Bear Left! Link Library

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Print Media: newspapers, magazines, journals, &c. with good information on the web.

Adbusters magazine: advertising as banality, if not evil (quarterly)
The American Prospect magazine: issues-oriented liberal magazine of politics and policy (every two weeks)
Bad Subjects magazine: superb analysis of politics and culture, with one subject per issue (every two months)
The Baffler magazine: criticism of the Culture Business (sporadic)
Bitch magazine: feminist responses to popular culture (quarterly)
The Boston Review journal: politics, art, philosophy, and everything else you miss about college, only better (every two months)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine: weapons, politics, and environmental issues (every two months).
Canadian Dimension magazine: left-wing Canadian magazine, from Manitoba, naturally (every two months).
Clamor magazine: new perspectives pn politics, culture, media, and life (every two months).
CounterPunch magazine: muckraking newsletter on politics and everything else (twice monthly)
Dollars and Sense: magazine of economic justice (every two months).
Eat the State: Politics with bite from Washington State.
Forward: crusading New York weekly, which also has its Yiddish edition available online.
Frankfurter Rundschau: left-leaning newspaper from Frankfurt (daily, German and English).
Freitag: leftist magazine from Berlin (weekly, German).
Granma: official Cuban newspaper from Havana (daily, Spanish and English).
Green Left Weekly: socialist news magazine from Australia (weekly).
[Manchester] Guardian and The Observer: left-leaning daily and weekly newspapers from England.
Ha'aretz: Israel's best newspaper, with better coverage of Palestine than American papers (in Hebrew and English, daily).
In These Times magazine: leftist news and opinion (every two weeks).
Irish Times: excellent Dublin newspaper, particularly for its international coverage (daily).
La Jornada: left-leaning Mexico newspaper (daily, Spanish).
Labor Notes magazine: putting the movement back in the labor movement (monthly).
Left Business Observer: materialist examination of business and finance (monthly in principle). Consider subscribing to the freewheeling LBO-Talk list.
Liberation: left-leaning newspaper from Paris (daily, French).
Le Monde diplomatique: leftist magazine from Paris (monthly, French and other languages). Here is their English site. $
Il Manifesto leftist newspaper from Rome (in Italian, daily).
Mao Magazine: investigative journal from Brussels (no, they're not Maoist).
Monthly Review magazine: where southpaws from town and gown get down.
New! Mother Jones magazine: muckraking, biting, and informative, with a lot of web-only articles (monthly).
The Nation magazine: the leading weekly American leftist journal (weekly). The site also has some web-only content.
New Left Review: premier serious journal of the left (every 2 months).
New Politics: eclectic journal of socialist thought (twice yearly)
Le Nouvel Observateur: left-leaning Paris newspaper (daily, French).
Off Our Backs: the best American feminist newsjournal around (ever 2 months).
People's Weekly World: official house organ of the CPUSA (weekly).
Proceso: left-leaning Mexico newspaper (daily, Spanish).
Processed World: revived San Francisco zine about the political economy of work, computers, and the Internet.
The Progressive magazine: a leftist take on politics and culture (monthly)
Progressive Populist twice-monthly magazine
Red Pepper: British red-green monthly.
Science and Society: interdisciplinary quarterly Marxist journal.
Der Standard: left-leaning newspaper from Vienna (daily, German).
Stay Free magazine: deconstructing American consumerism (every 10 months)
Die Tageszeitung (taz): leftist newspaper from Berlin (daily, German).
Utne Reader magazine: imagine Reader's Digest with a soul (monthly).
Village Voice newspaper (weekly).
Workplace: the journal for academic labor (twice yearly)
Z magazine: a progressive American magazine with a huge and hugely useful website (monthly).

Electronic Media: on-line journals and that kind of thing.

