If the Drudge Report is your idea of online "alternative media," take a gander at conspiracyplanet.com or conspiracydigest.com.

Don't the let the domain names fool you.

The sister sites don't promote worn out theories about hovering black helicopters or alien autopsies by the government in Roswell, New Mexico. Instead, their pages contain reams of content about alleged government fraud, cover-up, malfeasance and ineptitude.

AIDS, Iran-Contra, Sept. 11, anthrax, CIA drug trafficking — if it's in the news, chances are these Web sites offer what they purport to be the real stories that the mainstream media aren't telling us.

"This is what people read to know what's going on as opposed to the fluff offered to the people in the cheap seats, as they say," said Uri Dowbenko, a Montana-based writer who publishes the Web sites and two others under the umbrella New Improved Entertainment Corp.

"What we are involved in is the truth business," said Dowbenko.

Conspiracyplanet.com bills itself as an "antidote to media cartel propaganda." The site currently contains about two dozen articles written by Dowbenko and friends about everything from "Bush Cabal" to the "Phony Drug War." Conspiracydigest.com offers book excerpts and reviews from the genre, including Dowbenko's new book, "Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy."

Although Dowbenko's Web sites avoid some of the more bizarre conspiracy theories found elsewhere on the Internet and in the tabloids, a few found their way there. One claims that Princess Diana was pregnant when she was assassinated. And a recent headline based on a real news story read, "Moon Landing Hoaxer Buzz Aldrin Punches Filmmaker."

Dowbenko says that besides being in business, the goal of his Web sites ultimately is to encourage people to think for themselves and not take what they read in newspapers and see on television as gospel.

"It takes a degree of discernment to know what's credible and what's not," said Dowbenko, who refers to the Associated Press wire service as the Associated Propaganda. "The mainstream media has been caught lying so often. As far as I'm concerned the New York Times and Washington Post have very little credibility."

The Web sites are several years old but they got a boost in traffic and outside attention, according to Dowbenko, with the addition of Al Martin and almartinraw.com to the brand. Martin, who is billed as a "fourth-level" participant in the Iran-Contra scandal, writes a regular Internet column called "Behind the Beltway" that highlights alleged fraud and misuse of funds by the federal government.

"I wanted to rehabilitate the C-word because the word 'conspire' has been so denigrated," Dowbenko says, referring to origin of his Web sites and book publishing enterprise. "It is really a useful term for a lot of corporate and government activities, as we have seen especially in the last year of so. The origin of the word 'conspire" is the Latin word conspirare.' It means to breathe together."

Although Dowbenko is highly critical of President George W. Bush, his administration and family, he says he is not anti-government but rather pro-good government.

"I'm anti-corruption in government and I'm anti-corruption in corporations," said Dowbenko, whose background is in marketing and public relations. "The problem with the government is they don't have a Lie Coordination Bureau. They need one so they can coordinate all their lies from a central place."

So what exactly is the government lying about? Just about everything, is the impression given by the New Improved Entertainment Corp. sites.

For Dowbenko, it's not just a business. He lives and breathes this stuff. During a little exchange of word association with Courttv.com, Dowbenko rattled off his take on these topics without hesitation: