Links
Favourite websites
- Arrest Blair
Arrest Blair for crimes against peace
- Daring Fireball
John Gruber’s Apple-centric technology weblog
- Hard News
Weblog of NZ media commentator, Russell Brown
- Information Clearing House
Best news portal on the net
- No Right Turn
New Zealand leftist blog, easily the best political blog in NZ
- One Good Move
Great American-based current affairs blog, offering video, links and discussion
- Simulation Argument
Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?
- The Equality Trust
Compelling new evidence shows that large income inequalities within societies damage the social fabric and the quality of life for everyone. The Equality Trust campaigns to promote understanding of the harm caused by inequality
- The Hit List
The most treasured and valuable piece of software I own
- The Reason Project
The Reason Project is a non-profit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. The foundation draws on the talents of prominent and creative thinkers in a wide range of disciplines to encourage critical thinking and
- TPUTH
Socially Generated, Machine Filtered, Hand Polished, Electronic Newspaper for Geeks, Designers & Venture Capitalists
Friends and family
- Boggstandard
Online portfolio site of Steve Boggs, a London-based freelance designer specialising in art direction, editorial design, brand identity and development, and typography.
- Briggs Builders
Briggs Builders Ltd, Napier, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand – We pride ourselves on a ‘job well done’ whether it is a million dollar contract or a simple kitchen renovation.
- Off The Steps
Off The Steps – Bed & Breakfast, Napier, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
- Pryor Design
Website of graphic designer, Adam Pryor
- Savaged Culture
Website of graphic designer, Nick McFarlane
- Tropical Downbeat Orchestra
Great band based in Napier, New Zealand
News and Media
- Al Jazeera English
English language website of Al Jazeera, an Arab television station rivaling the BBC in worldwide audience (approx. 50 million viewers).
- Arab News Newspaper
Leading Middle Eastern english language daily
- Electronic Iraq
News portal covering the US occupation of Iraq, published by respected Middle East alternative news publishers, The Electronic Intifada (EI) and incorporating on the ground reports from veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness.
- Guerrilla News Network
Independent news organisation with a mission to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming. No ads and no subscription fees.
- Harper’s Weekly Review
A brief summary of the prior week’s news culled from newspapers, periodicals, and the Internet.
- Information Clearing House
Best news portal on the net
- Scoop (New Zealand News)
Fiercely independent press release driven internet news agency that also publishes a variety of raw, unedited material from national and international commentators while producing its own editorial content on important current issues—often giving voice to
- Source Watch
SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.
- The Electronic Intifida
Not-for-profit, independent publication committed to comprehensive public education on the question of Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the economic, political, legal, and human dimensions of Israel’s 37-year occupation of Palestinian terr
- The Guardian
International newspaper, based in the UK, not completely beholden to the profit motive
- The real face of war (explicit photo gallery)
Wars can be depicted as noble only by those who are too naive, too young, too deluded, too corrupt, too sociopathic, or too stupid to understand the obscenity that killing in such an organized fashion represents.
- TPUTH
Socially Generated, Machine Filtered, Hand Polished, Electronic Newspaper for Geeks, Designers & Venture Capitalists
- Z Communications
An extensive online progressive magazine and community of alternative news, opinions, and resources.
Other blogs worth a gander
- Anarchia
Random thoughts from a New Zealand Jewish anarchist on modern day politics, war, poverty and more.
- Baghdad Burning
Girl Blog from Iraq… let’s talk war, politics and occupation.
- Capitalism Bad: Tree Pretty
New Zealand feminist blog from Maia
- Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
Dahr’s personal log from Iraq
- Daring Fireball
John Gruber’s Apple-centric technology weblog
- Frogblog
a political blog from the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Hard News
Weblog of NZ media commentator, Russell Brown
- Joe Hendren
The weblog of Joe Hendren
- Michael Albert
Economic visionary who developed, along with Robin Hahnel, the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short.
- No Right Turn
New Zealand leftist blog, easily the best political blog in NZ
- Noam Chomsky
Weblog of Noam Chomsky
- One Good Move
Great American-based current affairs blog, offering video, links and discussion
- Richard Dawkins
Author of ‘The God Delusion’
- SNAP!
SNAP! is a community and industrial news source created by the Wildcat Anarchist Collective from Wellington, NZ.
- Today in Iraq
News about Iraq and U.S. occupation
- Tomdispatch.com
a regular antidote to the mainstream media compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt
- Yellow Peril
The weblog of Tze Ming Mok
Palestine Israel and Zionism
Radio
- Democracy Now!
A daily radio and TV new program, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
- Radio Active
Aotearoa’s best radio station
- Radio New Zealand
New Zealand’s national radio station – a mix of news, current affairs, documentaries and features, drama and music.
Reference
- Debunking 911 Conspiracies
Excellent website that sets about debunking many of the 911 conspiracies and shines a light on some of the real conspiracies and inconsistencies we should be focussing on
- Plain English Campaign
Fighting for crystal-clear communication since 1979
- Wikipedia
The free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.
Religion, Secularism and Spirituality
- Are you a fundamentalist Christian?
Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian
- The Reason Project
The Reason Project is a non-profit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. The foundation draws on the talents of prominent and creative thinkers in a wide range of disciplines to encourage critical thinking and
Technology
- Mabu dish cloth
The ultimate dish cloth
- Open Office
Office suite to replace Microsoft Office, for free!
- Potion Factory
Makers of my favourite piece of software, The Hit List
- The Hit List
The most treasured and valuable piece of software I own
- The RepRep Project
[RepRap] has been called the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment…’ – James Randerson writing in The Guardian on November 25, 2006
Watchdogs
- Center for Media and Democracy
The non-profit Center for Media and Democracy strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism, media “of, by and for the people.
- Media Lens
Media Lens is a UK-based media-watch project, which offers authoritative criticism of mainstream media bias and censorship, as well as providing in-depth analysis, quotes, media contact details and other resources. Media Lens has been commended by a numbe
- Project Censored
The news that didn’t make the News.
- Right Web
Tracking militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.
- Source Watch
SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.
- The Memory Hole
Rescuing knowledge, freeing information
Jamie’s Ministry of Food, by Jamie Oliver
The Fall of Man and Cain and Abel, by Daniel Quinn