Alternet: independent syndicator of news and commentary.
BrainBox Magazine: radical commentary direct to you from State College, Pennsylvania.
New! BrainShrub offers links to, and summaries of, three vital stories every weekday morning.
Buzzflash: the left's alternative to the Drudge Report.
Cafe Progressive: progressive news, links, and even free web services.
CommonDreams progressive news center: reprints and original material, updated daily.
The Crisis Papers: finds, categorizes, and highlights the best reporting and commentary from the progressive Internet.
Democratic Underground: daily doses of original commentary and a very active set of message boards.
Electoral Reform website (sponsored by Progressive challenge, IPS and The Nation).
Free Speech TV: the left's alternative to [MS|C]NBC and Fox right-wing cable.
Hated.com: omnibus anti-Bush site.
Independent Media Center: grassroots news from all over the world.
Independent Student Media Project: British students bring together activism, the arts, and academia.
International Progressive Publications Network: links and pointers to web-based and print-based media from all over the world.
Intervention Magazine: focuses on military intervention, plus politics and democracy and culture.
Jay's Leftist and "Progressive" Internet Resources Directory: A vast collection of links to the left, the leftist, and the leftist manqué around the world.
Left Links: Nick Vogel's site with lots of useful links around the world.
Liberal Slant: energetic and informative webzine aimed at countering the mainstream media.
Liberal Soundbag has good, heartfelt, weekly commentary and satire. Except for the satire bit, this formula sounds somehow familiar...
Logos Online: quarterly journal of modern society and culture.
Moving Ideas (from The American Prospect): umbrella site for scads of left-leaning or just plain useful organizations.
News Insider: source of "underreported" news from all over, plus a great set of media links.
Online Journal: independent source of on-line news.
New! Public Library of Science: free, top-drawer, electronic scientific journals; this is how top-drawer science should be done.
Rabble: Canadian activists with senses of humor.
The Register: biting the hand that feeds IT (as in Information Technology) — cynical, biting, funny, all good.
RepubliCONs: an ambitious website about the Republican party and the forces that oppose it.
Signs of the Times: British website offering a non-sectarian forum for scholarly leftists.
The Spectre: there is a new spectre haunting Europe, and it's on the web.
The Spleen: wonderful weekly webzine about just about everything.
Texas Progressive: tons of useful links to Texas news, politics, organizations, and columnists.
TomPaine.com opinion site: liberal and progressive opinion, with special emphasis on history, politics, and economics
USNewslink has constantly updated links to what's new and important online.
Voice of the Turtle: omnibus leftist online journal.
Whose Florida?: Everything that you could hope to find about Florida politics and politicians.
Wiretap: on-line journal, with investigative articles and personal essays, for progressive youth.
Year Zero: radical British politics (and spelling) for ordinary people.
Yellow Times: International webzine full of strong opinions on current events and politics.

Political Parties

Leftist Parties of the World: an exhaustively complete list of all of the leftist or left-leaning parties anywhere. Whether you are exploring Austria or Zambia, this is where to start.
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism: not a party per se, but a confederation dedicated to socialism and democracy.
Communist Party of the United States of America: the big, bad Marxist-Leninists aren't so scary once you get to know them.
Democratic Socialists of America: the left wing of the Democratic Party used to sound like this.
Democrats.com: not a party, but a haven for left-leaning Democrats, with lots of links to news and opinions elsewhere.
Green Parties: world-wide links to all verdant parties.
New Democratic Party (Canada): here's a viable American third party. And here is its Socialist Caucus, concerned (with reason) that the party has moved too far to the right.
New Party (USA): building a viable third-party movement through fusion voting. (Check it out: tritium is not involved!)
Özgürlük: Turkish and Kurdish dissidents.
World Socialist Web Site: official website of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Zapatista movement (Mexico).

Social Justice

Amnesty International: protecting the rights of the jailed and comforting the oppressed.
Anarchist links: Bakunin would be proud!
Brecht Forum: New York's home for Marxism for everyone from artists to zookeepers.
Campaign to End the Death Penalty: links to current cases, resources for activism, and news from around the United States.
Center for Guerrilla Law: radical think tank and service project.
The Gully: informed and opinionated views on politics, lesbian and gay issues, race, class, and more.
Infoshop: huge and informative omnibus archist site. Who says anarchists are disorganized?
Irrawaddy (Thailand): Burmese opposition in exile.
National Organization for Women: working for equal rights and opportunity for men and women.
The New Rules Project: Designing rules as if (we like to think because) community matters.
racetraitor: treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.
Ruckus Society: nonviolent civil disobedience for the new century.
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice: public interest lawyers working for a more just society.

