19 Big Stories the Talking Heads Are Not Talking About

American media has to be the biggest establishment lap dogs this side of North Korea.   Increasingly, I have found myself turning to the UK media, and even sometimes Russian media, to find coverage of important stories in my own country.    The blogosphere helps by amplifying coverage of these sources that are otherwise hard to find.   I want to do my part to get America beyond a corporate media which distracts rather than informs, and rather than attacking corruption in the status quo, prefers to attack those who point out the corruption (if they don't ignore them).  

With that in mind, here are 19 big stories that have been under reported.