9/11
- OilEmpire.us - focuses on things like 9/11 conspiracy theories and the leftist view of oil politics. Site has a long list of articles of this genre.
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Aboriginal
- First Nations Drum - This journal, from its offices in Vancouver and Toronto provides news from Canada's native communities.
- Redwire Native Youth Media Society - a Vancouver based media and arts organization dedicated to Native youth expression. Redwire Magazine published its first issue in April 1997.
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Anti-Globalization
- Trade Observatory - Since 1999, Trade Observatory (formerly WTO Watch) has been documenting the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and other international trade agreements and institutions.
- Global Trade Watch - promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor "free trade."
- International Forum on Globalization - a North-South research and educational institution composed of leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analyses and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization.
- (Davos) Independent Media Center - provides coverage of the World Economic Forum events in Davos, Switzerland. Additional sites with coverage of the WEF and Davos include the Public Eye on Davos and the World Social Forum Social Mundial (which covers events in Porto Allegre in four languages).
- Canadian Security-Intelligence Service (CSIS) - look here for the August 2000 report on anti-globalization protests, among other things.
- New Internationalist - North/South issues, Fair Trade.
- Globalization Studies Homepage of Ruud Lubbers, professor at both Tilburg and Harvard University. The site is intended to serve as a resource, archive and forum for students and educators interested in the process and consequences of globalization. Lubbers has published quite a list!
- Corporate Watch - Good reporting on transnational activities! This site includes a how-to guide for researching corporations, and lists of Action Alerts to keep you busy. They also cover agents of globalization - tracking the big powers. A must visit!
- The Multinational Monitor- The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
- Focusweb.org - Website of Focus on the Global South headed up by Waldo Bello. Especially good coverage of WTO and trade issues.
- Mondediplo.com - Produced by the prestigious French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique.
- Trade Observatory - Good coverage of WTO, CAFTA and other international trade/investment organizations.
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Anti-Imperialism
- Anti-War.com - This U.S. site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism. Their first cause was opposing the Clinton intervention in the Balkans, and have followed up with Iraq and Afghanistan.
- International Action Center - founded by Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General. IAC provides information supporting activism and resistance to U.S. militarism, war, and corporate greed, and the struggles against racism and oppression within the United States.
- Jay's Leftist & 'Progressive' Internet Resources Directory - a robust, hard-hitting anti-imperialist site from the U.S.
- Z Magazine - An online presence we can all enjoy. There is almost too much to read, even a lyrics archive!
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Canadian Politics
- The Dominion Paper - The Dominion is an independent, monthly Canadian publication. Emphasis on social issues and the mining industry, globally as well as in Canada.
- Rabble.ca - Covers the waterfront. Changes daily. Published by Judy Rebick with Duncan Cameron Associate Publisher.
- Vive le Canada.ca - A lively site with regular contributions from Mel Hurtig, Robin Mathews and the usual suspects.
- Canadians.org - Website of the Council of Canadians.
- The Tyee - A daily Vancouver web newspaper. Professionally managed. Wide ranging, even has fiction review. Like the Tyee salmon, it roams free. Columnists include Murray Dobbin, Terry Glavin, Raif Mair.
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Cuba
- Progreso Weekly - english and spanish, specializing in Cuba and US-Cuba relations. (CD collective member Saul Landau has a weekly column.)
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Disability
- The Canadian Centre on Disability Studies - a consumer-directed, university affiliated centre dedicated to research, education and information dissemination on disability issues. Through our activities we promote full and equal participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of society. Society for Disability Studies/Canadian Centre for Disability Studies conference, June 20-23 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. Students/low income people can get registration waived if they do 4.5 hours of (very easy) volunteer work over the course of the conference.
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Economy
- Business Week - among the more intelligent business magazines. Good way to keep in touch with U.S. Multinational Business analysis.
- The Economic Policy Institute - a non-profit, non-partisan economic think tank founded in 1986. The mission of the EPI is to provide high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. The Institute stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people, and it makes its findings accessible to the general public, the media, and policy makers.
- Facts from the Fringe - activist commentary on labour issues, from a storage closet somewhere in the CAW offices.
- Left Business Observer - the New York based Left Business Observer is a monthly newsletter that comments on business, economics and politics. It is edited by economst Doug Henwood.
