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American Greatness
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What American Greatness Is We hold that America—much like movement conservatism—has lost her way. The nation has succumbed to division and faction, infected by the insidious and foreign virus of identity politics which has robbed Americans of our true identity as one people. We’re undermined further by an ever-growing centralized administrative state, which robs us daily of the opportunity to participate in governing our own lives as free and equal citizens under the rule of law. Government has grown remote, unresponsive, and increasingly unaccountable. While many movement conservatives acknowledge these problems, they have failed to persuade a majority of American voters. What’s more, movement conservatives remain stubbornly unpersuaded by voters’ plain rejection of their solutions. To their credit, the American people have, through common sense and hard experience, rejected the lie that their opinions about their interests and the laws that govern their lives are irrelevant. Likewise, most rank and file conservatives are unimpressed by the half-measures offered by a conservative movement that is more about conserving itself than conserving the people’s sovereignty. So we do not condescend to tell our readers for or against whom they should cast their ballots nor do we collectively contend that we are in possession of some “special expert knowledge” about their interests or some speculative good that is beyond their own poor powers to understand or to reach. We seek a higher level of conversation than that and a readership capable of coming to its own conclusions about how to use its franchise. We seek a revival of real politics. Our editors, contributors, and writers agree that the staleness of the movement came about as a result of too much focus on the word “conservative” and not enough focus on the word “American.” Conservatives have suffered from a kind of elite insularity that pulled their focus away from broader, more American, interests and instead zeroed them in on the interests of their movement, its leaders, and its financial backers. In essence, it has become a kind of faction and has lost the ability to make an appeal to those who are not born into its concerns. It became a movement of conservative Americans instead of a movement of American conservatives. Our object is a rediscovery of the American part of conservatism’s efforts. What, in other words, are we trying to conserve? And what are our prospects in this present political moment for conserving it? As our name suggests, we understand the current dissatisfaction with our political institutions and the political polarization of our times to be a direct result of the failure of both political parties and the intellectual movements that direct them to advance an agenda for American greatness. Moreover, it is a failure to understand why such an agenda is so sorely needed. A proper care and attention to the principles of America requires a serious effort to discover effective means of advancing, not just of conserving, those principles. America is a nation born in and of revolution. It is a radical appeal to a universal standard of justice and right, but it is also a limited appeal on behalf of one people who exist in this one place. As such, America’s principles have always taken the form of a proposition that needs constant affirmation and defending in every generation. Americans are born but they must also be made. This means a diligent attention must be paid to the opinions and interests—expressed or implied—of the American people in its totality and as it actually exists. In understanding that the American people are the rightful and sovereign rulers of their country, we cannot forget,as Lincoln reminded us, that in America “public sentiment is everything.” “With public sentiment,” said Lincoln, “nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.” Molding the beliefs of a free people is necessarily more difficult than dictating from above. It requires education, habituation, and time. But free government cannot be sustained without a healthy public sentiment. So those who would hope to keep it healthy must, above all, actually engage with it and attempt to understand it as it exists and understands itself in reality, not just in the hopes and wishes of the would-be molders.
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Blast.video
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Blast.video replaces the YouTube recommendation engine for politics. And it constantly searches for new videos across multiple major platforms like Rumble, Bitchute and others. Blast.video's is driven by a simple mission statement: To be "The BEST place for news 24/7". We do this by scanning ~220 content creators for new videos throughout the day. Conservative to independent. The interface is slick and super fast. Because it's a fast loading website there is no need to install an app and thus no need to follow Apple or Google's censorship guidelines. Save a web link to the homescreen and now it's just as good as an app!
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Breitbart News
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Breitbart News is one of America’s leading news organizations. • Breitbart routinely features exclusive interviews and original content with and from American and world leaders. It was conceived in 2007, when two Jewish-American best friends – Andrew Breitbart and Larry Solov – took a trip to Israel together. There, they decided to partner and create Breitbart News with the idea that truthful reporting and the free and open exchange of ideas is essential to maintain a robust democracy. With that foundation and the unwavering belief in the greatness of America, Breitbart News has grown into an international news company with bureaus in Washington DC, Los Angeles, London, Jerusalem and Rome. It has been lauded by the New York Times for having one of the most diverse newsrooms in the industry, and it has become a powerhouse on social media and radio....all due to the overarching premise that freedom flourishes with more voices, not fewer.
