News & Research Portal

↓ Current:

↓ Fact-based, Independent, People-oriented, & Progressive:

• Alternet
• ACLU: Scorecard
• Amnesty International: news
• Arts & Letters Daily
• COA News: independent news portal (links to news sites)
• Common Dreams
• Democratic Underground
• Democracy Now
• Editor & Publisher
• Fact Check
• Federation of American Scientists
• Free Press
• Governing: states & localities
• Grist: environmental news and commentary
• Guerilla News Network
• Indy Media (US, UK)
• The Nation
• The New Republic: American culture, foreign policy, and politics
• The Progressive
• Oh My News
• The Raw Story
• The Real News Network: videos
• Salon: subscription or ad-viewing required
• Truth Out: videos
• United for a Fair Economy

Blogs & Magazines:

• American Prospect
• Crooks & Liars: links and videos
• Democratic Underground
• Firedoglake
• Research Buzz
• TPM Muckraker
• Volokh
• Wonkette
• Left Coaster

↓ Topical & Ongoing Stories:

• Energy:
  • Carbon Offsets
  • Post-oil America
  • Wind vs. Coal
  • CO₂ FAQ
• Food:
  • Small farms are more efficient than large farms, but are being phased out by big business and governments
  • ETC Group: power, technology, & diversity
  • Pet food ingredients
• Network Neutrality:
  • $200 Billion Broadband Scandal
• Public Opinion:
  • World Public Opinion: Program on International Policy Attitudes (U. of Maryland, well-respected)
  • Opinion Research Business
  • PEW research center: public opinion polls (PEW Trusts)
  • Pollster: US politics polls
• Social Antagonisms:
  • Health
    • European Influenza Surveilance Scheme
    • United States:
      • Health of Nations: facts and opinion
      • Medicare for All: some stats with a proposal (2007-01-17)
      • If America's So Great, Where's Our Health Care (2006-09-23)
      • Medical malpractice facts
      • 100 Years of Medical Robbery (?)
  • Law
    • About 1 in 6 times juries and judges get verdict wrong, majority of mistakes harm the innocent
  • Wealth:
    • The next economic bubble (U.S.)
    • Does Income Inequality Matter?: discussion
• War:
  • Back to Iraq: indy blogger covering Middle East countries
  • Inside Iraq: blog
  • Iraq Veterans Against the War
  • World opinion of US government, 1999-2006
  • Timelines:
    • Iraq war timeline: who said what when, 1990-2003
    • Iran timeline
  • US and Iraqi death counts:
    • The Lancet: 650,000+ as of 2006; see also: critique, British backtrack on Iraq death toll, Iraq Family Health Survey (151,000 from 2002 to 2006)
    • IraqBodyCount.org
  • They Thought They were Free: gradual acceptance of atrocities
  • Military Advantage in History
• Corporate (financial, industrial, media), Government, and Military Complex:
  • Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends US?
• Climate:
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): (other reports)
  • RealClimate.org
  • Coal is Dirty
  • Louisiana's Coast washing away
  • World Temperatures: Earth-Policy, NASA (1880-present), Climate change arguments, US National Academy assessment
  • Disinformation campaign
  • Scientific consensus that humans cause global climate change
• Politics:
  • Change Congress
  • AAAS comparison of US presidential candidates for 2008 elections
• Corporate Competition:
  • Ownership of content and delivery systems: perceptive comment on why TV shows and cable operators, also Internet Service Providers and telephone services, have conflicts of interest with themselves and especially the public
• Liars:
  • Vancouver police pose as journalists: discussion

↓ Investigative Journalists & Reporters:

• Keith Olbermann: Countdown, archive via C&L, W
• Seymour (Sy) M. Hersh: New Yorker, W
• Charles Lewis: founder of The Center for Public Integrity, W
• Noam Chomsky: blog, AlterNet, W (world & domestic policy)
• Greg Palast: columns, W
• Amy Goodman: Democracy Now!, Common Dreams, W
• George Monbiot: W
• Phillip Knightley: W
• Bruce Schneier: Crypto-gram, blog, W (security issues)
• Michael (Mick) Smith: blog (defence and security issues)
• Peter Arnett: W
• Ken Silverstein: Harper's, blog
• Naomi Klein: The Guardian, The Nation, W
• Danny Schechter: blog, W
• Larisa Alexandrovna: blog, W
• Helen Thomas: Boston Channel, Common Dreams, W
• Laura Rozen: American Prospect
• Robert Dreyfuss: blog, W
• Arundhati Roy: Outlook India, W
• Barbara Ehrenreich: blog
• James Bamford: W (secrecy issues)
• Steven Aftergood: Secrecy News
• David Corn: blog, W
• David Brancaccio: Now, W
• Howard Zinn: (historical context)
• Bill Moyers: W
• Molly Ivins: Alternet, Star-Telegram, W (1944-2007)

