http://www.consortiumnews.com/
Consortium is the best site for geopolitics on the Web.  For example, its investigation of the origin of the drug trade and the truth behind the 1980 election is groundbreaking.  However, their coverage of domestic issues is ordinary.  They should specialize in geopolitics.

http://www.icspponline.org/
The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology has been fighting the good fight against biological psychiatry since the '70s.  They are real therapists and scientists with no connection with Scientology whatsoever.  They now offer a referral service to help people get the help they need without drugs or shock.  They have even helped thousands of deeply disturbed persons who hear voices, etc. without brain-disabling drugs and shock.  They take family abuse very seriously.

http://www.breggin.com
This is the site of ICSPP's founder, Peter Breggin.  Good articles and book info by Dr. Breggin can be found here.  I've read 3 of his books, which are true eye-openers into the fraud and grave peril of drugs and shock.  There is also a link to his blog on Arianna Huffington's site.

http://www.nader.org/
While I didn't appreciate his spoiler role in the '00 and '04 elections, I generally appreciate most of his viewpoints.  However, I preferred his '70s incarnation, before he was intimidated by the medical profession.

http://www.traditionalcats.com/
The Traditional Cat Association, Inc. opposes the extreme cat breeding that has resulted in many breeds being reduced to waifs chock full of lethal genes, or bizarre craniofacial deformities also loaded with lethal genes from inbreeding.  Their standards for all breeds except the newer ones are 75-100 years old, and will never change.  For conservatives, traditional cats represent family values, for progressives and liberals, they represent environmental responsibility, for scientists, they represent responsible breeding, and for the "lower classes," they're just beautiful cats.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/
The Progressive Radio Network, an online radio broadcast by Gary Null, PhD, reconstitutes a comprehensive vision of progressive politics and health reform that includes mental health dissent as well as somatic health dissent.  His vision recaptures most of what was good about 19th century feminism that has been lost over the past century.  Null's progressive viewpoint balances that of conservative health dissidents such as Bryan Ellison and the late Robert S. Mendelsohn, demonstrating that health liberation is neither "red" nor "blue."  Be sure to check out his personal website at http://www.garynull.com/

http://www.tompaine.com/
This now-venerable site has been a voice of reason amid the wretched excesses of superstition and ignorance for many years.

http://www.commondreams.org/
Common Dreams' best work was in exposing the fraud and chicanery that brought about the Iraq War.  Other good work includes the privatization of water (a sin called enclosure), the popular uprising against the Iranian theocracy, and the plight of the Palestinians.

http://www.grist.org/
Grist Magazine has been a "beacon in the smog" for many years, offering environmental news & tips with sometimes biting humor.  Occasionally, it can be slightly off-color.  I highly recommend their coverage of the Gulf oil disaster.

http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/
Matthias Rath, MD is hated by the medical profession because in 2003 he filed a formal complaint at the
World Court charging it with crimes against humanity in suppressing unpatentable therapies and its causative role in the Iraq War.  Note that the controlled media suppressed this very important story.  The peace and justice movement is totally out of touch with reality as far as who dragged us into in Iraq, and who is likely responsible for 9/11 as they clearly had been for WWII and the Nazi Holocaust (no kidding).  They're not fit to take off my sandals, let alone ANESTHETIZE me!

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp
Sepp Hasslberger has been in the trenches fighting the good fight against the medical mafia for many years.  He has many links to other health liberationists on his site as well.  We have a few differences of opinion on economics, but they are relatively minor.  Be sure to check out his equally dedicated libertarian colleague Chris Gupta at http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris.

http://www.LeapforPatientSafety.org/
Thanks to Josephine Cicchini for introducing me to this site, which includes a petition to Congress to protect medical whistleblowers who report patient abuse.  I strongly urge everyone to sign it.  The site also has information about the worst hospital in the country and some creative multimedia.  It's refreshing to hear a hip hopper rap about a serious, underserved issue rather than money, drugs, the B-word, and the WH-word.

