Reuters Alertnet covers conflicts and crises around the world quickly and comprehensively. The UN's IRIN covers human rights issues and conflicts in Asia and Africa. The Institute for War & Peace Reporting runs in-depth local coverage of conflicts in several war-torn regions, and trains local journalists in conflict reporting.

The International Relations and Security Network is a Swiss news and research service covering international relations for government and security professionals. Defence News covers military developments worldwide. Crimes of War covers on-going war crimes and current trials or tribunals.

Foreign Policy in Focus is a leading progressive U.S. think tank. Worldpress is a non-partisan American news magazine that reprints articles from outside the U.S. to supplement its own global news.

Truthout reposts major news daily on labor, women's rights, the war on terror, the environment, and more topics. Tom Paine links to top stories from the major U.S. papers five days a week.

World Peace Herald draws international news headlines from The Washington Times, United Press International, Tiempos del Mundo, Middle East Times and others.

Corpwatch is a watchdog with weekly stories and a research center designed to help you investigate corporations. Corporate Crime Reporter is a legal print newsletter that publishes and archives highlights on-line.

National Geographic News: Environment is updated weekly with wildlife and ecology stories from around the world. Science Daily is a headline feed that covers environmental and other science research news daily.

Grist Magazine is probably the most-read environmental e-zine, thanks to its political sense of humor. The activist groups Nature Conservancy, League of Conservation Voters, Union of Concerned Scientists and Sierra Club all run newsletters on environmental policy and publish campaign-specific reports.

Ecologist is a science magazine addressing the human environment. Earth Island Journal is another scholarly journal on the environment. Harbinger is a journal of social ecology. Journal of Political Ecology is another academic periodical on society and the environment.

Asia Pacific News.Net is a condensed feed set up by the Asia Bulletin. Asia Times reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues from an Asian perspective.

The Epoch Times is a New York-based world daily with special coverage of China.

China's world news outlets are Xinhuanet and People's Daily. Taiwan's major on-line papers are Taipei Times and China Post.

The Jakarta Post reports on south asian and pacific world news from Indonesia, The Manila Times from the Philippines, and donga from Korea. The New Zealand Herald covers international and regional news.

Outlook India and New Kerala report on regional and world news from India.

Rising Nepal is a government news outlet, Nepal News.Net is a topical news feed, and Nepali Times reports from Kathmandu and hosts BBC segments in Nepal, while International Nepal Solidarity Network is banned in Nepal.

The New Nation is Bangladesh's independent news site, and News from Bangladesh monitors national and regional headlines for expats.

South Asian Media Net covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan and Afghanistan.

Dawn is Pakistan's leading english-language daily. Afgha.com and Ariana are Afghan news outlets.

Russia's quirky independent Pravda On-line covers international news. ITAR-TASS is the successor to the Soviet news agency, running Russia's state news releases.

UNIAN reports from Ukraine on national news, Russian foreign policy and neighboring former Soviet satellite states.

Information and Analytical Center Eurasia reviews political news in Central Asian countries, with focus sections on Caspain petroleum and gas, ecology, corruption, regional crises and more topics.

Transitions Online covers five regions of Eurasia: central asia and mongolia, the caucasus, eastern europe & russia, southeastern europe and central europe and the baltics.

Southeast European Times and Euro-reporters cover wider europe with an emphasis on economic politics.

EurActiv is the EU's policy news release portal, with economic and policy reports and the text of the EU's constitution, agenda and projects.

The UK's Guardian and the BBC are major international news sources with offices in most parts of the world.

CERI is a Paris-based Center for International Studies and Research with journal entries in French and English.

Deutsche Welle and Spiegel cover world news and events in Europe from Germany.

Ekathimerini is the leading english language international paper from Greece.

Turkish Press is a Michigan-based daily on Turkey, funded in part by Voice of America.

Aljazeera is the pre-eminent independent news source on the Arab world. Ain-Al-Yaqeen "Heart of the Matter" is a weekly independent arab political magazine in english.

Iraq blog count indexes and features a large cross-section of Iraqis on blogspot.

Khaleej Times covers the Gulf States and North Africa from United Arab Emirates.

