Alternative media links

News sources critical of neoliberalism, neocons and neocolonial wars

Continued from Neoliberal Brainwashing -- Journalism in the Service of the Powerful Few

Alternative media critical of neoliberalism, neocons and neocolonial wars

• The Unz Review
• The American Conservative
• Antiwar.com
• Counterpunch
• naked capitalism
• Zero Hedge
• Defend Democracy Press
• INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
• Global politics Scoop.it
• TomDispatch
• Truthdig
• VDare
• Vineyard of the Saker
• LewRockwell

Selected Authots

• George Monbiot

State sponsored  media critical of neoliberalism

• China
  • People's Daily Online
  • Asia Times
• Russia
  • RT
  • Sputnik International - Breaking News & Analysis
• Qatar
  • Al Jazeera Live News Bold Perspectives Exclusive Films
• Turkey
  • Anadolu Agency
• Jpost.com - The Jerusalem Post newspaper's online edition
• Iran
  • PressTV

Wikipedia

• Propaganda in the United States
• White propaganda
• Special Activities Division
• Judith Miller and Iraq chemical weapon hoax
• Radio Liberty
• James Risen
• Robertson Panel

General

• Global media, neoliberalism & imperialism by Robert McChesney
• War, Propaganda and the Media by Anup Shah March 31, 2005
• Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism, by Robert W. McChesney
• Propaganda, American-style by Noam Chomsky
• Examples of american cold-war propaganda
• Brandwashed Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy - Martin Lindstrom - Google Books
• BRAIN, POLITICS, & EMOTIONS How We Vote Issue
• How marketers and politicians try to manipulate our brains. A Web-exclusive column. By Wray Herbert

FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting — The national media watch group

• Double Standards Home Page

  Welcome to my site. I started to create it after the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington in order to make some sense of what is happening on our planet. If you believe that the attacks on the financial and military centers of the US were attacks on “our freedom and democracy” then I suggest that you go back to watching the Western television channels and reading the New York Times, for the information in the following links may disturb you.

  If you feel that important information is being kept from you by the mass media, this web site is a good place to start to find out more about the reality of life on this planet. You can also see examples of the double standards prevalent in the philosophy pushed by Western mainstream media.

• FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact Check
• Urban Legends Reference Pages
• FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) is the national media watch group offering well-documented, objective criticism in an effort to correct media bias and imbalance. FAIR publishes the magazine EXTRA!, the newsletter EXTRA!Update, the radio show CounterSpin, and the syndicated column "Media Beat", as well as occasional special reports.
• La Città Invisibile's media watch project, by publicizing information misuse and manipulation techniques, aims to help the public select between fair and unfair news reports and to develop the net as an instrument of effective democracy.
• Le monde Diplomatique provides an independent analysis of world events and media coverage thereof.
• Z Magazine (left-wing anarchist viewpoint) frequently includes pieces on media inaccuracies. Noam Chomsky has long been a vocal opponent of biased media coverage; particularly noteworthy is his book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. (A quote noting that -> media mention does not constitute media coverage is online.) The award-winning documentary film, "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", was -> offered to PBS stations on May 1, 1995; a list of stations to air it is available. An archive of Chomsky writings is available online.
• This Modern World is a cartoon strip by Tom Tomorrow. In its own words, "...and if you didn't already know that, isn't it absurd that you had to learn it from a comic strip?"
• The Media Foundation's Adbusters criticizes media, exposes the advertising industry, and teaches culture jamming.

• The Media Foundation
  1243 West 7th Avenue
  Vancouver
  B.C. V6H 1B7
  CANADA
  Tel: + 604 736 9401
  Fax: + 604 737 6021
  e-mail: [email protected]

• MediaCulture Review has named -> ten media heroes for 1994.
• The Center for Media & Democracy's quarterly newsletter PR Watch chronicles the excesses and untruths of public relations firms.