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Daily Caller, The
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The Daily Caller is a news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by now-Fox News host Tucker Carlson and political pundit Neil Patel in 2010. Launched as a "conservative answer to The Huffington Post", The Daily Caller quadrupled its audience and became profitable by 2012, surpassing several rival websites by 2013. The Daily Caller is a member of the White House press pool.
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Daily Wire
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The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. • Conceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing after they got fired from their last company — actually, Shapiro quit after Boreing got fired — The Daily Wire was meant to be something unique in the right-of-center media landscape — a truly self-funding business with an emphasis on distribution and marketing. • In partnership with Caleb Robinson, with whom Boreing had been trying to gin up a movie company — Boreing is always trying to gin up a movie company — the team launched The Daily Wire in 2015 with an initial investment by Farris Wilks. As of July 2020, neither Shapiro nor Boreing have ever met Dan Wilks or received any money from Wilks Brothers, LLC, which doesn’t stop the site’s detractors from braying about how the company is “bought and paid for by the evil fracking Wilks Brothers!” — “Wilks Brothers” sounding, we guess, like Koch Brothers and thus more nefarious to leftist media outlets. Or something. • Anyway, The Daily Wire launched from the offices of Jeremy’s last failed movie company, with the original episodes of The Ben Shapiro Show and The Andrew Klavan Show shot in his converted garage/pool house. • Today, those podcasts, along with The Michael Knowles Show, The Matt Walsh Show, and Daily Wire Backstage make up the core of The Daily Wire’s opinion offerings, with The Ben Shapiro Show being one of the largest podcasts in the country. • The company achieved its goal of becoming self-funding in month 14 and has powered its own growth from revenue since that time. • The Daily Wire does not claim to be without bias. We’re opinionated, we’re noisy, and we’re having a good time.
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Epoch Times
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Truthful news without the influence of any government, corporation, or political party. • The Epoch Times is America’s fastest-growing independent news media. Founded in 2000, our mission is to bring you a truthful view of the world free from the influence of any government, corporation, or political party. We aim to tell you what we see, not how to think; we strive to deliver you a factual picture of reality that lets you form your own opinions. • The “epoch” in our name represents our commitment to this mission. We believe that we live in truly epochal times, where the faithful representation of our current events won’t just be important for the people of today, but also the generations of tomorrow. The records we keep now will directly inform the foundations of the history they’ll learn and the values they’ll cherish – and this knowledge is what drives us.
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Gateway Pundit
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About The Gateway Pundit: The Gateway Pundit was originally founded in 2004 as TheGatewayPundit/blogspot.com by Jim Hoft who is the Editor of TGP. At the time the site primary wrote brief introductions and linked to other content producers serving as a hub for important current events in the political and media sphere. The site was established for readers tired of limited options and a politicized establishment media. The first readers included Joe, Jim’s twin brother, Midwest Engineer and Jim’s mother….and it grew from there. In 2011, the website moved to its current location as www.thegatewaypundit.com. TGP’s audience grew rapidly and added additional writers to the staff. Today over 2.5 million unique readers every day visit TGP. The Gateway Pundit is ranked as one of the top 150 websites in America, based on Alexa rankings.
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Intercept, The
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The Intercept is an award-winning news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable through fearless, adversarial journalism. Its in-depth investigations and unflinching analysis focus on politics, war, surveillance, corruption, the environment, technology, criminal justice, the media, and more. The Intercept gives its journalists the editorial freedom and legal support they need to expose corruption and injustice wherever they find it. Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder and philanthropist, provided the funding to launch The Intercept in 2014. Today, The Intercept is also fueled by the generosity of its members — a community of committed readers who financially support its mission and goals — and institutional contributors who support The Intercept’s mission.
