cOUNTER fLOW: Current Events

Media Matters for America

2006-02-08T08:14:20-08:00

http://mediamatters.org/

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

The New Hampshire Gazette

2006-02-05T12:26:58-08:00

http://www.nhgazette.com

Almost 250 years old, The New Hampshire Gazette is published and edited by a collateral descendant of the founder. It's progressive reporting includes Editorial, Local & National News, Political Cartoons and an active Media Watch section.

GNN.tv -- Guerilla News Network

2005-09-30T16:11:47-08:00

http://www.gnn.tv

Guerrilla News Network is an independent news organization with headquarters in New York City and production facilities in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming.

Natural Resources Defense Council

2005-08-07T18:42:59-08:00

http://www.nrdc.org/

NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things

Truth Out

2005-08-01T22:25:55-08:00

http://www.truthout.org

Independint current events and issues reporting covering politics, environment, labour, health, women's issues. Op-eds and media analysis as well.

Political Affairs

2005-07-31T15:08:36-08:00

http://www.politicalaffairs.net

A monthly magazine of ideology, politics, and culture. PA's mission is to go beyond simply giving an account of events to providing analysis and investigating what is new and changing in our world -- from a working-class point of view.

Be the Cause - Portal for Progress

2005-07-27T08:16:27-08:00

http://www.bethecause.org

Be The Cause is a volunteer-run organization that seeks to inspire service by building awareness of global issues and community events. "This website is designed to create a gateway into all things positive. "

Information Clearing House

2005-07-26T09:01:51-08:00

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

"News you won't find on CNN." Information clearing house publishes orginal articles and reprints from a variety of sources, but not CNN. It's an admirable one-man operation.

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

2005-03-22T02:30:25-08:00

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/

An un-embedded American journalist reports on Iraq from Iraq.

The NewStandard

2004-12-15T07:13:09-08:00

http://newstandardnews.net/

A fledgling participatory economics collective, The NewStandard?s specialty is hard news coverage unreported or rarely reported in the corporate media.

CounterPunch

2004-11-18T22:43:32-08:00

http://www.counterpunch.org

"Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature. ~ CounterPunch"

John Pilger

2004-10-11T13:31:51-08:00

http://www.johnpilger.com/

An astounding resume highlights this British journalist's astonishing career in print and film.

Operation Truth

2004-10-02T09:45:10-08:00

http://www.optruth.org

An enlistee's POV on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not politically progressive, but illuminating nonethelsess.

Mother Jones

2004-09-21T11:29:02-08:00

http://www.motherjones.com

Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.

Medialens

2004-07-04T13:35:21-08:00

http://www.medialens.org/

Because much modern suffering is rooted in the unlimited greed of corporate profit-maximising - in the subordination of people and planet to profit - it seems to [Medialens] to be a genuine tragedy that society has for so long been forced to rely on the corporate media for 'accurate' information.