Looking to compile a list of good leftist news sites and sources. Thank you.
These are some with RSS feeds. Some are news, most are deeper analyses.
http://www.democracynow.org https://mintpressnews.com https://consortiumnews.com https://diem25.org https://gabrielrockhill.com https://michael-hudson.com https://scheerpost.com https://thegrayzone.com https://therealnews.com https://thetricontinental.org https://tomdispatch.com https://wallstreetonparade.com https://www.counterpunch.org https://www.jeffsachs.org https://www.liberationnews.org https://www.nakedcapitalism.com https://www.normanfinkelstein.com https://www.propublica.org https://www.qiaocollective.com https://www.socialistalternative.org https://www.telesurenglish.net https://www.yanisvaroufakis.euMore than just a former Valve employee.
True story 🤣 PC Gamer, 2015: Valve’s economist is Greece’s new finance minister
How have I known about Varoufakis for years as a serious political economist and speaker-on-the-topic, and never heard he was a Valve employee with a catalogue of ‘gaming-economics’ blogs in the early 2010s? LMFAO what a world
Thank you
The Young Tur… wait what was the question?
OP said leftist
So I’ve not visited some of these for a while, and I know some have issues (like swinging in to either liberal or tankie territory), so I’m not guaranteeing they’re all perfect, but these are the news sites I have saved to my bookmarks:
Great list! Thank you!
Np. Thank you for the time and effort you invest in posting!
I try but most of my posts turn out to be a little controversial hah!
What’s the saying, hit dogs holler? Take it as a sign you’re hitting a nerve lol
Honestly I don’t know how you deal with all that crap 😂
I was on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Reddit/Lemmy is tame compared to the crap I dealt with on there. 🤣
Oh yeah, that’s hardcore 😂
I had 65k followers and got doxxed multiple times. Was crazy stuff. All they do on here is just call me Russian bot.
the majority report
I too like to listen to the political opinions of Fenton Mulley from Home Movies.
(To be clear, this isn’t a dig at Sam Seder. I loved him in Home Movies and on The Majority Report)
CNN and now Fox News since they became commies too.
Fox News so far right that went around the globe and became left 🤔
You got jokes. CNN isn’t leftist.
CNN, Reuters and AP all are.
Pretty much NewsMax and OAN are the only things I can watch anymore without having the commie agenda crammed down my throat.
i would be really interested to have you try to define the word communism
In every evaluation Reuters was the only one reported slightly left leaning. AP is very dry and fact-based and therefore neutral, CNN is neutral to slightly right leaning iirc. News Max and OAN are both strongly right leaning.
Fox News is also still strongly right leaning. Tell me one time Fox News tried to push for equality, gun control, or universal basic income. Instead you can find pro gun content, strong defenses for very conservative politicians who are periodically being given a platform and they are regularly talking about how businesses should get more financial aid.
My guy, we can politically disagree but there is not a universe in which fox news is left leaning. Objectively not.
A simple google search came up with this:
Trump administration moves to ban sale of bump stocks, make possession illegal by March.
So they are pro-gun control.
That article is literally just reporting what the president did. How does that mean they’re “pro-gun control?” Do you not even read the articles and just seethe and shit yourself about what you think about the wording of headlines? You are such a raging rightist ideologue you have been blinded to all reality and don’t even understand the things that you are mad at. Is this satire? Are you a real person who engages in media and politics like this or have I been trolled?
If you’re serious, the US must have gasoline in the water or something (but ah that would be COMMUNIST to regulate that; or even report on it!)
Pretty much.
Left Coast Right Watch.
News sources should not have orientations. They should be neutral. If they have a political orientation they are not my favourite source at all
That’s not something that exists, nor is it possible.
I know that it is not possible, but actively having an orientation just makes for bad journalism. Reporting on news from both sides, and not sensationalizing news or the way they are reported, should be key factors of any good source of news
There’s no such thing as having no orientation. Being honest about it is better than false neutrality.
I don’t think this is true.