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Judicial Watch
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Judicial Watch, Inc. is a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Through its educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people. Judicial Watch fulfills its educational mission through litigation, investigations, and public outreach. The motto of Judicial Watch is “Because no one is above the law”. To this end, Judicial Watch uses the open records or freedom of information laws and other tools to investigate and uncover misconduct by government officials and litigation to hold to account politicians and public officials who engage in corrupt activities. Litigation and the civil discovery process not only uncover information for the education of the American people on anti-corruption issues, but can also provide a basis for civil authorities to criminally prosecute corrupt officials. Judicial Watch seeks to ensure high ethical standards in the judiciary through monitoring activities and the use of the judicial ethics process to hold judges to account. Judicial Watch’s investigation, legal, and judicial activities provide the basis for strong educational outreach to the American people. Judicial Watch’s public education programs include speeches, opinion editorials (op-eds), publications, educational conferences, media outreach, radio and news television appearances, and direct radio outreach through informational commercials and public service announcements.
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JusttheNews.com
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JusttheNews.com is committed to just reporting facts from journalists with a long record of public trust and excellence. In an era where opinion and supposition are too often substituted for fact and where journalists rush to get things first and hope their stories are correct, JusttheNews.com tries to stand out by returning to the bedrock promise of getting news first, but first getting it right. We try to deliver exclusive news you can trust. JusttheNews.com is owned and operated by Bentley Media Group LLC, a company created and owned by investigative journalist John Solomon. JusttheNews.com is a back-to-the-future initiative where old-fashioned, honest and exclusive reporting is delivered in a neutral voice, but delivered through the modern channels of YouTube, podcasting, e-books and social media. And in a twist of old and new, JusttheNews.com journalists deliver unprecedented transparency by offering a Dig Deeper tool on their Web site that allows consumers to see the underlying core materials and evidence that substantiate each story. These embeds replace the shaky promise of modern journalists to "just trust us, we're right" with "we trust readers to look at the facts and make up their own minds." JusttheNews.com is sticking just to the facts, without regard to outcome or personal bias. We will construct original, exclusive content with a neutrality and transparency that lets readers, viewers and listeners make up their own minds. JusttheNews.com is based in Washington, with an eye toward covering events in the capital for those who live outside it. It consists of four divisions dedicated to Web reporting, video journalism, podcasting and long-form nonfiction book publishing. Its mission can be succinctly summarized by three brand statements: • Honest Journalism, Trusted Reporters • Information Without Indoctrination • Rising Above Rhetoric
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Newsmax
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Newsmax is an American conservative news and opinion website founded by Christopher Ruddy on September 16, 1998, and operated by Newsmax Media. The website is divided into four main sections: Newsmax, Newsmax Health, Newsmax Finance, and Newsmax World, each divided into various subsections.
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OANN
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"One America News Network is owned by Herring Networks, Inc. Herring Networks, Inc. is a family owned and operated, independent media company focused on providing high quality national television programming to consumers via its national cable networks. The for-profit company was established in 2004 and has its primary production operations in California and Washington, DC."
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Ohio Press Network
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The Ohio Press Network (OPN) is an Ohio-owned, independent media company founded in 2021 with a mission to uncover the truth in state government and a commitment to deliver it through fact-based news and reporting. OPN Logo OPN’s deep investigative reports and well-researched news stories give Ohioans an accurate pulse on our government—the politics, policies and people shaping our lives. Our commentary offers meaningful perspective on issues statewide, nationwide and worldwide. Through our network relationships, you have access to stories produced by other trusted, national media. All this content is free to you. OPN was born of the passion of everyday Ohioans who were neither being heard nor given answers to critical questions during tough times. We are not owned by the government, mega-corporations or lobbyists. We answer to you on the principles of the First Amendment and its guarantee to freedom of speech and a free press. Your donations and advertising investments are the lifeblood of OPN.
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Post Millennial, The
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Founded in 2017, The Post Millennial has become one of Canada’s fastest growing news organizations and one of the largest conservative news outlets in the world. It is owned and operated by the Après le Millénaire / The Post Millennial Corporation, located at 5369 Queen Marie, Montreal, H3X 1V1. • At The Post Millennial, we strive to deliver the news to you as it unfolds, ensuring that you never fall behind on the current or trending news. • With a particular verve for equality in thought, The Post Millennial provides various reports on today’s issues such as Canadian politics, business, local provincial news, analysis coverage and opinion pieces. To best deliver the news to you, The Post Millennial employs a dedicated team of journalists, podcast hosts, and video creators.
