Progressive Media
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Radio
krxa540.com Monterey Bay progressive radio - stream free
RadioPower.org streaming progressive music and culture around the world - fund drives
Lynn Samuels on Sirius Radio
WhiteRoseSociety.org streaming radio "Fighting The Rise Of The New Fascism."
Replay-radio.com paid subscription
StephanieMiller.com paid subscription (you can hear her show live, free at KRXA and RadioPower)
AirAmericaRadio.com stream free
AirAmericaPhoenix.com stream free
DemocracyRadio.org Ed Schultz, etc.
DemocracyNow.org Amy Goodman and other journalists
WBAI Radio "Your Peace and Justice Community Radio Station" in New York
UpRrisingRadio.org The morning show on KPFK
KPOO.org Community-based nonprofit, noncommercial radio station that caters to the needs of populations traditionally underrepresented in the mainstream media.
SundaySalon.org Sunday Salon is a weekly public affairs program, hosted by Larry Bensky, broadcast Sunday mornings from 9-11 AM. Listen online at KPFA.
KPFA 94.1 Free Speech Radio from the Bay Area
Radio4All.net Broadcast Quality Programming Via the Internet, including archive of Bob Young's work.
kpfk.org progressive radio in Los Angeles "Where truth is a moral value"
fsrn.org Free Speech Radio News (news service) the a-Infos Radio Project
News Media
LoneStarIcon.com The Lone Star Iconoclast, W. Leon Smith, editor-in-chief, Crawford, Texas. "The Lone Star Iconoclast got its name from a publication thatwas founded in Waco over a hundred years ago by one of the most intriguing writers of his era - William Cowper Brann. "Although there are vast differences in the Iconoclast of today and Brann's Iconoclast of yesteryear, the modern-day editors hope to bring to the worldwide web a slate of ideas that will inspire citizens to not only think about issues, but act upon their convictions."
Environmental News Network
Prospect.org - The American Prospect - "Read Liberally"
GoLeft.tv TV news on your computer, produced by GoLeft.
RawStory.com A rational voice - Alternative news
Progress.org
ConsortiumNews.com
WPHerald.com World Peace Herald
ZMag.org "The Spirit of Resistance Lives"
FreePress.org Progressive news and commentary from the web and print joural.
TheNation.com
gnn.tv Guerrilla News Networkhttp://thenation.com/
InfoWars.com Alternative news
truthout.org email news service
alternet.org In depth news and views from the Independent Media Institute
PacificaRadioArchives.org Archives for the War and Peace Report, Peace Watch, Democracy Now, Explorations, Uprising, and other shows from the Pacifica sister stations: KPFK, KPFA, KPFT, WBAI, WPFW
CommonDreams.org News & Views for the Progressive Community
For the Record Dave Emory's controversial radio show
Salon.com
BBC News
The Observer London
The Progressive since 1909
The Nation since 1865
DemocracyNow.org syndicated radio show
GlobalExchange.org news and activism
Ian Masters host of Background Briefing
aRighttoKnow.com A news talk show on KPFK
TheRandiRhodesShow.com/ Left-wing news talk radio, featured on AirAmericaRadio.com
PowersAndMorrison.com
GuerrillaNews.com
FactCheck.org Check the truth of political ads
OrganicLounge.org Politics of food
AmericanProgress.org/ Center for American Progress: Progresive ideas for a strong, just and free America
CampusProgress.com American Progress on campus
DemocraticTalkRadio.com
World Media
alJazeerah.info
alJazeera.com
JapanToday.com
Guardian.co.uk UK Guardian
TimesofIndia.com Times of India
NZHerald.co.nz New Zealand Herald
Spoof Media
Ironic Times
TheOnion.com Fake stories make fun of real evernts
Whirled Bank.org "Our Dream is a World Full of Poverty"
HumorGazette.com Stories are real, with fake elements added for irony.
Blogs
Pray for Peace (at this site)
TomDispatch.com a regular antidote to the mainstream media, compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt
FireDogLake.com Jane Hamsher and Christy Hardin Smith blog site
ExoPolitics.com Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe
Wonkette.com political commentary
Jabberwonk.com Communal Leftist Blog and Link Dump
FrameShopIsOpen.com
DemocraticUnderground.com One of the best, most active blogs for liberal dems
BlogCritics.org
TalkingPointsMemo.com Josh Marshall, a doctor of American history from Princeton, comments on issues of the day.
DailyKos.com
AmericaBlog
BlogSpot.com
PoliticalAmazon.com
UnknownNews.net Bloggers discuss lesser-known news stories
MyStolenNation.com
EmergingDemocraticMajorityWeblog
This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow =political cartoon and artists commentary on the news
Op Ed News Rob Kall's new site
Conspiracy Planet
GlobalResearch, Canada - Centre for Research on Globalisation (Corporate Globalization)
Michael Moore
Greg Palast, investigative journalist
Arianna Huffington
EdBegley.net Actor and activist Ed Begley
Watchdogs
Institute for Policy Studies independent research, visionary thinking
ProjectCensored.org a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.
