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Alternatives to "the Alternatives"

© Deborah Lagarde

For publication Friday January 28, 2000. © 2000 by Deborah Lagarde. Comments? E-mail: "mailto:dlagarde@suite101.com" You've have a basically simple choice between establishment media leftwing press (NY Times, Washingtopn Post etc.), establishment conservative organs (National Review, Weekly Standard), tabloids (most of whom a blue-collar conservative, like the New York Daily News for the latent Archie Bunker types), "think tank" journals (Foreign Affairs of the CFR, and those like "The Progressive" and "Working Papers") which are also usually socialistic/globalist, and, in the alternative, webzines like WorldNetDaily (which is becoming more and more focused on the mundane issues everyone else covers and on making lots of money--I fear it is already "selling out to the 'machine';" "http://antiwar.com" which focuses, it seems exclusively, on Kosovo, Chechnya and Iraq but features an interesting weekly column by one "Emmanuel Goldstein" called, you guessed it, "AirStrip One"--both of course are known if you've ever read Orwell's 1984; "http://www.slate.com"; "http://www.salon.com"; http://www.newsmax.com" and other conservative (to one degree or another) zines. Finally, you have the outright "right-wing extremist" presses: "http://www.jbs.org/tna" (The New American); "http://www.mediabypass.com" (which, to their discredit, charges for the right to see their webzine--they won't even put a couple of free pages on the net); "http://www.newswatchmagazine.org" (David J. Smith's "Newswatch Magazine" which analyzes today's news "in light of Bible Prophecy..."; and last but not least The Free American. You get the idea--the ones who pushed all that y2k stuff for a buck.

Which leads me to the "alternatives" to "the Alternatives" for all of you who are tired of "patriot-for-profit" press hype, for all those of you who (like me) are "no-wingers"--either you support some left-some right positions or because you know that both wings have their secret agendas of "the end justifies the means".

Some web zines (some with off-line companions) to consider: Mother Jones, at "http://www.mj.org", which is more populist than merely a left-wing toady, fighting the polluting capitalists along with the lying power elites (yes, the mag has taken a very decidedly anit-Clinton stance lately).

The Consortium, at "http://www.consortiumnews.com" which is, again, left wing, but in the traditional anit-imperialist sense (unlike the globalist traitors of today who love to see innocent Kosovars, Serbians, and Iraqis murdered for "humanitarian reasons"), and exposes the nonsense called the CIAs Drug War, among other things.

OmegaZine!, at "http://www.omegaserv.com/omegazine.html", which covers political and pop culture conspiracies and other issues like genealogy.

Getting it!, at "http://ss.gettingit.com" which mostly covers pop culture in a weird sort of way, but has some frightening articles on power elite politics as well.