Topic: News Sources

[yale]

UTNE

http://www.utne.com/

[Qazaq2003]

I keep myself armed with a shortwave radio so I can get news broadcasts from other parts of the world, for it is way too dangerous to rely only on american popular trash media. Q

[Astronuc]

You'll have to judge for yourself about these groups - conservative, liberal or libertarian - probably a mix.

http://www.usbusiness.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

The United States Business and Industry Council (USBIC) and its affiliated research arm, the USBIC Educational Foundation (USBICEF), champion the interests of America's domestic family-owned and closely-held firms - "our nation's main street businesses" - which create new products, jobs and growth here in the United States.  The Council's mission is to expand our domestic economy, with particular emphasis on our manufacturing, processing, and fabricating industries, and through the resulting growth to extend a high standard of living to all Americans.  The Educational Foundation's mission is to provide research and support for the Council's mission and to expand the message of the small business community to our supporters, our nation's elected leaders, journalists, and college campuses.

http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/default.asp

AmericanEconomicAlert.org was founded by the U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research and educational organization dedicated to improving the American people's awareness of critical public policy issues in such diverse fields as trade, taxation, education, health care, foreign relations, defense, and national security, among others. USBICEF is affiliated with the U.S. Business and Industry Council, a 501(c)(6) non-profit business association.

[Astronuc]

Common Dreams

Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community

Monday, March 28
Jeremy Scahill:
There Was No Checkpoint, There Was No Self-Defense

Naomi Jaffe:
The Right and Left of the Right to Die

Marvin Gregory:
Peak Oil Puts Us in a Different Reality

Danny Schechter:
Will Truth Rise Again?

Mark Polit:
Terri Schiavo: A Cause for the Left?

Ralph Nader:
The Many Layers of the Terry Schiavo Controversy

Sonali Kolhatkar:
Forgetting Afghanistan - Again

Christopher Kremmer:
We're All Bunnies With These F-16s

Andrew Bacevich:
Uncle Sam Wants You

Tom Engelhardt:
Entries For a Devil’s Dictionary of the Bush Era

Jacqueline Marcus:
Targeted by Conservatives for Teaching Philosophy

Neil Peirce:
Don't Bankrupt Amtrak

Michael Mandelbaum:
Even Costlier Oil Would Help US

Bob Herbert:
Is No One Accountable?

Sunday, March 27
Antonia Zerbisias:
US Networks Build Their Own Fortress America

Josie Byzek:
The Terri Schiavo Debacle from a Progressive Disability Perspective

Dr. Rosa Maria Pegueros:
Voodoo Economics ala Junior

Eric Margolis:
Blair's Lost Political Mojo

Marty Jezer:
Life, Death and Hypocrisy

RJ Eskow:
Dear War Supporter: Since You Asked....

David Swanson:
Teach-In on Iraq

Dave Rossie:
Nation in a Persistent Torpid State

Lawrence Korb/Caroline Wadhams:
US Should Set Example on Limiting Arms Exports

Dan Plesch:
Tony Blair. You Are Charged With Leading Britain into an Illegal War... How Do You Plead?

Jon Seymour:
On IMAX Corp's Response to Concerns About Theatre Programming

Lucinda Marshall:
Military Pollution: The Quintessential Universal Soldier

Ramzy Baroud:
Israel's 'Record Is Not Reassuring'

Saturday, March 26
Christopher Brauchli:
Who's the Sucker? US Prepares to Sell F-16s to Pakistan

Jennifer Matsui:
America's Most Wanted Desperate Housewife

Tariq Ali:
We Must Take the Politics of the Anti-War Front Into the Electoral Arena

Molly Ivins:
Mercury Rising

Katrina vanden Heuvel:
Sweet Victory: Fairness at Georgetown

Oliver James:
A Vote for Immortality

Mark Weisbrot:
A Way To Make Us Poorer

Friday, March 25
Hubert Locke:
It's Not Your Father's America Any More

Frank Rich:
The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay

Ritt Goldstein:
Giuliana Sgrena Shooting: 'Payment' for Ransom?

Deborah Morse-Kahn:
Hoping for Dignity when Angel of Death Arrives

Jerry Lanson:
Far Too Quiet on the Homefront

Derrick Jackson:
Hot Air and Global Warming

Oliver Sacks:
Me and My Hybrid

The Nation:
Democrats: MIA

Gary Ruskin/Juliet Schor:
Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture

Tom Engelhardt:
One-Way Planet

Dave Rossie:
Oh, Canada... We stand On Guard, Also

Caroline Arnold:
Virtual Popcorn, Astroturf & Reality

HDS Greenway:
Afghanistan, the Poor Stepsister to Iraq

William Greider:
Elite Protectionists

Frederic Mousseau/Anuradha Mittal:
The Mirage of Development Through Trade

John Tully:
The Darkness Has Come

Thursday, March 24
George McGovern:
Patriotism Is Nonpartisan: Challenging a Mistaken War Can Take More Courage than Fighting One