Economic Justice:

Anarcho-Syndicalism 101: everything that you wanted to know about working-class solidarity, but were afraid to ask.
Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC): an anti-globalization website promoting the "Tobin Tax" and other initiatives.
Behind the Label: working for the rights of garment workers around the world.
Clean Clothes: information on several multinationals who use and profit from from sweatshop labor.
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions: confederation of unionized graduate students and faculty.
Creative Commons: helping to restore the proper concept of copyright, from the supply side.
Economic Policy Institute: researchers devoted to helping low- and middle-income American workers.
Environmental Working Group: home of the Chemical Industry Papers.
Friends of the Earth: working for the environment, labor rights, and human rights in general.
Industrial Workers of the World: working for one worthwhile union for all workers. The Wobblies aren't back: they never left.
Inequality.org: news and views on economic inequality.
Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy: promoting conservation, sustainable agriculture and forestry, and policies to help consumers, farmers, and rural communities. Excellent links on the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).
Labornet: working for an international, democratic, labor movement.
LabourStart: all-purpose trade union web site for news and resources.
Rebelion: Spanish-language socialist website, updated all the time, with scads of information and useful links.
Responsible Wealth: Millionaires with actual consciences.
Union of Radical Political Economists: Economists and other social scientists who care about inequality and a better world.

Civil Rights and Privacy

American Civil Liberties Union: acting to keep the Bill of Rights relevant in America. See especially their section Safe and Free in Times of Crisis.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: protecting civil liberties online.
Electronic Privacy Information Center: Washington think tank promoting privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
Harvard Civil Rights Project: Academics bridging the gap between ideas and action.
Human Rights Watch: working for human rights around the globe.
Information Awareness Office: this is the Pentagon department that hopes to make Big Brother look like a piker. And guess who's in charge? It's that wholesome John Poindexter fellow!
Liberty (London): fighting for civil liberties in England and Wales.
National Lawyers Guild: lawyers working for political and economic equality. Imagine that!

Media Coverage and Criticism

conwebwatch: counter-spinning the right-wing web.
Cursor: exposing the media in general and television news in particular.
The Daily Howler: it's not always daily, but Bob Somersby's web site is on target and devastatingly funny.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: a liberal take on the American media.
Media Whores Online: Keeping tabs on the genuflecting American media.
Mental Engineering: discussing, dissing, and dissecting advertising. Paul could not believe that this was an actual show on PBS.

Corporations

Biotic Baking Brigade: speaking pie to power.
Consumer Project on Technology: focussing on intellectual property rights, health care, electronic commerce, and competition policy.
Corpwatch: corporate watchdog on the web.
The Daily Enron: daily news and comment about the poster child for bad corporate behavior.
Focus on the Corporation: weekly column in the San Francisco Bay Guardian by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman.
INFACT: corporate watchdogs, specializing on the tobacco industry and their outside interests.
Integrity in Science: who funds which scientists and scientific nonprofit groups (Center for Science in the Public Interest).
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library: six million documents regarding the advertising, manufacturing, sales, and research of tobacco products.
McSpotlight: alternative views on the multinational with the special sauce.
No Free Lunch: Doctors seeking to stop the worst aspects of pharmaceutical marketing.
No Logo: burgeoning site for the No Logo anti-globalization movement.
Paywatch: AFL-CIO site keeping track of executive compensation.
PR Watch: exposing the lies and deception of the public relations industry. We particularly like their "Spin of the Day" page.
Reclaim Democracy: seeking to restore the authority of the citizenry over corporations.
®^TMark: subverting the corporate process for cultural, not financial, profit. Biting and funny.
Student Alliance to Reform Corporations: students battling sweathops and other corporate ills.
The Corporate Library: An amazingly vast amount of information about corporate governance, deeds and misdeeds, and structure.
Transnational Corporation Observatory: News about multinational corporations, including their brands, their subsidiaries, their policies, and their impacts on societies.

