Substacks recommended by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

Recommended by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

a refreshing dose of rational thought

Essays to point the way back to a long-forgotten place... yep, you guessed it, the Critical Middle.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox... Knowledge is power!

Having the correct information is not enough... You must understand it and know how to use it. That is the key. Knowledge = power

Juvenescence

By Leah McLaren

A newsletter about curiosity, writing, the creative unconscious and the tragicomic struggle to live a fully examined life.

The Chris Hedges Report

By Chris Hedges

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

World in Transition

By Michael Warden

Discerning bigger patterns in turbulent events everywhere unfolding

Reading Michael's writing feels like pulling up a chair next to your super-smart, compassionate friend, and listening to him connect all the dots.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

The Forgotten Side of Medicine

By A Midwestern Doctor

Here I expose both the light and dark within medicine that has remained hidden. My hope is that knowledge can improve your health and the health of those around us.

Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf

Essays, updates and arguments from an eyewitness to a new dark age, with thoughts on how to keep liberty, justice and human rights alive.

Kathleen Devanney's Newsletter

Reflections and commentary on The Great Unraveling, and Why the future for humanity is positive on the other side of the current collapse.

Third Paradigm

By Tereza Coraggio

A woman's pov on Global Economics, Geopolitics, Psyops & Propaganda, Spirituality, A Course in Miracles, Community Sovereignty

Dr. Lindsay Mumma’s Newsletter

By Lindsay Mumma

Using optimistic skepticism to deliver a full serving of health-related info with a healthy dose of sarcasm to chase it down

Visceral Adventure

Musings on our humanity, culture, and transcendence.

Slowdown Farmstead

By Tara

Cultivating authenticity in a synthetic world. Ruminations on ancestral food, healthy living, family, homesteading, connection to the natural world, life, death and this radical little thing called "sovereignty".

Tell Me How This Ends

By Chris Bray

Elite class ritual performance, cultural and political decline, military culture, and the dismal state of American journalism.

uTobian

By Dr. Toby Rogers

It doesn't have to be like this.

VeganWeekly

By Jack McNulty

Inspiring people every week to cook 2-3 healthy vegan recipes that taste great!

Charles Eisenstein

Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology

Down the Wombat Hole

By Isaac Middle

Wholesomely Conspiratorial Astrology

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Unmasking totalitarianism and awakening the sleeping before tyranny triumphs by examining media narratives, propaganda, psychology, framing, philosophy, history, politics, language, literature, film, music, culture, and health with a focus on COVID.

Margaret Anna Alice, like Alice in Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, is an intrepid explorer. There is no darkened corner of this fearsome world that she will not shine her light of truth upon, with intelligence, wit, and heart.

- Mary Poindexter McLaughlin

The Truth Barrier

By Celia Farber

Writings present and past by Celia Farber

Glenn Greenwald

Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.

Racket News

By Matt Taibbi

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.