Third World Traveler
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Third World Traveler puts up articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the U.S. mainstream media about the state of American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the United States government, transnational corporations, international financial institutions, and the corporate media, on democracy, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World.
Third World Traveler features authors who:
1) assert that U.S. foreign policy undermines democracy and freedom around the world, supports authoritarian governments, and uses the U.S. military and intelligence agencies to help U.S. corporations exploit and control the resources, markets, and labor of third world countries;
2) believe that U.S. democracy has become so corrupted that America should no longer be considered a true democracy, but rather a corporatocracy, with corporate owners and CEOs controlling the economic and political life of the U.S., using campaign contributions to help get elected to office Republican and Democratic candidates who support their corporate agendas;
3) recognize that the U.S. mainstream media are owned by a handful of enormous conglomerates that control 90% of what Americans watch, read, and hear. These authors believe the corporate-controlled U.S. mainstream media have an overwhelming right-wing bias, that the media are consistently supportive of established wealth and privilege, that they foster corporate power and corporate control of the U.S. political system, that they are proponents of the neoconservative agenda and neoliberal economic policies which place corporate profits above human and community needs, and that the mainstream media advocate for U.S. government foreign interventions and wars, even those that violate international law and human rights, as long as these policies increase the wealth and power of U.S. corporate elites.
Finally, Third World Traveler provides information and links to aid international travelers.
