why is this index

Why this new index

Publishers and writers whose viewpoints differ from the mainstream media narrative, have difficulties to reach you.
They are refused on radio, television, printed paper and held back in the Google search algorithm.
To support them, and help you, we made an open index of their publications and a portal to search in it.
Use it as your 1st source of information, as a 2nd opinion to the mainstream narrative or as an introduction to the various alternative information sources.

Why can't I open some articles / websites

As a result of sabotage by the US governement, domain names like 'presstv.com', rt.com, sputniknews.com, strategic-culture.org and 'southfront.org' have been removed from the core services on the Internet (the 'root DNS servers) which are actually controlled by them.
Those news organisations have other domain names now and we continue to index them, but to read them, you will have to manually replace the domainname in the URL (address-bar), for example: replace 'rt.com' with 'swentr.site' ; 'sputniknews.com' with 'sputnikglobe.com' ; 'presstv.com' with 'presstv.ir' ; 'strategic-culture.org' with 'strategic-culture.su' ; 'southfront.org' with 'southfront.press' 'orientalreview.org' with 'orientalreview.su' .... and so on.

WORKAROUND: Take back your freedom of speech and information.
It is always possible to avoid the 'services' that are actually controlled by those who wants to censor information, even the false information ("records") of the core nameservers (US-controlled root-DNS)

This is how: associate the ip addresses belonging to these censored mediasources with their original names, by adding extra 'records' (i.e. textlines) in the local hosts file on your computer or smartphone/tablet.

Those 'records' are lines like:
81.91.159.105 presstv.com www.presstv.com
192.145.97.84 strategic-culture.org www.strategic-culture.org
91.215.41.4 4 rt.com www.rt.com
194.190.139.3 4 sputniknews.com www.sputniknews.com
185.40.155.13 4 cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com
194.58.88.47 4 southfront.org www.southfront.org
31.31.203.8 4 orientalreview.org www.orientalreview.org
89.191.237.195 de.rt.com rt.de www.rt.com
...
and so on ...

HERE is an example that you can copy to your hosts file (linux, osx, windows), or import in the virtual-hosts app (android) .
UPDATE: Dutch websites are blocked by some internet providers: cafeweltschmerz.nl is no longer accessible unless you perform local or alternative name resolution ( 18.158.222.36 cafeweltschmerz.nl www.cafeweltschmerz.nl)
Alternativ: use the cloudflare DNS-servers: 1.1.1.1 en/of 1.0.0.1

Background

Publishers on the internet never created a global index, because EInet, Altavista, Yahoo, Google, Bing and others did it.
Those companies snapped the index-data from the internet, considered this their private property,
and exploited Search Services with commercial adds and lucrativ priority deals that made them very rich.

As big companies eat the small ones, some trans-national corporations got their hold on all Mainstream Search Services.(*)
They have ideological influence, without writing or publishing anything themself
Although freedom of expression is garanteed by law, and writers can express alternative viewpoints, their publications
are hidden from the public that relie on the Mainstream Media and Search Services for their information input.

Those who control the Mainstream Media and the Internet Index, can create a distorted reality.
Unfunded accusations and fear mongering has been echoed again and again,
to achieve support for military interventions in Korea, Vietnam, Palestine, ....
...., Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen

When in the US, by the end of 2016, the Democratic National Convention [DNC] did everything to hinder Berny Sanders
his campaign and finally stole his primary election result in favor of their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton,
these corporate media and services again played a ugly role.

The Republican populist Donald Trump won popularity by calling them 'Fake News' and finally won the elections.

This rendered the Corporate Media in total panic, afraid that many readers would shift to the free and alternative media.
So they united and used their influence to stigmatize all dissent voices by publishing a notorious propornot list,
and hijacking the infamous description 'Fake News'

They demanded the assistance of Facebook and Twitter to censor alternative content
and the assistance of Google to filter them from the index.(**)

This clearly infringes our right to information and should be a concern.
The nightmare described by George Orwell in his book '1984' should have warned us enough

As a rule of nature: if existing systems fail, new ones are created.

Since there are alternatives for Facebook, Twitter, Google, Youtube, .....
social media users can shift to better, community owned services
and alternative media sources can create a global index together with
a transparent search tool to exploit in on their websites.

(*) The same acquisition policy targeted the mainstream media

(**) A few month before Google's policy change, the dmoz open directory project, already assimilated by OAL, was shut down.
See searchenginehistory.com for a history of Index & search engine technology and (commercial) services
Go to Tab Sheet what for information about our policy and the technology used to create the index and open it transparant to the public.

The mainstream media doesn't allow journalists to write about the real context of destabilization, sanctions and wars that aim to destroy countries refusing to obey to the neo-liberal imperial rules.

Dissident writers and journalists had no other choice then leaving the Mainstream Media. They found their publishing platforms in alternative media channels on the internet, and it was until 2017 possible to find their articles if you used mainstream search services as Google,Yahoo, Bing, or their proxies.

This has now ended. Most alternative articles are hold-back or ranked very low in the Google search results. It is not advisable to use these search services anymore

As more people start noticing that mainstream media outlets ain't tell the truth, they will not easily find the alternative information. Most of them don't know about the alternative media channels or - even worse - have learned to judge them as conspiracy-channels.

Thats why they have to unite, create a cooperative index and offer a transparent search-tool to enable the interested readers to reach their value information.