Politics and current affairs

• People of interest
  • John Pilger.
  • Robert Fisk (unofficial).
  • Greg Palast.
  • The Noam Chomsky archive.
  • Another Noam Chomsky archive containing more articles and reviews, with very little overlap with the main repository.
  • The Edward Said archive.
  • Tariq Ali.
  • Christopher Hitchens.
  • Michael Moore, writer and film-maker.
  • Domenico Pacitti.
  • Ralph McGehee's CIABASE an archive of CIA-related material.
  • Robert Barsky'scollection of material relating to Chomsky and others.
  • Tom Tomorrow, political cartoonist.
  • Howard Zinn, radical historian, online.
  • Richard Stallman, the world's greatest hacker.
  • Antonio Gramsci in Italian and Antonio Gramsci in English.
  • Mark Curtis, historian.
  • Centro Siciliano di documentazione `Giuseppe Impastato', a centre for anti-Mafia campaigners named after Peppino Impastato a left-wing activist murdered in 1978.
  • Duncan Campbell is an investigative journalist who has revealed much of what we know about the security services' interference in our lives.
• Journals and periodicals
  • Village is an Irish weekly current affairs magazine, edited by Vincent Browne.
  • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
  • Counterpunch is edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  • FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
  • Fóinse is a weekly Irish language newspaper.
  • The Irish Times is Ireland's main quality daily newspaper.
  • The Economist has useful information and nonsensical politics.
  • Il Manifesto, an Italian left-wing newspaper.
  • Libération, the main newspaper of the French left.
  • Le Monde Diplomatique, a radical French monthly.
  • Politis is a French fortnightly.
  • Red Pepper is a British monthly magazine of the broad left.
  • The Nation.
  • Salon Magazine often has good political reporting.
  • The Sunday Business Post is probably the best Irish Sunday newspaper.
  • The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International but don't let that put you off. A special treat is the reporting of the special Academy Award for Elia Kazan, director and snitch.
  • Z magazine, an American radical monthly.
  • Labour Left Briefing.
  • The Institute for Global Communications.
  • New Internationalist.
  • Action for Solidarity.
  • Pagine rosse.
  • Banca dati della memoria.
  • New Left Review.
  • Portadown News, back issues.
• Books and publishers
  • Freedom Press, anarchist publishers.
  • The legendary Steal this Book.
  • Another view of Stalin. Apparently he wasn't such a bad chap (no, really).
  • Marxists Internet archive: collected works of Marx and Engels, Trotsky, Lenin and others and some Gramsci translated by yours truly.
• Sources of information
  • Sources of information on the economic `success' of the `Celtic Tiger' in Ireland.
  • The Government of Ireland.
  • Dublin Corporation.
  • The British Government's information service.
  • The CIA World Factbook.
  • The (US) National Security Archive.
  • The War, Peace and Security Guide of the Canadian Forces College.
  • NATO and its pages on Kosovo.
  • Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993
  • Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan.
  • Cold War International History Project.
  • Project on political transformation and the electoral process in post-communist Europe, with a database of election results.
  • CorporateWatch (the name says it all, no?).
• Campaigns and issues
  • Architects and Engineers for Social Responsibility.
  • American Engineers for Social Responsibility.
  • McSpotlight, an offshoot of the McLibel campaign.
  • Multinational Monitor.
  • The Terrorism Act 2000.
  • Council for academic freedom and academic standards.
• Historical material
  • The Red Flag: the song, the man, the monument
  • The history of the Standard Oil company.
• Downright hilarious
  • The CIA Kid's Page including the following gem ``there is information that other countries will not share with the United States, called secrets''.
  • The script of Doctor Strangelove.