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Adbusters
Monthly magazine devoted to the critique of consumerism and corporate media.

AlterNet
News magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies dozens of other alternative media sources.

Antiwar.com
Antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities.

Axis of Logic
News and commentary which are often ignored or whitewashed by the mainstream media. Has columnists living in different countries and covers many of subjects.

Centre for Research on Globalisation
Independent media and research group of writers, scholars and journalists. Publishes news articles, analysis and intelligence on the New World Order.

Common Dreams
"Breaking news and views for the progressive community", with links to news items and opinion pieces from around the world.

Consortiumnews.com
Underreported news and forgotten history from investigative online magazine.

CorpWatch
One of the best corporate criticism sources.

CorporateWatch
Updated archives and articles tracking the actions of British corporations.

Democracy Now!
Daily news program airing on over 350 stations in North America. Provides audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the US corporate-sponsored media.

Dissident Voice
Internet newsletter dedicated to challenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves.

Disinformation
Collects data on current affairs, politics, new science and the "hidden information", ignored by corporate-owned media conglomerates.

Eat the State!
Forum for anti-authoritarian political opinion, research and humor.

Guerilla News Network
Provides alternative coverage of the war on terrorism, corporate crime, and the environment.

Global Issues
Provides insights into global issues that may be misrepresented but are all closely related. Topics include human rights, trade, globalization, poverty, and environment related issues.

Globalise Resistance
"Brings together groups and individuals opposed to the global growth of corporate power."

Independent Media Center
Collective of independent media organizations and journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.

Index on Censorship
Bi-monthly magazine widening the debates on freedom of expression through interviews, reportage, banned literature, and polemic from some of the world's best writers.

Inequality.org
Interesting information on income inequalities.

Information Clearing House
Independent media "source of unreported (or under reported) news from around the globe".

Inter Press Service (IPS)
Covers news from the "Third World", promotes information on development issues, and helps create a better balance and flow of international news.

 

 
 
Left Business Observer
Alternative magazine on economics and politics.

National Security Archive
Collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

New Economics Foundation
Independent think-and-do tank challenging mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues.

NewStandard
Progressive, leftist online newspaper providing daily coverage of US and world events.

OneWorld
Global network of over 900 organizations working in human rights and sustainable development. Provides comprehensive daily coverage of global issues.

Online Journal
Variety of alternative news and views.

openDemocracy
Online magazine offering news & analysis of global politics, democracy & elections.

Opensecrets.org
Sponsored by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.

Progress Report
Daily news reports on politics, economics, and environment.

Swans
Online journal providing critical commentaries of news.

TomDispatch
Regular antidote to the mainstream media. Written by Tom Engelhardt, a fellow at the Nation Institut.

TomPaine.com
Online public affairs journal of progressive analysis and commentary.

truthout
Provides access to "reader-supported news instead of advertiser-supported news".

UK Watch
Daily updated site featuring a radical critique of UK politics.

Undercurrents
Aims to bring about positive social and environmental change using various forms of media, currently being video, audio and internet.

Unknown News
Features original articles and news from alternative and mainstream journalistic sources.

UNObserver
Magazine examines the activities of the UN and other international organizations. Also publishes the opposing views of many rival Heads of State, along with the opinions of independent experts, shadowing the political agendas of world leaders and their policies.

Voltaire Network
News and comment site of international network of non-aligned press groups. Opposes the unipolar world governance system that the US is trying to impose and denounces the unbalanced economic world situation.

War in Context
Alternative perspectives on the war on terrorism and the Middle East conflict - articles from the global press and progressive media.

War On Want
Fghts poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation.

World Socialist Web Site
Provides left political and social commentary. Published by International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

World War 4 Report
Monitors the global War on Terrorism and its implications for human rights, democracy and ecology.

Working For Change
Alternative source for news and editorials on politics, volunteer opportunities, environment, economy, health, and animal rights.

Z Net
Activist resource and site of US premier alternative magazine.


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