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Alternative News

The Advocate. Gay news, LGBT rights and politics.
AlterNet. Syndicated writings from the alternative press.
The American Prospect. Liberal political magazine.
Common Dreams. Breaking news and links to highlights from the day’s progressive press.
CounterPunch. A monthly magazine edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
Democracy Now!. The web version of the daily radio show.
Free Speech TV. Towards more democratic television; site features downloadable independent video.
In These Times. A nonprofit political magazine featuring news and analysis that challenge the corporate media.
Jacobin. “A leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.”
The Intercept. The award-winning investigative news organization, led by Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill.
The Grayzone. Founded and edited by journalist and author Max Blumenthal.
Rewire.News
Current Affairs.“A bimonthly print magazine of culture, politics, and the absurd.”
The Real News
Dissent. “A quarterly magazine of politics and ideas. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954.”
Truthdig. “An Independent, Progressive Journal of News and Opinion”
openDemocracy. “openDemocracy seeks to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world. “
Black Agenda Report. “News, commentary and analysis from the black left.”
MR Online
Labor Notes. News about the labor movement and perspectives from workers.
Jewish Currents
Mother Jones. Non-profit political news organization with a focus on social justice and investigative reporting.
The Nation. America’s oldest weekly news magazine, featuring political news and commentary.
The Progressive. Political magazine with commentary and news advocating for peace and social justice.
Truthout. Independent progressive website with original reporting, analysis as well as articles from around the web.
Utne Reader. Quarterly magazine that reprints articles from alternative media.
World Socialist Web Site. News from a Marxist perspective; frequent media criticism.
ZNet. Z Magazine‘s site for progressive news and organizing.

International News

BBC World News.
The Independent. A U.K.-based newspaper.
Le Monde Diplomatique in English. A French monthly news magazine focusing on global politics (French edition).
The Iranian
Reuters. British-based news service.
The Electronic Intifada. “An independent online news publication focusing on Palestine.”
Asia Times
Haiti Liberte. “The largest Haitian weekly newspaper, distributed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Haiti.”
Venezuelanalysis.com. “An independent website produced by individuals who are dedicated to disseminating news and analysis about the current political situation in Venezuela.”
The Guardian. A U.K. daily newspaper.
Deutsche Welle. Germany’s public international broadcaster.
Folha de S.Paulo. The renowned Brazilian daily newspaper.
France 24
Russia Today
Al Jazeera
Maclean’s. The progressive Canadian magazine, founded in 1905.
Telesur
El País
+972Mag. “An independent, online, non-profit magazine owned and run by a group of Israeli and Palestinian journalists.”

Media Criticism and Resources

Abyz News Links. An enormous database of national and local U.S. news publications.
Adbusters. Examines and parodies advertising culture.
Reveal. Formerly the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Crooks and Liars. Liberal blog that features video.
Consortium News
The Daily Howler. An often insightful Web-based column on media inaccuracy and arrogance.
Freedom Forum. Formerly the Gannett Center.
Index on Censorship. Promotes free expression around the world.
Institute for Public Accuracy. Seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out.
Media Bistro. Journalists’ site features a daily round-up of media news.
Media Matters. An organization dedicated to exposing conservative media misinformation.
Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch. Investigates and counters corporate and government spin.
Citations Needed Podcast. “A podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit.”
Mediate
Columbia Journalism Review
Nieman Lab
Vanderbilt University’s TV News Archive. The best free resource for studying TV news.
world-newspapers.com Exhaustive links to international newspapers online.
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News, Views, and Tools for Progressives

Contents

Alternative Sources of News

Huffington Post
Alternet.org (news from Independent Media Institute)
Common Dreams Newscenter (news and views for the Progressive Community)
The Daily Beast
Truthout
BuzzFlash.com (Breaking news and views, updated frequently with uneven links to new reports)
Democracy Now (progressive TV: "independent, unembedded media")
Independent Media Center
Inter Press Service News Agency
Op Ed News
Mother Jones
Reddit Progressive
The Intercept ("fearless adversarial journalism")
District Sentinel (a progressive news co-op in Washington DC)
Global Research: Centre for Research on Globalization
Axis of Logic
World Socialist Web Site
Rewire (news and commentary "on issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice")
Citizen Truth ("News for the People")
Radio Free ("news without corporate agendas"), iOS app also available
CounterPunch ("muckraking with a radical attitude")
Blob ("human curated news aggregator")
Liberals.com (news aggregator with links especially to Politico and MoveOn)

Netroots (Progressive Blogs and Podcasts)