• PR Watch
  3318 Gregory St.
  Madison, WI 53711
  (608) 233-3346

• Accuracy in Media, one of the United States' older media watch organizations, critiques the media from a conservative perspective.
• media-ita is a bilingual (English-Italian) mailing list for the discussion of Italian mass-media related problems. To subscribe, send the message

  SUBSCRIBE MEDIA-ITA firstname lastname

• MEDIA-WATCH ([email protected]) is a mailing list for information & discussion on the pleasures & politics of the media in Britain. Approaching the media as a major cultural & ideological force, & media audiences as active & diverse consumers, this list provides a critical forum for media teachers and researchers. Archives of the list are available. To subscribe, mailto:[email protected].
• The COPI Deep Politics Bookstore gives long abstracts of books exposing government criminality.
• The Propaganda Analysis Home Page discusses propaganda techniques, with examples.
• The Freedom Forum is a foundation promoting First Amendment rights, journalism education, and media studies and research.
• Paper Tiger TV offers media-analysis videos featuring Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, Ben Bagdikian, and others.
• The -> Sexual Abuse Witchhunt page (and associated mailing list) discusses ritualistic abuse, repressed memory therapy, and the real science and the pseudoscience related to them. Also see the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance page for debunking of satanic ritual abuse stories, and The Satanism Scare by Gerry O'Sullivan.
• Why We Can't Trust the Media to Tell us the Truth is a brief essay by Lisa Pease on punishments for journalists who question authority and the CIA's role in disseminating lies.
• Political Woman Hotline frequently includes a Media Watch section or other media anaysis.
• Newsweek Watch, coordinated by veteran political and media activist Fran Longmire, notes that hip, trendy Newsweek always seems to find the trends going in the anti-feminist direction.
• 21stC is a print and online magazine about the future of scientific research in the 21st century. Its Metanews feature critiques research-related stories that the press has overhyped, ignored, handled badly, or handled well.
• Organization of News Ombudsmen is the organization for media outlets' own internal watchdogs. The WWW site includes examples of ombudsmen's columns.
• Community Media Workshop helps Chicago-area community and civic groups get news and feature stories about their work in the news media as they solve some of the problems that dominate the news.
• Minnesota News Council promotes media fairness through public accountability. They encourage the public to insist upon responsible reporting and editing, conduct public hearings on complaints against news outlets, and help the media avoid behavior that leads to complaints.
• Instituto Gutenberg is an independent Brazilian center for technical studies about media.
• The -> Brazilian Media Watch Foundation is a nonpartisan, non-profit Brazilian foundation dedicated to promoting media criticism over all mass media.
• Mass Media Bunk is an annex to the Skeptic's Dictionary which features news stories or articles in the mass media which provide false, misleading or deceptive information regarding scientific matters or alleged paranormal or supernatural events.
• The -> Media and Democracy Congress ran from February 29, 1996 to March 3, 1996; you can get reports and audio. At the Congress, media leaders met to build a stronger, more vibrant independent media community and to encourage citizenship over consumerism in an age in which public interest journalism -- news that aims to inform and enlighten -- is at risk.
• Jym Dyers's media watch column -> The Funny Papers appears in Terrain, Northern California's Environmental Magazine. Each month it examines the San Francisco Bay Area print media and their coverage of environmental issues. Some of this coverage is pretty laughable (if not exactly "funny").
• Index on Censorship magazine uses interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, to show how free speech affects the political issues of the moment.
• The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) studies news and entertainment media using scientific content analysis. CMPA also conducts surveys and focus groups to illuminate the media's role in structuring the public agenda.
• Take Back Our Media! educates conservatives about combatting the liberal media.
• PostMortem reveals the assumptions behind the production and consumption of the Washington Post, inluding its social, cultural, and political context.
• American Hellenic Media Project educates the media regarding American-Hellenic issues and addresses anti-Hellenic postures of the media establishment.
• American Newspeak is a satirical news journal celebrating the Orwellian face of the 1990's with cutting edge advances in the art of doublethink carefully scavenged from the back pages of our finer newspapers. A new batch of awful reporting appears weekly.
• The -> Cultural Environment Movement is a worldwide coalition of social and cultural organizations working for freedom, fairness, diversity, responsibility, respect for cultural integrity, the protection of children, and democratic decision-making in the cultural mainstream. They have a special interest in media, from which most of us learn our cultural identity and which are dominated by handful of conglomerates who have something to sell.
• Telnem's Media-Watch Interactive monitors and files complaints regarding bias, factual errors, and propaganda, focussing on Melbourne, Australia television news but including other media, other nationalities, case studies, and more. . It
• The [email protected] mailing list discusses French media issues. -> Information and archives are available.
• Media Research Center's goal is to "bring political balance to media" by "fighting the liberal media", reporting how it elected Clinton in 1992, underreported Whitewater, etc.
• Independent News Service reports on conservative news and views ignored by the national media.
• Ex-newsman Greg Byron's -> What local TV news doesn't want you to know discusses that medium, with sections including "Ratings-driven news", "Anchors are performers--not journalists", "Filling airtime between commercials", "Image over substance", "The hand that feeds it", and "Reforming local TV news".
• Spotlight on the Media, run by the Zionist Organization of America, exposes anti-Israel bias such as criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or positive coverage of Palestinians.
• Israel's Media Watch aims to protect Israel's citizens from editors, reporters, interviewers and moderators who make unfair use "editorial discretionary judgment" to shape and conform public opinion.
• News Watch reporting news stories that are neglected by the mainstream (corporate-owned) press and corrects errors in stories that get run through the system.
• Mainstream media must be stopped! focusses on misogyny in the mainstream press, including mixed messages promulgated by content and advertisers.
• Media Access Project is a non-profit, public interest law firm which promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow.
• The Doctor Xeno Report is a weekly issue-oriented satirical montage available in RealAudio format.
• Newsgroup alt.news-media is a forum for discussion of news coverage; alt.internet.media-coverage focusses on coverage of computer network-related issues.
• Newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (and its FAQ) gives the lowdown on urban legends.