I agree that nobody can be neutral, but reporting news should at least try to be. It is basically just telling facts about what is going on in the world. I understand that being totally objective is not possible, but not trying, and reporting facts with an agenda is not a news source that I would take seriously
How do you choose what facts matter? How do you choose how to communicate them? Who do you communicate them to? What does news reporting mean to you? What about news reporting makes it worth your precious time alive? What purpose do the people around you have when they amplify, ignore, or quiet your facts? These are all questions that are answered, explicitly or not, by everyone who communicates or relates to facts.
We could play the impossible “no agenda” game. We could lie to ourselves and to others. Or, we could notice that whenever we are dealing with the truth, we have a point of view. We stand here and not there. We can learn to travel around the mountain of truth, so that we mitigate our blindspots. We can be explicit about where in the mountain we are standing (The north base? The vegetated slope? The summit?).
Instead of playing the “god trick”, we can situate our knowledge. That’s the best we can do. Check out this article by Donna Haraway on situated knowledge. It changed my life. https://philpapers.org/archive/harskt.pdf
I’ll leave this here. Good resource for evaluating news sources as you come across them also.
Left, not liberal.
Liberalism is the ideology of Capitalism, ergo it is right wing. Conervative liberals and progressive liberals are both right wing to different degrees.
Well, since the world is nearly all capitalist, the system is currently treated as an assumption of the center; this makes progressivism to the left of the average, just like how the center has moved to the right in the US.
Anyways, rest assured, I’m still reading the book you recommended.
That’s the Overton Window, which is only useful for analyzing medians, not for actual political discourse.
Well, there’s a relatives to relativity. Overton is quite relative while the spectrum is only a bit relative. Per the sources . It’s no use restricting the left against anyone who advocate maintaining capitalism, as there won’t be enough political entities left… in the “left”, thus “right” constitutes nearly no meaning save commonality.
That’s certainly a liberal perspective, but leftists disagree. The left isn’t that small either, the most populous state in the world is Socialist.
to a lesser extent the NYT
I think you may have misunderstood the question.
The NYT is pretty left leaning
I think you’re living in an alternate reality, mate.
…I mean just look at their Lifestyle section. It’s clearly aimed at the kind of person who owns “a summer house in the Hamptons.” You can hardly call yourself “left” when your main audience is firmly the capitalist class in Manhattan.
The same NYT that is currently sanewashing Trump? The same NYT that sat on the story about the NSA spying on US citizens for over a year at the request of the Bush administration? That NYT? I say this with all sincerity and intend no offense, but what the living fuck are you talking about?
I wouldn’t look at the lifestyle section for news. Lifestyle is always lifestylish.
The same NYT that is currently sanewashing Trump?
Why restate the obvious for the millionth time? Nearly nobody who’d wholeheartedly support Trump reads NYT regularly. There’s so much more better and substantial stuff to report like how a Canadian province is covering up a mysterious brain disease that has a much higher potential of changing society rather than just “oh trump is still wagging is way along”. EnoughTrumpSpam already.
The same NYT that sat on the story about the NSA spying on US citizens for over a year at the request of the Bush administration?
I’ll concede that. Like I said, to a lesser extent.
Just use Ground news and stop consuming bias
Reality, for one.
I like to listen to the Muckrake podcast for analysis of recent events.
Means TV, but it’s a subscription version of YouTube for leftist content and it’s a cooperative. The Means Morning News channel is 80s/90s cheesey and a decent news summary that ends with the Rich Dick award
Late stage live is a comedy new channel that feels like older daily show episodes.
It’s really hard to list any news sources that I don’t read with a few kilos of salt. DN! seems one of the more trustworthy, and Amy Goodman makes it work on a very slim budget; and for that reason, she’s simply not able to cover everything, and maybe that’s good, because it gives us time to really think about what they publish. I can tell you the only reason I miss TV is for local coverage, and even then, it’s also best taken with a few kilos of salt.
Just to type it out to make it easier to find: Democracy Now!
Thanks, I thought they were talking about the Swedish DN.
There is a subtle difference in the abriviation: “DN!” and “DN”. :-)