War and Peace

ACRONYM Institute: research, information, and advocacy for disarmament, arms control, and security.
Center for Defense Information: independent information on military matters.
New! Code Pink for Peace helps you set your security level with a grassroots approach to peace and social justice.
End of Existence: a multimedia presentation about the horrors of nuclear war.
Federation of American Scientists: huge amount of information on science, technology, and public policy, espeically military and space matters.
Global Security: new approaches to international security (run by the former FAS webmaster).
Gush-Shalom: Israelis dedicated to peace in Palestine and Gaza.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: a British charity working to support the local press in the world's most troubled regions.
National Security Archive: independent organization that collects and publishes declassified documents.
re:constructions: MIT project on humanity and media after 11 September.
Union of Concerned Scientists: organization devoted to sound thinking on environmental, energy, and defense policy.
US Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project: Brookings Institution analysis of the cost of the American nuclear weapons program.
War and Peace Foundation: daily updates to articles on war and peace issues, plus links to all sorts of resources.

Institutions

Aïnaworld: supporting independent media and cultural expression in Afghanistan.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State: working to keep religion out of the state, and the state out of religion.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN): the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families.
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities: liberal watchdog of the USA's budget. Lots of detailed and informative reports.
Center for Economic and Policy Research: excellent analyses of globalization, Social Security, and intellectual property issues. Check out its Econmomic Reporting Review each week!
Center for Public Integrity: the news media's conscience in Washington.
Center for Responsive Politics: who owns which American politicians. Immensely detailed and very useful.
Center for Voting and Democracy: where to look for excellent information on fairer, better, voting systems like Instant Runoff Voting.
Citizens for Tax Justice: liberal analysis of American tax policies. Heaps of important information.
Committee for America's Future: working for better wages and a social security system that is actually secure.
Committee to Protect Journalists: working for press freedom all over the globe.
Common Cause: promoting open, honest and accountable government (check out the Soft Money Laundromat).
Commonweal Institute: a think tank trying to move the marketplace of ideas leftward.
Congressional Progressive Caucus: actual professed liberals in the U.S. House.
Electronic Privacy Information Center: trying to keep private what should be private.
Freedom Forum: fighting for press freedom in the USA and internationally.
Institute for Policy Studies: our favorite Washington think tank!
Political Research Associates: tells you everything you needed to know, but were afraid to ask, about the rightists in America.
Public Campaign: working for clean money and clean elections.

Columnists and Other People

Phillip Adams (The Australian).
Eric Alterman has a weblog at MSNBC that also links to his columns in The Nation.
Noam Chomsky at Z Magazine and Monkeyfist: two extensive archives of his works, in text and audio.
Joe Conason (New York Observer). He also has a daily web journal at Salon.com.
E. J. Dionne (Washington Post).
Barbara Ehrenreich (The Progressive).
Larry Elliott (The Guardian)
New! Robert Fisk (The Independent, via an unofficial, third-party site.)
Chris Floyd: Global Eye (Moscow Times). Free archived columns now reside at Make Them Accountable.
Dennis Fox: radical psychologist, academic, essayist, and columnist. Probably an insomniac, too.
Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian).
Rachel Giese (Toronto Star).
New! Sean Gonsalves (Cape Cod Times).
Charles Gordon (Ottawa Citizen).
William Greider (The Nation). His own website has his archived columns and information on books and other projects.
Adrian Hamilton (The Independent).
Bob Herbert (New York Times)*
Jim Hightower proves that at least one politician is neither idiotic nor mendacious.
Arianna Huffington: libertarian turncoat, now liberal, if not leftist (syndicated).
Will Hutton (London Observer).
Molly Ivins (Austin Star-Telegram). Also check out her columns in The Progressive.
Derrick Jackson (Boston Globe).
Fergal Keane (The Independent).
Naomi Klein (The Nation).
Paul Krugman (New York Times).* Here are the official Krugman home page, and an unofficial Krugman fan page.
Robert Kuttner (American Prospect).
Michele Landsberg (Toronto Star).
David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle).
Martin Lee (San Francisco Bay Guardian).
Seymour Melman tireless advocate of workplace democracy (Columbia University).
George Monbiot (The Guardian). Also check the official Monbiot home page.
Nathan Newman (Progressive Populist).
Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune)
Greg Palast: American correspondent and investigative reporter (London Observer). Also check the official Palast home page.
Katha Pollitt (The Nation).
Ted Rall creates both editorial cartoons and political columns: he's a one-man left-wing op-ed page!
Andrew Rawnsley (London Observer).
Robert Reno (Long Island Newsday.
Susan Riley (Ottawa Citizen).
Stephanie Salter (San Francisco Chronicle).
Michelangelo Signorile (New York Press). Also check the official Signorile home page.
Joan Smith (The Independent).
Harley Sorenson (San Francisco Chronicle).
Helen Thomas (Hearst Newspapers).
Cynthia Tucker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, social theorist now at Harvard Law School.
Thomas Walkom (Toronto Star).
Natasha Walter (The Independent).
Jules Witcover (Baltimore Sun).
Hugo Young (late of the The Guardian).
Gary Younge (The Guardian).
Dave Zweifel (Madison Capital Times).

The web has a huge number of weblogs and similar pages. Here are some of the best. Frankly, neither of us know how some of these folks find the time to do what they do. Some of the sites mentioned elsewhere are also updated all the time, including many of the Electronic Media links.

The Lefty Directory has what rates to be a canonical list of left-leaning weblogs (and a few outliers to boot).
The Agonist is Sea-Paul Kelley's cerebral and acerbic weblog that mostly dwells on foreign policy.
Alas, a blog is the excellent weblog on politics, cartooning, and political cartooning.
Altercation is the brand new weblog of Eric Alterman. Find out why the right wing hates him so much.
Bartcop updates his slightly twisted anti-Bush and anti-Limbaugh site every day. The message forum connected to the site is very active and certainly worth a look.
Ted Barlow's old weblog is still worth reading, but he now posts at Crooked Timber.
Beyond Corporate, true to its name, explores the relationships between work and corporate and social responsibility.
BlogLeft is an ambitious weblog from two professors at UCLA.
The Bloviator is an excellent weblog about medicine, politics, and the politics of medicine.
Body and Soul, is a weblog full of deep and thoughtful writing on politics, culture, and religion.
New! BushOut.TV examines American political advertising from a progressive point of view.
Bush Watch is a daily compendium of links, original commentary, and facts about the President Select.
New! Corrente is the amazingly productive and incessantly helpful weblog from four progressive writers.
Counterspin is the amazingly prodigious weblog of left-leaning partisan (and sometime classicist) Hesiod Theogeny.
New! Crooked Timber has too many collaborators to list, and too much excellent content to summarize quickly.
Cursor updates its home page of interesting links daily.
The Daily Kos has pithy and pointed takes on American politics.
New! The Daily Mojo from Mother Jones magazine provides a daily synopsis of the important, outrageous, and absurd in politics.
Defense Tech provides news from Tom Shachtman on war, crime, and national security from a liberal viewpoint.
Brad DeLong maintains this amazingly prodigious Semi-Daily Journal based on what he finds interesting in economics and politics.
New! The Dissector's Daily Blog features prolific criticism of American media by Danny Schechter, who cuts through fog and cant that confound the mainstream media.
Eschaton is the excellent weblog of the opinionated, incisive, and pseudonymous Atrios.
New! David Ehrenstein's Fablog is poignant, pointed, and often hilarious; and its purview is huge.
New! The Freeway Blogger is not just blogging online, but also blogging the freeways of Southern California.
The Hamster is Eric Hananoki's combination weblog and soapbox, full of timely, sound analysis.
The Hauser Report is chock full of useful links and cogent opinion on politics, law, and sports.
Ignatz is the hugely entertaining and informative weblog by Sam Heldman on law (expecially labor law) and politics.
New! Informed Comment has astoundingly prolific insight and, yes, very informed commentary on the Middle East from University of Michigan professor Juan Cole.
Into the Breach is Kendall Miller's excellent weblog on politics, science, and religion.
Madelaine Kane has a serious weblog on politics that nicely complements her humorous stuff elsewhere on her site.
The Joe Kenehan Center is Carter's Wright's thoughtful and pointed weblog about labor and American politics.
K Marx the Spot is a weblog from the trenchant and modest fellows behind that Bear Left site.
Dan Kennedy writes straightforward and accurate pieces on the media and politics.
New! Left I on the News provides prolific and pithy insights on politics, plus it offers the sort of titular pun that we've always liked.
Liberal Oasis: not just a daily political weblog, but a ton of good links and a humor column to boot! It's what our site would be like if we had both more time and actual talent.
Limited, Inc. has thoughtful and detailed essays and discursions about culture and politics.
MaxSpeak, written by Max Sawicky of the Economic Policy Institute, is his insightful weblog on economics and public policy.
Media Views from FAIR has links to media criticism and media news.
Media Whores Online takes a no-holds-barred approach to the American media.
Mikhaela's News Blog has a double dose of Mikhaela Reid: great writing on politics and great political cartoons.
