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21 Solutions to Save the World

We live in an age of anxiety. People everywhere fear the next terrorist attack. Meanwhile, we slowly grow numb to Iraq's endless string of kidnappings and suicide bombings. Between bird flu, tsunamis, and loose nukes, our list of fears is getting longer. So, we asked 21 leading thinkers: What is one solution that would make the world a better place? Here are their answers. (Foreign Policy)

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3783&fpsrc=ealert070430

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Common Dreams News Center

'Breaking news and views for the Progressive Community". An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives that are increasingly hard to find with our corporate-dominated media.

http://commondreams.org/index.htm

(Added: Fri Sep 13 2002   Modified: Fri Sep 01 2006   Hits: 300)

CounterPunch

CounterPunch is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints. We aren't side-line journalists here at CounterPunch. Ours is muckraking with a radical attitude and nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they've found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, big business and the rapers of nature.

http://www.counterpunch.org/

(Added: Mon Nov 10 2003   Modified: Thu Jan 25 2007   Hits: 298)

Independent Media Centre

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

http://www.indymedia.org/

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Information Clearing House

Independent media site: "News you wont find on CNN or FOX News"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

(Added: Thu May 27 2004   Modified: Thu Jan 25 2007   Hits: 162)

Inter Press Service

IPS, the world´s leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to 1,200 outlets.

http://www.ipsnews.net/

(Added: Mon Sep 02 2002   Modified: Thu Jan 25 2007   Hits: 186)

InterWorld Radio

InterWorld Radio is a source of daily news bulletins and broadcast quality features for radio stations and online listeners. We commission local journalists all over the world to file reports on the critical global issues of our time - economics, human rights, environment, international trade, science and technology.

http://www.interworldradio.org

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Latinamerica Press

Latinamerica Press has been publishing independent news, analysis and information materials since 1969. Based in Lima, Peru, we are in a good position to be able to offer, together with our region-wide network of journalists, a local perspective on regional news for a global audience. As an alternative source of information we cover the kind of angles and people that you won't find everyday in the mainstream media. Much of the content of this website is for subscribers, although we do publish free features and articles on the homepage and under each theme. We are a non profit organisation that relies on the income from subscriptions and the sale of other materials to survive.

http://www.lapress.org/

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NACLA News

The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) has just launched an online news source on Latin America. After forty years of publishing the NACLA Report on the Americas bi-monthly magazine, NACLA has expanded its excellent coverage to include an web-based source for news on Latin America.

http://news.nacla.org/

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NewStandard

The NewStandard is a unique online newspaper founded on the belief that the dominant model and methods of profit-focused news journalism have failed the public interest. Managed by a collective of journalists and published by a reader-funded nonprofit organization, TNS is committed to bold, hard-hitting daily news coverage, providing a vetted forum for the voices and issues often ignored in the establishment news arena. To ensure that content remains free of outside financial or political agendas, TNS is funded entirely by readers and accepts no advertisements or foundation grants. TNS strives for accountability and fairness, and to uphold rigorous rules for sourcing, transparency and ethics. With an organizational structure based on equity, solidarity, diversity and self-management, The NewStandard serves grassroots social change with uncompromised journalism and the application of democratic principles at all levels of its operation.

http://newstandardnews.net/

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NGOConnect

NGOConnect is a news bimonthly which publishes news exclusively on the NGO community in India. It is a forum for people to know the work various NGOs are doing, to maybe help solve their probems, share their experiences. The 8-page newstabloid has a Jobs, Conferences and media section giving news about the latest happenings in those areas.

http://www.ngoconnect.org

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Nonprofit Online News

Nonprofit Online News is one of the world's most respected sources of news, information, and opinion for the online nonprofit community. Nonprofit Online News follows the weblog model of short, readable items delivered on a regular basis. We provide the most recent news on the front page of our site, an email edition of the news to our subscribers, and an archive of all our past news items. Because we are a news organization and not a directory, we do not maintain old links.

http://news.gilbert.org/

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Pacific News Bulletin

Pacific News Bulletin publishes articles of the human rights situation in the Pacific region, with an emphasis on the rights of indigenous peoples in colonised territories, and the various constitutional and legal dilemmas that they face. PNB also covers news, reports and features on Pacific issues from a Pacific perspective.

http://www.pcrc.org.fj/index.cfm?go=main.bulletin

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Phillipine Center For Investigative Journalism

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is an independent, nonprofit media agency that specializes in investigative reporting. It was founded in 1989 by nine Filipino journalists who realized, from their years on the beat and at the news desk, the need for newspapers and broadcast agencies to go beyond day-to-day reportage.

http://www.pcij.org/

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PlusNews

PlusNews provides news and analysis on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, especially in countries and regions facing humanitarian crisis.

http://www.plusnews.org/

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PUSH Journal: Periodic Updates of Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues Around the World

This free, objective news service is the product of a partnership among the Communications Consortium Media Center (a nonprofit NGO based in Washington, DC) and UNFPA, the UN Population Fund. It provides users with free full-text news stories on sexual and reproductive health issues from more than 36,000 top news outlets around the world.

http://www.pushjournal.org/

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The Alternative News Network

Alternative News source/publishing collective for the bio-economic region around Cairns, tropical north Queensland, Australia.

http://us.altnews.com.au/

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Truthout

Critical news and commentary on world events.

http://www.truthout.org/

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UN Wire

An Independent News Briefing about the United Nations.

http://www.unwire.org/

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YellowTimes.org

The mission of YellowTimes.org is to offer our readers unconventional viewpoints from which to observe current events, and to encourage new thinking about the causes and effects of those events.

http://www.yellowtimes.org/

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Z Sustainer Program

Join the Z Sustainer Program to receive: Daily Commentaries from noted writers Chomsky, Zinn, Flanders, Marable, Wise, Albert, and many more; Access to the Z Sustainer Forum System for discussion with other users and some writers as well; Access to the Z Sustainer Online Weekly for a web presentation of commentaries and many other features. Commentaries are a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet.

http://www.zmag.org/Commentaries/donorform.htm

(Added: Mon Aug 26 2002   Modified: Thu Aug 31 2006   Hits: 148)

ZNet

Z Magazine's ZNet is a sophisticated web site with diverse extra-web functionality but simple design and graphics for easy navigation. It is a continuous town meeting and intellectual and activist service center for large sectors of the progressive community. It is a place to: get useful information; exchange ideas; develop new political programs and unity; engage in online activism; acclimate to and learn new technologies; meet new people; enjoy and educate yourself; browse the WWW with extensive guidance. You won't find uncivil language or flaming, sexism, racism, or commericalism. What you will find is a community of people seeking to understand society and to change it for the better.

http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

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ZNet Updates by E-mail

ZNet Updates is an email list maintained by ZNet. Usually about once a week -- but sometimes more often during periods of particular crisis and activism -- ZNet editors mail out a notice containing a brief update about the site, including annotated lists of new, featured content and facilities. They also typically contain at least one commentary or article we feel deserves particular attention. There is no charge whatsoever for subscribing to the list. All you need to do is provide is with an email address, and you are free to remove yourself from the list at any time.

http://www.zmag.org/updates/fusebox.cfm?action=show_homepage&justSubscribed=yes

(Added: Mon Oct 21 2002   Modified: Thu Aug 31 2006   Hits: 141)

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