tracking down and taking a look at those political cartoons that they put out. As far as news sources, that sort of aggregated news sources that share a lot of information and provide daily briefings of what's going on in the world, one of them is the Real News Network that I check out every day, multiple times a day because they load on, constantly load on articles and they give news briefs and they also interview a lot of people from all sides of the political spectrum. So it gives you a really nice broad overview of what's going on in the world. You could consider left leaning but they do have right in there as well as good source of info and just one of the one thing regarding Real News Network, one of the producers of Real News Network is Paul Jay and Paul Jay was one of the producers for a show that was on Canadian news that was called Counter Spen, CBC. I believe it was on CBC and it was an amazing show, if you can find archives of that show, it was called Counter Spen it ran from 1998 to 2004 and they canceled it because it was sort of anomaly as far as mainstream news goes, even in Canada, because it was providing a perspective on the world that brought people from each side of the issue together around table and audiences and people would debate and then they would ask questions from the audiences, we're absolutely magnificent and it wasn't gonna last long and I basically stopped watching cable mainstream news when that show got canceled. The last episode, you know, once it finished, I turned off news, cable news, mainstream news and it was a fantastic show, if you can track it down. It was so good actually that for the, I guess a year, I was videotaping all their episodes, all their shows on to, or at least a few months anyway, towards the end because I knew it wasn't gonna last very much longer. The discourse was too real to be on mainstream news. It wasn't the agenda of the propagandists to have this, it didn't fit their narrative, right? So actually videotaped the last few months of that show and I have the one VHS at some point I'll upload those and create a torrent of them and release them under the pseudo name, I guess, because I guess they're all copyrighted still. Back to the news sources that I follow, another one is Democracy Now Daily or on weekdays, I guess five days a week, they do news summaries and they do segments, focus on certain issues and I do follow them, check out Democracy Now on a daily basis and again, I don't agree with everything being shared on all of these sites but I like the authenticity of it, the energy that's put into it because they are trying to be real and present the information as they see it, okay? An Amy Goodman, huge respect to Amy Goodman. Especially with the stuff she did in Latin America, with the cover she's done there and the Middle East as well, right? And locally, within the United States. Another news source that I follow, I guess this could be considered to be underground but everything's underground if you're covering anything real, right? This mainstream is mainstream, right? It's mainly propaganda but anything that's covering anything that's happening in the real world should be considered underground for the last few years anyway, right? It's been taken out of this course of the mainstream media. It would be Submedia TV Stimulator. He's actually based in Vancouver and he did some work. He came off of Democracy Now, he was working at Democracy Now for a while and his stuff is pretty raw and straight up. Raw in terms of, he doesn't really hold back on what he shares and it's good to have that perspective and it's well worth checking out his stuff. I do check out all the stuff that he puts out. Another news source that I check out is Telesura and for Telesura, their YouTube channel, I really like the news briefs that they put out from the global south. I think they call it a camera, what they call it. But basically it's like a few minutes of news coverage summarizing everything that's going on in the world. Well worth checking out, well worth checking out. Another one recently that I just started last few months visiting their site is, I don't know how to pronounce this, D-I-E-M-25, which is basically a collective that's got together to discuss what the alternatives will be post-European Union, after the demise of the European Union, which looks like we're pretty much headed there. So sort of offering new perspectives of how as a community we can get together locally and build up real movements coming up and deal with some of the issues that we're going to have to deal with and we are dealing with. Another show that I check out is Enter the Buzzsaw with Sean Stone. I don't necessarily watch everything that he puts out in his entirety, but I do check out what he puts out and if it interests me I do. I do watch the shows, watch the episodes, and he basically does interviews and provides certain perspectives, gives a voice to people that in general don't have a voice or don't have a voice in mainstream media. Another podcast that I do check out would be the Joel Logan experience. I don't check out everything that he does, but when he's interviewing he's really focused on bringing people on and talking with them, getting their perspective and their long podcast two to three hours. But the people that I'm interested in he does a good job of interviewing them, so it's worth checking out. Having the podcast on your radar. Two other shows that I check out, everything that they put out, they're both at RT, okay just like Chris Edges. I check out all of Chris Edges' work and these other two shows together with Chris Edges make a triple set that is definitely worth checking out. One of them being crosstalk and it's a sort of