Comrade:Ledlecreeper27/sandbox/Media sources

I am working on a way to categorize sources for ProleWiki to use. Western "fact checkers" are clearly biased in support of imperialism. Feel free to add sources or move them if they are in the wrong category. This page is for English-language sources only, but we can add other languages if we copy this page to other language instances of ProleWiki.

State media

AES

Media in AES countries run by the state or ruling party. These sources are generally reliable.

China

• CGTN (about)
• Global Times (about)
• People's Daily (about)
• Xinhua News (about)

Cuba

• Granma (about)

Korea

• DPRK Today (about)
• KCNA (about)
• The Pyongyang Times (about)
• Rodong Sinmun (about)

Vietnam

• Nhân Dân (about)

Anti-imperialist

Media in capitalist countries that stand against Western imperialism. These sources are often useful but may be critical of socialism and/or have socially reactionary positions.

Iran

• Press TV (about)

Lebanon

• Al Mayadeen (about)

Russia

• RT (about)
• Sputnik News (about)
• TASS (about)

United States

• The Electronic Intifada (about) - covers palestine

Venezuela

• TeleSUR (about)

Imperialist

Western media run by the capitalist state or intelligence agencies. These sources are usually unreliable, especially in relation to AES.

United Kingdom

• BBC (about)

United States

• Radio Free Asia (about)
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (about)
• Victims of Communism (about)

Corporate media

There is little distinction between this category and the pro-imperialist state media category as many nominally private media companies are controlled by the CIA.

Occupied Korea

• Chosun Ilbo (about)
• Daily NK (about)

United States

• CNBC (about)
• CNN (about)
• Fox News (about)
• NPR (about)
• The New York Times (about)
• The Washington Post (about)

Alternative media

Marxist-Leninist

Sources that are unaffiliated or run by non-ruling communist parties. Generally reliable. These sources don't have to be explicitly ML if they align with anti-imperialism and are pro-AES.

Australia

• Australian Marxist Review (about)
• The Guardian (about)

Canada

• People's Voice (about)
• The Canada Files

China

• Li Jingjing 李菁菁 _(about)

India

• New Age Weekly (about)
• People's Democracy (about)

Thailand

• The New Atlas _{(about) -covers west asia}

United Kingdom

• Lalkar (about)
• Proletarian (about)

United States

• Black Agenda Report (about)
• Blowback Podcast _(about)
• Breakthrough News _(about)
• Friends of Socialist China _(about)
• Liberation News (about)
• Liberation School (about)
• Monthly Review (about)
• New Spark (about)
• Peace, Land, & Bread (about)
• Qiao Collective (about)
• The Burning Spear (about)
• The Red Clarion _(about)
• The Red Nation (about)
• Workers' World (about)
• Hood Communism

Asia

• Asia Times Pepe Escobar's The Roving Eye (about)_{Inactive since Nov, 2021}
• The Cradle

International

• Geopolitical Economy Report (about)
• Tricontinental (about)
• Pepe Escobar's column for Strategic Culture Foundation (about)- ^{currently active}

Other leftist

These sources may be useful for current events or anti-imperialism but are not recommended for analysis of AES. However, some groups, such as Hoxhaists, tend to support some former AES.

Hoxhaist

• The Red Phoenix (about)

Trotskyist

• World Socialist Web Site (about)

Anti-imperialist

Always read critically when using these sources.

• CovertAction Magazine (about)
• The Grayzone (about) - (Don't trust their reporting about covid or vaccines)
• MintPress News (about)
• Orinoco Tribune (about)
• The Empire Files

Reactionary

Non-mainstream right-wing sources, including fascists and ancaps. These sources should never be used on ProleWiki.

Encyclopedia

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia ^{(download) - Good for anything up to around 1979 except you need to be mindful about any topics the USSR had any revisionist spins on at this time like Stalin or Israel}
  • _{When you find an encyclopedia entry, the page will usually have multiple encyclopedias entries on the same page. Scroll down and if you see the warning for the soviet encyclopedia, you will have found the entry.}
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia - There is a menu of pages you can go through but there isn't many pages imported.
• Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question - i'm unsure how credible this is. It seems good but always check the sources it uses.

NGOs and Human Rights Organizations

Western aligned

These are organizations that are directly funded by the U.S. or indirectly through other U.S. or western aligned interests. Don't use unless it's a report on something that is not in the interest of the west to reveal. If it isn't, be very critical and confirm with other sources that aren't western aligned.

• Amnesty International (about)
• Human Rights Watch (about)

Think tanks

Western aligned

• Atlantic Council (about) -NATO think tank

Social media

Social media is not recommended to use as a source except in articles about online subjects such as people active on these platforms. You should generally use the sources that social media posts cite instead of the social media itself. Social media sources may sometimes be necessary to cover current events but should be replaced by better sources as soon as possible.

Mainstream (bourgeois)

• Facebook (about)
• Reddit (about)
• Twitter (about)
• YouTube (about)

Alternative (left)

• Hexbear (about)
• Lemmygrad (about)

Palestine

• Resistance News Network ^(about)

Alternative (right)

• DDGeopolitics
• Lord Bebo

Uncategorized

Feel free to categorize any from this list

• Middle East Monitor (Pro-Palestine, not sure if they are anti-imperialist. they are owned by Ardi Associates, a UK based publisher about page)
• Mondowiess - they seem Pro-Palestine. They publish news about Palestine, Israel and American foreign policy. Unsure if they are anti-imperialist