http://yourcaffeineaddiction.com/
CHILDREN LEARN BY EXAMPLE:  when parents and teachers just say no to caffeine, children will just say no to other drugs.  It's about time that someone had the moral courage to broach this inconvenient truth.  Western caffeine addiction, as well as Western sugar addiction, has already condemned hundreds of millions of tropical peasants to death from slow starvation, because caffeine crops do not grow in 4 season climates, and the IMF, WTO, and World Bank are not allowing these defenseless people to grow FOOD that sustains LIFE.  Every beverage represents a tropical peasant murdered in slow motion.  Those who use "fair trade" caffeine will have "fair trade" heart disease, stroke, breast cancer, high blood pressure, prostate cancer, PMS, hot flashes, seasonal allergies...

http://www.nutrimedical.com/
This is the site of Bill Deagle, M.D., whose ideological perspective is similar to that of Chris Gupta and Sepp Hasslberger.  The site includes a daily internet radio stream every afternoon, that reruns at other hours of the day and night.  He is on target on all issues regarding health, such as vaccines, depleted uranium, the demonization of cholesterol, and the threat of Codex Alimentarius and free trade agreements on access to healthy foods and adequate therapeutic doses of nutritional supplements.  However, I have profound differences with him regarding climate change, population, and a certain hot button issue.  A very intriguing charge of his is that the ruling class represents a Satanic cult that meets regularly for barbaric rituals involving human sacrifice.  I know from dismembered church history that the medieval gang-bangers who deposed and succeeded the Roman Empire only nominally converted to Christianity because it was the last state religion of Rome, so they could claim to be its successors, to this very day.  The ruling class is not Christian in any shape, form, or fashion, despite its bitching about "biblical literalism."  Nor does the ruling class believe in or practice any of the other world religions or any of the alternative religions.  This makes organized Satanism in the ruling class a distinct possibility.  As an M.D., Deagle is privy to insider information; therefore, his charge that the ruling class is a Satanic cult is correct.  Their consistently diabolical behavior unambiguously reinforces Deagle's assertion.

http://www.lakotaperspectives.com/
This site covers Indigenous and closely related issues, including sexual violence against Indigenous youth that is covered up and not prosecuted.  It includes many legal documents and other information.  I deeply appreciate her witness against capitalism, as true socialism is a biblical mandate.  People are going to have to accept this inconvenient truth sooner or later, or else starve to death in a toxic soup.

http://www.prwatch.org/
The Center for Media and Democracy publishes the excellent magazine PR Watch, which exposes Astroturfing, PR planted in the so-called "mainstream" media, ghostwriting by PR flacks, co-opting of advocacy groups by predatory industries, and other whitewashing and greenwashing campaigns by PR firms for corporate, medical, military, and other overclass interests.  For example, they uncovered the co-opting of most major environmental organizations, including several with venerable histories, by polluting industries.

http://www.paxchristimemphis.org/
I'm not Roman Catholic, but I've participated in this peace group for several years for want of a similar group for Episcopalians.  Sadly, the Episcopal diocese is too small to support such a group locally.  Some say that it hasn't been the same since the death of its founder, Gerry Vanderhaar, but there needs to be a voice for people who are not atheists but are institutional pacifists.

http://www.rc.org/
Re-evaluation Counseling is recommended by Randell Gamble, who learned about it at a recent White Privilege Conference here in Memphis.  He also had heard about it at the annual Gandhi-King conference at CBU, the local Catholic university.  It can be used for both past trauma and present crisis, and involves compassionate listening to each other.  One is disabused from "Don't cry" and "Be a big boy" which deny real feelings from real injuries, and offers an effective alternative to drugs, shock, and suffering in silence.  I'll definitely check this out!

