Alternative Information Sources on the Web from Bill Maddocks, The Free Radical:

News sites from Western press:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ National Geographic News
http://www.nytimes.com/  The New York Times
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Liberal daily from London.
http://www.indymedia.org/ Collective of independent media organizations and non-corporate news.
http://www.csmonitor.com/ The Christian Science Monitor.  Possibly the most objective reporting in the US Today.
http://www.afp.com/english/home/ French perspective on world issues.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ Hundreds of front-pages from 30 countries
http://www.worldpress.org/  Articles on a wide variety of issues from all political perspectives from all over the world
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ Left-leaning Israeli daily newspaper.  Domestic Israeli news and opinions on occupation of Palestine and other Middle Eastern matters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ British Broadcasting Co. Daily newspapers and TV
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/ United Kingdom Daily Telegraph paper
http://www.independent.co.uk/ The UK independent.  Home of Robert Fisk, one of the best English-language Middle East reporters
http://www.mirror.co.uk/  The UK Daily Mirror.  Home of John Pilger critic of America's neocolonialism
http://www.ireland.com/  The Irish Times
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international Der Spiegel (The Mirror) Major Newpaper in Germany
http://www.mondediplo.com/  Le Monde Diplomatique (in english), an online magazine published by Le Monde, the prestigious Paris daily.
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/  The Scottish National Newspaper
http://www.democracynow.org/  Democracy Now
http://www.truthout.org/  Truth Out, Alternative press online.  Different view than what you see on Fox/CNN
http://www.alternet.org/index.html  AlterNet syndicates articles to newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and also carries original analysis.
http://www.anti-war.com/  Libertarian-oriented news and opinion on militarism and resistance.
http://www.motherjones.com/  Mother Jones daily magazine.
http://www.thenation.com/  Unconventional wisdom and opinion since 1865.
http://www.tompaine.com/  Public Interest Journal
http://www.workingforchange.com/ News & Opinion from Working Assets
http://www.zmag.org/ "The spirit of resistance lives!" Left views.
http://www.estripes.com/  The stars and stripes daily newspaper of the US armed forces.  
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/   Tom Engelhardt's, fellow at the National Institute page.
http://www.projectcensored.org/ Project Censored, Stories not covered by main stream media.
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/ Progressive Think Tank
 

News sites from the non-Western World:
http://www.debka.com/  Devoted to Middle East
http://english.aljazeera.net/   Al-Jazeera is seen throughout the Arab world, and is a respected news source in Europe.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/  Al-Ahram, Cairo, Egypt. State-owned English version.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/  Daily Star newspaper from Lebanon
http://www.gulf-times.com/  Qatar newspaper, the Daily Star
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/  Daily Jang, Pakistan.
http://allafrica.com/  All Africa Global Media
http://www.irna.ir/en/  The Islamic Republic News Association based in Tehran.  Fundamentalist viewpoint.
http://www.islamonline.net/english/index.shtml  Pan-Islamic site.
http://www.memri.org/   Middle East Media & Research Institute, translates articles from Arab media.
http://www.iwpr.net/home_index_new.html  Institute for War and Peace Reporting,  British reporting on Eurasian conflicts.
http://www.webwombat.com.au/news/  Australian news search engine

Sites that specialize on "fact checking", media reporting, and how mass media works:
http://www.factcheck.org Specializes on how political ads spin the "truth"
http://www.fair.org/ Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, media watch dog.
http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/  Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.corporations.org/media/ Media Reform Information Center
http://www.mediareform.net/index.php Free Press Media reform
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/  Columbia Journal Review, Which companies own which media outlets
http://www.acmecoalition.org/  Action Coalition for Media Education
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ Source Watch
 

Miscellaneous Educational pages
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Main_Page  left/progressive/liberal/Democratic Political Encyclopedia
http://www.earthengine.net/ Environmental video perspective

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