These are just a couple of websites that give alternative, critical perspectives on the news and political issues.  Over time I hope to work with students to develop this page into a powerful site for challenging mindless political orthodoxy.

ZNet: ZNet is an enormous site with thousands of files. For a new user finding the info they want can be a daunting task. To facilitate, we have compiled a list of some key components of ZNet with brief overviews of each below. For a Summary of What ZNet is all about, check out our ZNet Summary.

Foreign Policy in Focus: A Think Tank Without Walls

Mother Jones A legacy of raising hell, a commitment to JOURNALISM

In These Times:  award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter.

Independent Media Center: 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.

Noam Chomsky Archive: Noam Chomsky is one of America's most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguistics at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as U.S. interventionism in the developing world, the political economy of human rights and the propaganda role of corporate media.

Greenpeace: Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

Antiwar.com: Site name says it all.