Where To Go
Where To Go
A selective guide to lively sites for alternative news, field trips into the belly of the beast and political and social humor. Now even find books on Newspeak. (To escape the frames just add "gone.html" to the main address and do the click thing.)
Adbuster's Culture Jammer's Headquarters -- Guerilla war against the media
Billboard Liberation Front -- Very subversive. See their Guide for Billboard Improvement
Culture Jamming -- "Hacking... in the Empire of Signs," a fine essay
Communication Guerrilla -- European culture jamming and pie tossing --some in English
Joey Skaggs -- Classic prankster headquarters
ŪTMark -- supports the sabotage (informative alteration) of corporate products
Sites from the Lunatic Fringe -- Visit Right wing "funny farms"
Capital Steps -- Satirical Washington D.C. singing group
The Firesign Theatre -- Classic radio broadcasts in audio (how strange)
UK Laughter Link -- Scripts from Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, etc.
Michaelmoore.com -- Reports on his new show "The Awful Truth"
Affluenza -- John Degraaf's great PBS show on overconsumption
See Span Run -- Genuinely witty anti-social commentary by Sue D. Nim
Stay Free -- Covers commercialism running amuck.
The Daily Muse -- Irreverent romp over the daily news
The Cranky Media Guy Magazine -- Blue collar commentary about things that suck
Jumbo Dump -- Killer one-liners on current events
dummy.down -- "Satire in the age of greed"
The NetEnquirer -- "This ain't your mama's tabloid"
Suck -- "a fish, a barrel and a smoking gun"
Satire -- Quarterly Review with an official S.Q. Test (Satirical Quotient)
The Onion -- Off the wall takes on the news
SuBBrilliant News -- Off the other wall takes on the news
Dubya's Daily Diary -- Words from our Special Ed. Poster Child
Joe Lavin's Humor Column -- Dave Barry in a straight jacket
Reliable Snore -- Satirical pot shots at Washington D.C. upper crust
The Comedy Catch -- Mucho links to comedy sites
The Comedy Zone -- Reviews and links to obscure humor pages
Harper's Weekly Review -- A choice summary of obscure happenings
News of the Weird -- Chuck Shephard's weekly account of bizarre happenings
The Wolfe Files -- "News You May Have Missed" from ABC's Buck Wolfe
Julienne.com Weblog and Trite Amusements -- Good spot for offbeat happenings
BizBlues Records -- Catch Marketing Mike and the Suits
misc.activism.progressive -- An articles only newsgroup. Very good.
Institute for Global Communications -- Big index of groups changing the world
WebActive -- Fine summaries of progressive sites
MediaChannel.org -- Global Network of media watchers
Jay's Left List -- A directory of progessive resources on the Net
Alternet -- Source of articles for alternative weeklies
Alternative Newsweeklies in North America -- List and links
Disinformation -- "The subculture search engine"
Information Subway -- The Non-Corporate Newswire
Progressive Newswire -- Reports via numerous activist groups
Alternative Press Center -- Big index of neo-hippy papers
Idealist -- Search for non-profit and volunteer opportunities
Oneworld.net -- Search for news by country or topic
Common Dreams News Center -- Good collection of progressive columnists
Working for Change -- Progressive news center from Working assets
Arts & Letters Daily -- Links to intriguing news, views and reviews
Quarterly Review of Doublespeak -- E-mail for information. Not on line. Put out by the National Council of Teachers of English.
PR Watch -- News on the PR industry from authors of "Toxic Sludge is Good for You"
Corporate Accountability Project -- Explore corporate "dirt"
Corporate Watch -- Tools for investigating multi-national corporations
The Pandora Project -- Tracks corporate PR Strategies against activists
Executive Paywatch -- Follow the pay increases of your favorite CEO's
Consumerama -- Guide to corporations and the people who oppose them
National Labor Committee -- Reports on U.S. sweatshops in foreign countries
McSpotlight -- Covers McDonald's and all your favorite multinational corps
ACLU News -- Civil liberties newswire
Project Censored -- Carries the Top 10 Censored Stories of each year
Propaganda Analysis -- Learn the best techniques from WWI to Newt
Paper Tiger TV - Public access TV shows "smashing the myths of the information industry"
Free Speech TV - "A progressive voice in the media revolution"
The Consortium -- CIA centered investigative reporting
Culturewatch -- Keep tabs on Un-American Right-wing activities
Engaged Buddhists "Think Sangha" -- Papers on Liberation from Consumerism
Noam Chomsky Archive -- 8 megs of subversive texts via Znet
FECInfo -- Explore campaign contributions
The Coin-Operated Congress -- Mother Jones site for Congressional "owners"
Center for Responsive Politics -- For customized searches on money and votes in Congress
Project Vote Smart -- "One stop shopping" on government issues
Defense Link -- Fresh press releases fron the Pentagon
Congressional Email Directory -- Includes web sites and direct email forms
Congressional Record -- Daily doses of our representative's wisdom
Legal.Online -- Complete guide to finding court opinions
President George W. Bush -- All his latest speeches
The Nation -- "Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865"
Mother Jones -- Get the MoJo newswire
Z Magazine -- Great archive of past articles plus link to Left on Line
In These Times -- Good investigative reporting
Fair -- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Tom Paine.Common Sense -- Good muckraking
Mutinational Monitor -- A Ralph Nader site for tracking corporations
Washington Free Press -- Good Northwest investigative reporting
Eat the State! -- Bring your own ketchup for Northwest and national barbecues
The Progressive Review -- Has a great current events page
Progressive Populist -- Down home radicalism with archive of Populist speeches from 1890's
Counterpunch -- Fine muckraking from Alexander Cockburn & Co.
Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly -- Rich source on Mother Earth abuse
Albion Monitor -- "The news you are missing"
Utne Reader -- The Readers Digest for those with an I.Q. over 80
Green Left Weekly -- Great coverage of environmental issues from Australia
Findarticles.com -- Search engine for magazine articles
Opinion Pages -- Searchable data base for current op-eds
Washington Post -- My favorite on-line establishment paper
New York Times -- Link directly to their Contents page
Los Angeles Times -- Connect to their News section
San Jose Mercury News -- Link to their large Breaking News section
AP National Wire -- Good summary format for news stories
Oddly Enough from Reuters -- Human interest stories
Seattle Times -- Here so I can get my Mariner baseball scores
NewsMax.com -- Links to articles from newspapers across the U.S.
PR Newswire -- Get PR handouts direct from corporations (searchable database)
American Demographics/Marketing Tools -- "Consumer Trends for business leaders"
Business Week -- "The world's best-selling business magazine"
Advertising Age -- "It's all about marketing and media"
Political Junkie -- Search site for political search sites, etc.
WWW News Resource Page -- Everything including genuine right-wing sites
Google, WebCrawler, Lycos, Yahoo, Find-It!, Alta Vista, Starting Point
For those who still go slumming amongst the ruins of pre-Web technologies. There are no links so you may have to physically move your bod to a library or book store.
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