Alternative Political Press Archive/Resource - Taking YOUR suggestions.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Aristartle, Nov 4, 2009.

  1. Aristartle

    Aristartle Snow Falling on Cedars Lifetime Supporter

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    I'm going to kick-start a little pilot project in the Politics Forum here. I'm looking for your help and appeal to all posters to include suggestions you may have for the following :

    1) Alternative Political General Media Sources (Current News & Events, Alt-Watches, Videos, Podcasts) **I'd like to stay away from Blogs - but if you have a good one that you enjoy, please post it here anyway and we can always decide to include it.
    2) Alternative Political Press/Articles (Media Centers, Alt Press Networks, Magazines Online, Websites, Organizations, Associations, EX: United Nations, Greenpeace)
    3) Alternative Political Reference Sources (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Atlases, Directories, Guides, Indexes, Databases, etc.)
    4) Alternative Political Scholarly Journals (Google Scholar, Scholar's Portal, Peer Reviewed stuff, non-peer reviewed stuff, free alternative journals and periodicals, etc.)

    NB : Please feel free and welcome to include as much as you like, as at this point I'm looking for as much participation in this as possible.

    I'll kindly reward each person that contributes to this thread with REPUTATION points.

    THANKS EVERYONE!! :)
     
  2. TheMadcapSyd

    TheMadcapSyd Titanic's captain, yo!

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    Well 2 off the top of my head that aren't you standard BBC, ect

    Campaign for Liberty
    http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
    Articles and editorials generally advocating a very, very, weak federal government and very, very free market.

    Al Jazeera. What? Yes as long as it's not about Israel Al Jazeera is like the BBC of the middle east
    http://english.aljazeera.net/

    Free Republic
    http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index
    genereally extremely conservative news message board. Not like a Goldwater conservative, more like a guns and god conservative. Jesus the posts on the transgendered girl elected homecoming queen made me want to cry. I read it out of morbid curiosity, if you read it for actual news I shall hit you

    The Curvature. As they put it, a feminist perspective on politics and culture. But no, it's not militant feminist. As one of the articles on the main page shows it's a "boys will be boys is not a legitimate reason in court for excusing breaking into a girl's house and groping her" feminist
    http://thecurvature.com/


    Politifact: Sort through the bullshit from both sides
    http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
     
  3. TheMadcapSyd

    TheMadcapSyd Titanic's captain, yo!

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    Those are not extremely alternative, but just a simple starting point to get people away from CNN

    Edit

    I'd like to post a great example of free republic from yesterday when the result of the rejection of gay marriage in maine
    [​IMG]
     
  4. Aristartle

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    24/7 Noam Chomsky radio (Lectures, interviews, debates)
    anarcho-syndicalist extraordinaire.
    http://planetchomsky.com/


    ZW
     
  6. Aristartle

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  7. odon

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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/

    About three people will be interested.
    I'm not sure if anybody will be able to view it unless they are in the UK.
    I tried. :rolleyes:

    I guess most would be more interested in this:
    http://democracylive.ning.com/

    TheMadcapSyd, I know it's horrible but that persons comment made me laugh.
    I'm sure he/she is a wicked conservative bore...but still...it made me chuckle. :eek:

    I hate this guys style (such as him still calling Iraq an "occupation" he seriously needs to catch up with events or atleast be reasonable)...
    But I've gained some good info from it over the years...even so.

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
     
  8. Aristartle

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  9. Aristartle

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    [FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Worldwide media sources: (Canadian sources)[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]http://members.allstream.net/~komiko/canadianmediasour[/FONT][FONT=&quot]ces.html[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]}[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Independent Media Center [/FONT][FONT=&quot]www.indymedia.org[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]}[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Drudge Report [/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://www.drudgereport.com/[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]}[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Reuters [/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]http://www.reuters.com/[/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]}[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=&quot]MANA [/FONT]
    [FONT=&quot]http://www.independentmedia.ca/[/FONT]
     
  11. Aristartle

    Aristartle Snow Falling on Cedars Lifetime Supporter

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    Anyone have any suggestions on news sources?
     
  12. Piney

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    Real Clear Politics is a compilation from mainstream press sources containing articles sourced from across the political spectrum:

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

    The Village Voice is a local NYC paper, always interesting, provocative, more than just politics. The local paper of Grenwich Village:

    http://www.villagevoice.com/

    The Wall Street Journal. Not what one would call alternative, always provocative well sourced and current. Contrarian, if you will. A must read.

    http://online.wsj.com/home-page
     
  13. Individual

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    I'm most interested in economic news, but the Investor's Business Daily:

    http://www.investors.com/

    IBD Editorials always has some good material, and I've prospered more from the IBD than I could ever expect to from the government.
     
  14. MosesReeds

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    An alternative news site aimed at 9/11 truthers, anti-globalists and constitutionalists.

    http://www.infowars.com
     
  15. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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  16. WEB113

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    lol@your sources
     
  17. WEB113

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    bbc is NOT an alternative source.
     
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  19. odon

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    I didn't say it was.
     
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