The Fourth (April) Media Mission Statement

The 4^th Media, English Website of the April Media Group, is a holistic new global voice from the East, the West, the North and the South. It stands for the following sociopolitical and cultural principles:

1. The independent rights to self-determination and self-reliance of every sovereign nation from their present internationally-recognized national boundaries;
2. The universal principle of non-interference in domestic affairs of a sovereign nation’;
3. The principles of mutual-respect, cooperation, peaceful-coexistence, and a co-prosperity among nations;
4. The principle of peaceful resolution of all sorts of disputes and controversial issues between/among nations and regions such as a territorial (land, sea and space) disputes through dialogues and negotiations;
5. The principal respect for cultural diversity and religious plurality;
6. The individual sociopolitical, cultural and religious rights of every human being who is, however, in respectful harmony with socially-collective and communal goals, principles, rules and values for the sake of everybody’s wellbeing and happiness;
7. The nature-friendly, environmentally-conscious, ecologically-protective renewable green (e.g., solar, water, wind and so on) energy policies and industries through globally-coordinated national, regional and continental efforts and consortiums.

The 4^th Media, English Website of the April Media Group opposes:

1. Any sort of racism, sexism, classism and militarism;
2. Any sort of illegal wars, military confrontations, military interventions, and military invasions;
3. Any sort of willful fabrication, falsification and demonization of sovereign nations against their sociopolitical leaderships, domestic policies, sociopolitical ideologies, and governmental systems;
4. Any sort of colonization of peoples, lands, and resources;
5. Any sort of human enslavements such as global trafficking of sex slave, children, slave trade, child labor, and slave labor;
6. Any sort of colonialism, imperialism, and hegemonism;
7. Any sort of chauvinistic and/or irrational nationalism.

Therefore, the 4^th Media has a dream that someday in near future it can become a respectful new global voice in order to play a new role to make life, work and the world better, livable, and sustainable by bringing, pursuing, and seeking for the following goals, hopes, and wishes:

1. Act as a watchdog to expose willful fabrications, falsifications, and demonization that are rampant in the world of present global media outlets;
2. Provide news and analysis from a multipolar perspectives;
3. Encourage debate and discussion on international topics;
4. Bring constructive, healthy and peaceful messages rather than destructive, unhealthy and war-mongering messages that have been flooded/bombarded by mainstream corporate media outlets;
5. Monitor the use and abuse of power in the international arena, especially in international institutions for which there may not be no other form of oversight functioning;
6. Seek for empowerments, renewals, and visions in those disappointed, disheartened, and disillusioned by the mainstream global media as a whole.

The 4^th Media shall be much different from the 1^st Media (Capitalist corporate mainstream media in general such as in the US, the West and the likes), the 2^nd Media (Socialist state government media), but close to what the 3^rd Media (Grassroots, independent, and progressive) does. However, while the 3^rd Media mainly comes from the West, the 4^th Media comes from the East, the West, the North, and the South.