Progressive.org The Progressive Media Project
SourceWatch.org a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.
ThinkProgress.org The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. With the blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies.
prWatch.org Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of PR Watch
SourceWatch.org a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts.
CREW: citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington CitizensForEthics.org
ProjectCensored.org Keeps track of under-reported news stories.
American Constitutional Society Promotes the Bill of Rights and Constitution
MediaMatters.org
F.A.I.R. Fairness and Accuracy in Media
TVNewsLies.com Learn how the broadcast media deceives you!
PIRG.org Public Interest Research Groups
ConsumerWatchdog.org The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
Rate Payer Revolt Latest news on the energy crisis
Citizens for Legitimate Government
Public Citizen Ralph Nader's organization
International Action Center by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General
Emperor's Clothes A research site with a free email newsletter, circulation 20,000
ArnoldWatch.org This organization keeps tabs on the new governor of California.
Conservative Think Tanks, Blogs, and Neocon Media
Bud Day - Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, now works for McCain to protect him from Swiftboating and to cry wolf every time somebody mentions McCain's war records (i.e. god forbid anyone should mention that McCain has PTSD)
CenterForSecurityPolicy.org xenophobic, racist warmongers set foreign policy, issue talking points
Beckett Brown International alleged to have spied on environmental activists.
FreedomsWatch.com They have a commercial on TV this holiday season (2007) thanking the troops and saying "we support the troops." It's a sweet commercial, but I wonder where these people are really at. They claim to be true conservatives: "Freedom"s Watch was formed to be the conservative voice fighting for mainstream conservative principles - today, tomorrow, and for generations to come." Yet they support this war? This war is flusing America's treasury down the drain day by day and ruining our standing in the world. That is not conservative, that is stupid and abusive. I don't get it. Freedom's Watch seems like a cover for just another neo-con war and corporate agenda website.
ServiaMagazine.com committed to private profiteering in every realm of human endeavor.
CultureCampaign.com
American Solutions for Securing the Future
WorldNetDaily.com wacky site - not supportive of all Republican talking points - but dishing out Kool-aide nonetheless
Project Protect - The name appears to protect trees, but according to SourceWatch.org, it was "a front group supporting the Bush administration's pro-logging Healthy Forests Initiative."
HumanEvents.com "Leading the Conservative Movement since 1944"
Dr. Evil, aka Rick Birman's anti-labor site and rant against regulation of food, etc.: UnionFacts.com and ConsumerFreedom.com
Conservapedia.com Right wing answer to "liberal" Wikipedia
Institute for Democracy - the think tank attached to G.W. Bush's library, to write papers to prop up Bush's legacy
ClubForGrowth.org Endorses Republican candidates who support limited government and lower taxes and pools club members
Hudson Institute
Dennis Prager
Lars Larson
College Republicans [conspirators in 9/11 cover-up, election fraud?]
Late Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, Jack Abramaoff, Ralph Reed
OpinionEditorials.com Insane Bush supporters rant. Newsletter available. Affiliated with FF (see next item).
ff.org Frontiers of Freedom - Founded in 1995 by Malcolm Wallop, Frontiers seeks to lead the conservative movement against an ever more powerful and intrusive federal government.
Century Strategies P.R. company for George W. Bush and other politicos and corporations.
Committee on the Present Danger - an old Cold War group, now revived to get America into more was in the Middle East. Notable members include Senator John Kyl of Arizona.
Creative Response Concepts - P.R. company that orchestrated Alito wife tears + timely press release; responsible for other talking points memos in DC.
AmericanDaily.com "Move Off" r-wing columnists criticize the left
CPAC.org The Conservative Political Action Conference
http://www.freerepublic.com/
RedState.org bawdy red staters speak out
http://www.mediaresearch.org/
Heritage Foundation
American Enterprise Institute Warmongering think tank, funded by Exxon and other oil companies
LiddyShow.us J. Gordon Liddy, former FBI agent.
Economic Freedom Fund
Chrisitan Coalition of America Founded in 1989 by Pat Robertson to give right wing evangelicals a voice in government.
Council for National Policy
Free the Eagle
The Traditional Values Coalition, founded by Rev. Lou Sheldon
Christian Defense Coalition
Club for Growth
Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation
John M. Olin Foundation
Scaife family foundations
The Weekly Standard (and Daily Standard) edited by William Kristol and Fred Barnes, includes commentary by Max Boot, Tucker Carlson, David Frum, other conservative columnists and talking heads.
Council on Moderate Priorities
Progressive Think Tanks
TrendsResearch.com
Center for Constitutional Rights a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
OurFuture.org Campaign for America's Future
New America Foundation: NewAmerica.net
Institute for Policy Studies
CommonWealInstitute.org
Center for American Progress
The Century Foundation
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Good Books on the Media
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert W. McChesney
Robert W. McChesney is professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Robert McChesney's work has been of extraordinary importance. . . . It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights." - Noam Chomsky
"Robert McChesney is one of the nation's most important analysts of the media." - Howard Zinn
Go to Robert W. McChesney's web site: FreePress.net.
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