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Doctors Without Borders: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

Military Religious Freedom Foundation: dedicated to ensuring that all members of the United States Armed Forces fully receive the Constitutional guarantees to which they and all Americans are entitled. At the forefront of the battle against Christian Fascism in America.

The Global Report: Covers news underreported by mainstream media, believing that a free exchange of information is necessary to organize for social change.

Chris Hedges at Truthdig: Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He has written nine books, including “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Robert Fisk: Award-winning foreign correspondent with the Independent (UK).

Media Matters with Bob McChesney: Bob McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The media are central to all our lives," he says. "Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in society." Media Matters features McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests.

Max Blumenthal: Award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party, is a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Scott Horton's No Comment: Horton is a Contributing Editor of Harper's Magazine and a life-long human rights advocate. He's a New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law, especially human rights law and the law of armed conflict, and lectures at Columbia Law School.