Gulf Daily News covers regional news from Bahrain.

Yemen Times is the country's leading English-language paper.

The Peninsula covers Gulf news from Qatar.

Times of Oman is the Sultanate's oldest english-language paper.

Jerusalem Post reports on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.

Arab News from Saudi Arabia bills itself the Middle East's leading english language daily.

IranMania and Payvand News of Iran cover Iranian politics and regional news. Persian Journal covers Iranian ex-pat opinion and cultural news.

Libya Our Home is an independent news feed on Libya and northern Africa. Jamahiriya is Libya's official news bulletin.

Sustainable Africa, allAfrica: Environment and Peace Africa are focused sections of allAfrica.com, a daily news aggregator.

African News Dimension is the slickest site treating all of Africa, with seven regional sections, topical sections and Africa at a Glance.

African Woman and Child Feature Service is a Nairobi-based regional news source on gender and development. Pambazuka is an African political magazine dedicated to social justice. Africa Action runs news on activism for Africa from the U.S.

Mail & Guardian: Africa sorts news from all six regions of Africa daily. SouthScan reports on southern and central Africa.

Cape Argus and The Star report on regional and world news from South Africa, and The Namibian runs national and regional news.

The East African and The Standard report on east African news from Kenya, and The Daily Monitor reports on east and central Africa from Uganda.

Morocco Times covers national news and the Maghreb region.

Nigeria's Vanguard, Nigeriaworld, Ghanaweb news and The Ghanaian Chronicle report on national politics and western sub-Saharan Africa.

Angola Times is a World News feed on Angola and southern and west central Africa.

CubaNet News is an anti-regime independent news source with links to documents about repression in Cuba.

MercoPress covers Latin America's Mercosur countries and South Atlantic news from Uruguay. Regional news is also available daily in english from the Panama Post and from The Tico Times in Costa Rica.

Alternet and Wiretap Magazine are news projects of the Independent Media Institute.

CS Monitor is an independent, centrist source of weekly U.S. and international coverage. Mother Jones is a monthly progressive magazine with daily news commentary blogs. The Nation is a drier liberal weekly.

The New Standard and Znet tackle U.S. and world news daily from a radical perspective.

Power and Interest News Report features 'realist' U.S. foreign policy analysis in daily case studies. Counterpunch is a muckraking newsletter with opinionated in-depth analysis of current events.

New America Media, a project of Pacific News Service, covers U.S. news with special beats on education, health, immigration, youth and the environment, and can organize news by ethnicities or by topics. The Village Voice is one of the oldest and best-known U.S. alternative newsweeklies, based in New York City.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report is the newsletter of a hate group watch, the SPLC's Intelligence Project.

In These Times was founded in 1976 to "identify and clarify the struggles against corporate power now multiplying in American society."

Independent World Television is a new project with world coverage and a plan to put "The Real News" on TV.

Listen Live: Air America streaming radio.

The Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, L.A. Times, New York Times, Philly.com, San Francisco Gate, St. Petersburg Times and Washington Post are leading U.S. newspapers.

Nunatsiaq News covers the Arctic region from the perspective of indigenous groups.

Native Web is a portal for indigenous cultures around the world, with a front page news feed and research resources.

Unrepresented Peoples is an activist news site for indigenous groups, migrants and minorities denied voice in their governments and the press.

The Economist is a conservative business news journal with neo-liberal and neo-con analysis of international affairs.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research reports on current policy initiatives in the U.S. from a progressive perspectives. The UK-based New Economics Foundation researches economic policy decisions as they impact social and environmental welfare.

a-Infos is the leading on-line alternative radio hub, featuring several new downloadable radio mp3s every day.

Infoshop is one of the internet's oldest sources of anarchist, activist and alternative news. Political Affairs is an online magazine of Marxist thought.

Global Politics Magazine is a next-generation forum for discussing the future of international policy, published from the UK.

UnderReported posts surprising stories from other media outlets and some primary sources.

Indy Media Centers exist in many major cities all over the world for independent journalists to post articles that are user-moderated.

Global Voices will take you to english language blogs from around the world through country listings and topic areas.

