If you open every link on this page, and read every sub-link on each of those pages for 30 consecutive days, your head will explode. On the other hand, you will be a very well informed citizen flying through the universe.

News and Commentary

The Nation Magazine Online - Political reporting at its best

Common Dreams News Center - Progressive news and views

Democratic Underground - Also check out the link to The Top 10 Conservative Idiots

BuzzFlash.com - Oodles of News

MotherJones.com - News, reviews, the arts and more

Truth Out - The name says it

Media Matters for America - David Brock was a righty, now he's a lefty

TomPaine.common sense - Progressive insight and action

FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) - Media watch

DailyKos - Daily rants and political analysis

TalkLeft.com - The politics of crime

MoveOn.org - You know them by now

CounterPunch.com - A great political newsletter

ALJAZEERA.net - News and views from way over there

Democracy Now! - No fear. And links to great radio.

 

Seriously Fun Stuff

Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O'Reilly - Oh, boy!

Betty Bowers - America's best christian

The Fictional Times - Unfair and Unbalanced Journalism

Bomb the Bastards - Ouch!

The Onion - Wacky, wacky

WhiteHouse.org - Meet the whole Bush Crime Family and their friends

George B. Wush - Thanks to cafe regular John Ince!

 

Miscellany

Ask A Scientist - A lecture series for curious humans, held regularly right here at the cafe!

Live 365 - Internet Radio

Last Gasp - One of the largest and oldest publishers and purveyors of underground comic books in the world, as well as being a distributor of all sorts of weird 'n' wonderful subversive literature, graphic novels, tattoo and art books

Green Apple Books - Support independent booksellers. And this is the best in The City.

 

 

 

Some of Our Favorite Thinkers

Tom Engelhardt

James Carroll

Ira Chernus

David Sirota

Noam Chomsky

Ward Churchill

Marie Cocco

Alexander Cockburn

Will Durst

Laura Flanders

Ellen Goodman

Tom Hayden

Bob Herbert

Jim Hightower

Arianna Huffington

Molly Ivins

Robert Jensen

Naomi Klein

Howard Zinn

Paul Krugman

Michael Moore

Ralph Nader

Greg Palast

Robert Scheer

Norman Solomon

 

Radio and The Tube

Countdown - Not all TV news sucks and Keith Olberman is the best anchor on the tube. Be sure to check out the links to "Oddball" and Bloggerman

KPFA Radio - Great progressive programming, news, music and community affairs

Acoustic Sunrise - KFOG's Rosalie Howarth is a great supporter of local music (and the cafe, too!)

Air America Radio - Finally, liberal commercial radio

KQKE Radio - Local Air America affiliate. Hate the commercials, love the programming

The Mike Malloy Show - The best. Period.

 

 

 

 

 

 It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire