The Truth Tellers

Aaron Maté is a Canadian writer and journalist. He hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and, as of January 2022, he fills in as a host on the Useful Idiots podcast. (See Wikipedia. NB biased and unfounded attribution as conspiracy theorist.)

Muckrack profile: Aaron Maté is an NYC-based journalist and producer. He hosts the news show Pushback for The Grayzone, and writes regularly for The Nation. In 2019, he was awarded the Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media from Ithaca College. He was previously a longtime producer at Democracy Now!⁰¹ and a producer at Al Jazeera English, as well as Verified Contributor to The Nation.

Website: Grayzone.com

YouTube: Useful Idiots

Twitter: @aaronjmate

Facebook: Aaron Maté

Alex Christoforou is part of The Duran team, providing daily updates on global economic and war crises. He also offers commentary on his own while wandering around his home turf in Cyprus.

Website: TheDuran.locals.com

YouTube: The Duran

Telegram: https://t.me/the_duran

Alexander Mercouris is part of The Duran team, providing daily updates on global economic and war crises. Mercouris is based in London, UK.

Website: TheDuran.locals.com

YouTube: The Duran

Telegram: https://t.me/the_duran

Andrei Martyanov is an expert on Russian military and naval issues. He was born in Baku, USSR in 1963. He graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He took part in the events in the Caucasus which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he currently works as Laboratory Director in a commercial aerospace group. He is a frequent blogger on the US Naval Institute Blog. He is author of Losing Military Supremacy, The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs, and Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse.

Very outspoken critic of western political and military leadership. Often hilarious, it's hard to know if he's also correct because of secrecy in military affairs.

Website: https://www.claritypress.com/book-author/andrei-martyanov/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@smoothieX12

Benjamin Norton is the founder and editor-in-chief of Geopolitical Economy Report, an independent news website dedicated to publishing original journalism and analysis.

Ben has reported from numerous countries, including Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, Colombia, and more.

Website: https://bennorton.com

Website: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/

Twitter: @BenjaminNorton

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BenDNorton

Brett Weinstein is an American podcaster, author, and former professor of evolutionary biology. In weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying explore a wide range of topics, all investigated with an evolutionary lens. From the evolution of consciousness to the evolution of disease, from cultural critique to the virtues of spending time outside, we have open-ended conversations that reveal not just how to think scientifically, but how to disagree with respect and love.
Strong on Covid and pandemic issues.

Website: https://www.bretweinstein.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DarkHorsePod

Twitter: @BretWeinstein

Brian Berletic is a veteran of the US Marine Corp now living in Thailand. He posts his analysis videos under the name The New Atlas.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas

Telegram: https://t.me/brianlovethailand

Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. A prolific and very popular writer on politics, war and other global issues.

Website: CaitlinJohnstone.com

Website: Caitline Johnstone at Medium.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaitlinJohnstone

Twitter: @caitoz

Facebook: CaitlinAJohnstone

Chris Hedges is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and commentator.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_HedgesC

Website: chrishedges.substack.com

The Real News Network: https://therealnews.com/chris-hedges-report

Twitter: @ChrisLynnHedges

Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. I reside in Canada. Her writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green (a critical thinking collective that I founded and now manage with Forrest Palmer), The Art of Annihilation, and Counterpunch.

Website: https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/

Website: theartofannihilation.com

Twitter: @elleprovocateur

Cyrus Janssen is a geopolitical analyst, investor, speaker, and social media influencer with over 1 million fans across his social media platforms. Born in the United States, Cyrus lived abroad for 15 years in China and Canada and enjoys sharing cultural and geopolitical insights from his travels to over 60+ countries.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CyrusJanssen

Twitter:   @thecyrusjanssen

Daniel Dumbrill is a Canadian YouTuber who lives in Shenzhen, China. He is most notable for his videos about life in China, in particular, in many of his videos he responds to allegations from Western media about human rights violations happening in China. He owns a beer brewery in Shenzhen.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielDumbrill

Twitter: @DanielDumbrill

Danny Haiphong, for more than a decade, has covered the pressing problems of US-led wars and their geopolitical significance, writing hundreds of articles and a book on American exceptionalism.

In 2020, he launched The Left Lens YouTube show and went full time with the program in 2022. In weekly livestreams and near daily videos, he covers China's rise, U.S.-Russia relations, the collapse of Western hegemony, and the growing multipolar world led by the Global South...plus much more!

