Listed below are weblinks to recommended publications, grouped in these seven categories (in order):
* World news
* Environment/climate change
* Middle East, and Turkey
* Antiwar/anti-nuclear
* Russia/Crimea/Ukraine
* Canada news
* Other recommended websites and blogs
World news sites
- Foreign Policy in Focus (project of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC)
- Consortium News
- Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR.org. Published online in the United States. CounterSpin is FAIR’s weekly, 30-minute, radio newsmagazine program.)
- Pushback (interview program on The Grayzone, host Aaron Maté)
- The Next Recession (blog of Michael Roberts, Marxist economist in the UK)
- Jack Rasmus, Predicting the Global Economic Crisis (author and professor of political economy at St. Mary’s College and Santa Clara University, California)
- Li Jingjing (reporter at China’s CGTN media outlet, interview program broadcast on YouTube)
- Kaiser Health News (nonprofit news service in U.S. reporting on health care policy and politics)
- Jacobin (‘socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture’, published in New York City)
- The Grayzone Project (publisher and co-editors Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton)
- Dissident Voice (‘a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and justice’)
- TeleSUR
- Venezuela Analysis (news and analysis of the ongoing Bolivarian Revolution championed by the late Hugo Chavez)
- Orinico Tribune (news and analysis of Venezuela by Venezuelans living in the U.S. and Europe)
- Kawsachun News (RCK) (based in Bolivia, news and analysis on Latin America)
- Resumen Latinoamericano (weekly newsletter in English on Spanish-language site)
- Colombia Reports
- TASS Russian News Agency
- Xinhua (China’s main English language state media outlet)
- Global Times (reflects the views of the Chinese Communist Party)
- Newsclick (India)
- FARS News Agency (Iran)
- Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA)
- Media Lens (founded in Britain in 2001 by David Cromwell and David Edwards)
- The Daily Poster (‘A grassroots-funded investigative journalism project covering politics, business and corporate power in the U.S. Founded in 2020 by David Sirota, former speechwriter for Senator Bernie Sanders.)
- Covert Action Magazine
- Reveal (Center for Investigative Reporting)
- In These Times (founded in 1976 by author and historian James Weinstein with the mission to “identify and clarify the struggles against corporate power now multiplying in American society”)
- The Nation (longstanding, liberal U.S. print weekly, 34 issues per year)
- TomDispatch (project of the Nation Institute)
- Granma International, English edition
- Haiti Liberté (print weekly in Kreyol, French and English)
- Korea Peace Now (‘Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War is a global campaign to educate, organize and advocate for a Korea peace agreement.’)
- The Hankyoreh (English edition of progressive, mainstream news agency in South Korea)
- Korean Central News Agency (state news service of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
- Donetsk News Agency (Donbass region of Ukraine-Russia border region)
- Donbass Insider
- People’s Council of the Donetsk People’s Republic (official English language website)
- New Matilda (Australia)
Environment/climate change
- Global Just Transition (ongoing dossier by Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Climate Home News (London UK)
- Inside Climate News
- Climate News Network
- Carbon Brief
- The Energy Mix (‘A Canadian non-profit that promotes community awareness of, engagement in, and action on climate change, energy, and post-carbon solutions.’)
- Yale Environment 360
- Uneven Earth (A website run by volunteer university researchers and activists.)
- Nature Climate Change
- Climate Central
- Resilience (A program of the Post Carbon Institute since 2012.)
- Sci Tech Daily
- Phys.org (‘A leading web-based science, research and technology news service which covers a full range of topics’)
- Timothée Parrique (scholar in France and a leading proponent of degrowth See: Degrowth: Socialism without growth, essay by Timothée Parrique and Giorgos Kallis, Feb 9, 2021 (with an introduction by Roger Annis)
- Oil Change International
- De Smog Blog
- Climate Analytics (A non-profit climate science and policy institute based in Berlin, Germany bringing together interdisciplinary expertise in the scientific and policy aspects of climate change.)
- Garden Earth – Beyond sustainability (A blog published by Gunnar Rundgren about the future of the planet. See the website’s book review page.)
