If you like the information you receive about the world lukewarm, government approved, premasticated, predigested, and in pabulum form then this page will have no value for you.  The information stream, particularly in the United States, is decidedly conservative with cable and broadcast networks such as CNN, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, and the Fox Network dominating the information menu for most Americans most get only one side of any given issue.  Even the so-called "Public" Broadcasting Service caves in a heartbeat when any issue they wish to present even hints at government disapproval.  A recent example of this can be found here: PBS Officials Cave in to Bush Administration Over Children's Program 
       During the buildup to, and throughout the "war" in Iraq all of the aforementioned news sources marched in lockstep with the Bush administration's line on every aspect of this conflict.  They told you Iraq had so many Weapons of Mass Destruction they couldn't even hide it all.  They didn't tell you the U.S., sold those weapons to Saddam Hussein when he was our bully boy in the Mid East.  They told you Saddam had a massive nuclear weapons program underway.  They didn't tell all the information backing that charge had been dismissed by the CIA, and virtually every other intelligence and monitoring agency in the world.  They told us Iraq could deliver a missile with WMDs to British soil in 45 minutes, and that if we didn't act immediately our next sunset might be seen through a mushroom cloud.  And the networks never questioned why those flowers the Iraqis would throw turned out to be Rocket Propelled Grenades. and that red carpet welcome runner would be woven with improvised explosive devices.     
       All of this could be chalked up to ignorance, if you respect that a major news service provider's credibility based on ignorance.  But there is a specific problem with even that excuse as most of the alternative news sources were telling anyone who would listen that all the above scenarios were dead wrong, and the evidence about this could be found with the click of a mouse.   Does every major newsroom in the country have an alternative news site blocking program?  Is there some rule about not using the internet to find out information about important topics they intend to broadcast?  And using the excuse that the alternative news sources are unreliable and liberally biased is ridiculous considering they were right and the conservatively biased news providers were wrong from the beginning, and have been wrong with a frightening consistency throughout the occupation of Iraq. 
       Now the Bush administration is waving red flags at Iran, Syria, Pakistan, and any other power in the region who does not accept that they should drop their style of government and entire social structure and turn the entire Mid East into would big corporate Disneyland.  And every major news service is once again marching to the drum beat of world dominance by steadily heard from the big white house in Washington.  Here are just some of the sites that have held the line on truth on Iraq and the hundreds of other issues the majority of the public has only the government, or corporate line to form their opinions around: