Our Top Five Online Picks
Znet: Perhaps the most respected of all. Single-handedly run by Michael Albert -- a great collection of radical political commentary and forums with Chomsky, Zinn, Albert, Ehrenreich, and other original pieces as well as the contents of the political monthly Zmagazine that accepts no paid advertising at all.
Common Dreams: News Centre: UTNE Reader calls it 'a website that could shake the world'. Breaking News and Views for the progressive community.
Alternet: A project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism.
Counterpunch: 'Muckraking with a radical attitude' -- Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, who 'aren't side-line journalists' revel in stories 'that the corporate press never prints'.
openDemocracy: "Is a dot.net, not a dot.com -- 'About thinking twice: listening to others, engaging with disagreement, and even the painful process of changing minds'.Our favourite.
(The above is a selective and subjective listing. Please see alt.Press. A selection of the very best and relevant articles fromthese can be found by arrangement, on www.outlookindia.com and its Free Speech section where readers keep posting their favourite selection of links from around the world)