Issues
Hope you find these links useful in the fight to restore democracy to the USA and promote decency throughout the world.
-Evan
Activism Hubs_Your Daily Dose
Link Crusader (huge link collection, alt media and activism)
Znet: A Community of People Committed to Social Change
(many articles and links)Common Dreams (Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community)
This is one of the best sources for commentaryThe National Priorities Project
(Vote to) Impeach Bush (pushing a million votes)
Impeach Bush (more info on how to do it)
Empowerment Resources (check “Green Guide…” at bottom)
Congressman Bernard Sanders: Vermont’s Independent Senator
(one of the few voices of reason left in American politics)American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
(thanks to Bush, I just recently joined them for the first time)Citizens for Legitimate Government
Rachel Corrie Memorial Website
Bravery that makes the rest of us look pretty smallThe Electronic Intifada (a Palestinian perspective)
GDS Project (more Activism Links)
InfoShop.org (Your online Anarchist community)
Natural Resources Defense Council
American Library Association
Support their efforts to fight the “Patriot” Act.Pieman’s “Deshrubify Amerikka: F-You George W. Bush”
(Huge set of anti-Bush and progressive links)
Real News
Jim Hightower (America’s No. 1 populist)
Brian Ross’ The Blotter (hot stuff!)
Current World News (nicely organized roundup)
AlterNet.orgCenter for Public Integrity
(Balanced advocacy journalism site; exposing government and corporate corruption by both right and left)Media Transparency (the $$ behind conservative media)
Project Censored (“The News that Didn’t Make the News”)
FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Cost of the War in Iraq (if the human toll doesn’t move you; then watch the $$$ roll by on this running tabulator at thousands per second–out of your wallet and those of your great greatgrandchilden)
Baghdad Burning (live blog from Iraq)
Eat the State! (“Politics with Bite!”)
Link Crusader (alternative media and activism; 700+ Anti-Bush links and more)
Mike Hersch (political comment and analysis)
Independent Media Center (international news not heard in USA)
InMotion Magazine (“a multicultural, online U.S. publication about democracy”)
The Daily Kos blog
PBS Frontline
60 Minutes (CBS)
Iraq Body Count (the numbers BushCo. doesn’t keep track of)
Rabble (world events from a Canadian perspective)
Red Pepper (world events from a UK perspective)
Free Thinking Americans (blog with well-considered analysis)
The Smoking Gun (everyone’s favorite skeleton-in-closet archive)
Snopes Urban Legends Reference (check: Politics/Rumors of War)
Global Free Press (youtube-based; video smoking guns)
Talk.politics.misc newsgroup
More Info Links From the Left
Fringe Folk (good links)
Jay’s Leftist and Progressive Internet Resources
Democracy Watch (from Canada; check his links on the left)
Rack Jite (a humorous take on politics, issues)
Rush Limbaugh Online (lies of the “truth detector” analyzed)
News Hounds (“We Watch Fox so You Don’t Have To”)
O’Reilly Sucks.com (Fox falsehoods)
Faux News Channel (Fox News spoof and biting commentary)
A Radical Blackfoot
aradicalblackfoot.blogspot.com/The Red Feather Dictionary Of Critical Social Science (progressive terms defined)
Corporate Abuses
CorpWatch.org (“Holding corporations accountable”)
(***essential)
The Corporate Accountability Project
PR Watch: Center for Media & Democracy
Center for Economic and Policy Research
The People Centered Development Forum
David C. Korten
(***this guy is brilliant!)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Beyond McDonald’s (other multinationals)
Insurance Justice (the failure of health insurance)
Drowning in Debt (at Center for American Progress)
OligarchyUSA.com (-“And You Thought You Lived In A Democracy”)
McSpotlight (anti-McDonalds page)
The Bush Economy (at Bush Watch; old but informative)
The Nazi Hydra in America (history of fascism in the USA)
Pigs at the Trough
Arianna Huffington’s book about the corporate pillagers
Corporate Law: A History (essential to understanding how our system really works)
Globalization, WTO, etc.
Global Trade Watch (at Public Citizen)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (at Global Trade Watch/Public Citizen)
Center for Research on Globalization
50 Years is Enough (Anti-IMF; for global economic justice)
Global Exchange (“a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world”)
Co-op America’s Guide to Ending Sweatshops and Promoting Fair TradeMaquila Solidarity Network
National Labor Committee (a human face on the global econ)
Reclaim Democracy (“Restoring Citizen Authority Over Corps.”)
IATP Trade Observatory (formerly WTO Watch)
AdBusters (culture jammers take on global consumerism)
Defrauding America (good stuff inside, but get past the verbosity and conspiratorial tone)
Great Dissident / Alternative Voices
NOAM CHOMSKY
NELSON MANDELA
- “I Am Prepared to Die” (Nelson Mandela’s inspiring 1964 defense speech; one of history’s greatest orations) (***essential)
H.L. MENCKEN (old school social critic)
OTHER
M. Wendell Berry (homage to Kentucky’s agrarian poet/Luddite)
Free Speech, Privacy
Freedom of Speech.net
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Alternative Media / Print (online)
Metroland Online (NY Alternative Newsweekly)
The Nation
(not alternative per se, but good)Online Newspapers (1,000s wordwide)
ArabNews (“Saudi Arabia’s First English Daily”)
Alternative Media: Radio / Online Streams
Radio Netherlands
(good international news source)WBAI, NYC (“Your Peace and Justice Community Radio Station”)
Clandestine Radio
(CIA, propaganda and spy radio stations!)SpyNumbers.com
(weird, coded espionage broadcasts on shortwave)The Conet Project (spy code radio stations)
Conet Project Recordings (in MP3 format; down page)
Religion, Skepticism, Freethought
The Bank of Wisdom
(by Emmett Fields, Louisville’s preeminent freethinker)Is the Bible the Word of God?
(by Emmett Fields) (***essential)Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man (1782) by the Marquis de Sade (this can be found at many websites)
Bible Absurdities (at Secular Web/Infidels.org)
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine (at Secular Web)
The Age of Reason (at Project Gutenberg)
The Skeptic Tank (“Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence”)
The Rationalist’s Manual by M.D. Aletheia (at The Secular Web)
Atheism Online (with a huge blogroll of other sites)
Basic Atheist Arguments (can be found at several sites)
No-God.com (“destroying gods through education and entertainment)” (Not currently online)
Matt Wallace’s Compleat Atheist
(View from a Republican conservative secular humanist atheist)Church of the Apathetic Agnostic
Freethought Firefighters International
Processed Foods, Health, Buying Locally
Preservatives, Cancer and other Toxic Effects (at ExTox.net)
American Grassfed Association
http://www.americangrassfed.org/Mad Cow Disease (at Organic Consumers Assoc)
Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page (good background)
Real Food (at Friends of the Earth)
FoodRoutes: Where Does Your Food Come From?
NRDC’s Bottled Water Survey (see Appendix A)
Depleted Uranium
The Drug War
Stop the Drug War (The Drug Reform Coordination Network)
DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy
Health Care (or lack thereof)
FamiliesUSA (“The Voice for Health Care Consumers”)
Travel Broadens the Mind
Tommy’s List of Live Web Cams Worldwide
The Principality of Sealand (an abandoned oil derrick in the North Sea is the last free place on Earth. Pathetic, humans.)
Gravy Bread Annex 
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