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Project Veritas
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Mission Statement: Investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society. Project Veritas Core Values 1. MORAL COURAGE - Courage is the virtue that sustains all others. We choose to overcome our fears. 2. WE ARE ALL LEADERS - Turning people into leaders. Completed staff work. Ownership. 3. COLLABORATION - Best not to work in silos. No one individual is as smart as all of us. 4. RESILIENCE - Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Never, ever, ever give up. We don't let mistakes or setbacks discourage us. Pursue perfection, knowing full well you will never attain it. 5. MISSION DRIVEN - The best people are motivated by purpose. We are passionate and truly believe in our cause. We must be externally focused, not internally focused. 6. MAKE THE STATUS QUO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE - We move mountains. Failure is not an option. We do whatever it takes. 7. THE TIP OF THE SPEAR - We are a loss leader. We do not shy away from conflict or litigation. Project Veritas Ethical Values Rule #1 – Truth is paramount. Our reporting is fact based with clear and irrefutable video and audio content. Truth is paramount. We never deceive our audience. We do not distort the facts or the context. We do not “selectively edit.” Rule #2 – We do not break the law. We maintain one-party consent when recording someone is inherently moral and ethical. We never record when there is zero-party consent. In areas where we are required to have consent from all parties, we seek legal guidance regarding the expectation of privacy’s impact on our right to record. Rule #3 – We adhere to the 1st Amendment rights of others. During our investigations we do not disrupt the peace. We do not infringe on the 1st Amendment rights of others. Rule #4 – The Zekman Test. The undercover investigations we pursue are judged by us to be of “vital public interest” and “profound importance.” The Zekman Test is our baseline. Undercover investigative reporting is necessary because, “...there’s no other way to get the story...” Whereas the Society of Professional Journalists allows for undercover techniques, if undercover techniques are necessary to expose issues of vital public importance; we believe they are not only allowed but required. Rule #5 – We Protect the Innocent When Possible - Embarrassing private details are not to be investigated. We stay away from irrelevant embarrassingly intimate details about private citizens personal lives. We look for individual wrong-doing and judge its public importance. The irrelevant religious or sexual dispositions of our targets are not to be investigated. Rule #6 – Transparency. Our methods and tactics must be reasonable and defensible. We use the “Twelve Jurors on Our Shoulder” rule. The work has to be done with such a degree of integrity that it can withstand scrutiny in both law and ethics. We are comfortable with transparency. We must be willing to be ready to disclose our methods upon publication. Rule #7 – Verifying and Corroborate Stories – Evaluate impact on third parties and Newsworthiness of Statements Alone.We consistently consider the probable truth or falsity of statements, examine any reasons to doubt the veracity of underlying assertions and whether the assertions are newsworthy. When possible, we will confirm with our subjects that their statements captured on video are accurate and truthful. At the very least, we will give our subjects an opportunity to elaborate and/or respond. In all matters, we rely on the 1st Amendment to protect our ability to publish newsworthy items after our internal deliberations. On whether there is an obligation to ensure the veracity of statements made on video, 1.) consider whether the remarks may potentially impact an innocent third party. (Factors in support of releasing the content) and 2.)The Newsworthiness of the statement alone by itself. (Factors against releasing the content). Rule #8 – Raw Video. In certain circumstances we may release the “raw” video to the press and or the public. But as a rule, we do not. Rule #9 – Subject Anonymity. We investigate and question sources before promising anonymity. Once we confirm, we will do everything in our power to protect the identity of our confidential sources. Rule #10 – Being Accountable. Admit mistakes and correct them promptly. Rule #11 – We do not manufacture content. We do not put words in our investigative subjects' mouths. We do not lead the horse to water. Our purpose is to elicit truth. Rule #12 – With Great Power comes Great Responsibility.