http://www.midsouthpeace.org/
This homegrown peace and justice organization was founded by Gerry Vanderhaar and others on Martin Luther King day in 1982, and has been growing ever since.  Successful projects connected with the center include the community gardens, an I-pod radio broadcast, grassroots organizer training, and school military counterrecruitment.  Recent anniversary dinners have featured Amy Goodman and Cindy Sheehan as key note speakers.

http://www.gandhikingconference.org/
The original Gandhi Conference was in Memphis at Christian Brothers University, the local Catholic school, for many years because Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, lives here (there is a surprisingly large South Asian community here).  However, a few years ago, it was moved to New York to draw a larger audience, and the National Civil Rights Museum and the Mid-south Peace and Justice Center immediately replaced it with a new Gandhi-King Conference.  It still is a 3 day conference every October, which includes individual workshops, panel discussions, a youth program, and a dinner which usually features Hindi food.

http://www.gvanderhaar.org/
After the death of Gerry Vanderhaar, his widow Janice and Christian Brothers University, the Catholic school where he was on the faculty for over a quarter century, established the Vanderhaar Memorial Symposium, which takes place every March.  It includes a nationally known speaker and a peace award for an area student.  The inaugural speaker was Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, and the 2009 speaker was Jane Goodall.  The 2010 speaker is Joan Chittister, OSB, speaking on Apr. 15 (also my baptismal anniversary).

http://www.newsandletters.org/
The News and Letters Committees were founded in Chicago by the late Raya Dunayevskaya and publish a monthly newspaper News and Letters, which accepts no advertising and is unbiased.  Dunayevskaya was an emigre from the Soviet Union who saw firsthand how far the regime had strayed from true Marxism and dedicated the rest of her life to setting the record straight about his often misinterpreted theories.  Her books include Philosophy and Revolution and The Power of Negativity.  The Memphis committee, which meets on the first and third Sunday at the central library, routinely contributes local stories to the paper not only about labor issues, but also the environment, race, gender, geopolitics, and the cases of persons in Tennessee facing execution, which are typically unjust.  All of the committees from around the country meet every August.

http://www.ffunsaveyouth.org/
Freedom from Unneccessary Negatives (FFUN) was founded in Memphis by Stevie Moore, an ex-con who turned his life around, to combat violence and gang activity among area youth.  Moore addressed Pax Christi Memphis last year, and has programs for prevention and early interventions for troubled youth as well as re-entry programs for persons released from incarceration.  FFUN embodies a true alternative to the atrocious misogyny and violence espoused by rappers and blaxploitation media, and illustrates what an African American can and should be.

http://www.stopthebombs.org/
The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) has been working to close nuclear weapons plants in East Tennessee, one of the birthplaces of the bomb, for decades, and holds at least one large demonstration before the current Y-12 plant every year, to which some protesters come from hundreds or thousands of miles away.  I have been to several of these over the past decade.  They also have small gatherings every Sunday at the gate.  Their newsletters offer information about the hazards of radiation and toxic substances involved in the manufacture of nukes and local and regional pollution, and current political issues such as arms reduction treaties and congressional allocations.  They offer workshops prior to the events, including training for nonviolently handling the handful of radical counterprotesters that show up and training and support for persons who intend to commit civil disobedience.

http://www.theosophical.org/
The Theosophical Society is a worldwide ecumenical movement involving comparative theology, the origin of the universe, and the origin of the human species.  The atrocities of Roman Catholicism have set back mysticism in the West back a thousand years, but movements such as Thomas Keating's centering prayer are trying to mend the gap.  The Memphis chapter meets on Thursdays at a Unitarian Universalist church near Shelby Farms.

http://www.midsouthcon.org/
This is the site of the Midsouth Science and Fantasy Convention, which I attended for the first time in March, and which has been taking place annually for the better part of three decades.  The 3-day con includes science fiction, hard science, comics, gaming, screenings, music (which I hope to upgrade next year), the paranormal, and a costume contest.