Website: https://www.patreon.com/dannyhaiphong

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theleftlens

Twitter: @SpiritofHo

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DannyHaiphong

Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist. In 2021, Dimitri joined the Toronto-based law firm, Kalloghlian Myers LLP. In 2022, Dimitri and his colleagues at Kalloghlian Myers secured a $126 million settlement in the CannTrust securities class action.

In 2012, Dimitri was named by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada, and in 2013, he was named by Canadian Business Magazine as one of the 50 most influential persons in Canadian business. Canadian Business Magazine described Dimitri as the “fiercest legal advocate for shareholder rights.”

In March 2020, Dimitri ran for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada, coming in second.

Website: dimitrilascaris.org

Twitter: @dimitrilascaris

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dimitri.lascaris

Eva Karene Bartlett is an independent journalist with extensive experience in Syria and in the Gaza Strip, where I lived a cumulative three years (from late 2008 to June 2010, and back in 2011 off and on to March 2013). I’ve also reported from the Donbass and Venezuela. 

Websites: https://linktr.ee/evakarenebartlett

Twitter: @EvaKBartlett

Telegram: Reality Theories

Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Secret History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare, is an investigative journalist, historian, author, and policy analyst on U.S. foreign and military policy. He was active as a Vietnam specialist and anti-war activist during the Vietnam War, serving as Saigon Bureau Chief for Dispatch News Service International from 1970-1971, and later, as co-director of the Indochina Resource Center, an antiwar research and education organization based in Washington, D.C.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Porter (NB bias and false allegations)

Website: https://thegrayzone.com/author/gareth-porter/

Twitter: @GarethPorter

Garland Nixon is a broadcast journalist at Radio Sputnik in Washington DC. Garland's work centres on foreign policy with a predominant focus on anti-imperialist movements worldwide. He spent over 20 years in law enforcement and retired holding the rank of Major. He then went on to teach criminal justice for several years before settling on full-time journalism. He was a regular panelist on Fox News from 2010 through 2019 appearing on nearly every show on the National network along with weekly appearances on local Fox News programs in Philadelphia and New York. Garland is also an outspoken civil libertarian and 1st amendment advocate and currently serves on the National Board of Directors for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Twitter:  @GarlandNixon 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gnixon/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@garlandn

George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer who is currently leader of the Workers Party of Britain. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for four constituencies between 1987 and 2010 for the Labour Party and later for the Respect Party from 2013 until its dissolution in 2016. He left the Commons on 30 March 2015 as Respect MP for Bradford West. Galloway is also an honorary Palestinian, Iraqi, Syrian and Egyptian national as well as a football and boxing aficionado.

Website: https://www.georgegalloway.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial

Twitter: @georgegalloway

George Eliason is an American journalist who lives and works in Donbass, Ukraine. In 2014, he broke many of the stories there starting with Maidan and continuing to the build-up toward civil war. He wrote the first stories about the war to be published in the west, often scooping Russian publications.
Eliason provided the first documented reports showing the nationality of the combatants on the pro-Russian side by doing wide-ranging invasive passport checks across the region in 2014 and frontline reporting.

He has been interviewed by and provided analysis for RT, the BBC, and Press-TV. His articles have been published in the Security Assistance Monitor, Washingtons Blog, OpedNews, the Saker, RT, Global Research, and RINF, Consortium News, Mintpress News, and the Greanville Post.

He has been published and cited in analytical blogs and publications like the Vineyard of the Saker and Foreign Policy Journal

He has been cited and republished by various academic blogs, including Defending History, Michael Hudson, SWEDHR, Counterpunch, and the Justice Integrity Project.

Website: https://georgeeliason.substack.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@geliason

Twitter:  @gheliason

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gh.eliason

Muckrack: https://muckrack.com/george-eliason

Glenn Greenwald is the author of several bestsellers, including How Would a Patriot Act? and With Liberty and Justice for Some. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional law and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and is now a founding editor of a new media outlet, The Intercept.. He is a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, and various other television and radio outlets. He has won numerous awards for his NSA reporting, including the 2013 Polk Award for national security reporting, the top 2013 investigative journalism award from the Online News Association, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting (the Brazilian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and the 2013 Pioneer Award from Electronic Frontier Foundation. He also received the first annual I. F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2009 and a 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the arrest and detention of Chelsea Manning. In 2013, Greenwald led the Guardian reporting that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Website: http://glenngreenwald.net/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlennGreenwald

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glenn.greenwald.5

Arrested for journalism and murdered by Ukraine

Gonzalo Lira is an american born and educated Chilean now living in Ukraine. His podcasts regularly cover topics of the war in Ukraine.

