Alternative Information
Sources on the Web from Bill Maddocks, The Free
Radical:
News sites from Western press:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ National Geographic News
http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Liberal daily from London.
http://www.indymedia.org/
Collective of independent media organizations and non-corporate news.
http://www.csmonitor.com/ The
Christian Science Monitor. Possibly the most objective reporting
in the US Today.
http://www.afp.com/english/home/
French perspective on world issues.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
Hundreds of front-pages from 30 countries
http://www.worldpress.org/
Articles on a wide variety of issues from all political
perspectives from all over the world
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
Left-leaning Israeli daily newspaper. Domestic Israeli news and
opinions on occupation of Palestine and other Middle Eastern matters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ British
Broadcasting Co. Daily newspapers and TV
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/
United Kingdom Daily Telegraph paper
http://www.independent.co.uk/
The UK independent. Home of Robert Fisk, one of the best
English-language Middle East reporters
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
The UK Daily Mirror. Home of John Pilger critic of
America's neocolonialism
http://www.ireland.com/
The Irish Times
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international Der Spiegel (The Mirror) Major
Newpaper in Germany
http://www.mondediplo.com/
Le Monde Diplomatique (in english), an online magazine published
by Le Monde, the prestigious Paris daily.
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/
The Scottish National Newspaper
http://www.democracynow.org/ Democracy Now
http://www.truthout.org/
Truth Out, Alternative press online. Different view than
what you see on Fox/CNN
http://www.alternet.org/index.html
AlterNet syndicates articles to newspapers, magazines, and web
sites, and also carries original analysis.
http://www.anti-war.com/
Libertarian-oriented news and opinion on militarism and
resistance.
http://www.motherjones.com/
Mother Jones daily magazine.
http://www.thenation.com/
Unconventional wisdom and opinion since 1865.
http://www.tompaine.com/
Public Interest Journal
http://www.workingforchange.com/
News & Opinion from Working Assets
http://www.zmag.org/ "The spirit of
resistance lives!" Left views.
http://www.estripes.com/
The stars and stripes daily newspaper of the US armed forces.
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/
Tom Engelhardt's, fellow at the National Institute page.
http://www.projectcensored.org/
Project Censored, Stories not covered by main stream media.
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/ Progressive Think Tank
News sites from the non-Western World:
http://www.debka.com/ Devoted
to Middle East
http://english.aljazeera.net/ Al-Jazeera is seen throughout the Arab
world, and is a respected news source in Europe.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/
Al-Ahram, Cairo, Egypt. State-owned English version.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Daily Star newspaper from Lebanon
http://www.gulf-times.com/
Qatar newspaper, the Daily Star
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/
Daily Jang, Pakistan.
http://allafrica.com/ All
Africa Global Media
http://www.irna.ir/en/ The Islamic
Republic News Association based in Tehran. Fundamentalist
viewpoint.
http://www.islamonline.net/english/index.shtml
Pan-Islamic site.
http://www.memri.org/ Middle
East Media & Research Institute, translates articles
from Arab media.
http://www.iwpr.net/home_index_new.html
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, British reporting on
Eurasian conflicts.
http://www.webwombat.com.au/news/
Australian news search engine
Sites that specialize on "fact
checking", media reporting, and how mass media works:
http://www.factcheck.org
Specializes on how political ads spin the "truth"
http://www.fair.org/ Fairness &
Accuracy in Reporting, media watch dog.
http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/
Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.corporations.org/media/
Media Reform Information Center
http://www.mediareform.net/index.php
Free Press Media reform
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
Columbia Journal Review, Which companies own which media outlets
http://www.acmecoalition.org/
Action Coalition for Media Education
http://www.sourcewatch.org/
Source Watch
Miscellaneous Educational pages
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Main_Page
left/progressive/liberal/Democratic Political Encyclopedia
http://www.earthengine.net/
Environmental video perspective
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