panel discussion on geopolitics, global what's going on really focused on the Middle East and Asia right now but mainly focused on the Middle East and Europe because there's wars brewing, right? So they do an amazing job presenting the information in a palatable way where it sort of cuts through the BS. That's on the political front, so crosstalk on RT. On the economic front, the Kaiser report on RT as well, put out a few shows a week, maybe four, same with crosstalk four or five. Well worth checking out on the economics front. The Kaiser report again, the first segment they provide sort of a summary of some of the things that have occurred, a lot of chart discussion and then they bring on for the second half interviewing someone and they present their perspective. Kaiser report, crosstalk and on contact, that triple set is a fantastic triple set if you want to know what's going on in the world. Two other news programs that I sort of check out, one of them would be Reason TV and I go there and there's a lot of short videos that they put out and if the topic interests me, I do watch those shorts and sometimes the longer segments. So Reason TV is a pretty good source. And the other one is a person that does sort of analysis on certain topics, he picks the topics regarding geopolitics and does his take and it's the Caspian report and he does in general a pretty good job. Some of the stuff that I know where he's covering, where I know he's not presenting the whole picture, you know I've caught him doing that sometimes. So I do take his work with a grain of salt, especially with stuff that I don't know. The details of, I don't take his word as being set in stone that covers everything, but he does a pretty good job and it's worth checking out. That was the Caspian report. Some of the other sites that I use to get information, especially articles, sort of a broad range of news coming to me from different sources, different writers, different journalists I guess. One of them is the Intercept. So I do visit the Intercept multiple times a week and I read, especially read articles from writers, journalists that I really like, that I've been following for a while. And I do check out some of the articles from the other writers that are there that have that platform to present their information. So it's a good source of info, the Intercept, 100%. Global research, I check out, not all the articles, but some of the articles. And they do have a YouTube channel where they put out videos. So global research is worth checking out, for sure. Another one is disinfo.com. And I'll give you a little disclaimer on this because I was sort of an authorized submitter of news on this info. Or I have been in the past, I haven't submitted anything for the last two years or so, two, three years, where I decided not to follow politics or not to write about politics anymore because I sort of figured out for myself where we're headed and what can be done to sort of direct us down the right path instead of the wrong path. And I sort of talked about that in the politics video that is leading up to this, right? Disinfo is a good place and it's fun as well. It covers everything. It covers entertainment, media, news, geopolitics, economics. And a lot of tribal stuff, community stuff, some shamanism stuff, some esoteric stuff. It's a good source of info, I like it. And the last thing that I would say is the one thing that I follow is WikiLeaks, 100%. If you're not following WikiLeaks, you really don't know what's going on in the world. And there's a reason why the mainstream media and the powers that be are trying to silence WikiLeaks. In the future, people are going to be looking at this period and their jaws dropping as to what's really going on, especially with the stuff with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and Bradley Manning and Snow in the Nenall, the whistleblowers, before them that have come along, telling us what our governments and corporations are up to. As far as WikiLeaks goes, I do check out WikiLeaks on a regular basis, but I also check out articles put together by journalists and analysts that are presenting information that has come through WikiLeaks, right? Any information or so-called news sources that are attacking WikiLeaks and Julian Assange on a personal level, in general, you can consider those news sources to be compromised. If you want the best word I can come up with, right? They're basically useless news sources if they're actually attacking WikiLeaks and Julian Assange because they're not really looking at the content that they're sharing, but they're sort of doing the bidding of the powers that be whoever WikiLeaks is exposing, right? Where the information is coming from, okay? So those are some of my news sources. I check them out, all of them out, if not in a week, in a month, I've gone there multiple times. Some of them, I check out multiple times a day, some of them multiple times a week, some, I check out all their content, some, some of their content, some, I just want to see what their perspective is on it, okay? And I sort of piece together what I can and my interpretation and what I know with the information that they're sharing, okay? So I hope this answers your questions for those of you who've been wanting to know what my news sources are, where I, you know, what I check out to be informed as to what's going on in the world, on the economic front and on the geopolitics front, right? Geophysics is a different game. And on the geopolitics front, right? So I hope this helps you out and I will have the links available in the description of this video if you want to check out some of these sources, okay? Yeah, that's it for now. I'll see you guys in the next video.