YouTube: The Roundtable with Gonzalo Lira - Roundtables with fello alt-commentariat

YouTube: Gonzalo Lira solo channel

Twitter: @GonzaloLira1968

Jimmy Dore is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, podcaster, and YouTube personality. He is the host of The Jimmy Dore Show, a comedic talk show on YouTube where he interviews guests of a political, economic, comedic, or scientific nature.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore (NB false allegations of conspiracy theorist, etc.)

Website: https://jimmydorecomedy.com/

Twitter: @jimmy_dore

Joe Lauria has a long and distinguished career in investigative journalism, writing for publications including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, the Sunday Times of London, London Daily Mail, the Montreal Gazette, and Bloomberg News. Joe’s work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon.com, New York Magazine and The Guardian, as well as alternative media websites such as Antiwar.com, The Duran, and of course, Consortiumnews.com. His focus has been international affairs and its intersection with domestic policy, particularly regarding the Middle East (where he lived for three years), and U.S.-Russian relations. (More at https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/05/welcome-consortiumnews-com-editor-joe-lauria/).

Website: https://consortiumnews.com

Twitter: @unjoe

Facebook: consortiumnews.com

Jackson Hinkle, for someone so young (23), is amazingly aware and conversant in matters of american war crimes, intrigues and propaganda. He tends a little towards bombast, which can make him hard to take at times but he does have the goods and the respect of peers twice his age.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thedivewithjacksonhinkle

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle

Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/jacksonhinkle

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development.

Website: https://www.jeffsachs.org/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs (Beware: Wikipedia is compromised)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeffreySachsCommunity

John Kiriakou is a former CIA analyst and case officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant. While employed by the CIA, he was involved in critical counterterrorism missions following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but refused to be trained in so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” and Kiriakou never authorized or engaged in these techniques:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou (NB bias and false allegations)

Website: https://johnkiriakou.substack.com/

Twitter: @JohnKiriakou

John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. He has been mainly based in Britain since 1962. He was also once visiting professor at Cornell University in New York. Pilger is a strong critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist and colonialist agenda.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger (NB bias and false allegations)

Website: http://johnpilger.com/

Twitter: @johnpilger

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pilgerwebsite/

Kit Klarenberg is an award-nominated investigative journalist who explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. He has previously appeared in The Cradle, Declassified UK, and Grayzone. He has revealed how a secret British intelligence network fed top journalists misinformation about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, distorting perceptions, triggering public anger and amping up tensions with Russia. His writing on Medium exposes state crimes against democracy.

Website: https://thegrayzone.com/author/kit-klarenberg/

Website:  kitklarenberg.substack.com

Twitter:  @KitKlarenberg

Larry Johnson is an ex-CIA analyst who has been exposing the propaganda and lies created by the US and western governments. The propaganda coming out of Ukraine is the worst he's ever seen. Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Website: https://sonar21.com/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_C._Johnson (NB: Wikipedia is compromised)

Larry is a frequent guest of independent journalists such as Judge Napolitano and The Duran.

Matt Taibbi is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is an author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of the newsletter Racket News (formerly TK News) on Substack.

Most recently, Taibbi was the reporter at the heart of the Twitter Files and Hamilton68 story, where Twitter executive emails showed a government conspiracy to sustain the fraud of Russiagate.

Website: https://taibbi.substack.com/

Website: https://www.racket.news/

Matthew J.L. Ehret is a journalist, lecturer and founder of the Canadian Patriot Review (www.canadianpatriot.org) and the Rising Tide Foundation. He is an author with Strategic Culture, The Duran, Fort Russ, LA Review of Books- China Channel, and has also been published on Asia Times, Global Times, Oriental Review, Sott, and Zero Hedge. He has authored three volumes of the book series "Untold History of Canada" (available on untoldhistory.canadianpatriot.org).

Website: https://canadianpatriot.org/

Website: https://risingtidefoundation.net

Twitter: @ehret_matthew

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MatthewJLEhret

Max Blumenthal is an American journalist, author and blogger who is the editor of The Grayzone website.

