What are your favorite leftist news sources? (lemmy.world)

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Looking to compile a list of good leftist news sites and sources. Thank you.

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[-] mub@lemmy.ml 0 points 40 minutes ago

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.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 1 points 37 minutes ago

Look up The Minerva model

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

I really like BreakThrough News. Also Novara Media that people have mentioned.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

A "leftist news source" is not a news source, it is an opinion source, and thus not better than a "rightwing news source". How about finding something neutral that actually has the goal to inform?

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

And you, asking for neutrality:

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 hour ago

False neutrality is propaganda, but so is being so is being activly biased. So a good left news source has to be wiling to show the fscts, when they speak against the left.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

False neutrality

All neutrality is false.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

-Desmond Tutu

E: Also, if you knew anything about leftists, you'd know that we're our own biggest critics. I also bet that you don't demand anywhere near as high a standard when you consume your main stream centre-right media, which almost exclusively speak against the left, so it's not like your short of sources for the criticism you want so desperately to confirm the (centre-right) bias you like to pretend you don't have.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 16 minutes ago

All neutrality is false.

This is media literacy 101. Once you can get past this, you find that outlets that wear their bias on their sleeves are refreshing over those who feign neutrality. They begin to come.of as aloof and condescending, because that's exactly what they are. It's not journalism, it's theatre. Same thing goes with regurgitating exactly what government spokespersons say: that's not journalism. Journalism includes investigation and critique. It's not possible to give an unbiased critique.

Looking at you NYT, you fucking dumpster fire. I only keep you around because a dumpster fire can provide warmth.

I read from multiple sources to cross-reference what narratives are being pushed, and I find news outlets who are often labelled "biased" are the ones most likely to just lay everything on the table. They aren't deliberately trying to direct you into how to think because they assume you agree with them. "This happened and we think it's bullshit!"

You're also more likely to hear about stories that are left out or considered unimportant or are intentionally censored by the mainstream outlets. It's more often the case that they will censor themselves than the government will directly get involved and this is far less from smaller news groups who don't worry about being labelled as biased.

[-] sinewyshadow@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I like The Majority Report, The Serf Times, Egberto Willies is good, Status Coup.

Here's some fave websites I like:

The Intercept,

Jacobin,

World Socialist Website,

Socialist Alternative,

Its Going Down,

Common Dreams,

Lib Com,

Democracy Now,

Vox ,

Huff Post,

Counterpunch,

In These Times,

Dissent Magazine,

Labor Notes,

and the newest one I like is The Lever.

[-] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Jacobin is great. In the NL we have it too, but I wish we had a fully domestic news like that. Maybe I should start my own...

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

All very good sources. The Lever is a great new addition. David Sirota is a great fighter.

[-] livingcoder@programming.dev 6 points 8 hours ago

The Majority Report. It's awesome. https://m.youtube.com/@TheMajorityReport

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

So I've not visited some of these for a while, and I know some have issues (like swinging in to either liberal or tankie territory), so I'm not guaranteeing they're all perfect, but these are the news sites I have saved to my bookmarks:

World Socialist Web Site

Disability News Service

Morning Star

Novara Media

The National

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 8 hours ago

Seconding the thank you. I'd forgotten about many of those as well, and some I don't recall having ever known.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Great list! Thank you!

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago

Np. Thank you for the time and effort you invest in posting!

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

I try but most of my posts turn out to be a little controversial hah!

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago

What's the saying, hit dogs holler? Take it as a sign you're hitting a nerve lol

Honestly I don't know how you deal with all that crap 😂

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

I was on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Reddit/Lemmy is tame compared to the crap I dealt with on there. 🤣

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Oh yeah, that's hardcore 😂

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I had 65k followers and got doxxed multiple times. Was crazy stuff. All they do on here is just call me Russian bot.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Oof, that sucks (the doxxing). I guess here is like retirement for you lol

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

It is haha I came over when the Reddit API exodus was going on. Had 2 million karma and made the frontpage weekly.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 8 hours ago

I enjoy them, very much.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago

Late stage live is a comedy new channel that feels like older daily show episodes.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 hours ago

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.eu

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 7 hours ago

Thanks so much!

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Thank you

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago

Reality, for one.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The Wire India, Caravan, Swaddle, Newslaundry, etc are some of the few legitimate news media in India. The rest of them shill for either capitalist kool-aid (usually, liberal media like ThePrint or ScoopWhoop) or Modi (proto-fascist brainlets like Republic TV, Essel Media-related subsidiaries, like Zee).

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

The Hindu is sort-of centre-left

In Malayalam(main language of Kerala), there's:
https://www.deshabhimani.com/
http://www.janayugomonline.com/

They were founded by leftist parties, so there might be not enough critcism of the left. But exposure to regular media will balance that more than enough.

I think there are similar ones in other languages such as Theekkathir(Tamil Nadu), People's democracy etc.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

the majority report

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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)

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

Democracy Now. Really ought to watch more often.

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago

Some More News

[-] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

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

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