http://www.memphisfanforce.com/
This is the site of the Memphis Star Wars fan club, whose leaders play a key role in organizing the above-mentioned Midsouth Con every year.  Fan Force is a worldwide organization that is independent of Lucasfilm.  Although I have been totally divorced from Star Trek for over a decade, I am still a fan of the Star Wars cycle, albeit a much more subtle one.

http://www.healingmusicenterprises.com/articles.html 
Alice Cash, concert pianist and music therapist, is part of the solution to a problem that has troubled me for my entire life.  Among other things, she records instrumental music with a metronome marking of 60-80 for anesthetized patients!  She uses this tempo range because the patient's heart invariably synchronizes to the tempo, which represents a good resting heart rate.  This page from her site features several articles she has written on the subject.  These confirm and underscore my previous stance that appropriate music over earphones should be included in a bill of rights for anesthetized patients.

http://www.stmarysmemphis.org
This is the church where I was baptized, and sung in the choir for a few years.  The PowerPoint Consumerism concludes with a track from the choir CD, Christmas at St. Mary's (I would've called it Christmas and Beyond--oh, well).  The CD can be ordered from this site by sending an email to Ty Legge in the music department.  The mailing address is 692 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38105.

http://www.wevl.org/
WEVL (for "we volunteer") is the indie station here in Memphis.  They stream online on this site via Real Player, as well as at 98 FM locally from 6 am to midnight central time.  My favorite programs are on Monday nights from 8 pm to midnight, on Saturday mornings from 10 am to 1 pm, and on Saturday nights from 9 pm to midnight.  These are ambient, Celtic, and electronic dance (techno, house, etc.), respectively.

http://wumr.memphis.edu/
This is the radio station of the University of Memphis, which has a jazz format.  They stream online at this site, and broadcast at 91.7 FM 24/7.  My favorite programs are on Thursdays from 7 pm to 10 pm, and from 10 pm to midnight central time.  These are tropical jazz and acid jazz + lounge jazz, respectively, with the same host.  Unfortunately, this programming is sometimes pre-empted by U of M sporting events, or by the host's absence (substitutes don't play his unique repertoire).

http://www.pipedreams.org/
I'm not an organist (not with my coordination impairment!), but I'm a great fan of the instrument.  Pipe Dreams, from public radio, has recently expanded its programs from 90 min. to 2 hours.  The site allows one to listen to old programs, and information where and when it can be heard in one's area, which is usually on public radio (but not always).

http://www.zeroohms.com/
Zero Ohms is an ambient composer here in Memphis whom I personally know.  He's had several excellent CDs, such as Spacial, Glacial, Nebulous and Immense Distance, and his site offers singles for 99 cents apiece.  He's had collaborations with such composers as Craig Padilla and Brannan Lane.  He recently joined me for my festivities surrounding the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back and gave me a CD of his newest work in progress:  Peace of the Pi.  From the sound of this intermediate draft, he has another masterpiece in the works.  Hearing this draft in progress is making me ache to create my own ambient CD!

http://www.holycommunion.org/
This is the church where I currently belong and sing in its chamber choir, the Motet Choir, which typically sings at the 11:15 service.  We also sing at special services such as Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, and Saturday night Easter Vigil.  The Sunday night evensongs have produced 3 CDs, which include the music of the late harpist Mary Abbay Gourley.

http://www.wrr101.com/
WRR FM is a classical music station owned by the City of Dallas, which broadcasts 24/7.  While the playlist during drive time sucks (6-9 am and 3-6 pm central time), the programming is outstanding at all other times of the day and night.  For example, Pipe Dreams, mentioned above, is carried by WRR rather than the Dallas public radio station.  WRR rebroadcasts every Dallas Symphony masterworks performance approximately 10 days after the concert.  WRR also streams at this site 24/7.  Listening to the stream has a distinct advantage that all advertisements heard on the radio broadcast are omitted on the stream.