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Monday, March 31, 2003

Look Beyond The Networks For News On The Iraq Conflict

60 Alternative and Independent News Resources About the Iraqi War

As war coverage increases so does criticism that mainstream media outlets don't present the whole story.

More than one thousand professional journalists are currently in Iraq. About 500 "at the frontline" who give seem to report a very one-side picture of the war, often only concentrating on military tactics.

On the other hand there are numerous alternative and independent news sources as well as eye witnesses who report more objectively on the impacts of the war.

 

Here's a list of some alternative news sources I have found:

* Alternative News Sources

* THE DAILY STAR http://www.dailystar.com.lb
* BOURQUE NEWSWATCH http://www.bourque.org/
* ALTERNET http://www.alternet.org/
* THE EXPERIMENT http://theexperiment.org
* THE GUARDIAN http://www.guardian.co.uk
* KIDON.COM http://kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
* FIND LAW http://news.findlaw.com
* NEWSPAGES http://www.newpages.com/
* CONSORTIUM NEWS http://www.consortiumnews.com/
* YELLOWTIMES http://www.yellowtimes.org/
* INDYMEDIA http://www.indymedia.org/
* PRAVDA http://english.pravda.ru/
* PALESTINE REPORT
http://jmcc.org/media/reportonline/ report.html

* FAIR Analysis of Network coverage of the war on Iraq
http://www.fair.org/activism/ iraq-sources-networks.html

* Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net
* Z Communications http://www.zmag.org
* Palestine Chronicle http://www.palestinechronicle.com
* Inter Press Service http://www.ipsnews.net
* WebActive http://www.webactive.com
* YearZero Magazine http://www.yearzero.org
* ElectronicIraqNet http://electroniciraq.net/news/
* Iraq Journal http://www.Iraqjournal.org
* Scoop - New Zealand http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/
* TWD http://www.timewedo.com/
* Khilafah
http://www.khilafah.com/home/ lographics/index.php
* Iran Daily http://www.iran-daily.com/

 

* Independent News/Blogs

* The Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/
* The Agonist http://www.agonist.org/
* WarBlogs.cc http://www.warblogs.cc/
* Aeronautics.ru http://www.aeronautics.ru/
* Liberal Arts Mafia Liberal Arts Mafia Web Archive
* The Command Post http://www.command-post.org/
* Debka http://www.debka.com/
* busy WarBlogs http://truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.php
* Blogosphere
http://technorati.com/cosmos/ currentevents.html

 

* Alternative Commentaries and Visions

* Rense http://www.rense.com/
* What Really Happened http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
* Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/
* Questions, quesTions http://www.questionsquestions.net/
* Guerrilla News http://www.guerrillanews.com/
* Kenneth Vardon http://www.apfn.org/apfn/kenvardon.htm
* Community Cuurency http://www.communitycurrency.org/
* Online Journal http://www.onlinejournal.com/
* Loveheart Network http://www.lovearth.net/
* Mad Cow Productions http://www.madcowprod.com/
* UnansweredQuestions.org - thinking for ourselves http://www.unansweredquestions.org/
* Lewis News http://www.lewisnews.com/

 

* Specials

1) For a comic-strip look at the war, please check out:
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war22.html

2) For the most amusing and trendy track about Saddam and the war check out DJ Saddam at streaming audio: http://www.sweech.com/

 

* Discussion Group

A quite interesting discussion group, rich with selected news items from both the mainstream and alternative sources has a powerful tagline: "If you are not paranoid then you are not paying attention".

 

 

Find out more at their home page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ ParanoidTimes

Subscribe at by sending a blank email to:
ParanoidTimes-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

* Video Feeds

* Reuters Raw Video Feedroom
http://reuters.feedroom.com
http://www.camchoice.com/cam/Asia/Iraq/

* Live Baghdad Cam
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/ main100.shtml

* Live Streams From The War Zone
http://www.halifaxlive.com/article.php? sid=182&mode=&order=0&thold=0

*Iraq's Live Satellite Channel
(requires broadband connection)
http://www.dsltv.nl/ (in Dutch)
http://tinyurl.com/8qb6 (in English)

 

* Radio

* Index to Iraq War Frequencies
This resource includes Military HF freqs, Aero HF freqs and Shortwave Broadcast schedules of interest.
http://www.milaircomms.com/war_iraq.html

* On this page from Camchoice are Al-Jazeera TV (very unreliable picture), MSNBC live camera (small picture), CNN and BBC.
http://www.camchoice.com/cam/Asia/Iraq/

 

* General Reference

* Google News - Robin Good Custom News Search
http://tinyurl.com/8ods

* JNet's Guide to Covering War
http://www.journalismnet.com/war/

* Special Coverage from Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/iraq

* Searching for Information: The War in Iraq
Information Resources & Fact Finding
http://websearch.about.com/library/weekly/ aa032003a.htm

* 70 Free, Alternative and Independent Online News Sources

* World News Sources
http://www.globalspin.org/ world_news_sources.html

* 100+ Alternative Iraq War Resources (Commented and annotated)
from Urbana-Champaign
http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/ 10428/index.php

Learn how to be the first to find out what is really happening.

 
 
Readers' Comments    
2004-07-10 19:47:58

Raymond Onar

I think 1st Lt. Mark V. Shaney USMC said it best when he said:

"Responsible journalism should include responsibility for one's actions in publishing a news story in such a way that puts many other people in harm's way; has a direct result of publication of a particular story might have on other people.

"We are a people that cherish the democratic system of government and therefore hold the will of the enemy is trying very hard to portray our efforts over here, you can refute them by knowing that we are failing, even if we are making the whole world safer. "

Raymond Onnard
And as always: "Quidquid excusatio prandium pro!



 
posted by Robin Good on Monday, March 31 2003, updated on Tuesday, May 5 2015

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