MyDD is a truly indispensible site maintained by J.B. Armstrong with heaps of data on American elections. (It's on hiatus until the 2004 general election looms.)
Nathan Newman's site has an informative and reflective weblog that runs the gamut from technology to law to public policy.
New Pages Weblog is a compendium of news and views on books, radio, music, and the media from a left-leaning librarian.
Noosphere Blues offers especially good writing on literature and culture, along with media and politics.
Not Geniuses is the collaborative effort of Nico Pitney, Joe Rospars, and Matt Singer; they may not be geniuses, but they're smart and funny observers of American politics and policy.
The Online Gadfly, Ernest Partridge, writes incisive essays on environmental ethics and public policy.
Orcinus is a weblog from journalist David Neiwert, who does a great job viewing the news from an historically informed viewpoint.
New! Pandagon has a wicked cute logo, but don't be fooled: Ezra Klein and Jesse Taylor are sharp as tacks.
PLA offers Dwight Meredith's insight, pith, and ire on Politics, Law, and Autism. (It's dormant, but impeccably indexed nonetheless. Dwight now contributes to Wampum.)
Political State Report has in-depth, timely analysis of state politics from all over the United States.
Polygon, the Dancing Bear has a wide-ranging scope, from state and local politics in Michigan to international affairs, often with an historical bent. (The author is the force behind the amazing Political Graveyard.)
John Quiggin writes an indispensible weblog on Australian and world-wide politics, economics, and social democracy.
The Rittenhouse Review has both insightful commentary and more links than a suit of chain mail.
The Road To Surfdom is Tim Blair's super weblog on American and Australian politics and culture. Plus, it looks great.
Robot Wisdom always has great links (and pithy one-line descriptions thereof) to all sorts of interesting news and opinions.
Ruminate This Offers lots of insights on politics and political activism.
Seeing the Forest looks at the issues, not just the horse races, in American politics.
The Sideshow is expatriate Avedon Carol's weblog on American politics (and other topics) as seen from Britain.
skippy the bush kangaroo doesn't like capital letters, but always has something smart and original on the news of the day.
Smirking Chimp is a lively discussion board with all sorts of news and opinions about the President Select.
Stand Down is a cross-ideological, weblog against an impending war with Iraq.
Summary Opinions is a good source for links to (mostly) liberal opinions from the current press.
Talking Points Memo is the weblog of Joshua Micah Marshall, a Washington insider who cares about doing right.
Talk Left offers a liberal perspective on crime, politics, and justice, with lots of links to noteworthy news and commentary.
Tapped is the opinionated and pointed acronymic weblog of The American Prospect.
TBogg is a prolific and often hilarious weblog on everything from Peggy Noonan's latest solecisms to the insanity of American politics.
Thinking It Through is Thomas Spencer's weblog with lots of pithy observations on politics in Missouri and the United States in general.
This Modern World is the weblog of terrific editorial cartoonist Tom Tomorrow.
Through the Looking Glass offers Charles Dodgson's view of absurdities in politics and in life.
TomDispatch, written by Tom Engelhardt, offers new perspectives on international relations in a new age of empire.
Two Tears in a Bucket has timely and poignant commentary on California politics and politics in general.
Utne Webwatch is the Utne Reader's own weblog.
Immanuel Wallerstein publishes commentaries twice per month with a world-systems take on current events.
New! Wampum is a collaborative weblog by Dwight Meredith and Mary Beth Williams that features deeper thinking than your average weblog on politics, Indian rights, and autism issues.
The War in Context takes a left-leaning look at the "war on terrorism" and the Middle East.
New! Whiskey Bar offers billmon's in-depth observations on American politics.
New! World O'Crap offers a funny and devastatingly trenchant eye on popular culture and the inanities and banalities that make up current-day conservatism.

Contrarians

Most in this category are not part of what we consider the left, but they are worth our attention!

