Looking to compile a list of good leftist news sites and sources. Thank you.
I have a problem with the basic terms of political alignment. Every political view is placed on a line between far left and far right, and centrist views are in constant flux. This seems to foster devotion over unity.
We need a set of 3 dimensional terms because the 1 dimensional “left/right” terms are to simplistic. Perfectly reasonable ideas that essentially everyone would support become points of division purely because those ideas are strongly aligned to either the left or right.
I strongly believe the next evolutionary step we must take is to re-engineer politics and government. Freedom, shared resources, reasonable controls, balanced towards the needs of the public, all seem like dreams right now. Fuck knows how we get there without bloodshed, but get there we must.
Look up The Minerva model
I really like BreakThrough News. Also Novara Media that people have mentioned.
A “leftist news source” is not a news source, it is an opinion source, and thus not better than a “rightwing news source”. How about finding something neutral that actually has the goal to inform?
And you, asking for neutrality:
False neutrality is propaganda, but so is being so is being activly biased. So a good left news source has to be wiling to show the fscts, when they speak against the left.
False neutrality
All neutrality is false.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
-Desmond Tutu
E: Also, if you knew anything about leftists, you’d know that we’re our own biggest critics. I also bet that you don’t demand anywhere near as high a standard when you consume your main stream centre-right media, which almost exclusively speak against the left, so it’s not like your short of sources for the criticism you want so desperately to confirm the (centre-right) bias you like to pretend you don’t have.
All neutrality is false.
This is media literacy 101. Once you can get past this, you find that outlets that wear their bias on their sleeves are refreshing over those who feign neutrality. They begin to come.of as aloof and condescending, because that’s exactly what they are. It’s not journalism, it’s theatre. Same thing goes with regurgitating exactly what government spokespersons say: that’s not journalism. Journalism includes investigation and critique. It’s not possible to give an unbiased critique.
Looking at you NYT, you fucking dumpster fire. I only keep you around because a dumpster fire can provide warmth.
I read from multiple sources to cross-reference what narratives are being pushed, and I find news outlets who are often labelled “biased” are the ones most likely to just lay everything on the table. They aren’t deliberately trying to direct you into how to think because they assume you agree with them. “This happened and we think it’s bullshit!”
You’re also more likely to hear about stories that are left out or considered unimportant or are intentionally censored by the mainstream outlets. It’s more often the case that they will censor themselves than the government will directly get involved and this is far less from smaller news groups who don’t worry about being labelled as biased.
I like The Majority Report, The Serf Times, Egberto Willies is good, Status Coup.
Here’s some fave websites I like:
The Intercept,
Jacobin,
World Socialist Website,
Socialist Alternative,
Its Going Down,
Common Dreams,
Lib Com,
Democracy Now,
Vox ,
Huff Post,
Counterpunch,
In These Times,
Dissent Magazine,
Labor Notes,
and the newest one I like is The Lever.
Jacobin is great. In the NL we have it too, but I wish we had a fully domestic news like that. Maybe I should start my own…
All very good sources. The Lever is a great new addition. David Sirota is a great fighter.
The Majority Report. It’s awesome. https://m.youtube.com/@TheMajorityReport
So I’ve not visited some of these for a while, and I know some have issues (like swinging in to either liberal or tankie territory), so I’m not guaranteeing they’re all perfect, but these are the news sites I have saved to my bookmarks:
Seconding the thank you. I’d forgotten about many of those as well, and some I don’t recall having ever known.
Great list! Thank you!
Np. Thank you for the time and effort you invest in posting!
I try but most of my posts turn out to be a little controversial hah!
What’s the saying, hit dogs holler? Take it as a sign you’re hitting a nerve lol
Honestly I don’t know how you deal with all that crap 😂
I was on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Reddit/Lemmy is tame compared to the crap I dealt with on there. 🤣
Oh yeah, that’s hardcore 😂
I had 65k followers and got doxxed multiple times. Was crazy stuff. All they do on here is just call me Russian bot.
I enjoy them, very much.
Late stage live is a comedy new channel that feels like older daily show episodes.
These are some with RSS feeds. Some are news, most are deeper analyses.
http://www.democracynow.org https://mintpressnews.com https://consortiumnews.com https://diem25.org https://gabrielrockhill.com https://michael-hudson.com https://scheerpost.com https://thegrayzone.com https://therealnews.com https://thetricontinental.org https://tomdispatch.com https://wallstreetonparade.com https://www.counterpunch.org https://www.jeffsachs.org https://www.liberationnews.org https://www.nakedcapitalism.com https://www.normanfinkelstein.com https://www.propublica.org https://www.qiaocollective.com https://www.socialistalternative.org https://www.telesurenglish.net https://www.yanisvaroufakis.euThanks so much!
Thank you
More than just a former Valve employee.
True story 🤣 PC Gamer, 2015: Valve’s economist is Greece’s new finance minister
How have I known about Varoufakis for years as a serious political economist and speaker-on-the-topic, and never heard he was a Valve employee with a catalogue of ‘gaming-economics’ blogs in the early 2010s? LMFAO what a world
Reality, for one.
The Wire India, Caravan, Swaddle, Newslaundry, etc are some of the few legitimate news media in India. The rest of them shill for either capitalist kool-aid (usually, liberal media like ThePrint or ScoopWhoop) or Modi (proto-fascist brainlets like Republic TV, Essel Media-related subsidiaries, like Zee).
The Hindu is sort-of centre-left
In Malayalam(main language of Kerala), there’s:
https://www.deshabhimani.com/
http://www.janayugomonline.com/They were founded by leftist parties, so there might be not enough critcism of the left. But exposure to regular media will balance that more than enough.
I think there are similar ones in other languages such as Theekkathir(Tamil Nadu), People’s democracy etc.
the majority report
I too like to listen to the political opinions of Fenton Mulley from Home Movies.
(To be clear, this isn’t a dig at Sam Seder. I loved him in Home Movies and on The Majority Report)
Democracy Now. Really ought to watch more often.
Some More News
Means TV, but it’s a subscription version of YouTube for leftist content and it’s a cooperative. The Means Morning News channel is 80s/90s cheesey and a decent news summary that ends with the Rich Dick award
SBS Australia