Islands of Objectivity in Sea of Disinformation

• Charley Reese
• John Laughland
• Tomotsu Shibitani

Blogs

Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason Don't get me wrong, it's a generally useful site, but often falls for the same fallacies and suffer from their own spin. You can only rely on it for so much.

What is Spinsanity? It's a Web site whose proprietors scrutinize statements by our political leaders, candidates, journalists, and pundits for honesty, fairness, and rhetorical soundness. Each week on the Commentary Page, the good folks at Spinsanity will restore sanity to the spin of statements from the right and the left. Today: Mischaracterizations of the Kerry record at the Republican National Convention.

Notable Conservative Publications

The American Conservative

Chronicles (A magazine of American culture)

Media Criticism Papers

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs
in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
- George Orwell

• Three 1992 articles by -> Gary Schwitzer critiquing media coverage of medical issues are online:
  • "The Magical Medical Media Tour," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 267, No. 14, April 8, 1992.
  • "Are Machines Driving Public Demand? News Media Coverage of Medical Technology," The Internist: Health Policy in Practice, Vol. 33, No. 9, October 1992.
  • "Doctoring the News," Quill, Vol. 80, No. 9, November/December 1992.
• Euromyths debunks media stories about draconian European Union regulations.
• The Manufacture of Hysteria exposes untruths in the media brouhaha over alleged provision of on-line suicide information by DeathNET, run by the Right To Die Society of Canada.
• Rush Limbaugh doesn't really tell it how it is: see the New Republic article Limbaugh's Lies and FAIR's criticism of Rush Limbaugh inaccuracies.
• John K. Wilson responds, in a letter to the editor, to New York Times coverage of the University of Chicago's National Health and Social Life Survey on Americans' sexual habits.
• Carl Villarreal notes, in a column in the Daily Texan, that media sound bites control polls, leaving the majority of Americans misinformed or confused about issues.
• Herbert I. Schiller's Challenging The Global Cultural Factories notes that "the world's most powerful and sophisticated message- and image-making apparatus is almost totally ... in the service of selling the goods, services and general perspectives of the dominant Fortune 500 companies."
• In Murray Seeger's The Old and Future Labor Beat, a veteran reporter points out that the press ignores blue collar workers and the unions speaking for them.
• Alexis De Tocqueville's contemporary description of -> the permitted parameters of debate in 19th-century America shows that the current situation is not new -- nor have we made much progress in the past 150 years.
• In Italy, one company owns all three national commercial television stations; its political arm is a strong presence in parliament. A -> referendum was held (and failed) on June 11 to introduce openness into Italian TV.
• Stephen Donaldson -> debunks a New York Times report, substantially based on the fund-raising propaganda of the Anti-Defamation League, which makes broad, incorrect generalizations about the skinhead movement based on actions of one segment.
• The Heritage Foundation's book Red Tape In America is a compilation of horror stories of governmental over-regulation. Upon closer inspection, many of the examples cited are nothing more than inaccuracies, misstatements of fact, or outright falsehoods. Citizens for Sensible Safeguards -> refutes a few of the book's anecotes.
• Time magazine's sensationalistic cover story, "Cyberporn", relied heavily on a study of Internet pornography by Marty Rimm. The study contains numerous flaws; critiques are available fromDavid Post and Brian Reid. Brock Meeks gives a detailed chronology of the Time story's inception and handling. For many additional resources, see Yahoo's "The Cyberporn Debate".
• Jim Donahue debunks welfare myths.
• Children Now has put several -> studies on children and the media online, and also has links to other online resources on children and the media.
• Wally Bowen of Citizens for Media Literacy examines the simplistic, polarized -> reporting of Shannon Faulkner's Aug. 18 departure from the Citadel, based on instant journalism and atention to tangential issues and personalities.
• The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games tracks media attacks on role-playing games, such as ad-hominem attacks on players and putative links to crime.
• The Boston Review's -> February/March 1996 issue contains "Making Sense of Media", by Danny Schechter, which discusses the way media fit into progressive efforts at social change, and "Democratic Media", by Charlotte Ryan and William A. Gamson.
• Keeping the Public out of Public Access, by Ed Coll, documents how Hawaii non-profit acess corporations stand firm against democracy.
• The Environmental Defense Fund produces reports on media topics. -> The Way Things Really Are exposes Limbaugh's fallacies on science and the environment, with references, and A Moment of Truth corrects scientific errors in Gregg Easterbrook's A Moment on the Earth.
• News Media Seek Credibility (appearing in The Christian Science Monitor notes increasing public dissatisfaction with percieved bias and media's response thereto.
• The Media Oligopoly reports on patterns of media ownership -- ten corporations now own 50% of all media outlets.
• Brett Dellinger's bookFinnish views of CNN: A critical cross-cultural analysis of the American commercial discourse style contrasts various broadcasting styles and considers the consequences for Europe as their media move closer to the American style. The entire text is available online.

