Sources of News and
Commentary
A Few of the Major
US Newspapers
New
York Times
Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
Boston Globe
Christian Science Monitor
Foreign Newspapers
Guardian,
London
The Independent,
London
(...especially
Robert Fiske's Column!)
Agence France
Presse
Haaretz (Israel)
Palestine Chronicle
(see the sidebars of Cursor.org
for a list of many more
international newspapers available free, in English, online)
Other News Sources
BBC
News
Greg Palast (Investigative
journalist for the BBC)
KPFA (94.1 FM broadcasting
from Berkeley, CA or listen online)
KFCF (88.1 FM broadcasting
from Fresno, CA or listen online)
Democracy Now
Free Speech Radio News
Flashpoints
Indy Media Center--First-hand
reporting and commentary
Google News--An aggregation
of links to stories from
a wide variety of international papers.
Our Favorites:
from Poll of Members of the Progressive Writers Bloc
Guardian
Der Spiegel
My Way News
Truthout
Progressive Review
Common Dreams
American Prospect
Harpers
Mother Jones
Z Magazine
The Other
Israel
Gush Shalom
Organic Consumers Assn
Co-op America
Generation Green
Lip
Grist
Union of Concerned Scientists
Southern Poverty
Law Center
Democracy Now
Media Matters for America
Voter Information
SmartVoter.org,
an excellent nonpartisan site
sponsored by the League of Women Voters
Vote-Smart.org,
another similarly
excellent informational site
Office
of the Democratic Whip in Congress,
a source for information on significant current legislation.
Commentary
Z-Net
Truthout
Alternet
Common Dreams
Global Exchange
Public Citizen
Responsible Wealth
United For A Fair Economy
FAIR
A progressive media-watch group
Progressive
Review
Cursor
Move On
Indy
Media Center
Anyone who is witness to news being made can
contribute to this forum.
Indy Media,
Israel
Electronic
Intifada
Alternet
Counterpunch
Buzzflash
Smirking Chimp
The Onion
Global
Policy Forum
Tom Paine
Retro
Poll
Most pollsters ask questions and get responses
from people who are totally ignorant about the subject.
Retro Poll does the same, but then they explain the item and
ask again. It is amazing how much
people's opinions change when they understand what is being
asked.
The
Crisis Papers
Center for International
Policy
Institute
for Policy Studies
Foreign Policy in Focus
Vietnam
Veterans Against the War
Veterans
for Common Sense
Voices
in the Wilderness
United
For Peace
Chickenhawk
Database
We don't necessarily take the position that people
who avoid the military are "chicken", but when
the military avoider turns around and becomes a cheerleader
for war, the hypocrisy justifies the term.
What is particularly noteworthy is how many of
our current generation of hawkish politicians
(starting at the top with George W. Bush) actively avoided the
military themselves.
Dissident
Voice
Addicted to War
Antiwarmonger
Bush Watch
Other
Articles, Links, and lists of Links
Ivan's
Place
Bill Becker's own commentary site. Bill was very
involved with Central American
issues in the 1980's and has written articles reflecting solid
research on a variety of topics.
Eurolegal
Services
An awesome site on all things EU,
+ good material on how we are viewed abroad
Better World Info.
A massive list of links to Peace Groups and other
NGO's
European Human Rights Centre
Heather
Wokusch's annotated list of links
Center
for Cooperative Research
Columbia
Journalism Review
and its "Who
Owns What" webpage
John
Stockwell speech transcripts
List
of US interventions since 1775
"Why
the Anti-War Movement Should Support the Palestinian Struggle"
"The
US and Iraq In Historical Perspective"
"The
Devil's Tears"
Project
Censored
Top
25 underreported stories for the year
List
of Project Censored's favorite web sites
CO.Quaker.org
South Valley
Peace Center
L-Curve.org
Approval
Rating Graphs and Other Polling Data
Rate Yourself
Political
Compass is a quiz to help you understand your position on
the political spectrum, but it is more than that. It looks at
the traditional left-right economic dimension, but it uses a
separate scale to measure authoritarian vs. libertarian tendencies.
This is an important distinction. For instance both Stalin and
Gandhi were on the left, but they are far apart on the authoritarian
scale. Hitler was a moderate on questions of economics, but
an extremist on the authoritarian scale.
(If I have left out your favorite news or progressive commentary
links, please bring them to my attention.)
