top 10 independent media channels still operating

 

well they are not all media channels, but we think these people are some of the most insightful parties on the youtube regarding world events. you might enjoy checking them out…

 

 

1. LINK:  Glenn Greenwald – journalist, constitutional and civil rights lawyer

Greenwald is an American journalist and was born in Queens in New York City. Greenwald is Jewish, but has said his “moral precepts aren’t informed in any way by religious doctrine”. Greenwald founded a law firm concentrating on First Amendment litigation. Greenwald is the journalist who helped break the story of Edward Snowden’s leaks about U.S. government surveillance in 2013, The NSA fiasco… a collaboration that led to a Pulitzer Prize for public service as well as harassment and aggressive scrutiny from the US government and its allies over his reporting on documents leaked.

 

 

2. LINK: Max Blumenthal – Greyzone podcast

Max Blumenthal is an American journalist, author, blogger, and filmmaker. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is Jewish. His father is a journalist and writer who served as an aide to President Bill Clinton. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

 

 

3. LINK: Richard Wolff– Economist

To escape Nazism, Richard David Wolff’s parents, both Jewish German citizens, emigrated to the United States during World War II. Wolff is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs at The New School. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City College of New York, University of Utah, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and The Brecht Forum in New York City.

 

 

4. LINK: Ben Norton – Geo political economy podcast

Benjamin Norton is a US-born journalist currently living in China. His known affiliations are political rather than religious. His religion if any, is unknown. He spent 5 years at The Grayzone but left in January 2022 to become independent. Norton is known to be an opponent to CIA-funded “compatible left”. He is also an anti-imperialist, having opposed US’s expansionist policies.

 

 

5. LINK: Roy Casagranda– Professor of history

Roy Casagranda holds a PhD and specializes in the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, and Western Civilization. He is often asked about his religion, but he does not publicly identify with one. He is a professor of government at Austin Community College, an author of historical fiction, a public speaker.

 

 

6. LINK: Judge Napolitano – podcast (?) while intelligent he did for a while play the game and contribute to fox news of all things…

Andrew Peter Napolitano is a Catholic American retired judge (New Jersey Superior Court )and syndicated columnist whose work appears in numerous publications, including The Washington Times and Reason. Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995. He is a libertarian and has gained prominence in part due to his criticism of the administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

 

 

7. LINK: Chris Hedges Show – American journalist

Christopher Lynn Hedges is an Christian (Presbyterian) American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister. In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and The Dallas Morning News. Hedges reported for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005, and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism.

 

 

8. LINK: Jeffrey Sachs – Professor economics Columbia University

Jeffrey David Sachs was born into a Jewish family. He is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on sustainable development and economic development. From 2001 to 2018, Sachs was special advisor to the UN Secretary-General.

 

 

9. LINK: Ilan Pappe – Israeli historian

Born in Haifa, Israel, Ilan Pappé was a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa (1984–2007). He is an Israeli historian and political scientist, known for his work on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and as a leading figure among Israel’s New Historians. He is a professor at the University of Exeter’s College of Social Sciences and International Studies.

 

 

10. LINK: Gideon Levy – Israeli journalist , Haaretz paper

Gideom Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. In 2021, he won Israel’s top award for journalism, the Sokolov Award.

 

 

12. LINK: Mehdi Hasan – Zeteo

Mehdi Raza Hasan is a British and American broadcaster, writer, journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford in England. Hasan was born to Shia Muslim parents from Hyderabad, in India, his mother a doctor and his father an engineer. Following a stint on the BBC’s The Politics Show, Hasan became deputy executive producer on Sky’s breakfast show Sunrise before moving to Channel 4 as their editor of news and current affairs. He was formerly the political editor of the UK edition of The Huffington Post and the presenter of the Al Jazeera English shows The Café. He now runs Zeteo.

 

 

11. LINK: Amy Goodman – democracy now podcast

Amy Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York on Long Island[6] to secular Jewish parents who were active in social action groups. Amy is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. She has received awards for her work, including the Thomas Merton Award. Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a “significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace”. she was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation. She is the author of six books.

 

ok in the end, it’s the top 12 not the top 10. and there are many many more of course. why is it that top 10 sound better than top 12?

 

talk to god about that. 12 apostles, 12 months, 12 tribes of Israel,  12 o clock, a dozen, 12″ to a foot – while not all may be works of god, there is something to that 12… enjoy. by ae

vice is broke: how vice went from a free street magazine to a 5 billion dollar hype and down to zero.

early vice covers when it was cool and FREE

gavin mcinnes cover perhaps? it was all in the making…

racist!… must have been gavin’ cover too

 

terry richardon before cancellation

also see the books on dos and don’t and history of sex just don’t get em on amazon

we loved vice magazine in its early days. it was hilarious and kooky. in new york city, we’d pick em up on the corner on our way to work for free… read em, then chuck em.

some issues were so good we’d photocopy articles and mail to friends who lived in less fortunate cities and countries were vice wasn’t available. the article were about sex, drugs, dos and donts, identity, travel, and just about any random thing in any given category you’d least expect. then suddenly we heard vice is bought by CNN… or that’s what i recall. it turns out it wasn’t CNN it happened to be HBO. same shit. it was one of those corporate-lame legacy outlets.

“make the cool guy feel rich, and the rich guy feel cool and you got em”

– vice is broke

a documentary on vice magazines history by eddie huang

 

for me and so many other that was the end of vice. i don’t think i followed them after that really. every once-in-a-while we’d see a video on youtube about nuclear wolves in chernobyl, or some country on the african continents civil war funded by the west. we wanted to like them but it wasnt the same. the one memorable video from the later versions of vice was with simon ostrovsky in ukraine, who seemed competent enough. atleast, because by now, vice had surely lost all its cool and without simon ostrovsky’s substance there was nothing much left aside with a bunch fart boys.

 

have a watch. thoroughly enjoyed the documentary “vice is broke” by eddie huang, granted it is first-and-foremost a dis track to shane smith, non the less its a great dive into the past and meeting some of the great people who worked on it in its earlier days. good watch, see it on mubi.com (don’t have mubi? try 7 day free trial, hey its between mubi and criterion, the rest are crap anyway). by uh

dupont’s forever history: how one company poisoned the entire planet

dupont nylons ads

widely used in medical devices and body implants due to its unique properties

dupont current hazmat (hazardous material) suits

dupont teflon was used in the apollo mission space suit 

also in your more familiar, everyday pots and pans

dupont teflon was pivitol in the manhattan project

 

it wasn’t for nothing… and it ended up in many useful places, but at what cost? and did we really need non stick pans? and should there have been more regulations at the factory? the water pollution? and limitation in its use of such materials across the globe? yes yes and yes. that is some crazy shit… “the biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population blood samples.”

here is an interesting history of dupont’s teflon and the forever chemicals each one of us carries today in our blood, thanks to this great invention. from polar bears in the arctic, to the fish in our oceans that we eat, to the water we drink, PFAS are everywhere… and you must note that according to the U.S. environmental protection agency (EPA), there is NO safe level of exposure to PFAS. of course thanks to donlad trump the EPA just delayed, and may possibly remove, their requirements and limits to measure PFAS or forever chemicals in our water supply. by km

 

 

black mask & up against the wall mf

the black mask in 1960s new york was a radical group of activists who rejected mainstream culture and its institutions, particularly targeting the commercialized art world. they famously staged a protest at the museum of modern art (moma) in 1969, denouncing its elitism and exclusion of politically engaged art. through their bold actions and confrontational performances, they sought to challenge societal norms and give voice to marginalized communities. by tnt

dorky vintage cars we love : a bit of history with the 1966 lotus cortina mk1

the mark 1 lotus cortina – which was really a ford cortina with a lotus engine, kinda a big difference

hotwheels 2025 release of the 1966 cortina MK1 just out!

the iconic “ban the bomb” tail lights became an iconic design feature due to their resemblance to the campaign for nuclear disarmament’s (CND) symbol, leading to both legal threats from mercedes-benz and the nickname “ban the bomb lights”.

this controversy and distinctive look made the lights popular, with their design being adopted by numerous other british niche sports cars and racing vehicles, including lola and TVR models

jeremy here gives us a bit of history on the ford cortina and confirms the nerd him and his co presenters really where. love it when people go bonkers one something is accessible and yet cool.. mind you you can not compare the ford cortina (any of the 3 models) to the lotus cortina but like the ford escort MK1 in various rally’s the cortina made major headway of its own. lets drink to the underdogs. cheers. by uh