(Last update 13th August 2006)
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Alternative news sources

Daily updates:
Al-Jazeera (English)
Daily Kos
Democracy Now!
Information Clearing House
Indymedia (IMC - Independent Media Center)
Indymedia -- Brisbane, Qld.
IslamOnline.net
New Matilda (daily updates by subscription)
Web Tracks

Not 'alternative' but sometimes refreshingly observant
Ha'aretz Daily / Independent / Asia Times

Not 'alternative' but comprehensive
United Nations news updates / Reuters updates

Lebanon:
Lebanon Under Siege (Lebanese government site)
Lebanese PM's peace proposal


Timor Leste:
The Timor Sea Justice Campaign


Iraq:

e-Iraq
Healing Iraq
Iraq Body Count
Dar Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
Occupation Watch
The Pilgrim newsletter from Donna Mulhearn
Uruknet.info
Voices in the Wilderness
Also more news updates in anti-war websites at top of next column


Other reports:
World Tribunal on Iraq
WTI opening address
Message from the Iraq Resistance ('a view from the other side')
 

Palestine:

Australians for Peace and Justice in Palestine
From Occupied Palestine
International Solidarity Movement
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jews Against the Occupation (Sydney)
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel
Palestinian National Initiative needs microsoft
internet explorer to view


Australian terror victims:
9/11 victims
(Al-Qaeda)
Bali victims (JI)
Douglas Wood (Iraq)

Noorpolat Abdulla (Kazakhstan)
Cage Prisoners (U.S.)
Fair Go for David (U.S.)
& the ridiculous (Australia)
Deaths in custody (Australia)
Stolen generations
(Australia)
Genocide (Australia)

 

Other:
Amnesty International (Australia)
Australian Council for International Development
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation

Doctors Without Borders
FAIRA (Aboriginal and Islander Action)
Global call to action against poverty
Greenpeace Australia Pacific
& GreenNet
International Crisis Group ("working to prevent conflict worldwide")
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
Refugee Action Collective (Brisbane)
Rural Australians for Refugees
WWF Australia


Forgotten already?
Afghanistan? Refugees?  . . . .
See ZNet and other links in next column

 

 

Commentary and analysis

Anti-war websites:
Antiwar.com
Guardian's guide includes links to Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
Just Peace, Queensland
The Nonviolence Web
Operation Truth ("The truth about Iraq from those who served")
Peace Partners, Toowoomba, Qld.
Queensland Peace Network has links to many local groups
Stop the War Coalition, Sydney
Sydney Peace Foundation Awards annual Sydney Peace Prize
Women in Black - Australia


Media:

MediaChannel "a global network for democratic media"
Media Watch includes link to FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) and AlterNet.org
Media Watch ABC TV transcripts
Palestinian Media Watch

Reporters Without Borders
Responses to film about Al-Jazeera
 

Other:
Noam Chomsky "official website"
Common Dreams
Counterpunch
Dissident Voice
Robert Fisk Middle East correspondent; latest articles always available by subscription at The Independent (sometimes also free at Information Clearing House)
The Free Press
Global Issues
GlobalSecurity.org
Green Left Weekly
International Crisis Group ("working to prevent conflict worldwide")
John Pilger
Newtopia Magazine
Salon.com  subscription needed for most articles
Third World Traveler
ZNet  "a community of people committed to social change"
-- last in this list, but possibly the most comprehensive of all. Includes some of the best discussions on movement building.


and don't forget the non-human animals:
Australian Orangutan Project
Orangutan Awareness Week 7-13 Nov


Antidote (some serious words about activism with fun)
Advocacy Humor
The Art of Activism
Clowning in Kabul
Raging Grannies