Real News Network (citizen-funded current affairs)

The Real News Network is an excellent worldwide news channel, which focuses a lot on the climate crisis. . It’s funded by donations (though you can watch for free if you have no money, supported by others who donate, so everyone has access to real news).

You can watch all their programs on YouTube. Unlike say our BBC News, the journalists tend to live and work in the areas. So if a report is coming from say Mexico, it’s going to be a Mexican journalist reporting.

Again due to lack of influence from ads or politicians, these programs are enlightening, and make for gripping viewing, if you want to know what’s going on in the world. Without sensationalism.

This recent program reports on the plan to destroy 550 tons of emergency food relief languishing in warehouses, intended for children in impoverished and war-torn regions, due to the now-defunct USAID program.

These high-energy biscuits could feed every starving child in Gaza or 1.5 million children for a week. Why on earth is our BBC not reporting on this?

Change isn’t going to be handed to us from the elite power brokers and donors controlling the political parties that got us here. And it sure won’t come from the same oligarchs and zealots plundering our societies, democratic institutions, economy and our planet.

If we expect to see a future that’s still worth living in, the people will need to fight for it. And The Real News Network will be there on the front lines, with cameras and microphones. The Real News Network

Killer Water is a documentary about the toxic oil legacy left in Canada, never mentioned in mainstream media. Other recent shows include free buses in Maryland (paving the way for similar schemes nationwide) and how The Epstein Transparency Act is ensuring that America’s elite are ‘losing control of the narrative’.

Independent journalism like ours doesn’t get funding from billionaires, corporate advertisers or political parties. We rely on people like you. The Real News Network

Truthout (an independent real news network)

Truthout is another independent worldwide news organisation, which you can tell by the name, is dedicated to truth! It has categories on Trump (this organisation is based in the US), fossil fuels, gerrymandering (political bias) and international politics.

Recent articles include Trump’s plans to open up millions of acres of land for Arctic drilling, which would lead to irreversible harm for local caribou, migratory birds and fish. And Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill’ resulting in sky-high energy price increases, mostly for his loyal (and mostly on low income) voters.