Censorship resources

The File Room is an illustrated archive on censorship which you can browse and update.

Project Censored explores and publicizes censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.

• Top censored stories of 1994
• Top censored stories of 1995

Project Censored Canada identifies and publicizes under-reported stories, informally auditing Canada's national news media and their implicit claims to be 'watchdogs of society,' informing the public about significant issues. PCC also conducts a systematic 'negative content analysis' of Canada's national news media. The 1995 Top 10 Under-Reported Stories and 1995 Junk Food Stories are available.

Banned Books On-line has links to books that have been censored and a description of when, where, and why each was suppressed.

Also see the alt.censorship usenet newsgroup.

Alternet's Culture Wars highlights right wing censorship efforts. AlterNet is an independent information service providing subscribers with alternative news, views, information and ideas from hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and leading public interest organizations. AlterNet information is also available via gopher.

Institute for First Amendment Studies focusses on a variety of First Amendment threats, including censorship, posed by the so-called Religious Right.

Blacklisted is a public radio show about the blacklisting of hollywood actors and writers during the 1940's and 1950's. The show is produced by award-winning producer Tony Kahn, has a star-studded cast, and is distributed by NPR.

The American Civil Liberties Union is the foremost civil liberties group in the United States. Among other issues, it combats censorship by governmental and non-governmental groups.

The Chronicle of Freedom of Expression in Canada is a chronology of 20th-century censorship by Canadian officials, plus other resources.

The Committee to Protect Journalists monitors abuses against the press and promotes international press freedom. CPJ has a full-time staff of reporters and regional experts devoted to documenting and responding to violations of press freedoms around the world.

The Index on Censorship -> Index Index is a country by country listing of censorship and free speech abuses around the world.

Fight Music Censorship is an Internet petition campaign to prevent the United States Congress from passing lyric censorship laws. Mass M.I.C. (the Massachusetts Music Industry Coalition) is a non-profit organization of musicians, fans, promoters, music media, and music industry professionals dedicated to fighting music censorship promoting and protecting the freedom of musical expression in Massachusetts.

Music Censorship - Right or Wrong lists some censored music and includes links to pro- and anti-censorship organizations.