↓ International:

• Asia Times
• Current History (subscription)
• Daily News: Sri Lanka
• Deutsch World - Germany
• The Hindu
• International Middle East Media Center
• Irish Examiner
• Mosaic - Middle East news
• News Now: U.K. news portal
• Pakistan Daily Times
• Tehelka (India)
• Upsidedown World: Latin and South America
• Expatica:
  • Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain

News Gateways & Portals:

• News Hub
• News is Free: news collection
• News Directory: links
• Hometown Newspapers: links
• Small town papers: newspaper archive
• News Linx: links
• News Link: lots of links

↓ Critiques:

• Center for Media and Democracy: (AKA: PR Watch) see also Spin of the Day
• Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA)
• Center for Social Media (best practices in fair use)
• Center for Public Integrity
• Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI): nutrition
• Commercial Alert
• Corporate Accountability International
• Dismal Scientist: economic indicators & analysis
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
• Free Press: media reform
• Media-Alliance
• Media Channel
• Media Matters: stenography reporters
• Media Transparency
• Poynter Media News: media industry news
• Project Censored
• Regret the Error: publishing mistakes & news retractions
• Reporters sans Frontieres: press freedom index (world)
• State of the Media: annual report on American media
• Stay Free magazine: politics of mass media, blog
• Transparency: corruption
• World Privacy Forum
• Angry Journalist
• Defunct?:
  • Media Global Attention Profiles
  • Big Media

↓ Under-reported & non-mainstream news:

• The Memory Hole
• Zmag
• Global Witness: on the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. timber, diamonds, oil) and human rights abuses
• Unknown News
• WikiLeaks.be: whistleblower and other documents (wikileaks.org)
• News Making News
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission Event reports
• News Trolls
• Piracy report
• Privacy International
• The Smoking Gun
• Stupid Security
• Transparency International: corruption coalition
• Undernews
• News Meat: politics, headlines, federal campaign contributions
• Bird dogger
• News Insider: (defunct?)

↓ Corporate:

• Corporate news owners: (alternate: Frontline)
• AP: News Day
• Bloomberg
• Boston Globe
• CNN: International
• EurekAlert
• The Hill: U.S. Congress
• International Herald Tribune
• NY-Times: headlines, Op-Ed
• Real Clear Politics
• Reuters
• Wall Street Journal: free articles
• Washington Monthly
• Washington Post
• White House Briefing: gossip about personalities and spin
• Newspaper Association of America: Presstime
• Junk Science

News Opinion Journals

• Cato Institute
• Commentary Magazine
• Economist
• New Criterion
• News Max
• National Review
• Weekly Standard

Military News:

• Debka
• Global Security
• Jane's
• StratFor

↓ Deep Web:

1. Complete Planet
2. Infomine: scholarly resources
3. Info Please
4. Librarian's Index: search
5. Librarian's Resource Center: (knowledge management defunct?)
6. Resource Shelf: a favorite of librarians
7. Search.com: search dozens of search engines
8. Super Searchers
9. Free Pint: Direct Web
10. Web Archive: cache of old web pages (AKA Wayback Machine)
11. SearchIQ: links
12. Search Engines: directory of search engines (defunct?)

↓ Investigative Resources:

• Cryptome: government secrecy, privacy, encryption
• Doc News - government documents
• Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE): journalists helping journalists
• C-Span

↓ Science & Technology:

• Maps & Weather:
  • Climate change reports
  • Latitude & Longitude
  • Multimap
  • Real Climate: (myths, cf. ill-considered)
• Science:
  • Bad Science: Ben Goldacre's blog, includes Guardian column
  • Center for Science in the Public Interest
  • New Scientist
  • Earthquakes (US)
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Eyebeam: open source & public domain research
  • Federation of American Scientists (FAS): ethics, morals, news, social relevance
    • Really Ready: disaster preparation
  • Richard Dawkins: genes & evolution, forum
  • International System of Units (SI): measurement units
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS): research papers, journals
  • Union of Concerned Scientists (US)
  • xxx.lanl.gov: open access to 382,237 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology
• Technology:
  • Slashdot: timely multifaceted discussions and arguments
    • computers, games, internet, IT, media, networks, politics, privacy, science, & security (tip:)
  • Consumer Project on Technology: knowledge, health

↓ Miscellaneous Info:

Crime:

• Crime Library
• Crime and Victim statistics: (US)
• Geneva Conventions
• Polygraphs: info and forum on polygraphs (distrubingly known as “lie detectors”)
• Road rage essays
• Sexual Predator Database
• Family Watchdog: predators

Drug Policies:

• Media Awareness Project: drug policy reform
• Narco News: Latin America drug war news

Environment:

• Household appliance energy use
• Right to Know: environmental databases
• Environmental Health Perspectives
• Corporate air polluters (top 100, U.S.)
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission: events
• River discharge
• Chernobyl photos

Government & Politics:

• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW, US)
• Political Economy Research Institute
• Open Congress: US Government news, data, & blog
• Washington Watch: Congress' bills (US, public wiki)
• GovTrack: monitor bills and congress (US)
• Congressional Research Service reports
• First Gov: .gov sites
• Foreign Agents Reporting Act (foreign to US)
• Institute for Policy Studies: progressive think tank
• Lobby filing disclosure program (US)
• Money and Politics: contributions and how legislators vote
• Move On: “democracy in action,” civic and political choices as determined by individuals
• Open Secrets: tracks political money
• National Security Archive (U.S.)
• Political Activism Resources: links
• Political Wire: polls and news
• Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)
• Project Vote Smart: voting records and info (US)
• SSN FAQ

Miscellaneous:

• Action PA: environmental justice
• All Experts
• Bad Astronomy: blog
• British Library
• Chronicling America: search newspapapers from 1690 to present
• Clocks
• Ctheory: theory, technology, & culture
• Developing Countries & volunteers
• Domesday: U.K. records from 1180
• First Person: letters, diaries, interviews
• Gang info: links
• How products are made
• Karl Hartig's graphics
• News Inferno: product recalls, defective products, drug side effects, health fraud & concerns
• Social Issues Research Center (SIRC): publications
• Social Design Notes: the art of social graphics
• Stumpers - questions that almost stump librarians
• Traffic jams
• What's that stuff
• What Works Clearinghouse: collects, screens, and identifies studies of effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies)
• Wireless Towers
• Wiser Earth: wiki of non-profit and civil society groups

Religion:

• Religion Facts: stats and descriptions of some 40+ religions
• Sacred Texts' Timeline
• Skeptics Annotated Bible
• Talk Origins: creation and evolution discussion
• see also:

Statistical Info:

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
• Census (US): NAICS
• CIA World Factbook: (also via Bartleby)
• UN Statistics: e.g. CO₂ levels, (alternate)
• US Imports and Exports
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: 2005 US profile
• Gapminder: graph creator (Google)

↓ Business & Corporations:

• Bad Bossology
• Business.com
• Business Balanced Scorecard
• Business Owner's Toolkit
• Business tips
• Data Loss database: list of businesses that have lost customer data
• Top 100 economic entities: (about 1/2 are corporations)
• Corporate info wiki
• Data Brokers:
  • Acxiom: Wikipedia article
  • Choice Point: Wikipedia article
• Info USA: business & consumer info
  • Reference USA: library access to business & household info
• Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
• Find Owner Search: lists owner(s) of business(es)
• Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter
• Inflation calculator
• International Trade Forum
• Jigsaw: public & private business executives (name, title, email, & phone)
• Guy Kawasaki: investors
• Paul Krugman: Princeton, unofficial archive (columns), W (economics)
• Mr. Landlord
• Long tail sales
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• Presentation Zen
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• SEC filings
• I-Squad: hidden marketing, astroturfing, cool hunters, street teams
• Venture Capitalist blog
• Young Entrepreneurs' Organization
• Naming and branding:
  • Igor: blog, Taxonomy, How to choose
  • Transnationale: corporations & brands
• Propaganda, Public Relations (PR):
  • WPP (includes: Burson-Marsteller)
  • Penn, Schoen, & Berland: reports
  • Greenburg Quinlan Rosner Research

↓ Watchdog Groups:

• Corp Watch: “Holding corporations accountable”
• Human Rights Watch (HRW)
• B'Tselem: ”Israeli info center for human rights in the occupied territories”
• Privacy International: privacy invasion and surveillance by corporations and governments

Environmental Watchdog Groups

• Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: (U.S)
• Coalition of National Park Service Retirees: park protection advocates (U.S)

Politics, U.S.

• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
• Whistleblowers: Government Accountability Project (US)
• Project on Government Oversight: accountability and corruption (POGO, US)
• Open Secrets: Center for Responsive Politics
• Sunlight Foundation: informing citizens of political doings
• Taxpayers for Common Sense: reports of wasteful spending
• Citizens Against Government Waste: CAGW [?]