News & Politics Links

The following links reflect a wide range of views, none of which really represent the views of Rich McGrew or richmcgrew.com (although the descriptions on this page do represent my views). They are arranged in alphabetical order for your convenience.

ABC News - once the home of the late Peter Jennings, they claim "more Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source"
Accuracy In Media - conservative media watchdog group
Air America Radio - liberal talk radio network, run by comedians such as Al Franken (formerly on NBC's Saturday Night Live), Janeane Garofalo (formerly on MTV's Ben Stiller Show), and Lizz Winstead (creator of and original executive producer for Comedy Central's Daily Show)... a newer addition is former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer (who has hosted FOX's trashy Jerry Springer Show for years)
Al Jazeera - the most popular Arab news source, based in Qatar, it is the only major Arab news source to offer dissenting and controversial opinions or any real debate (it is also Al Qaeda's favorite news agency to give press releases to, because Al Jazeera takes anonymous sources more seriously than the threat of terrorism)
AlterNet - liberal news and opinion website
The American Conservative - antiwar, anti-neocon magazine for real conservatives who don't buy into George W. Bush's spin machine
The American Reform Party - after a recent schism in the Reform Party founded by Ross Perot, one of the 2 sides got to keep the name Reform Party, and those who lost the leadership fight are now called the American Reform Party, after their shameful defeat
The Associated Press - #1 wire service in the USA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - news from the South
BBC News - the most respected news organization in the entire world, owned and operated by the British government at taxpayers' expense
Boondocks - a liberal cartoon by Aaron McGruder, who supported Ralph Nader in 2000 and Al Sharpton in 2004
The Boston Globe - the top newspaper in "Taxachusetts"
Buzzflash.com - sort of like a left-wing version of the Drudge Report
Canada.com - Canadian news website, which combines articles from newpapers all across Canada
CBS News - once run by Dan Rather, now their new star is Katie Couric
The Center for American Progress - liberal advocacy group
The Center for Public Integrity - analysis of corruption in U.S. politics
The Centre for Research on Globalization - very anti-Bush think tank in Montreal, Quebec
Chicago Sun-Times - the newspaper Robert Novak works for
Chick Tracts - right-wing Christian fundamentalist comics by Jack Chick, a Creationist who thinks all Catholics go to hell
Christian Broadcasting Network - get your news from right-wing Christian fundametalist Pat Robertson
Christian Science Monitor - a newspaper whose motive is "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind"
CNN - founded by Ted Turner, now run by Time Warner, it's the original Cable News Network, still the most reputable, professional, highest quality news channel (which doesn't say much)
The Communist Party - all the cool people in Hollywood and the U.S. State Department used to be card-carrying members, until the righteous Senator Joseph McCarthy brought them to justice; nowadays, the Communist Party officially supports the Democrats, which makes the Democrats look bad and helps Republicans win elections
The Constitution Party - the Republicans weren't right-wing and religious enough for some people, so they started the Constitution Party, who are like Libertarians except for the fact that Constitution Party people want to turn the country into a Taliban-style theocracy (albeit, one with very low taxes, small government, and isolationist foreign policy)
The Cornell Daily Sun - the only daily newspaper written and published by Cornell students
CounterPunch.org - hard-hitting polemic-style commentary from the far left, libertarians, and other voices of dissent
Cuban Antiterrorism Website - it's easy to fight terrorism when you're a totalitarian dictator (this site is a mix of English and Spanish)
DefendAmerica.mil - the official site for the U.S. military's "war on terror" (in quotes, because fighting Iraq is different from fighting Al Qaeda, and we aren't focused on the real enemy)
Democratic Leadership Council - Democrats in name only: they believe in the same economic and foreign policies as Republicans (i.e., take from the poor and give to the rich, start wars, and kill people), and about the only thing they disagree with Republicans on is social issues like abortion and gay rights
Democratic National Committee - the Democratic Party's official website, now run by Howard Dean!
Democrats.com - a website run by loyal Democrats, with news and analysis from the Democratic perspective
Deutsche Welle - German news site run by some German company
Doonesbury - Gary Trudeau's popular political cartoon, which he has been making for decades
The Drudge Report - a conservative news junkie's website, millions of hits a day
Electronic Intifada - Palestinian news site that legitimizes suicide bombers
Everything Left - liberal blog that aims to cover everything left-wing and offer news about the Clintons
FactCheck.org - the site Dick Cheney referred to as "FactCheck.com" in the 2004 debates
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - liberal media watchdog group
FaithFreedom.org - anti-Muslim website run by former Muslims, who would face execution under sharia for their apostasy
The Federalist Society - a "vast right-wing conspiracy" of conservative judges, lawyers, and law school students and professors
French News - website with news from France
Fox News - the jingoistic propaganda arm of the Republican Party, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it has the second-highest ratings in fake news, after Comedy Central's Daily Show
Free Republic - right-wing Republican forum site
Get Your War On - hilarious antiwar cartoons by David Rees, all made from monochrome clipart
Google News - links to stories from thousands of news sites
The Green Party - Greens believe in the exact same things as liberal Democrats (environmentalism, gay rights, pro-choice, antiwar, anti-large-corporations, etc.), except they don't believe in the Democratic Party and think it is just Republican-lite
Guardian Unlimited - liberal British newspaper
Ha'aretz - liberal Israeli newspaper
HonestReporting - pro-Israel media watchdog group
The Huffington Post - Arianna Huffington's online newspaper
The Independent - British newspaper
Independent Media Center - news from left-wing activists worldwide
International Herald Tribune - more famous than the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Jerusalem Post - conservative Israeli newspaper