• -> The File Room's list of anti-censorship organizations
• Media Issues resource in IGC's Progressive Directory
• Freedom of expression resources from MIT Student Association for Freedom of Expression.
• Anti-censorship resources from the Censorship at CMU group.
• Journalism List Redux
• IGC Media Issues
• National Press Club information center
• American Journalism Review
• Adam Gaffin's Online Media Contact List (Char Roberts, DeathNET)
• Society of Professional Journalists
• Nikos Markovits's Journalistic Resources
• AlterNet resources
  
• Utne Lens Media critics on the net
• The Marshmallow Overcoat
• Women's News Sources and Media Watches
• Moon anti-censorship list
• Canadian Book and Periodical Council's Freedom of Expression Committee censorship links
• Journalist's Resrouce: Journalism Sites
• Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center -- Mass Media and Communication
• Media Issues/Critique resources from Netizen Activist Resource Centre (previously Vancouver Progressive Homepages)

Amazon.com buying info The Media Monopoly

The 50, 26, 20... Corporations That Own Our Media

Of the 1,700 daily papers, 98 percent are local monopolies and fewer than 15 corporations control most of the country's daily circulation. A handful of firms have most of the magazine business, with Time, Inc. alone accounting for about 40 percent of that industry's revenues.

Corporate Ownership of the Media FAIR Resources

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting What's Wrong with the News

Independent, aggressive and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. But mainstream media are increasingly cozy with the economic and political powers they should be watchdogging. Mergers in the news industry have accelerated, further limiting the spectrum of viewpoints that have access to mass media. With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly owned by for-profit conglomerates and supported by corporate advertisers, independent journalism is compromised.

Ultimately, FAIR believes that structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting, and promote strong, non-profit alternative sources of information.

Check out these links for more of FAIR's analysis of the media business:

• Corporate Ownership
• The Narrow Range of Debate
• Advertiser Influence
• Official Agendas
• Telecommunications Policy
• Pressure Groups
• The PR Industry

FROM THE ISLAMIC WORLD:

English language versions of Islamic newspapers:
www.ahram.org.eg/weekly: Al-Ahram, Cairo, state-owned;
www.dailystar.com.lb: Daily Star, Lebanon;
www.gulf-times.com: Gulf Times, Qatar;
www.jang.com.pk/thenews: Daily Jang, Pakistan, excellent reporting on Afghan war.

Other sources for regional news:
www.al-jazeera.net: Al-Jazeera, the now-notorious Pan-Islamic Qatar TV station; in Arabic, but until the U.S. bombs all of their reporters and facilities, the pictures alone can tell lots that we don't otherwise see or hear about both the news stories and Islamic news priorities. As for critics that claim Al-Jazeera's coverage is propagandistic because it favors one side's view: they should look in the mirror. Al-Jazeera has shown Americans in a humane light far more often than American TV has shown -- well, any Iraqis at all, actually;
www.allafrica.com: AllAfrica Global Media, good news coverage of Islamic Africa;
www.haaretzdaily.com: Ha'Aretz, left-leaning daily Israeli newspaper, good for domestic Israeli news and a spectrum of opinion on the occupation of Palestine and other Middle Eastern matters far broader, actually, than what passes for debate on Israel/Palestine in mainstream U.S. media;
www.irna.com: The Islamic Republic News Association, based in Teheran, tends to be a fundamentalist viewpoint;
www.islamonline.net/english: IslamOnline.net, an impressive pan-Islamic site (Arabic & English) of news, opinion, and culture;
www.memri.org: Middle East Media & Research Institute, translates articles from Farsi and Arabic media.

EUROPEAN SOURCES:

Daily newspapers & TV:
www.bbc.co.uk: BBC;
www.dailytelegraph.co.uk: Daily Telegraph;
www.guardian.co.uk: The Guardian (until a few years ago, the Manchester Guardian), Britain's leading left-leaning daily, also publishes London Observer on Sundays;
www.independent.co.uk: The Independent, home of the immortal Robert Fisk, the single best English-language Middle East reporter in the world;
www.dailymirror.co.uk: The Daily Mirror, home of John Pilger, who gives Fisk a solid run on both experience and on eloquent opposition to America's neo-colonialism;
www.ireland.com: Irish Times;
www.MondeDiplo.com: Le Monde Diplomatique, a separate online magazine published by Le Monde, the prestigious Paris daily. It's not the daily (that's only available in French), but still a good source for European perspectives on international issues.