Daily Kos and Daily Kos on Facebook
Digby Blog
Shadowproof (formerly, Firedoglake)
Occasional links & commentary on economics, culture & society (mostly cartoons of the day, curated by David Ruccio)
Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen (podcast)
District Sentinel Radio (podcast from Sam Sacks & Sam Knight)
The Daily Nooze (liberal political blog)
Last Men and OverMen (Mike Sax)
The Young Turks Network and The Young Turks on Facebook
Wonkette (topical satire)
PolitiZoom (independent news magazine and blogs)
Matter of Fact (Soledad O'Brien)
The Progressives Abroad Podcast, also on YouTube (politics, society, culture through the lens of progressives living abroad)
Letters from an American (blog of Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history)

Websites for Progressives

Indivisible Guide
The Sanders Institute
Salon
The American Prospect
The Progressive
New Democracy Project
Center for American Progress (Progressive ideas for a strong, just, & free America)
Campus Progress (supporting progressive student movements on campus)
ZNet ("a community of people committed to social change")
State Innovation Exchange ("legislative wing of the progressive movement")
Antiwar.com
Democratic Underground
People for the American Way
TomDispatch.com (Tom Engelhardt from the Nation Institute)
Informed Comment (Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion from Juan Cole)
Now with Bill Moyers (PBS)
The Nation
New Republic
Democracy for America (founded by Howard Dean)
Public Citizen
In These Times
Progressive Democrats of America
Citizen Works
Campaign for America's Future
Institute for America's Future
The Smirking Chimp
National Resources Defense Council
Institute for Policy Studies
Cosmic Fantasia
New Standard News
Links to more sites from The Progressive Populist
Bridge Project
The Burn Notice (forum for discussing current events)
Popular Resistance: Daily Movement News and Resources

Progressive 527 Organizations

MoveOn.org
Major Players: Active Advocacy Groups (listed by OpenSecrets.org)

Writers

Greg Palast
Michael Moore
Jim Hightower
Thom Hartmann
Tom Engelhardt
Juan Cole
Robert Reich
Ralph Nader
Naomi Klein (and her list of recent articles)

Useful Tools for Understanding the Media

FactCheck.org (non-partisan political fact-checking from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania)
SciCheck: fact-checking science-based claims (from FactCheck.org)
Fair ("fairness and accuracy in reporting")
Media Matters for America (David Brock)
Media Lens ("correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media")
Institute for Public Accuracy
PR Watch from Center for Media and Democracy
SourceWatch (formerly Disinfopedia, from Center for Media and Democracy): information about think tanks and P.R. firms
Media Giants
The Daily Howler: musings on the mainstream "press corps" and the American discourse
Con Web Watch: keeping an eye on conservative news
News Diffs (archives changes in articles after publication)
Hamilton 68: tracking Twitter accounts linked to Russian troll farms, from Alliance for Securing Democracy (German Marshall Fund)
BotCheck.me: Detect and Track Twitter Propaganda
Bot Sentinel (track trollbots)
Trump Twitter Archive (search all of DJT's tweets)

Useful Tools for Understanding Politics

Megavote (how your representatives voted)
Open Secrets
Players Guide: special interest groups behind TV ads (from FactCheck.org)
Conservative Transparency (database tracking flow of money among conservative organizations)
Iraq Body Count
Open Debates
Legistorm (non-partisan group disseminating public information about elected officials)
2020 Ad Tracker (Searchable database of immigration-related political ads)

Useful Links for Election Surveys, Polls, and Analysis

FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver)
Pollster.com (approval ratings, primary polls, etc.)
Maps and cartograms of the 2008 election results
Electoral Vote Predictor
Election Projection
Gallup Poll
Survey USA poll results by state
Political Forecasting
PollyVote ("evidence-based election forecasting)
Iowa Electronic Markets (charts tracking assessments by online gamblers)

Music

Peace Not War: anti-war music

Voting and Voting Problems

Black Box Voting
Vote Watch
Verified Voting
Let America Vote (fighting for voter rights)

Voter Registration

Penn Leads the Vote (registering and voting at Penn)
National Voice A List of Voter Registration Projects
Raise Your Vote (from Organizing for America)
America Coming Together
Vote From Abroad (instructions for absentee voting)
Music for America
Rock the Vote
Head Count
Election Protection Volunteer
Declare Yourself (resources for new voters)

Progressive Religious Groups

Network of Spiritual Progressives
Faithful America (for a just and compassionate nation)
Sojourners (progressive evangelicals)
American Friends Service Committee
Tikkun

Other Sites for News and Views

Interhemispheric Research Center (IRC)
Right Web (from IRC)
News and Guts (founded by Dan Rather)

News from Around the World

Arab News (news in English from Saudi Arabia)
Al Ahram (news in English from Egypt)
Mosaic: News from the Middle East (unedited video with English translations by WorldLink TV)
BBC Online
Times of London (UK)
The Guardian (UK)
The Independent (UK)
The Toronto Star
Le Monde (France)
La Repubblica (Italy)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)
La Vanguardia (Spain)
MediaWar.info: news and op-ed from many sources (Independent Media News Portal)
Al-Jazeera website in English
English summary of Al-Jazeera News (from Cursor)

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