i just want people to pay attention and realize whats going on before the leash we are already on tightens to the point of strangulation.
i haven't seen those yet, will check them out.
Those two sites are pretty good, though they have been covering the Israeli invasion of Gaza these last few weeks, so you won't get as much coverage of US only news.
Then there is also The Young Turks (
http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks); they cover a little of everything, but what I particularly like about them is that they started Wolf-PAC (
http://www.wolf-pac.com), which basically has the objective of reversing Citizens United, and taking money out of politics. Now, I don't know if they will actually manage to get anywhere with it, but if they do, it seems to me it would be a great step towards solving the problems you mentioned.