Hey mox,
"These small operations can sometimes 'start the ball rolling' and /or help make the mainstream media more honest."

That's a fair point that no-one can deny.
Better and more numerous sources, better scrutiny of the facts.

"Worth noting that the founder and long time editor, the late Robert Parry was the main journalist responsible for uncovering and exposing the Iran Contra affair long ago."

I'm not sure if you've forgotten Gary Webb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
They even made a movie about it, 'Kill the Messenger'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
- And it's all associated with Mena Airport, Arkansas (Clintons)

"Another experienced investigative reporter who has been still at it recently is Seymour Hersh, who exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968."

Not real sure about him, I have some questions whether or not his reporting is unbiased in support for Israel.
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=2691

"Then more recently a female journalist from the main paper in Sofia, Bulgaria was sent to Aleppo, Syria."

What the hell was her name again?
I remember when that story broke.
'Silkway Airlines using diplomatic immunity', and I think the arms factory in Bulgaria was 'Arsenal', of which is connected to Maria Buttina.
I got all this info as it happened on 'Crowdsource the Truth' before George Webb and Jason Goodman had a falling out, and George went back to doing it himself.
'Dilyana Gaytandzhieva' - that's right I remember now.

Didn't know she had her own site website now.
I'm surprised she wasn't 'disappeared' after that first story broke.

Glad you added Mintpress, Whitney Webb's done some good work.
How strange. 3 Webbs. Gary, George and Whitney.

(If you watch 'The Last American Vagabond' he lists the news links for everything he talks about each day in the show description, and that's how I know I could get all the links I needed to substantiate all your earlier points.)

Hey LEGO,

"So, what are their little conspiracy theories about the USA taking out Usama bin Laden, Al Zaquari, Al Baghdadi, and that Soleimani lowlife?"

Osama might've already been dead, who knows.
If he was alive then I'd think it's likely that Pakistan ISI and the 111th infantry connected to Imran Awan who worked for Debbie Wassermann-Shultz and ran a spy ring on congress sending terabytes of data to Pakistan, knew about it.
Al Zaquari, Al Baghdadi - maybe became a liability and the US we're probably tying up loose ends.

Soleimani, this is in line with Israel foreign policy objectives, taking down Iran.

"I suppose all of these guys were just little innocents whom this shadowy coven of 'globalists' used as patsies? And they could do that because the 'globalists' not only control the left side of news reportage, but the right side as well?"

Controlling news narratives means that people are largely kept in the dark of whats really going on, and that they won't make a fuss in regards to larger 'war objectives'.
By and large the mainsteam media always supports the US (and Israels) foreign policy objectives.

And no, not the news, US neoconservative (Pro-Isreal) foreign policy, as well as Israeli and to a lesser extent Saudi foreign policy.

"It was the 'globalists' who were sticking limpet mines on tankers entering and exiting the Gulf."

It was people from the Iranian opposition, who're aligned with Israel.

"And was the 'globalists' who shot down the billion dollar US Global Hawk drone in international waters"

- It wasn't in international waters;
(But it probably was a good reason to get payback and take down an airliner.)

"and it was the "globalists" that fired those Hobbyking technology cruise missiles from Iraq into the Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia?"

Fairly sure it was that same Iranian opposition I spoke about earlier.
I could find you an article, but I'd have to dig for it.

Hey Shadow Minister,
Refer to my earlier comment on Page 1 of this thread to find out where 'The War on Terror' started.

No-one?

The bigger story you should all be looking into is this:

Congressmen all compromised and on the take;
Making money from not-so-covert wars and conflict energy.

- As in the oil they're stealing from Syria right now, a good example -

Why do you think the US has bases ALL over the planet?