- Climate Watch ‘An online platform designed to empower policymakers, researchers, media and other stakeholders with open climate data, visualizations and resources.’ Managed by World Resources Institute.
Antiwar/anti-nuclear:
- United National Antiwar Coalition (United States)
- Stop the War Coalition (UK)
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- Nuclear Threat Initiative (Washington DC)
- Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (United States)
- Nuclear Monitor newsletter published 20 times per year by the World Information Service on Energy (Amsterdam)
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- Voices for Creative Non-Violence
The Middle East, and Turkey
- Mondoweiss ‘An independent website devoted to informing readers about developments in Israel/Palestine and related US foreign policy.’
- The Palestine Chronicle (Dr. Ramzay Baroud, president. Also writes a weekly column in The Jordan Times.)
- Electronic Intifada (Palestine)
- Al-Monitor
- +972 Magazine (Israel-Palestine)
- Rai al-Youn (Palestine, founding editor is Abdel Bari Atwan)
- BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel) ‘The Palestinian BDS National Committee is the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition that works to lead and support the BDS movement for Palestinian rights.’)
- Jonathan Cook British writer based in Nazareth since 2001
- One Democratic State Campaign (Facebook page)
- Ikhwanweb (English language website of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt)
- Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
- Turkish Minute News site with daily, capsule reporting as well as occasional feature items
- Ahval news agency (Turkey)
- Turkey Purge ‘We are a small group of young journalists who are trying to be the voice for Turkish people who suffer under an oppressive regime. We all have personal stories that made us start this website…’
- Platform for Independent Journalism (P24) ‘An initiative to support and promote editorial independence in the Turkish press at a time when the journalistic profession is under fierce commercial and political pressure.’
- Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD) The Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD in Turkish) is the longest-standing and largest human rights organization in Turkey. Founded in 1986, it has 34 branches, seven representation offices and more than 8,100 members (2016).
- Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
- Freedom for Turkish Academics Campaign website, including helping Turkish academics in danger with finding new positions in Belgium and neighbor countries.
- People’s Democratic Party English-language website of People’s Democratic Party (HDP). Follow the People’s Democratic Party here on Facebook.
- Anadolu Agency Mainstream, pro-government Turkish news agency
- Rudaw (Kurdish news agency in northern Iraq)
- ANF News (reflecting the views of the Kurdistan Workers Party-PKK)
Russia-Crimea-Ukraine
- Daily news and analysis of world events involving or affecting Russia can be found on RT and TASS, and on the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the President of Russia. Essential analysis appears in Irrussianality (professor Paul Robinson at University of Ottawa). Insightful news and analysis of Ukraine appears on the Facebook page of Ivan Katchanovski (University of Ottawa), though it is marred by his inaccurate view of the pro-autonomy movement in Donbass (former Donetsk and Lugansk provinces of Ukraine) as ‘seperatist’.
Other recommended websites and blogs
- Monthly Review (U.S. monthly print magazine and website)
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Economics of Imperialism (blog of Tony Norfield, Marxist economist in the UK)
- Yves Engler (writer on Canada and world affairs)
Canada news:
- National Newswatch (listings of news reports published in Canada’s mainstream media)
- The Canada Files ‘Anti-imperialist journalism challenging the Canadian empire’
- The Narwhal (‘Created by Carol Linnitt and Emma Gilchrist in 2018, growing out of their previous project, DeSmog Canada.’)
- The Energy Mix (‘A Canadian non-profit that promotes community awareness of, engagement in, and action on climate change, energy, and post-carbon solutions.’)
- Defense Watch (blog by David Pugliese of the daily Ottawa Citizen and National Post)
- People’s Voice (print monthly and online)
- The Tyee (Liberal news outlook, supportive of Canadian government’s anti-Russia and anti-China foreign policy, published online in Vancouver.)
- Passage (Online magazine published in Toronto. Its new, weekly ‘Passage Roundup’ newsletter lists ‘best of’ articles from other alternative media. The first weekly issue, Mar 20, 2021, includes an anti-Russia feature article by the virulently anti-Russia Mother Jones.)
- National Observer (Daily, national news online publication. Supports the Canadian government’s anti-Russia and anti-China foreign policy.)