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a shel of my former self - "Focuses on helping organizations apply online communication capabilities to their strategic organizational communications." [Expert, erudite, very engaging author and speaker.]
African American Political Pundit - [Deep, comprehensive analysis of African-American political news and views, Congressional Black Caucus, race relations, relevant world issues. Huge Weblinks lists.]
All Girl Army - "Blogger collective of women who identify as feminist based on their desire to create and nurture women's community, explore feminist issues and their own lives."
An Old Soul... - [Superb, eloquent, informative commentary on sad state of legislative funding of public education. Top-quality lists of progressive Weblinks.]
Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? - "Making trouble today for a better tomorrow..." [Smart and eclectic blend of politics, physics, Web-tech, voting-machine fraud, the Nobel prize, much more.]
BlackBoxVoting.org - "Nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501c(3) organization. We are the official consumer protection group for elections, funded by citizen donations." [Powerful protection against voting fraud.]
BlogPac.org - Waging Politics Online - "Not content to simply write words or read them, but eager to take action on the pressing issues of our day." [top-level activist/progressive hub, gets things done, moves FAST]
Canada Wants The Truth - Reopen 9/11 - Canadians demanding an investigation into the possibility that USA Government officials self-inflicted a wound on September 11th in pretext for war.
Cutting Point - Commentary and satire on politics, social trends, and daily life in America. Includes a "Comic Relief" area and a user-demand music/video player for fun.
Designers Who Blog (Designers-Who-Blog.com) - "Design, Illustration, Photography, Web, Advertising, Branding" [top-level portfolio of many Web designers, their blogs, their secrets, huge links-lists. See also creativelatitude.com]
Dyre Portents - "The Rantings and Ravings of a Radical Moderate" [Independent, inspired, funny social commentary from a straightshooting Texan. Unafraid of anything on the political highway.]
Easter Lemming Liberal News - "News on Politics and Religion with Rants, Ideas, Links and Items for Liberals, Libertarians, Democrats and Anti-Authoritarians." [Activist, intelligent, insightful.]
Economist's View - [Zero-BS, reality-based views on money, taxes, monetary policies, macroeconomics, religion, politics, etc; also precise charts of government muddles and dementia.]
Fester's Place - [Full-strength political commentary, primarily from center/left perspective, with hardball economics and a bit of football. Highly informative, well-connected.]
Finding God in a Dog - [Highly readable, detailed, quirky slice-and-dice of world news, sinister USA political trends, macro-economics, dog admiration, true romance.]
Flogging the Simian - a paxblog by Soj - [Expatriate American's world view, fantastic Weblinks list, reality-based commentary on Dubya, wars, and foreign affairs. See also weblog.ro/soj]
folkbum's rambles and rants - "Jay Bullock's journal of politics, music, and education." [old-school yet new-wave, a hardball Democrat's worldview; very well connected and many links]
For the Record - "Reality-based information, opinion, and activism concerning national and international affairs since 2003." [Fearless, wide-ranging, no-frills, hugely informative.]
Free Speech Network - "What Democracy Looks Like" - Home of Free Speech TV and Free Speech Online Community. Progressive USA TV channel and Weblog reflects diversity of our society, provides perspectives ignored by the mainstream media.
GeorgeSoros.com - [Author/philosopher, international investor, one of the world's wealthiest philanthropists, Soros founded Open Society Institute (soros.org) actively supporting political and social progress.]
Global Voices Online - Non-profit global citizens-media project aggregates and amplifies conversation online - shining light on places and people other media ignore. Develops tools, institutions, relationships to help all voices everywhere to be heard.
Hoffmania! | All That's Left! - "Free speech political news and information site featuring the best of liberal, progressive and Democratic opinions, breaking news, cartoons and reader contributions."
HongPong.com - "Dan Feidt's log on Minnesota, Information Operations, spinstorms and latent contradictions." [deceptively thrash, with very sharp political comment and choice news items.]
iLounge.com - "The world's leading iPod resource for news, reviews, forums, tips, tutorials, software and more. Download our FREE iPod Buyers' Guides"
Just a Bump in the Beltway - "Politics and culture from the left side of the page." [flawless, polished, professional journalism and scathing political commentary, plus great dinner recipes!]
Let's Try Democracy | Writings by David Swanson - [Activist, effective, and engaging, with many links to leading progressive USA political organizations. Lists Swanson's public-speaking engagements, events, lots of good news.]
Loteria Chicana - [Entertaining, perceptive, witty Chicana. She covers "Amigos, Blog/tech, Cine, Cuentos, Cultura, Deportes, Escuela, Familia, Fotos, Haiku, Los Angeles, Musica, Mexico, Politica, Randomness, Sentimientos."]
Mandarin Design Daily : The MEG Blog - [Packed with wit and how-to Web-design, blogging, and typography tricks. Links to HTML tools, slick design samples, CSS wizardry, graphics magic. See also mandarindesign.com]
Newspaper Advertising - Classified or Display - Newspaper advertising statewide to nationwide at huge discounts. Be in hundreds to thousands of newspapers within a week. One call, one bill, mass advertising.
Personal Democracy Forum - "Meet people who are making change happen, discover tools powering the new civic conversation, spot early trends, understand and embrace this dynamic new force." [Huge local-blogs directory]
playpoi | fueling your love of poi - [Inspiring, beautiful, happy-making Website/Weblog! What started as a Maori dance is now an international, illuminating art with spinning lights, fireballs, flags, wild colors.]
PoliticsTV.com Blog Channel - "Internet TV network for progressives, independents, Democrats or any American opposed to the Republican radical-right agenda." [videos cover candidates, satire, blogs, leaders, ideas, issues]
Preemptive Karma: everything that goes around comes around - "Sacred cows slaughtered daily." [Sharp commentary, hundreds of links; leads the "Progressive Women's Blog Ring," one of the Web's warmest cauldrons of spiritual, political, and social change.]
Prometheus 6 | All respect and no restraint - [Passionate, aggressive analysis of international news and culture, from African-American world view. Superb writing. Wide variety of Web-links and subject categories.]
Scarleteen - "A far better resource for sex information for teens than adult sexuality sites, as well as a supplement to in-home and school-based sex education." [Accepting, activist, and honest. Deserves your sponsorship!]
Sifry's Alerts - "David Sifry's musings" [From founder/CEO of Technorati, a spicy blend of hardcore Web tech, cultural insights, global view from an innovative "serial entrepreneur."]
Signum sine tinnitu - Guy Kawasaki - [Heads-up, hilarious, hands-on wisdom for entrepreneurs, startup jockeys, creative managers. Former Apple Computer evangelist wrote the books, speaks publicly on inspired leadership.]
Technorati.com - Much more than "a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere -- the world of weblogs." Offers many tools and tricks, immensely useful.
The Black Headband - "Political, cultural and social commentary by a 40-something black woman." [Insightful and detailed, often passionate analysis of African conflicts, history, news, and personal experience.]
The Gavel - Official weblog of the Speaker of the USA House of Representatives (as of 2007, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, 8th District; see also www.house.gov/pelosi). High-impact, informative, remarkably Web-savvy.
The ITT List - "From the Editors and Staff of IN THESE TIMES Magazine." [Leading print journal, Website, and Weblog "informing and analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice."
The Stakeholder - "Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Weblog" [Fast-moving, highly informative, remarkably witty and well-written, with links to help Democrats in your state.]
Theriomorph - Animal transformations, etymologic adventures, this human condition: a feminist writer's blog.
truthout - News & Politics Blog - ["Town Meeting" Weblog and domain with sharp political and environmental focus, breaking news, continuing feature articles, superb informative essays. Top-notch authors and researchers.]
UrShalim - "A matter of opinion. From Lebanon. With no borders in mind." [extremely perceptive, detailed, well-written, convincing overviews of local issues and world politics]




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