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Leftist media sources - what else would you add to this?

World

England

Wales

Nation.Cymru

Palestine

Canada

Haiti

Haiti Liberté

Australia

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I would actually take The Intercept off that list and replace with Drop Site news, since that's the new site that Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim started after their departure from The Intercept. Basically the PMC and NGO class went and enshittified The Intercept
- I didn't know this.
  
  All good, I'm a disgruntled founding subscriber of The Intercept and went to one of their live events, so I have an axe to grind
- Should we include breaking points because it includes Ryan and Krystal ball, or exclude it because they co-host with reactionaries?
  
  I only followed Ryan Grim's writing stuff not his video ventures. I'd leave that up to others to decide but I think hosting with reactionaries designates that it's an entertainment product with news like characteristics. Do they do any of their own reporting or is it just hot takes?
- Wouldn't call them totally enshittified but agreed that Drop Site has the better reporting now.
- The Intercept is still pretty great. That happened a while ago and the articles they are putting out still cover the same kind of topics and from the same positions, at least that I've noticed. Every article I've seen has been covering stuff that the mainstream media wouldn't, and from the left. I don't go to their site to skim, but I haven't seen any bad articles.
  
  In my time at The Intercept, I’ve watched the newsroom increasingly become dominated by management and bureaucrats whose numbers continue to swell as the number of people who actually produce news dwindles. While the Intercept now has one poor copy editor for the entire website, it employs two staff attorneys, as well as a legal fellow, a chief strategy officer, a chief digital officer, a business coordinator, a senior director of development and an associate director of development, a product manager, a senior director of operations, a chief of staff, and a chief operating officer. And for the first time in The Intercept’s history, as of Monday, the new editor-in-chief now answers to the CEO.
  
  The company’s org chart, pictured below, provides a sense of how top-heavy it has become with business hires (basically the entire left half). Organizational chart for The Intercept current as of April 26, 2024. (Credit: The Intercept)
  
  This orgy of management largesse has coincided with layoffs of the editor-in-chief, managing editor, national security editor, copy editor, photo editor, multiple senior editors, social media editor, as well as writers and reporters. There are passionate editors and writers left who still want to do news, like Ryan Grim and Ali Gharib, but they are toiling under the impossible odds of the new management regime.
  
  https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept
I didn’t see this one on the list: https://www.qiaocollective.com/

Though tbf it doesn’t look like they publish very often these days :/
- Skipped the entire of 2023, interesting.
More lefitsh than leftist, but In These Times and The Real News are generally good for U.S. labor news.

@DivineChaos100@hexbear.net posted a long list of news sources a while back, both mainstream and left, from a wide range of tendencies.
- Didn't real news drop Chris Hedges bc he said he wasn't voting for Biden when he was still in
  
  Yes. We're going to have serious complaints about any U.S.-based site. Their excuse was because of something to do with non-profit status and rules about endorsements. They attack Biden all the time, though, and had good coverage of the would-be railroad strike.
  
  Yes and also got rid of Paul Jay for the same thing
- Unfortunately that list isn't online anymore so i'm working from inoreader now
For Portugal:

https://www.abrilabril.pt/
I think Black Agenda Report deserves a mention.
There’s The Red Stream (https://thered.stream/) that would be under World.
I would add The Narwhal to the list of Canadian sources. Not exactly a politically left paper, but has a left lean and focuses on environmental issues. It's good.
Time to update my RSS.

Maybe you can put a note next to WSWS (published articles defending sexual predators) and Morning Star (they fuck with TERFs, or so i was told).

Also if The Guardian is here i think Common Dreams and Truthout can go to the US tab, they're more succdems but actually doing great job as a news service.

Prensa Latina is even better, it's mostly Cuba centered but have news from most AES.

For anarchist news there's uhhhh Anarchist News and It's Going Down and Act for freedom
Mostly Spain-based, but with presence in other countries as well: Izquierda Revolucionaria and their roughly monthly newspaper "El Militante"
I need to save this and go over it with what I have. I would add:

General Aggregate:

PopularResistance.Org: https://popularresistance.org/
(RSS feed is an aggregate of news articles pulled from other news sources, so it's good if you want to find more progressive news sources)

World/General

Naked Capitalism: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

People's Dispatch: https://peoplesdispatch.org/

Equal Times: https://www.equaltimes.org/

Struggle La Lucha: https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/

MR Online: https://mronline.org/

Antiwar.com: https://www.antiwar.com/
(mixed bag since I occasionally see articles by Ron Paul lol)

Hampton Institute: https://www.hamptonthink.org/

Pan-African:

Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/

Hood Communist: https://hoodcommunist.org/

A-APRP: https://aaprp-intl.org/

Mostly US:

Unicorn Riot: https://unicornriot.ninja/

The Real News: https://therealnews.com/

Brazil:

Brasil Wire: https://www.brasilwire.com/

Venezuela:

Orinoco Tribune: https://orinocotribune.com/

Cuba:

Prensa Latina: https://www.plenglish.com/

UK:

The Canary: https://www.thecanary.co/

Palestine/West Asia:

The Cradle: https://thecradle.co/

Environment:

EcoWatch: https://www.ecowatch.com/

There's also Twitter/Telegram accounts like @african_stream
Are there any news sites with half-decent English coverage of events in China/East Asia? I still feel so isolated from a quarter of humans because I literally never see news except "China bad". Otherwise I'm gonna just have to learn Mandarin.
- Friends of Socialist China
- Sixth Tone
  
  CGTN
  
  Asia Times
  
  I have more on the feed reader on my laptop that I can post when I get home.
couple more from aus

red ant (these guys do a lot of good work) - https://red-ant.org/

cpa-ML - https://www.cpaml.org/

rco for good measure but not sure they do news? https://www.revcomorg.info/

RAHU - sometimes publish articles www.rahu.org.au

oh backlashblogs (their standards arent incredible tho) - https://backlashblogs.wordpress.com

BPU - https://www.blackpeoplesunion.org/

sorry this list is a bit shit maybe but youre including acp and cpa so might as well
BreakThrough news
Naked Capitalism, perhaps. I don't think they are necessarily leftist per se but have always struck me as progressive and have in depth analysis of current events with a critical eye to the neoliberal party line.
Foreign Exchanges for world news

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