PROGRESSIVE MEDIA
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Popular Resistance - a resource and information clearinghouse for the increasing number of people becoming politically active in response to the corporate takeover of government; growing state violence and oppression; the widening wealth gap and the climate crisis. Popular Resistance is grassroots and organises campaigns on a broad range of issues. The Popular Resistance newsletter serves as an excellent source of progressive information that helps in unraveling the mainstream media misinformation. The associated podcast, Clearing the Fog, is also highly recommended. |
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Counterpunch - a US, reader-supported, political news outlet that publishes online articles and a bi-monthly magazine. Counterpunch also produces a podcast that is hosted by Eric Draitser. |
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World Socialist Web Site, WSWS - offers extensive global coverage of important political and social events from a socialist political orientation that is critical of the capitalist market system and supportive of the struggles of the international working class. It holds an unwavering commitment to intellectual integrity, to historical truth, to the liberation against oppression and to democratic ideals. A daily podcast offering a portion of the day’s top news stories is available. |
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Black Agenda Report - News, analysis and commentary from the Black Left. The accompanying radio podcast, Black Agenda Radio, is recommended listening. |
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The Real News Network - The Real News Network is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. It investigates, reports and debates stories on the critical issues of our times. Viewer supported and does not accept advertising, government or corporate funding. |
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Mint Press News - an independent watchdog journalism organization with a focus on issues relating to the effects of special interest groups, big business and lobbying efforts and how they shape policies at home and abroad. News coverage is focused through the lens of social justice and human rights and its impacts upon democracy and personal freedoms. Mintcast is their podcast production.
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Project Censored - a news and education site that promotes independent journalism while fighting media censorship, deconstructing propaganda, and supporting a truly free press. It promotes critical media literacy and democracy through its website, weekly radio program, annual book and other programs. |
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Truthout - a nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Truthout works to spark action by revealing systemic injustice and providing a platform for progressive and transformative ideas, through in-depth investigative reporting and critical analysis. |
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Truthdig - an independent media outlet dedicated to reporting on current issues that are insufficiently covered by mainstream media and providing expert reporting and commentary from a progressive point of view. Truthdig produces the Scheer Intelligence podcast. |
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Global Research - The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), based in Montreal, is an independent research and media group which publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of globalization and anti-globalization issues, focussing on social, economic, strategic and environmental processes by writers, scholars, journalists and activists. |
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Common Dreams - a non-profit independent news centre with a mission: to inform, to inspire and to ignite change for the common good. It aims to encourage critical thinking and progressive civic action. |
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News Click - a news platform offering a voice to the rarely heard - to the poor, to the vulnerable, to the working class. An alternative to the biased content and neglected issues that the dominant corporate media fails to cover. Analysis from India on the key issues in today's world. |
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Alborada - an independent voice on Latin American politics, media and culture providing a progressive take on the region, offering perspectives rarely found in the mainstream. Alborada Films, its sister organization, produces and distributes documentaries on Latin America covering similar issues to Alborada. |
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Latin America Bureau, LAB - news and analysis on Latin America from the frontline of the struggles for social justice from the viewpoint of the region’s poor and marginalised communities. LAB publications are administered in partnership with Practical Action Publishing. |
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Venezuela Analysis - independent, reader-supported news and analysis website covering the current political situation in Venezuela aiming to provide a counter-narrative to mainstream media coverage of the Bolivarian Revolution, based on the perspective of leftist and grassroots movements in Venezuela. |
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Brasil Wire - independent news, anaylsis, documentary and cultural discourse on Brazil in English. Ideologically progressive and stands in solidarity with the “Popular” or “Poor People’s” social movements, labor unions and federations, feminism, LGBTI, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian rights. |