Where to find News from left, right and center

1. Where to find News from left, right and center • A word on searching for news and information: No sources are going to give you everything; you have to actually dig a bit to get more comprehensive news. • Many sites are not listed here that provide deeper treatment of news stories: Salon.com has good long articles and so do magazine websites like the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, Mother Jones, etc., but they are not really “news” as much as they are analysis of news stories and concentrate on a story or two, or several recent issues at a time. • Finally, if you really want to be confident in what you see on websites or TV news, do a little extra digging and confirm the story through other sources. • Apologies to what is missed, which is much, in this short overview. Feel Free to contribute your own and ones that shape your views.

2. Corporate Owned Media (TV) • MSNBC(left-leaning [liberal to moderate] • CNN(Mixture of News commentators from Wolf Blitzer [center left] to Lou Dobbs [populist right]/ Heavily laden with celebrity and entertainment news • FOX NEWS (center right to far right) also a healthy dose of entertainment news • PBS (corporate and viewer sponsored) mostly centrist/very moderately liberal/ documentaries [value varies – most worth something, but often a typically censored view of things] • BBC (British state-owned TV/ will still water down controversial topics, but mostly good, if incomplete information/ lots of international news ignored by American TV)

3. Internet SourcesIndependent MediaLeft leaning, for the most part • InteligentaindigenaNovajoservo /International Indigenist Newswire • http://angryindian.blogspot.com/ • REALNEWS • http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 • IndyMedia • http://www.indybay.org/ • http://www.indybay.org/ • http://santacruz.indymedia.org/ • Not to blow my own horn here; not reason to think I might be if you listen, but you can find and interview with on the Santa Cruz site, which is a pirate radio operation shortly after my friend Tom’s execution ; just search my name; you can hear me at most inarticulate, since I was very deeply in a state of post traumatic Stress at the time and didn’t know the interviewer was going to walk me through witnessing the execution (about 45 minutes) • Media Freedom International • http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/ • Who What Why • http://whowhatwhy.com/ • Cryptome (Government Documents and articles) • http://cryptome.org/ • Wayne Madsen: The Madsen Report • http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ • Project Censored • http://www.projectcensored.org/

4. Internet SourcesA few more conservative or libertarian sites I like to check • The American Conservative (solid conservative news source) • http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/ • Independent Political Report (features links to non-affiliated political sites, ie. Green Party, Libertarian, Constitution Party, etc.) • http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/ • Drudge Report(conservative and sometimes sensationalist focus, but gives pretty solid view from the right most of the time) • http://www.drudgereport.com/ • National Review (has moved consistently right, but founded by William F. Buckley, an old time conservative intellectual) • http://www.nationalreview.com/ • Libertarian News Source (Libertarians are all over the map – anti-big government, pro-legalization of various drugs, pro gay rights, right to bear arms, etc.) • http://www.smallgovtimes.com/ • CIA (need I say more? Good source of what the CIA would like you to know, though) • https://www.cia.gov/ • Huffington Post (actually liberal, but didn’t have room for it on the other slide/lots of entertainment, fashion and celebrity news as well – news from many newspapers and TV shows [mostly CNN and MSNBC] and also Jon Stewart, Colbert, etc./tends to reveal a real class bias in a running a constant stream of articles and blogs ridiculing “white trash” birthers and teabaggers; these are movements of which I am in constant opposition, but the class discourse offends even me; check it out; perhaps if you are not educated “trailer trash,” you might find it amusing. I think they’re ingnoring a deeper sense of discontent at big government. Nice selection of news sources overall.) • http://www.huffingonpost.com/

5. Not Really News, But Good Research Sites • Cointelpro • A very good collection of Cointelpro source material. Cointelpro was an FBI program, ostensibly created to fight communism during the Cold War, but turned into a devious and sometimes brutal tool to be used against any American dissidents, including the assassination of Black Panther Party leaders and the blackmail, and possibly assassination of Martin Luther King. All reconstructed from declassified FBI documents. If you think conspiracies are just paranoid fantasies, think again. Check it out! • http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm • The National Archive • Huge repository of government docs, pictures, some essays, etc. The official federal document repository of documents and history sources. • http://www.archives.gov/ • The Mary Ferrell Foundation • Massive amount of Documents involving the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations. Mary Ferrell does not put out sketchy conspiracy claims, but gives you a lot of documentation to make up your own minds on whether conspiracies were involved in these assassinations. • http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page • Cryptome (again) • I mention again here because it’s a great source for government documents from the White House, Congress, Intelligence Agencies and the Defense Department; also their “eyeball series” which occasionally pops up with satellite photos of covert sites like our drone base in Pakistan. • http://cryptome.org/ • Government Attic • Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from current issues back to the 1950s or so. • http://www.governmentattic.org/