Jihad Unspun - very professional-looking Muslim site devoted to questioning the war on terror
Kurdistan Observer - news site run by Iraqi Kurds
The Libertarian Party - Libertarians believe in what Republicans pretend to believe in, namely smaller government, deregulation, and individual freedom
Los Angeles Times - liberal Californian newspaper
Mark Fiore's Animations - liberal political cartoons in the form of Macromedia Flash animations
Media Matters for America - liberal media watchdog group
MensNewsDaily.com - right-wing opinion and news analysis website aimed at men who oppose the feminist movement
The Miami Herald - published in a city where everyone is from Cuba
Mother Jones - liberal newspaper founded in 1974 by activists
MoveOn.Org - the progressive activist website committed to fight George W. Bush in every political battle
MSNBC - the #3 cable news network, MSNBC has found a way to blend fact and opinion into a harmonious mixture, with pundits across the political spectrum like Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann
The Nation - a weekly liberal opinion newsmagazine founded in 1865, with superb reporting and news analysis
The National Review - the U.S.'s premiere conservative Republican opinion magazine, still run by William F. Buckley, Jr. (who is very old now)
The Natural Law Party - a front group for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation^® movement that recently disbanded once this was exposed
NewsMax - conservative news and opinion site
The New York Daily News - New York's least biased newspaper, published by Mort Zuckerman
The New York Post - New York's right-wing tabloid, published by Rupert Murdoch, of course
The New York Times - New York's premiere liberal newspaper, one of the best in the country (username and password are both nclug)
The Onion - America's least trusted name in news
Organizing for America - the continuation of Obama for America, Barack Obama's presidential campaign organization
Palestine Chronicle - Palestinian news site, very anti-Israel
People for the American Way - an activist/lobbyist group closely allied with the Democratic Party
PoliticalCompass.org - find out your real political alignment
Politico.com - relatively new independent online news site that is very popular among conservatives
Pravda - Russian news site run by reporters who once worked for the original Pravda, which was the official newspaper of the Soviet Union's Communist Party... "Pravda" means "Truth", but a lot of their articles are nothing but lies, especially in the "Science" section, which is really just Sci-Fi
Press & Sun Bulletin - Binghamton's hometown newspaper, owned by Gannett
Progressive Democrats of America - an organization for progressive Democrats in America
Project Censored - liberal website run by Sonoma State University that periodically prints important stories completely ignored by the "mainstream" media
The Propaganda Remix Project - good old-fashioned left-wing propaganda posters for you to buy and show to all your comrades
The Raw Story - left-wing alternative news site
RealClearPolitics.com - political website that has a whole lot of polls and op-eds by pundits that are mostly right-wing
The Reform Party - founded by Ross Perot, their only major electoral victory was electing Jesse Ventura governor of Minnesota, and since then they have split into two separate parties in a bitterly divisive schism
The Republican National Committee - the Republican Party's official website, run by loyal followers of George W. Bush who have drunken the Kool-Aid
Reuters - an international news agency based in the United States
San Francisco Chronicle - northern California's largest newspaper
Salon.com - liberal news and opinion site, with comics, blogs, and many other things
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - local newspaper for Sarasota, Florida, owned by the New York Times company
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - newspaper in the state of Washington
Slate.com - news analysis that tends to be liberal overall, on a site that used to be independent, and then was bought out by MSNBC, and now has been sold to a Washington Post-Newsweek partnership
Der Spiegel - German news magazine equivalent to Time or Newsweek
The Sun - conservative British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
Ted Rall's political cartoons - one of the most controversial liberal political cartoons
The Telegraph - British newspaper
The Times - yet another British newspaper
This Modern World - a blog by liberal cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, whose comics, which focus on bringing logic and reason into political discourse, are on Salon.com
Townhall.com - a conservative news and opinion site
The United Nations - or as the John Birch Society calls them, "The New World Order"
USA TODAY - national newspaper run by the newspaper company Gannett
Voice of America - United States government-run news service, started in 1942
Wall Street Journal Editorials - editorials written by the right-wing wealthy elite who pretend to believe in trickle-down Reaganomics
The Washington Post - Washington, D.C.'s only well-respected, credible newspaper (username is tonyblair@england.uk and password is blimey)
The Washington Times - a Republican propaganda outlet, it was Ronald Reagan's favorite newspaper, still owned and operated by the Korean Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, an evil cult which worships him as the Messiah
The Weekly Standard - the official weekly opinion newsmagazine of neocons, founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1995
Weekly World News - the website of the absurd fake-news tabloid in supermarket checkout lines, it usually has articles about aliens among us and other nonsense
The White House - George W. Bush's official site
WhiteHouse.org - a liberal parody site that pretends to be George W. Bush's official site
Working Families Party - a very progressive political party that only exists in New York State, which usually endorses Democrats, rather than running its own candidates
World Socialist Web Site - the official news site of the International Committee of the Fourth International, and of the Socialist Equality Party (both of which are run by very ideologically stubborn Trotskyists)
Xinhuanet - Communist China's official online news website (oddly enough, nothing on the site ever mentions human rights abuses by the Chinese government!)
Yahoo! News - fresh news and a wide range of opinion columns
YourCongress.com - yes, you do own Congress... really
ZNet - radical left-wing site, with lots of stuff by Noam Chomsky (a very old anarchist, and professor at MIT), and stuff about economic systems other than free-market capitalism (the horror!)

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