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An Internet End-Run on the Media Monopoly

Turn off your TV! We're talking news for the survival of democracy, not infotainment, the currently most popular opiate of the masses.

The best place to get the news (and easiest and cheapest...assuming your internet connection is alive and well) is the Internet. You can get online editions (usually free) of most of the world's major newspapers, and you can find the full range of opinion on issues that are not even hinted at in the mainstream media.

The best place to find out what the Internet has to offer is the Internet itself. Progressive Review, Information Clearing House, and Cursor.org are excellent progressive news commentary sites, but besides their own selection of articles each has a massive list of other news sources. You will never want to watch T.V. news again!

Selected here are just a few of the sources listed at those sites.

US Newspapers

New York Times
Washington Post
Los Angeles Times

Boston Globe
Christian Science Monitor

Foreign News Sources

Times of London
Guardian (UK)

Agence France Presse
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Jerusalem Post

Palestine Chronicle
Al Jazeer Temporary English Site on Iraq War

Alternative News and Progressive Commentary

Znet
Global Exchange
Progressive Review
Cursor.org
Democracy Now.org
Pacifica Radio Network/ (Available locally through: KFCF 88.1 FM)
FAIR
Truthout
Indymedia
Common Dreams
MoveOn.Org
Drudge Report

Indymedia

Common Dreams

AntiWar.com

Global Exchange

Peace and Justice Related Organizations

Pax Christi USA
Catholic Worker Movement
Education for Peace in Iraq Center

Peace and Justice Related Web Sites I Maintain:

An eye-opening graph of the US income distribution
Thinking through the issues on military service and conscientious objection
Visalia Friends Meeting
Progressive Writers' Bloc
Migrant Photography Project
(All of these have links to many other resources.)

"Favorite Web Sites" List from Project Censored

ABYA YALA NEWS: ONLINE
ALTERNET
BLACKPRESSUSA.COM
BLUE EAR
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALIZATION
COMMON DREAMS
CONSORTIUM FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM, THE
CORPWATCH
DAILY BRIEFING
DAILY MEDIA NEWS
DATA LOUNGE
DEMOCRACY NOW!
ENVIROLINK NETWORK
ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA SERVICES
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS SERVICE
FACULTY ACTIVIST DIRECTORY, THE
FREE SPEECH TV
GLOBAL ISSUES
GLOBAL SPIN
GUERRILLA NEWS NETWORK
HOME TOWN ADVANTAGE BULLETIN, THE
INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
INEQUALITY.ORG
INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
IPS (INTER PRESS SERVICE)
LIP MAGAZINE
MEDIACHANNEL
MICHAEL MOORE
MODEL MINORITY
MOTHERJONES.COM/MOJO WIRE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER (PALO ALTO)
PRIME-NEWS AGENCY
PROGRESSIVE RESPONSE
RADIO FOR ALL
RUCKUS SOCIETY, THE
SALON
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PROGRESSIVE DIRECTORY
TALK LEFT
TAO COMMUNICATIONS
TOMPAINE.COMMONSENSE
TRUTHOUT.COM
UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY
WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
ZENZIBAR NEWS SERVICE
ZNET