Politics

AlterNet

A project of the Independent Media Institute to support alternative media sources.

America & the Globe

The web component of an election year project 2004 -- America & The Globe - GOP Edition, focussing on the US Presidential elections and democratic practice in America.

Center for American Progress

Progressive think-tank with an interesting and informative website.

Cuban Philosophy and Thought

Spanish-language site featuring writings by Jose Marti, the Marxist tradition, and contemporary Cuban thinkers.

Decadent West

On politics and pop culture.

Density Church International

Hilarious send-up of evangelical Christianity from New Zealand.

Disinformation: The Gateway to the Underground

Agglomeration of political sources; the largest online alternative news and information site. In existence since 1996.

Human Rights Watch

Up-to-date news on global human rights issues.

Annalee Newitz - Alternet

A collection of columns by BS co-founder Annalee Newitz, at Alternet.

Open Secrets

A guide to money in the US political process. The website is a project of the Center for Responsive Politics.

Poets Against War

An online anthology of over 20,000 poems against the Iraq War.

Political Theory Daily

A political wonk's dream website. A daily blog run by Alfredo Perez, a doctoral student at the New School for Social Research, providing daily takes on the online political reading of the day.

Pop Politics

PopPolitics was launched as an online magazine blending pop culture and politics and covering the connections between them. After a publishing hiatus, it returned as a daily weblog.

Popular Culture Collective

This Australia-based collective "is a community of film makers, musicians, web builders, designers, writers, researchers and teachers who wish to create thinking – and thoughtful – popular culture."

Raw Story Q

The queer other half of Raw Story.

Santorum Exposed

Website with video exposes of Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum.

School of the Americas Watch

SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works through creative protest and resistance, legislative and media work to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America.

Signs of the Times

A left-wing British online publishing collective carrying essays on a variety of political topics.

Tenure Justice

A website explaining the cause of Professor Ignacio Chapela, a biogenetics professor at University of California - Berkeley who has lost his position in the middle of controversy over agricultural bio-engineering and the role of biotechnology corporations in academia.

The Raw Story

Commercial news feed with an anti-Bush attitude.

The Ronald Reagan House for the Criminally Insane

Bad taste for a good cause. This satirical site is "dedicated to providing compassionate conservative mental health care to the American people using graphics, quality products of war, guerrilla theater and stand-up comedy.

Votergasm

Sex and politics. Very Bad.

Wombles

"The Wombles promote anarchist ideas, libertarian solidarity, autonomous self-organisation and humour." The well-known UK anarchist collective, which actually does have a sense of political humor.