Victoria Samson:
Our Face to the World Needs Lifting

Jesse Jackson Sr:
If It's Really A 'World' Bank, Then Let's Look South

Nathaniel Frank:
Bush Team Theme -- 'We Were All Wrong'

Katrina vanden Heuvel:
Cultural Barbarism: Halliburton Destroys Babylon

Norman Solomon:
Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places

Geov Parrish:
Antiwar Activism: Closing the Credibility Gap

John Nichols:
Bush Flunky Unfit to Lead UNICEF

[Astronuc]

Cute title.  ;D

http://smirkingchimp.com/index.php

http://smirkingchimp.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1872&forum=13


I need to find a chimp smiley.  :elkgrin.gif:

[Andrew R]

American Journalism Review

http://www.ajr.org/

 ;D My initials

BBC
www.bbc.co.uk\news

[Astronuc]

Not exactly a news source, but it contains valuable information related to many things in the news.  Good reference.

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

[Astronuc]

Not really a news source, but neat place for biographies and literary information - Writer's Almanac

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

[Astronuc]

The New Republic On-line

http://www.tnr.com/

[Astronuc]

http://www.odemagazine.com/ - A magazine for intelligent optimists

Founders: Jurriaan Kamp, Hélène de Puy
Editor-in-chief: Jurriaan Kamp

Ode Magazine
Tiburon, CA 94920
98 Main Street, Suite 220
t: 1-888-Ode-Magazine
t/f: 1-888-633-6242
e: ode@odemagazine.com

Ode is an independent magazine about the people and ideas that are changing the world.

Sometimes it’s difficult to see beyond the war, poverty, exploitation and pollution that the mainstream media use to fill our view of the world. But there is more to life. There are other stories to report. Stories of countless initiatives being launched around the globe by people devoted to justice, respect and equality. Stories that bridge the gap between thinking and doing, between rage and hope, and the painful gap between the rich and poor – and thus build peace and sustainability. That is the news that Ode promises to deliver. By reading Ode you connect to a network of positive change and inspiration. Ode points the way to knowing better, doing better and feeling better.

Ode publishes ‘the stories that are different from the ones we are brainwashed to believe’ (Arundhati Roy). Ode challenges us and invites us to change. We realise that change starts with information. We can only make a choice to change things for the better when we learn how it can be done. Similarly, we can only change our behaviour when we understand the harmful effects of what we do. Ode teaches and inspires us, helps us see how every one of us can contribute to a more just and sustainable world.

Ode is published monthly in English, Dutch and Portuguese.

 

Executive editor: Jay Walljasper
Senior Editor: Tijn Touber, Marco Visscher
Contributing Editors: Elbrich Fennema, Ton Maas
Editors International edition: Gwenda Blair, Philip Frazer
Columnist: Paulo Coelho
Proofreader: Sharon Unis

Art Director: Carl de Vaal
Associate Art Director: Saskia Geleedts
Production Manager : Brenda Leensvaart/Najiba Abdellaoui
Lithography: Paul Verra
Printing: Schumann Printers,
Fall River,WI.

Publisher: Hanneke Hogerheijde
Internet: Priscilla de Gier, Chris Jansen, Antoine Kooren,
Special projects: Hanneke van den Elsen-Kamp

Financial Managers
Rien Schlingmann, Jerrel Shewpersad

 :koala

[Astronuc]

Orion Online

Another independent magazine/journal with a different perspective/outlook on the world.

http://www.oriononline.org/index2.html

Orion explores an emerging alternative world view. Informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth.

Since 1982, Orion has worked to reconnect human culture with the natural world, blending scientific thinking with the arts, engaging the heart and mind, and striving to make clear what we all have in common.

Orion publishes the work of the writers who are shaping a relationship between nature and a new emerging cultural ethic -- Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Gary Paul Nabhan, Sandra Steingraber, David Quammen, Richard Nelson, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Robert Michael Pyle, Thomas Moore, David James Duncan, Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Ann Zwinger, and others -- as well many new voices.

Orion also includes powerful visual images that blur the boundaries between the human and the natural, and challenge us to see our world from new perspectives. Each issue includes portfolios of paintings and photographs from artists like Frans Lanting, Galen Rowell, Sonya Bullaty, Wolf Kahn, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, and Andy Goldsworthy.

Orion is published six times a year by The Orion Society and the Myrin Institute.

http://www.oriononline.org/pages/index_ARCHIVE.html#Front

 :koala

[jat]

I have always found these sites a good source of factual news, especially in science; although usually not on a daily basis, more an overview. They offer many other facilities as well.

At some of the sites individual articles are subscription only but many are not; even then, abstracts can usually be accessed.

It is my belief that if I can access a webpage without logging in then anyone can; thus, if I point others to the site, without any copying, pasting or editing, then they can access it too. Obviously, further use of any content needs to be considered carefully.

http://www.royalsoc.co.uk/

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/

http://www.real-science.org.uk/

http://www.economist.com/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

http://www.nature.com/index.html

[Astronuc]

Word for Word - http://wordforword.publicradio.org/

 :koala

[Astronuc]

Counterspin - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=5

Counterspin archives - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=8&content_type=counterspin

FAIR = Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting