We choose sites which incorporate skillful writing and asute analysis and group them into these categories: Arts, Economy, Self-Reliance, Earth, News & Analysis. Some links are annotated.
New additions appear with an asterisk (*). To go directly to these, enter * in Edit / Find. (File Edit View menu, top of your screen) If a site becomes inactive, co-opted or unreliable, we remove it. If you find a broken link – or if a site does not open in a new window – please let us know.
Art for Change - art as it should be: inspiring of reflection & growth
alchimiae (our "Lifeboat" masthead photographer)
Banksy (incomparable global street artist)
George Carlin-The American Dream (and many clips on YouTube)
Latuff cartoons ("visual chronicler of barbarism" Brazilian cartoonist)
Moby & The Void Pacific Choir (music videos on animal rights, factory farming, climate change, and women’s rights)
Nebador Standing on Your Own 2 Feet
Eric Pickersgill's "Removed" (photographic study of tech-dependent humans)
Pray for Calamity Prose
Trevor Moore (comedian-singer) Check out "It's Time for Guillotines" and "The Ballad of Billy John"
Economy - realities & alternatives
Of Two Minds* (Charles Hugh Smith)
Real Progressives * (modern monetary theory for the people)
Self-Reliance - homesteading & emergency prep
Homestead Honey * 20-yr hometeading experience in 3 growing zones
My Galician Garden * "creating a green spot of my own"
Peak Moment TV (archives)
Surviving the Modern World (no longer updated, but great information)
Earth
Strangely Like War (deforestation)
What Is Sustainable (Home of the Wild, Free and Happy book)
News
Almasdar News (AMN/Syria)
Fars News Agency (Iran)
Global Times (China)
GMA Network (Philippines)
Granma (Cuba)
Peoples Dispatch (Africa)
Press TV (Iran)
The Conversation Academic rigor with a journalistic flair *
Xinhua * (China)
Analysis
Art of Annihilation Cory Morningstar
Beijing Dispatch (Jeff Brown) and China Rising/Punto Press blog
China Rising * Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations (Jeff Brown)
Consent Factory, Inc. (satire by C.J.Hopkins)
Rice Farmer (website lists)
Tortilla con sal (Latin America)
Workers World * (global worker actions)