Sources
of News and Commentary
You may live in a small town in the California Central
Valley, but you can read practically any newspaper in the world, in
English, for free on the internet.
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
Frankfurter
Allgemeine
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
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
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
Norberts
Links for a Better World
A massive list of links to Peace Groups and other NGO's
(Also check out Norberts
home page)
Heather
Wokusch's annotated list of links
Center
for Cooperative Research
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
ProgressiveWritersBloc.com
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.
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