DancingSword's Journal: Valid-to-the-roots knowing of our world isn't easy:

Repeatedly I've read of bias in Israel/Palistine reporting..

This Guardian Article gives me greater reason to include places like the independent media center in my scanning-the-world awareness, yet I find political-motivation so loathesome that I seldom bother ( gave away my TV years ago, maybe a decade ago, no radio, no newspapers... )

Unfortunately, I know that the indymedia.org news is as untrustworthy as is any other news-source... -sigh-
Still, approximate-balance ( the two major special-interest-groups, rather than only the dominant one... ) gives one better chance at sensing the way the world actually is...

'Liberal' push/slant, 'Conservative' push/slant, how come no-one values correct awareness or correct underlying systems, or correct testing-of-what-is, or testing-of-what-works-livingly?

Whatever, try Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting for attacks against the North-American 'sanitization' and pre-digestion of information among our broadcast/mass media...
They're quite definitely LWI ( left-wing-intellectual ), so I don't know if they ignore faults among the left, but they do cut heavy-handed abuse among the 'information' provided by our world's .. ?lords?...

Try, also, ProjectCensored.org ( censored news, you generally won't discover in your TV-news or newspapers ), EU's StateWatch.org ( protecting humans against the state-corporation's laws in Europe ), REAL homeland security ( as-in one's own home-land, not some state-corporate special-interest-group's 'home' ) at CrypTome.org, the, ah, civilly illuminating disinformation.com site, the politically alternative ( whatever that means ) AlterNet.org, and...

"The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.
-- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865"

Who knew they had the 'net waayyyy back then? : P

Or, how about PsychicSpy.com ( concerned with espionage's disinforming of humanity for its own sake ), or OpenSecrets.org
"The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy."

Or how about Always Causing Legal Unrest, in their battle for human worth, instead-of corrosion of god-given worth for money..., or AmericasSecondHarvest.org which is committed to correcting the malnutrition among the poorer ( 25% of those in soup-kitchen/food-assist benefits are kids, and, speaking-from-experience, I'd say that malnutrition-induced-braindamage isn't something that contributes to a strong economy and braindamage isn't something that one can just cause to go away by entrepreneurial commitment, either
) :

The Legal Rights of Women .. this is the TOC of a book, which seems to be necessary for women who exist in our civilization ( because the system is stacked to disadvantage women, from infancy/education/resources/everyting, EVEN I can see that... ), and amazon.com ( et al. ) lists other books, one or two of which I'll eventually link to, from here...

Probably the single trustworthiest link ( news-type ) here in this entry, is The Guardian.co.uk, and, of course, this, item, at The Brains Trust.co.uk, where dictators protest the removal of Hussein, because of how it'd adversely affect their lot... hmm...

Here's a link to a place where CorporateBrands -to- MoveGovernmentOurWayGroup mapping is done, showing the underlying groups-that-move-government in relation to the brand-name companies ( and showing how some are really committed to making world obey their special-interest/lobby-groups' Law or NewWorldOrder...
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/

( that one originally in a separate Jan 10th, 7:33pm post )

Finally, something that I care about doing MUCH more than politics ( leave that to others, but BE AWARE of how political-motivation deforms our world, and how organized deformity-of-knowing is profoundly more affective and effective than human-worth is ) is
ikebana ( Japanese Flower Arranging .. which the famous Miyamoto Musashi recommended, and .. and I do too...
: )