Alternative Daily News Services
A-Infos - "a multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists."
Alternet - an online 'infomediary'
Center for Cooperative Research - Develops thorough timelines, outlines, and fact sheets about geopolitical topics. With daily updates. What a timesaver for the busy progressive!
Cryptome - "Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide..." - Freedom of information at the nitty-gritty level.
Environmental News Network - timely environmental news, live chats, interactive quizzes, daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio, video and more.
Environment News Service - Lycos' Environmental news.
The Feminist Majority - Timely articles, calendar, Internet gateway, research center, and more.
Flashpoints Radio - "Your Daily Investigative Radio News Magazine"
Free Speech Radio News - the new ex-Pacifica network's news site. Downloadable audio program.
Free Speech TV - Audio-visual news hub (and hosting service)
GNN- Guerrilla News Network - Underground news organization
Indymedia - Network of collectively run media outlets, with links to independently run Indymedia sites across the United States and world wide.
Index on Censorship - reportage and analysis of global news. Daily updates.
Media Channel News - Daily updates, international scope, gathered from multiple sources.
Progressive Review - The daily news service of Washington's most unofficial source. Amazingly comprehensive!
Narco News - "Authentic Journalism on the 'War on Drugs' in Latin America" -- and more.
The Omnivore - "a fast, comprehensive, and intuitively easy-to-use point of entry into the myriad sources of news on the Web."
Scoop - An ultra-fast, raw un-intermediated news service out of New Zealand, with an international eye.
Tidepool - Environmental news "for the Rainforest Coast", changing daily.
What Really Happened - "The history the governemnt hopes you don't learn." -- Daily updates.
World Socialist Web Site - published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). Updated daily, and ot just about labor issues.
News and Current affairs analysis
Big Eye's Alternate News - Links to "controversial subject matter generally eschewed by other media"
The Consortium for Independent Journalism - "the Internet's first investigative magazine."
Cranky Media Guy - " Basically the world's only working class information and culture-jamming 'zine."
Disinformation - "current affairs, politics, new science and 'hidden information,' ... searchable.
The Emperors Clothes - doing direct "research to cut through official lies"
FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
From the Wilderness - Michael Ruppert's site, with detailed exposés of the CIA and the American political system. Documenter of US government 9/11 foreknowledge.
The Global Beat Syndicate - "Resources for the global journalist. The Center For War, Peace And The News Media at New York University".
Global Research - Very comprehensive coverage of all aspects of globalization. "Behind the News, Analysis, Commentary and Intelligence on the New World Order.
International Action Center - Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed.
The Jackson Progressive - An Online Journal of Politics and the Arts. Based in Mississippi, but with an international eye.
Judicial Watch - non partisan ethical and legal "watchdog" over the U.S. government, legal, and judicial systems.
The Media Channel - public interest site on global media issues. News, commentary, action toolkits, classroom guides, forums.
The Memory Hole - " to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known."
The Liberal Slant - offers alternative news and political commentary n a multitude of issues.
The Multinational Monitor - "tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment."
Online Journal - independent journalism.
Philosophers Seed - "you get the whole story; good, bad or ugly we want you to be able to make informed decisions."
PR Watch - offers investigative reporting on the public relations industry. Exposes activities of those who would control public opinion.
Practical Radical - Action alerts and analysis of current issues
Project Censored - Locating and covering stories about which the mass media keeps quiet
Swans - "endeavors to bring food for thought to the readers and to provide a quality literary and political site on the Web."
Transnationale - Amazing four-language database of information about health, products, the environment, supremacy, food, and finance across the globe. Check for the corruption and horror behind your favorite brand!
Truth Out - Current events with analysis. Forums, etc.
Unanswered Questions - "meeting place for researchers, investigative journalists and concerned citizens to pose thoughtful and engaging questions about today's most pressing issues." - heavy 9/11 focus.
Web Active - up-to-date progressive information and resources
Weekly News Update on the Americas - timely, concise news summary covering events throughout Latin American and the Caribbean.
WireTap Magazine - Youth in Pursuit of the Dirty Truth
Alternative Print Media
The Baffler - Drawing on a long American tradition of dissent.
The Bear Deluxe - Orlo's magazine, "Exploring Environmental Issues throught the Creative Arts."
Bitch Magazine - Feminist response to pop culture.
Clamor Magazine - "New Perspectives in politics, culture, media and life."
Counterpunch - "muckraking with a radical attitude"
Covert Action Quarterly - Analysis of geopolitical issues - but they seem to have halted.
The Ecologist - the world's longest running environmental magazine.
In These Times
Mother Jones Magazine
The Multinational Monitor - "tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment."
The Nation
The Portland Alliance - progressive local newspaper.
The Progressive
Stay Free Magazine - Like a low budget Adbusters, more focused on critiquing the PR industry.
Utne Reader Online - "A place in cyberspace where ideas and community intersect"
Z Magazine - a classic.
"The media are not in the news business, they're in the entertainment business"
-Michael Deaver, former Reagan adviser,
in Illusions of News, part of the Bill Moyers' series The Public Mind: Image and Reality in America
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