Muckrack profile: https://muckrack.com/max-blumenthal

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal (NB false allegations of conspiracy theorist, etc.)

Website: https://thegrayzone.com/

Twitter: @MaxBlumenthal

Michael Tracey has contributed to a wide range of publications across the political spectrum, from The Nation to The American Conservative, the New York Daily News to the New York Post, and many more. A substantial portion of recent columns can be found at the website Unherd.

Website: https://mtracey.substack.com/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tracey_(journalist)

Twitter: @mtracey

Mike Jones aka iEarlGrey is a British ex-pat living and reporting from Russia. He provides commentary, often offering the Russian perspective.

Website: https://iearlgrey.locals.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iEarlGreyTV

Twitter:@iEarlGreyTV

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iEarlGrey

Patrick Lancaster is a U.S. Navy intelligence veteran and self-styled “independent, crowd-funded journalist” from Missouri. He was first on the scene to capture what appeared to be staged evidence benefiting Kremlin narratives during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and has since gained more attention from corporate media.0 He is also a video & photo journalist mainly covering the Ukraine war and the Armenia - Azerbaijan war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Twitter: @PLnewstoday

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PatrickLancasterNewsToday

Raymond McGovern is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned political activist.[1] McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture.[2] McGovern's post-retirement work includes commenting for Russian Government-funded RT and Sputnik News, among other outlets, on intelligence and foreign policy issues. In 2003 he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

Website: https://raymcgovern.com

Twitter:  @raymcgovern

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063579788299

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McGovern (nb: Wikipedia is compromised)

Clayton Morris is a former Fox News anchor. In Redacted, Clayton and his wife Natali take an in-depth look at the legal, social, financial, and personal issues that matter to you.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedactedNews

Twitter: @TheRedactedInc

Scott Horton Horton hosts Antiwar Radio for Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles,^[1] as well as the podcast The Scott Horton Show. Horton has conducted over 5,000 interviews since 2003. He is also the director of the Libertarian Institute

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Horton_(radio_host) (NB bias and false allegations)

Website: https://scotthorton.org/

Website: https://www.antiwar.com/

Website: https://libertarianinstitute.org/

Twitter: @scotthortonshow

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scotthortonshow

Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements, and on the staff of General Norman Schwartzkopf during the Gulf War, where he played a critical role in the hunt for Iraqi SCUD missiles. From 1991 until 1998, Mr. Ritter served as a Chief Inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, leading the search for Iraq’s proscribed weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Ritter was a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war with Iraq. He resides in Upstate New York, where he writes on issues pertaining to arms control, the Middle East and national security. Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is Mr. Ritter’s tenth book.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter (NB bias and false allegations)

Website: https://www.scottritterextra.com

Twitter: Banned

YouTube: Banned (Alternate: https://www.youtube.com/@USTourofDutyPodcasts)

Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1744631

Whitney Webb is a writer, podcaster and researcher at Unlimited Hangout, mostly covering intelligence, tech, surveillance and civil liberties. She is the author of the new book, "One Nation Under Blackmail."

Website: https://linktr.ee/whitneywebb

Twitter: @_whitneywebb

Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author who has published 12 books including his latest Stand on Guard For Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military. Yves was born in Vancouver to left-wing parents who were union activists and involved in international solidarity, feminist, anti-racist, peace and other progressive movements.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Engler

Website: https://yvesengler.com/

Twitter: @EnglerYves

If you have better descriptions for the work of these journalists, or if you have reason to believe they are not trustworthy, please provide details. There are many more journalists worthy of inclusion; I just don't have time to include everyone and everything about them. I will eventually come back to include specifics about their specialties.

Other journalists and teams I'm planning to add soon:

• John Helmer
• The Gaggle - Peter Lavelle
• Tim Kirby Russia
• gilbertdoctorow.com
• moonofalabama.org
• indianpunchline.com
• nakedcapitalism.com
• southfront
• 21 century wire
• tomluongo.me
• history legends
• Stoller Awful Avalanche
• Judge Napolitano
• Russians with Attitude
• Angry Warhawk
• Veterans Today
• UK Column
• The Cradle
• Strategic Culture
• Sputnik
• scmp.com
• Glenn Diesen
• Medea Benjamin
• Lee Fang - @lhfang - https://t.co/m7FX7tcdev