Adbusters
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"Adbusters is a Canadian political magazine, founded by Kalle Lasn and published in Vancouver, British Columbia by the Adbusters Media Foundation (see below).
It is an activist magazine, devoted to numerous political and social causes, many of which are anti-consumerism or anti-capitalist in nature. Adbusters is particularly well-known for their "culture jamming" campaigns, and the magazine often features photographs of politically-motivated billboard or advertisement vandalism sent in by readers. The magazine also founded Buy Nothing Day, a yearly event held on the day after American Thanksgiving (traditionally one of the largest shopping days of the year) in which citizens are encouraged not to buy anything. They are also one of the sponsors of TV-Turnoff Week."
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Agence France-Presse
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"Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world. It is also the largest French agency and the third largest news agency in the world.
The agency is based in Paris, with regional centres in Washington, Hong Kong, Nicosia and Montevideo and bureaux in 110 countries. It sends out news in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Russian.
AFP was founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas as Agence Havas."
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Air America Radio
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"Air America Radio is a radio network and program syndication service in the United States, started on March 31, 2004. It features a liberal, left-wing, progressive point of view and specializes in presentations and monologues by liberal personalities, guest interviews, calls by listeners, and news reports. Some of the personalities who host shows on Air America Radio include Al Franken, Laura Flanders, Janeane Garofalo, Mike Malloy, Marc Maron, Randi Rhodes, and Jerry Springer.
The network's primary station is New York City's WLIB-AM and, as of August 2005, 70 stations in the United States, as well as XM Satellite Radio, offer some or all of the programs produced and distributed by Air America Radio. Air America Radio also makes use of audio streaming on the World Wide Web, reaching a national and international audience."
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Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera (Arabic: الجزيرة al-Ġazīrä), meaning "The Island" or "The (Arabian) Peninsula" is an Arabic television channel based in Qatar. The station gained worldwide attention following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when it began broadcasting numerous video messages featuring Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders.
In November 2003, Al Jazeera launched an Arabic sports channel called Al Jazeera Sports. It quickly grew to become the top Arabic-language sports channel.
On April 15, 2005, Al Jazeera launched a new channel that broadcasts conferences live without editing or commentary called Al Jazeera Live. It is the first of its kind in the Arab world and is similar to the US-channel C-SPAN.
In March of 2006, Al Jazeera will be launching an all-English news channel to be broadcasted worldwide ...[continue]
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AllAfrica
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"All-Africa.com is a website providing news on all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture. It is available in both English and French."
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Alternet
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"AlterNet is a popular news website that was created in 1998. It publishes original editorial commentary as well as commentary from other sources. It is a project of the Independent Media Institute, and politically somewhat left-of-center, albeit mostly progressive and independent of any particular political parties. It provides several services, ranging from "content files", which collect stories about particular topics and moderated discussions on published articles..
According to their "about us" page, they get over 1.5 million visitors per month."
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AltWeeklies.com
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AltWeeklies.com in published by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN). The Wiki entry for AAN is as follows:
"The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) is the trade association of alternative weekly newspapers in the United States. AAN provides services to a large number of generally liberal or progressive weekly newspapers across the United States and in Canada. According to its self-description, AAN "is a diverse group of 125 non-daily free-circulation papers that are distributed in all of the major metropolitan areas of North America. Each paper has a distinct, local identity that sets it apart from the mainstream press in its market."
Usually commercial, the weekly alternative newspapers emerged either as competiton to, or from within, the underground press in the United States in the 1970s. AAN ...[continue]
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American Interest
- Website-Description: The source of this description is the "About Us: Statement of Purpose" section of The American Interest Website.
The American Interest (AI) is a new and independent voice devoted to the broad theme of "America in the world." Our agenda is threefold. The first is to analyze America's conduct on the global stage and the forces that shape it--not just its strategic aspects, but also its economic, cultural and historical dimensions. American statecraft is not simply about power but also purpose. What is important to the world about America is therefore not just its politics, but the society from which those politics arise--including America's literature, music and art, as well as its values, public beliefs and its historical imagination.
The AI's second aim is to examine what American policy should be. It is our view that the challenges and opportunities of our time transcend the assumptions and vocabulary ...[continue]
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American Prospect
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"The American Prospect is a monthly magazine which focuses on US politics and public policy. Roughly speaking its politics are to the left of The New Republic and to the right of The Nation.
The magazine was founded in 1990 by Robert Kuttner, Robert B. Reich, and Paul Starr as a response to the intellectual ascendancy of conservatism in the 1980s. Originally it published quarterly, then bimonthly. In 2000 thanks to a grant from the Schumann Foundation it became biweekly. Financial and logistical difficulties ensued, and the magazine moved to its present monthly format in spring 2003. Currently Kuttner and Starr share the title of Editor with Michael Tomasky, former columnist for New York magazine, and executive editor of The American Prospect.
It was one of the first mainstream publications to have a blog to which writers ...[continue]
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Antiwar.com
- Website-Description: The source of this description is the "Who We Are" section of the Antiwar.com Website.
This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism. Our initial project was to fight for the case of non-intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton presidency and continued with the case against the campaigns in Haiti, Kosovo and the bombings of Sudan and Afghanistan. Our politics are libertarian: our opposition to war is rooted in Randolph Bourne's concept that "War is the health of the State." With every war, America has made a "great leap" into statism, and as Bourne emphasizes: " . . . it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution [the State]." At its core, that "nature" includes the ever-increasing threat to individual liberty and the ...[continue]
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Ashville Global Report
- Website-Description: The source of this description is the "About" section of the Asheville Global Reporter website.
"We cover news underreported by mainstream media, believing that a free exchange of information is necessary to organize for social change...AGR is distributed free every Thursday in Asheville and other cities, and is published weekly on the world wide web at www.agrnews.org"
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Asia Times Online
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"Asia Times Online is an Internet-only news and commentary publication that reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues, looking at these from an Asian perspective. 'ATol' is the official abbreviation of Asia Times Online and is commonly used on the website.
Asia Times Online was founded at the beginning of 1999 and is incorporated and duly registered in Hong Kong. It derives its revenues from advertising and the resale of original content to other publications and news services.
Historically, in publication policy and editorial outlook, Asia Times Online are the successor of Asia Times, a Hong Kong/Bangkok-based daily print newspaper founded in 1995, which had to cease publication in the summer of 1997 as a result of the Asian financial crisis."
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Atlantic Monthly
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The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine founded in Boston in 1857 by a group of writers that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell (who would become its first editor). Originally a monthly publication, the magazine, subscribed to by 425,000 readers, now publishes ten times a year and features articles in the fields of political science and foreign affairs, as well as book reviews.
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