Looking to compile a list of good leftist news sites and sources. Thank you.
The Young Tur… wait what was the question?
OP said leftist
I really like BreakThrough News. Also Novara Media that people have mentioned.
Novara has publicly disgraced itself on multiple occasions. You can find plenty of dunkings of their credentials.
Ash friends with Zionists, Bastini heavily involved in the Corbyn character assassination.
I cant read twitter threads I have no account.
But come on, they were a bit shit on Corbyn when the AS bs first started but they’ve been defending him fiercely ever since, up to this day.
And then being friends with Zionists idk, that would be surprising.
And also, George Galloway can f off…. There’s PLENTY to criticise about him.
Similar to the likes of Owen Jones. They focus on the easy issues which they do a really good job with. But as soon as something comes along that threatens to disrupt the status quo then, by their deeds shall you know them.
George Galloway is a prick.
Calls himself a socialist, but has shared a platform with Nigel Farage and UKIP in the past. Not to mention his reactionary social views and “patriotism”.
CNN and now Fox News since they became commies too.
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.
Only according to that stupid bot
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.
i would be really interested to have you try to define the word communism
Fox News so far right that went around the globe and became left 🤔
Hey, compared to OAN…
Mother Jones.
WMNF radio
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”. :-)
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.euThank you
Thanks so much!
More 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
I have a problem with the basic terms of political alignment. Every political view is placed on a line between far left and far right, and centrist views are in constant flux. This seems to foster devotion over unity.
We need a set of 3 dimensional terms because the 1 dimensional “left/right” terms are to simplistic. Perfectly reasonable ideas that essentially everyone would support become points of division purely because those ideas are strongly aligned to either the left or right.
I strongly believe the next evolutionary step we must take is to re-engineer politics and government. Freedom, shared resources, reasonable controls, balanced towards the needs of the public, all seem like dreams right now. Fuck knows how we get there without bloodshed, but get there we must.
Left/right is just shorthand, the issue isn’t adding dimensions but recognizing that you can only ever describe political positions by what they actually are. Adding dimensions doesn’t necessarily help because completely different stances can occupy the same space depending on how you do it, it becomes astrology.
Look up The Minerva model
Isn’t that used for marketing ?
It is. But it’s also the basis for the political compass, and is taught in polsci all over the world
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
The Majority Report. It’s awesome. https://m.youtube.com/@TheMajorityReport
SBS Australia
Just use Ground news and stop consuming bias
I like to listen to the Muckrake podcast for analysis of recent events.
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)
Late stage live is a comedy new channel that feels like older daily show episodes.
Vox (and to a lesser extent the NYT)
Left, not liberal.
These are the same things unless you’re talking about economic liberalism. That’s like saying “right, not conservative”.
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 and consistently has high quality (save the opinion section). I did not understand “left” to gatekeep sources like Vox. This is like shifting the definition of the right to exclude anyone who isn’t around or further than MAGA.
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.