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Rebel News (Canada)
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At Rebel News, we tell the other side of the story. We follow the facts wherever they may lead — even if that conflicts with the official narrative of the establishment. We see that the mainstream media pretends to be impartial, but they increasingly behave like political parties. They don't admit their own political bias, and they pretend to be neutral providers of the news when they are anything but. At Rebel News we fearlessly take on that “Media Party”. We tell it like it is, and we examine the world from a different perspective — a side of the story you won't get anywhere else. Unlike most of our competitors, we don't take money from any government. We depend on viewers like you to crowdfund our independent journalism. It’s harder to run a company that way. But it’s the only way to be free from editorial interference behind the scenes. Our world view is generally conservative — we believe in freedom, and judging people based on their individual merit, not the colour of their skin, religion, their sexual orientation, or where they come from. We fight for freedom of speech both for ourselves and for those with whom we disagree — that’s how freedom of speech works. We believe any and every idea ought to be open to criticism and debate. And we're not afraid to champion people who have been forgotten by the establishment. Rebel News is one of the few media outlets that has the power, freedom, and reach to challenge the views presented in the mainstream media. We wouldn't be where we are today without your support and participation. Rebel News was founded in February of 2015 by CEO and owner, Ezra Levant.
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Revolver.News
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Founded in 2020, Revolver.News is a conservative news aggregation/curation website that claims to be the new Drudge Report. They claim, “Revolver News is dedicated to news aggregation and analysis at the bottom of the articles. While we greatly respect and admire Matt Drudge, the Drudge Report no longer has its finger on the pulse of America. We aim to fill that void and much more. We are dedicated to providing Americans of all backgrounds and political persuasions with timely, common-sense, accurate, and compelling information.”
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Sott.net • Signs of the Times
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About Sott.net • SOTT.net is a leading alternative news site providing independent journalism and unbiased analysis. • Launched on March 26, 2002, SOTT.net is a research project of the non-profit Quantum Future Group (QFG). The project includes analysis, collection and arrangement of daily news items that accurately reflect the dominant political, social, and environmental 'energies' on the planet. This research further includes noting whether or not human beings, individually and/or collectively, can actually remember, from one day to the next, important events, and whether they are able to accurately read that information and make intelligent decisions about their future based on that knowledge. In short, SOTT.net is an experiment. • Sott.net refuses commercial advertising and support and achieves its objectives via its own resources and some reader donations. Any and all "advertisements" you see on our site are either our own fund raising products, or are unpaid publicity given to our research partners and friends. • Today, SOTT is comprised of an international body of 130 volunteer editors, including many leading-edge professionals in the so-called hard sciences, medicine, history, sociology, psychology, engineering, and information technology. Whatever the topic, SOTT.net has an expert (or two!) who handles content in that particular field. • The raison d'être for SOTT's reproduction of content is that we notice that a lot of material disappears from the web, and we database full articles for a particular purpose: analyzing the 'energetic flows'. We have considered just databasing complete articles and making SOTT private, but as a non-profit organization, we are required to make the results of our work available to the public for free.
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The Reactionary, by Techno Fog onSubstack
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Why subscribe? Maybe you’re a long-time reader and would like to offer support. We have operated at a loss for 5+ years, spending thousands of dollars on court documents and transcripts and records. These include: We successfully unsealed documents from the Enron prosecution showing Special Counsel Mueller’s “pit bull” Andrew Weissmann improperly threatened witnesses if they cooperated with the defense. Transcripts from the case of Lt. General Michael Flynn documenting the DOJ’s failure to produce Brady material. Court records from the General Flynn case regarding (1) FBI agent concerns about the Flynn investigation; and (2) FBI leadership targeting Flynn. Transcripts/documents from the Bijan Rafiekian case (Flynn Intel Group), which illustrated (1) DOJ confusion about how to proceed with Foreign Agent Registration Act charges; and (2) the DOJ/FBI’s curious failure to investigate whether the funds in that case came from Turkey. Court records on Jeffrey Epstein documenting DC’s involvement in his case; and how a high-level DOJ official stopped letters discussing Epstein’s plea deal from going to his minor victims. Unsealed records relating to Jeffrey Epstein that implicated many high-profile people, including Bill Clinton. Transcripts from the Paul Manafort case, where we showed the Court’s concern that the Special Counsel was prosecuting Manafort to go after President Trump. Subscribe and get full access to the newsletter and website. Help us continue to do what we have been doing - and help us do more. Stay up-to-date Bookmark our website because sometimes it’s easier than going through e-mails. Join the crew Be part of a community of people who share your interests. Comment and discuss and debate. I want to hear your thoughts. - Techno.
