This Swedish organization publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents from governments and other organizations. WikiLeaks protects its sources. There is no better whistleblower website on the internet. In fact, The National said, in 2009, “WikiLeaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years.”
In December of 2009, WikiLeaks suspended all operations other than submission of material. On February 3, 2010 it announced that its minimum fundraising goal had been achieved.
Recently WikiLeaks released a video titled, Collateral Murder, “…a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad.” The story gained national attention.
One of the directors of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, was interviewed on The Colbert Report on April 12th. We hope funding will come more easily after publicity from the interview and the Collateral Murder story they released.
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Check out wikileaks.org, and if you can, be sure to make a donation.
Would you like to know if President Obama’s speech was accurate and honest, or just another politician’s speech full of half-truths and outright lies? News programs tend to spin the truth and/or ignore too many issues. FactCheck.org is a nonprofit and nonpartisan website that devotes itself to exposing and correcting what it considers inaccurate or misleading statements by politicians and partisan groups.
Check out their latest FactCheck articles at factcheck.org.
Project Censored says, “We define Modern Censorship as the subtle yet constant and sophisticated manipulation of reality in our mass media outlets.”
Project Censored is a media research Sonoma State University foundation, managed through the School of Social Sciences at the university. They compile news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported, or otherwise censored by mainstream media.
Check out their Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010
Today information is so easy to obtain. Remember how we used to have to pick up a dictionary to know how to spell a word? Remember when we had to look at an encyclopedia to find the answer to a complicated question? Now we just Google it.
Get what you want, exactly what you want, and get it fast. That’s what Google is all about, and they are very, very good at what they do. And so are most of the other search engines. But the problem with this is that we get only what we want. We don’t often stumble across new information that we weren’t looking for.
That’s where StumbleUpon comes in. You literally stumble through web pages. For the best experience, use Firefox, download and install the StumbleUpon toolbar, and open a StumbleUpon account. Now tell StumbleUpon what you are interested in and then hit the “Stumble” button. Every time you stumble a page, you can give it a thumb up, or a thumb down. Every time you vote, StumbleUpon gets better at knowing what you like. The concept is tough for some to grasp, but it’s a lot of fun, and you can learn so much and get to see so many interesting sites you’ve never seen before.
You can also take StumbleUpon a step further and develop friendships. If you subscribe to someone else's page they can send you their favorite sites. If you choose to do this, feel free to befriend Green Lifestyle's chief editor, Michael Edwards.
Check out StumbleUpon.com for more information. 
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