Other Western voices:
www.debka.com: DebkaFile, an excellent Website devoted to Middle East intelligence run by a former Economist foreign affairs writer;
www.eurasianews.com scores of links to sites on Afghanistan, Iraq, and other Eureasian counties;
www.iwpr.net: Institute for War and Peace Reporting, a British outfit that ranges from the Balkans throughout Asia, but especially valuable for the former Soviet republics;
www.mwaw.org: Media Workers Against War, originally formed after 9/11 by disgruntled BBC and Guardian employees scrutinizing British media coverage of the Afghan invasion, has since morphed into becoming, as well, a British anti-war.com, with news on much of the global anti-war movement;
www.estriples.com: European (as opposed to Pacific) edition of Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper of the U.S. Armed Forces. Not just the military "line" -- the Pentagon figured out ages ago that providing an honest reflection of what men (and now women) in uniform care about is in the long run far more useful than printing a house organ that refuses to acknowledge reality. This is war news stripped of the jingoism and feel-good fluff, and from military contractor scandals to battlefield (and, probably, occupation) difficulties, you're far more likely to read about it here than stateside. Oh, and if you want to support the troops, you can find out what they actually care most about -- like getting some toilet paper into Kuwait...
www.wombatnews.com: Wombat International News, a Japanese site with a stunning number of links to news coverage around the world, including heavy coverage of U.S. adventurism.
Wire Services: Try accessing wire service articles, such as Reuters or Associated Press, before they've been edited by their local or national newspaper editors. They're posted on AOL, Yahoo, MSN, and a host of other commercial internet service providers. Because they're originally written for a wide variety of media outlets (with the same article often running internationally), the original wire service articles have been miles above the versions eventually printed in the NY Times, Wash. Post, and other major daily newspapers: they're timely, they contain body counts, and they contain "unofficial" quotes from US military men on the front lines that often contradict the glowing quotes from Pentagon spokesmen.

ALTERNATIVE U.S. MEDIA:

www.alternet.org: AlterNet: syndicates articles to newspapers, magazines, and web sites around the country, but also carries a lot of great original content;
www.anti-war.com: Libertarian-oriented, utterly priceless source of news and opinion on militarism and the resistance to it;
www.commondreams.org: Common Dreams;
www.fair.org: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, an invaluable media watchdog group;
www.indymedia.org: Independent Media Center, activism-oriented, with links to over 90 local indymedia sites around the world, including Israel & Palestine (a site which is very good). Can be stunning in its on the spot coverage of protest, but the open publishing policies of many of its affiliates can mean its quality varies wildly in reliability;
www.inthesetimes.com: In These Times magazine, updated more frequently than the print publication;
www.motherjones.com: Mother Jones' magazine; their daily site tends to be harder-edged and not as focused on long investigative pieces as the monthly print version;
www.thenation.com: The Nation magazine, also with many features that don't make it to print;
www.theonion.com: The Onion, an often brilliant satirical newspaper that's more painfully truthful than the garbage in your local chain-owned daily;
www.theprogressive.com: The Progressive magazine;
www.tompaine.com: Tom Paine;
www.utne.com: Utne Magazine's site is updated daily with little of the new agey lifestyle material the print monthly uses to spice newsstand sales; www.workingforchange.com: the political site of Working Assets -- you found it!;
www.yellowtimes.org: Yellow Times, like Utne is essentially a very good clipping service;
www.zmag.org: Z Magazine and ZNet, also with a widely read European edition. Chomsky's a close buddy, and ZNet tends to be more focused on activism and radical alternatives than most of the above outlets.

As mentioned, this is necessarily incomplete, with no slight intended for a number of fine sites not listed here. I've run such lists in the past, I'm always looking for more suggestions -- and the web generates good new ones far faster than any one person can keep track. Send 'em along and I'll run a follow-up list as the opportunity allows.

• Boston Globe Online Editorials Opinions The West's failure to understand Chechnya
• Original Sources - November -- media disinformation on Yugoslavia
• New Statesman
• Gridlock & Load Multilateral Propaganda
• Words as Propaganda [Free Republic]
• Way of the World [Free Republic] -- commentaries are more interesting than that article itself.

History

• Donald Kagan on National Honor -- an interesting attempt to deceive public and rationalize Clintonpolitics (the paper written in 1996 well before NATO attack on Yugoslavia)
• Selected quotations from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Best of Gibbon's DECLINE & FALL
• 25 Lectures on Modern Balkan History

Ecological disaster

• Ecological Disaster Warning
• GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES
• Radioactive weapons used against Yugoslavia
• Uranium killers
• DU in Yugoslavia
• Bombings SendingPoison Clouds Over Europe

Disinformation and demonizing by war propaganda: making negotiated settlement more difficult.