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WND (formerly WorldNetDaily)
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WND, formerly WorldNetDaily, can best be explained by its mission statement: "WND is an independent news company dedicated to uncompromising journalism, seeking truth and justice and revitalizing the role of the free press as a guardian of liberty. We remain faithful to the traditional and central role of a free press in a free society – as a light exposing wrongdoing, corruption and abuse of power. • "We also seek to stimulate a free-and-open debate about the great moral and political ideas facing the world and to promote freedom and self-government by encouraging personal virtue and good character." • Founded in May 1997 by Joseph and Elizabeth Farah, WND has been a leading Internet news site in both traffic and influence for a quarter century. It has broken many barriers for other news websites that would come later, including being the first online news organization – after a protracted battle – to be awarded permanent congressional press credentials from the U.S. Senate Press Gallery. • WND's editorial policy reflects the old-fashioned notion that the principal role of the free press in a free society is to serve as a watchdog on those in power, whether in government or other major societal institutions – from cultural to corporate, and from educational to entertainment – boldly exposing corruption, deception, fraud and abuse wherever and whenever they are found. The pioneering news site also values highlighting and supporting individuals and institutions that demonstrate great virtue and goodness. • WND is dedicated to preserving America’s unique constitutional system of limited government, its economic system of free-market capitalism, and most of all, the core Judeo-Christian values that made America the most decent, successful, free, and benevolent nation in history.
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Washington Examiner, The
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The Washington Examiner brings the best in breaking news and analysis on politics. With in-depth news coverage, diligent investigative reporting and thoughtful commentary, we'll make sure you're always in the know about Washington's latest exploits. •The Washington Examiner is published by MediaDC, a subsidiary of Clarity Media Group.
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Washington Free Beacon, The
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The Washington Free Beacon is a privately owned, for-profit online newspaper that began publication on February 7, 2012. Dedicated to uncovering the stories that the powers that be hope will never see the light of day, the Free Beacon produces in-depth investigative reporting on a wide range of issues, including public policy, government affairs, international security, and media. Whether it’s exposing cronyism, finding out just who is shaping our domestic and foreign policy and why, or highlighting the threats to American security and peace in a dangerous world, the Free Beacon is committed to serving the public interest by reporting news and information that is not being fully covered by other news organizations. • The Beacon‘s chairman is Michael Goldfarb. Its editor in chief is Eliana Johnson. Victorino Matus is the deputy editor. Brent Scher is executive editor.
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World is One, WION (India)
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Who We Are: We are a team of seasoned and daring, young journalists of diverse nationalities. World is One, WION, examines global issues with in-depth analysis. Using our social media platforms we open the conversation about our world with our users. We provide much more than the news of the day. Our aim to empower people to explore their world. With our Global headquarters in New Delhi, we bring you news on the hour, by the hour. We deliver information that is not biased. We are journalists who are neutral to the core and non-partisan when it comes to the politics of the world. People are tired of biased reportage and we stand for a globalised united world. So for us the World is truly One.
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ZeroHedge
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the zero hedge manifesto • our mission: to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information available to the professional investing public. • to skeptically examine and, where necessary, attack the flaccid institution that financial journalism has become. to liberate oppressed knowledge. • to provide analysis uninhibited by political constraint. • to facilitate information's unending quest for freedom. • our method: pseudonymous speech... anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. it thus exemplifies the purpose behind the bill of rights, and of the first amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation-- and their ideas from suppression-- at the hand of an intolerant society. • ...responsibly used. • the right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. but political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse. - mcintyre v. ohio elections commission 514 u.s. 334 (1995) justice stevens writing for the majority