- The New American Empire - This site contains articles on the Canadian economy, deeper integration, foreign ownership and similar topics by Rodrigue Tremblay, Professor Emeritus of
economics at the University of Montreal, a distinguished scholar holding many prestigious fellowships.
- Progressive Economists Network (PEN-L) mailing list archive - One of those gems of a resource.
- The Progressive Economic Forum - a Canadian site, brings together progressive economists from the universities, the labour movement and activist organizations.
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Environment & Energy
- David Suzuki Foundation - The David Suzuki Foundation focuses on four program areas - oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation. An excellent, authoritative environmental website. A good bibliography of reports.
- Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility - CCNR is dedicated to education and research on all issues related to nuclear energy, whether civilian or military -- including non-nuclear alternatives -- especially those pertaining to Canada.
- Climate and Capitalism - Ecosocialism or barbarism is the motto of this site. A good, international-flavoured posting of articles on the environment, global warming, alternate fuels etc.
- CNS Journal - Capitalism, Nature, Socialism has a U.S. address but is truly international with input from Europe, Australia and South Africa. Concerned about effects of capitalism on the ecosystem. Strong call for action. Has sponsored international conferences.
- George Monbiot - George Monbiot is a British journalist and a contributor to The Guardian. This site is a compendium of articles including many on the environment and globalization.
- New Society Publishers - New Society Publishers focuses on books that contribute in undamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society.
- PROBE International - Rethinking foreign aid, restoring accountability, reinvigorating economies.
- Marklynas.org - Website of author Mark Lynas. Excellect discussions of climate change, energy and similar issues.
- Museletter.com - Website of prolific author Richard Heinberg.
- Tar Sands Watch - Tar Sands Watch, a part of the Polaris Institute, is an advocacy group calling for an immediate moratorium on tar sands expansion in Alberta until the right ecological and social conditions are achieved.
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Global South
- Alternatives.ca - Website of Alternatives, Montreal-based international solidarity organization.
- IPS news.net - Product of the Interpress Service. Very broad coverage of events in the global south. Organized by country and continent.
- Narco News Bulletin - Reports on the Drug War and anti-imperialist resistance from Latin America. It is a compendium of articles and reports, some in Spanish.
- Rebélion Bolivia - Spanish-language site, but contains a large selection of articles by James Petras and Noam Chomsky, among others, available in English.
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Government Policy
- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - an independent, non-profit research organization, funded primarily through organizational and individual membership. It was founded in 1980 to promote research on economic and social policy issues from a progressive point of view.
- CCPA-BC - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC Office.
- Economic Policy Institute - A U.S. group that also mistrusts government use of GNP numbers to determine well-being.
- Canadian Council on Social Development - national, non-profit organization which focuses on issues of social and economic security. The site also supports a very good links page.
- National Council of Welfare - advisory body to the Canadian goverment on matters of concern to low-income people. Full reports are available online, including stats and analysis of trends.
- Social Justice.org - Website of the Centre for Social Justice located in Toronto.
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Iraq
- Anti-war.com - Covers all developments in the U.S. occupation of Iraq and other manifestations of militarism.
- Electronic Iraq - headed by Chicago-based Ali Abunimah, EI offers news, commentary, analysis and reference material on the occupation of Iraq.
- Information Clearinghouse - This U.S. site provides a daily compilation of world news with a heavy emphasis on Iraq and whatever other American wars on the go or still only a gleam in Bush's eye.
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Israel / Palestine
- Electronic Intifada - headed by Chicago-based Ali Abunimah, EI offers news, commentary, analysis and reference material on the Israeli - Palestinian conflict from the Palestinian perspective. It is a source of alternate news material for this area.
- Gush Shalom - Palestine/Israel conflict info.
- Independent Jewish Voices - British Jews promoting alternative to mainstream views of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
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Labour
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- Democracy Now! - web site of the War & Peace Report broadcast by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales on numerous radio stations in the USA and Canada. Contains transcripts of broadcasts as well as Amy's and Juan's syndicated newspaper columns.