• The blind misleading the blind New Statesman -- by Edward Said accuses the western media of cowardice, prejudice and gross over-simplification in their coverage of the war in the Balkans
• www.nationalpost.com
• Demonizing the Serbs, to save face
• The Media and the Demonization of the Serbs
• Read the submitted article here.
• When Will the Media call it War by Norman Solomon
• Journalistic malpractice & the dangers of Russia-bashing — RT Op-Edge

Negative effect on non-proliferation

• CNS - Well-Armed and Very Dangerous -- NATO forces in the region must be prepared for possible hostilities involving chemical weapons use.
• CNS - Yugoslavia's Nuclear Legacy Should We Worry
• Arms Control Damaged By War
• Bombing of Yugoslavia Awakens Anti-U.S. Feeling Around World
• Kosovo Is America's War, America's Pain
• Russia PM- Yugoslavia Peace Drive Hangs In Balance
• NATO airstrikes encouraged India-Pakistan clashes over Kashmir Russia

Disregard of UN and unilateral military actions

• Rambouillet Accords - As they might be used in the future
• Scold and Bomb Clinton's Failed Foreign Policy
• The Clinton Doctrine- Collateral Damage and Humanitarian Disaster

NATO attacks on civilans and destruction of cultural heritage and civilian infrastructure

• Boston Globe Online Serbs - like Americans - shouldn't be targets when their leaders are bad
• Belgrade's 19th Century Heritage is 20th Century Rubble

DECIPHERING THE BALKAN ENIGMAUSING HISTORY TO INFORM POLICY Table of Contents by William T. Johnsen. Attempt of more or less honest analyses of the complex issue that helps to understand views of a better educated part of the US establishment.

Finding a solution to the Kosovo crisis must begin by rejecting false analogies to the traumas of the past by Henry Kissinger.

The fatal flaws of NATO intervention Lt.Gen Satish Nambiar, First Force Commander and Head of Mission of the United Nations Forces deployed in the former Yugoslavia 03 Mar92 to 02 Mar 93, analyzes the errors of the recent past in Yugoslavia.

Media Ownership

Who Owns What "Who owns what" search from Columbia Journalism Review

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting New York Times Resources

Who Owns What The New York Times Company

The New York Times is owned by the New York Times Co., which also owns the Boston Globe, eight television stations, two radio stations, several magazines and several non-media ventures. The New York Times Co. also co-produces the International Herald Tribune with its ostensible competitor, the Washington Post Co.

Murdoch media empire

• Some 132 newspapers (primarily in Australia, Britain and the United States, including the London Times and the New York Post), making it one of the three largest newspaper groups in the world;
• After establishing News Corporation in his native Australia, Murdoch entered the British market in the 1960s and by the 1980s had become a dominant force in the U.S. market. News Corporation went heavily into debt to subsidize its purchase of Twentieth Century Fox and the formation of the Fox television network in the 1980s; by the mid-1990s News Corporation had eliminated much of that debt.
• News Corporation operates in nine different media on six continents. Its 1995 revenues were distributed relatively evenly among filmed entertainment (26 percent), newspapers (24 percent), television (21 percent), magazines (14 percent) and book publishing (12 percent). News Corporation has been masterful in utilizing its various properties for cross-promotional purposes, and at using its media power to curry influence with public officials worldwide. "Murdoch seems to have Washington in his back pocket," observed one industry analyst after News Corporation received another favorable ruling (New York Times, 7/26/96).

Who Owns What The Washington Post CompanyWashington Post Co. 1150 15th Street, NW Washington D.C. 20071 (202) 334-6000. www.washpostco.com. Newspapers The Washington Post The Herald (Everett, WA) Gazette Newspapers, Inc. (community weekly newspapers and a monthly business publication, in Maryland...

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Society

Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

Quotes

War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda  : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes :  Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce :  Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes

Bulletin:

Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :  Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method  : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law

History:

Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds  : Larry Wall  : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS :  Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development :  Scripting Languages : Perl history   : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history

Classic books:

The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-Month :  How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Hater’s Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite

Most popular humor pages:

Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor

The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt. Ph.D

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