Yeah. The downside of this is that it gives countries like Russia an outlet to slip in pro-Russian propaganda through outlets that people come to trust based on their other reporting. There are basically two responses the US mainstream media could've taken to this - open up local platforms for those non-aligned views so that Russia can no longer leverage them, or use it to claim that non-approved views are just Russian propaganda - and they've gone with the latter.

Oh ya, I was perhaps vague but don't get me wrong, I would of course prefer that American discourses could happen on American platforms and even if RT is letting proper non-corporate-aligned journalism run unfettered, it's just a means to an end and we can't count of their altruism.

I think it's just the world responding with a higher profile countermeasure to a systemic problem that could be handled more 'naturally' but isn't.

> Outside of small scale independent journalists who are always at the risk of getting de-platformed, non-NATO/petrodollar-aligned foreign news are the only place I can find Americans talking about American stances like leftism (in the economic sense), anti-war, etc.

The good news is that there are many opportunities in the U.S. and West: The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, The Nation, Mother Jones, Common Dreams, Tom Paine, Democracy Now, and many more. The Guardian generally supports those positions too; Le Monde does, last I knew, as well as Der Spiegel. You could read that kind of thing all day and never run out of content.

Many of these are not actually economically leftist or antiwar, and the ones that were have moved toward more of a centrist neoliberal position in recent years.

There are unfortunately very few leftist outlets right now of any real quality. WSWS, Evonomics, and Current Affairs are among the few exceptions.

> Many of these are not actually economically leftist or antiwar, and the ones that were have moved toward more of a centrist neoliberal position in recent years.

Which ones?

To be honest, I think I mixed up your comment with another person who mentioned several other sources including Daily Kos (which used to have a pretty good left presence that was almost completely driven off the site in 2016).

Some of the sources you cited are somewhat to the left, although I would characterize most of them as progressive left and not "leftist," which to me implies something like democratic socialism, syndicalism, libertarian socialism, or something even farther left. (That said, The Nation does have a front page article up from Chomsky! Good on them.)

After 2016, I noticed that many progressive outlets spent some time dipping their toes into neoliberalism -- lots of subtly pro-capitalist and pro-interventionist pieces, basically cheerleading the pre-2016 global order -- and as a result I tuned out from most of them. This may have changed? I revisited some of the names you mentioned and I don't see it so strongly anymore.