- Project Censored - Exposing news that didn't make the news. The Primary Objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
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Poverty
- Canadian Association of Food Banks - With more food banks in Canada than there are Burger King's, you shouldn't be surprised that there is a national coalition for the many thousands of organizations that gather food for redistribution to people in need. The CAFB/ACBA coordinates donations of food and transportation and acts as the national voice of food banks in Canada. They have two staff, and a nice site.
- The Hunger Site - A remarkable use of the Internet ... click on an advertisement to feed people around the world! This site is a must visit!
- Ontario Coalition Against Poverty - dedicated to protecting the rights of the poor against powerful interests who seek to lower wages and reduce benefits for the unemployed.
- Workfare Watch Project - Workfare Watch is a joint project of the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and the Ontario Social Safety NetWork. WWP seeks to ensure that any welfare-to-work measures undertaken by the provincial government respect the rights and dignity of workers and social assistance recipients.
- PovertyNet (World Bank) - For people working to understand and alleviate poverty.
- National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) - A non-governmental, non-partisan advocay organization of low-income Canadians and others concerned about issues affecting poor people. A voice of Canada's poor which advocates zero poverty.
- PovNet (British Columbia) - PovNet is for advocates, people on welfare, and community groups and individuals involved in anti-poverty work. It provides up-to-date information about welfare and housing laws and resources in B.C.
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Radical Books & Literature
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Socialism / Anti-Capitalism
- Socialist Project - a Toronto-based group searching for a progressive alternative to the capitalist system. They also have a bi-monthly journal, "Relay." Emphasis is on labour and international solidarity.
- Monthly Review - Website of the oldest and best independent monthly Marxist magazine published in New York.
- The Marxism Mailing List - A good place to go if you are a relative new-comer to marxism and socialism. Or if you need to have your memory refreshed. Answers frequently asked questions about Marxism and socialism. Words of struggle contains passages from writings and speeches by great Marxist writers and revolutionary leaders, and other surprising sources. Also looks at facts and figures that indict capitalist society and offers images of paintings and other works of art by people committed to social change. Best feature are the articles and reviews of the editor, Louis Proyecht.
- Centre for Social Justice - a group formed out of the old Jesuit Centre in Toronto in 1997.
- Corporation Watch - Holding corporations accountable.
- Workers World Online - One of the top 1 percent of the most popular sites, Workers World Online is hosted by the Workers World Party, which has offices in most of the major U.S. cities. The site lists a variety of topical articles from the WW news service.
- La Gauche - a Quebecois journal for independence, feminism, and socialism. The opening page exhibited a maddening, automatic return to the top--which makes for a unique challenge when reading down the list of posted articles.
- The Socialist Register - a variety of articles from the Socialist Register are available online, including some of the best writers on the Canadian Left.
- Red Pepper - Red Pepper, an independent magazine of the green and radical Left in the UK.
- International Journal of Socialist Renewal - Produced by Links magazine. Good coverage and discussion of developments in the socialist movement around the world.
- New Left Review - the most prestigious academic journal analysing all aspects of capitalism from a Marxist perspective. Only some of its articles are reproduced on the website, but worth a look.
- CounterPunch.org - Produced by Alex Cockburn. Left analysis from good writers and reporters. Very wide coverage. Among the best.
- Greenleft Weekly - newspaper coming out of Australia.
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USA
- AlterNet - Alternet is a rather mild, sober, progressive U.S. site. Its stated objective is to counter the right-wing dominated U.S. main-stream media. Examples: good pieces on Iraq, the U.S. presidential election campaign, on going green.
- Common Dreams - Brings news and views from progressive writers from around the world like Robert Fisk, George Monbiot, Naomi Klein, Paul Krugman and more - but mainly has US content.
- The Nation - Website of the venerable American liberal-progressive weekly.
- The Progressive - This website of the U.S-based journal of the same name traces its lineage back to 1909 and is currently (Aug 07) busy discussing Iraq and the U.S. presidential elections.
- The Stranger - Weekly on-line newspaper edited by Dan Savage and includes his controversial column, Savage Love.
- Truth Dig - A U.S. web magazine with Robert Scheer as editor-in-chief. Drills down deep with the help of knowledgeable, authoritative authors to explore topics from a progressive point of
view, e.g., article on Iraq by Scott Ritter, the one time U.S. Marine, one time U.N. arms inspector in Iraq and now a fierce critic of the war and an Al-Jazeera staffer.
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