Nat Hentoff (Jewish World Review): a libertarian concerned with liberty, not just scoring weed.
We used to link to Christopher Hitchens, because even an intemperate and cynical stopped clock is right twice a day, but we just could not stand him any longer.
Eric Margolis (Toronto Sun): old-fashioned conservative now aghast at the neo-cons.
Kevin Phillips is proof that bleeding-heart conservatism lives.
Nicholas von Hoffman usually writes as the wise and thoughtful Nicholas von Hoffman, but he has some wacky notions about whio the good guys were in 1950s America (New York Observer).

Primary Sources

Ag BioTech InfoNet: technical and non-technical information on agriculture and biotechnology.
Department of Defense News Transcripts: from Rumsfeld's mouth to your browser.
Department of State Transcripts: from Powell's mouth to your browser.
Fedworld: starting point for U. S. government agencies.
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas: includes full text of draft agreement.
Guidestar: Finances (and Forms 990) for a multitude of U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
ibiblio: the Public's Library.
Internet Public Library: omnibus reference desk.
JURIST: online legal resources, updated constantly.
Legal Information Institute: all sorts of legal links, including United States code text and Supreme Court decisions (Cornell University).
LibrarySpot: on-line reference desk.
Le Monde diplomatique Maps: great maps from a great French magazine.
The Memory Hole: Rescuing knowledge and freeing hidden information.
Moose and Squirrel Information One-Stop: another excellent reference desk.
Newspaper Association of America: links to newspapers all over the world.
New York Times Navigator: the home page used by reporters at the New York Times.
The Political Graveyard: who's buried where?
Refdesk: the other Drudge's online site.
Supreme Court archive (Legal Information Institute).
Talking Points Memo Document Collection: Documents that official Washington hides but Joshua Marshall finds.
THOMAS: indispensible Web site of U. S. Congress. We like it even if Newt Gingrich did champion it.
Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse (TRAC): Syracuse University project to track federal enforcement, staffing, and spending. Especially useful for tax research.
U. S. Census Bureau home page. This site has lots and lots of data.
White House Press Briefings: straight out of Ari's mouth (sometimes with some choice edits).

Fun Sites

AdSubtract and Junkbusters: Remember how we told you that advertising was evil? Now you can fight back.
Ari & I: the verbatim transcripts of Russell Mokhiber's quest to get one true statment out of Ari Fleischer's lips.
Barry Crimmins: Political satire from a Bostonian who knows both politics and comedy.
Bookfinder: millions of out-of-print and used books, from Aptheker to Zinn.
The Boondocks: brilliant, funny, and satirical. The only truly revolutionary comic strip in many papers.
BountyQuest: fight unwarranted patents the old-fashioned way, by finding prior art.
Bush-Toons: A new photo/cartoon every day, so you have at least one reason to smile.
Capitol Steps: more fun than Washington should be allowed to have!
Donnelly/Colt: buttons, bumperstickers, T-shirts, etc.
Dr. Limerick: every day, at least one new, timely, funny limerick. (Pretend that this description was in anapestic trimeter.)
FBI files of the rich and famous.
Free Republic: Go forth and annoy the freepers! (But don't be surprised if the Free Republic isn't such a free market!)
Gatt.org: More truthful, but much less official than any website from the real World Bank. Accept this imitation!
George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil: from Wage-Slave.org, a wicked and hilariously unfair analysis of every evil act of the Bush administration.
Guerrilla Media: British Columbia's most famous monkey-wrenchers.
Infinite Jest: If you like The Onion, then you'll love this.
Ironic Times: headlines that mock the news.
Madelaine Begun Kane: political humorist and transcriptionist for the indispensible Dubya's Dayly Diary.
Northern Sun: buttons, bumperstickers, T-shirts, etc.
The Onion: online version of the humor magazine.
Private Eye: cheeky UK magazine.
Reverend Billy: The good Reverend performs shopping interventions to protect us from Disney, Starbucks, and other temptations.
The Smoking Gun: everyone's dirty laundry.
The Straight Dope: Cecil Adams explains it all for you.
Tiny Polemics: One-line editorials? Minimalist art? Both, from Robert Dobbs.
Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Updated every Monday (DemocraticUnderground.com).
New! The Union Mall: Shop online and shop union for books, clothing, and more.
Urban Legend reference pages: what's false (and what's not) in that e-mail you just got! Very useful.
UXN spam combat: all sorts of resources to avoid and stop unsolicited commercial e-mail.

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