WikiNews runs user-written regional world coverage in 18 languages.

TruthDig is and isn't blogging. It's the next thing.

Newspaper Index will take you to the top on-line newspapers in any given country. Topix also organizes news feeds by region or country, but the source selection (while broader than Google's News) is narrow.

Media Analysis

CJR daily is a media analysis blog from the Columbia University's J-School.

PR Watch is a blog from the Center for Media & Democracy, reporting on the public relations industry.

Stats focuses on exposing the misuse of statistics in major news stories.

International Freedom of Expression eXchange runs regional news on press freedoms and action alerts. The Free Expression Policy Project runs articles, fact sheets, and policy papers on government and corporate censorship, and provides excellent legal information resources on confronting censorship.

Studies of the Mass Mediums is Trinity professor Michael Kearl's index of web resources on mass media research. The Media History Project is a University of Minnesota series of trivia pieces on media history from petroglyphs to pixels.

Free Press is a non-partisan U.S. think tank and action group on media policy.

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom is an advocacy group concerned about media concentration in Canada. Your Media is a watchdog run by one of Canada's largest media unions.

Digital Civil Rights in Europe runs a weekly newsletter available on their homepage, covering policy developments that impact freedom of information and privacy rights.

Well Connected is the Center for Public Integrity's page on the broadcast, cable and telecomm industries.

Media Report to Women is a quarterly ejournal that focuses on media issues that concern women.

Africa Action's Media Guide features a search engine for local news sources, editors, reporters and producers.

Project Censored is a media research group that compiles an annual list of 25 news stories under-reported by the corporate news media.

Media Alliance is an advocacy center for media workers, non-profits, and social justice activists that focuses on media accountability and social responsibility.

Proscenia Newsletter and Online Journalism Review cover general resources and trends for on-line media development. Also check out this Berkeley guide to multi-media reporting.

WITNESS supports human rights activists in using video to generate advocacy media, and publishes their partners' videos and blogs in regional lists.

Disinfopedia is a collaborative (wiki) project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.

Schema-Root is an alternative search engine, "an encyclopedia of current events."

Google Scholar brings up peer-reviewed academic papers for reference by keyword(s). JSTOR is another archive of academic papers.

OAIster is another searchable collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources, including white papers, dissertations, on-line journals, and archives of image and movie files. A keyword text search brings up a large catch of abstracts & links to the full articles.

Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, hard to find, or not widely known, including government files, corporate memos, court documents, police reports, congressional testimony, and other media. Internet Archive is a broader effort to maintain valuable on-line resources that might otherwise disappear.

National Security Archive is an archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Black Vault also maintains an on-line FOIA Document Archive organized by topic.

Impact Online is a search index of U.S. government publications.

FindLaw has an on-line library of US cases and codes, daily legal news, and a legal resource search engine. The Law and Courts data section of the American Political Science Association's webpage is an index of on-line resources on the U.S. judicial system.

Code of Federal Regulations or the U.S. Code is a searchable archive of federal law developed by the administrative branch of the U.S. government to implement the Acts of Congress.

Thomas has full text of U.S. Congress bills under consideration (archives include those passed into law and their earlier drafts), the schedule of upcoming Congressional sessions, and members of Congressional committees. GovTrack.US is an independent resource for tracking legislation and voting records for the U.S. Congress. You can also look up representatives at Congress.org and browse legislative action alerts by issue area. The official periodical of the U.S. capitol is Congressional Quarterly.

Program on International Policy Attitudes is a survey resource on American voters' attitudes on what Washington is doing. World Public Opinion is run by the same.

Paul Hensel's Political Geography Links is a list of bookmarks maintained by a Florida State University professor of political science.

Geography Compass Online is a political geography journal featuring state-of-the-art surveys of current research discuss the major topics, issues, viewpoints, and controversies within each area of the discipline.

Open Secrets is a current database identifying the corporations and interest groups financing specific politicians in the U.S. Find out who pays for the election campaigns of any current or recent politician, which businesses and interest groups are connected to which political party, and which politicians are the top recipients of donations from specific special interest groups. Project on Government Oversight is another resource focused on exposing corruption and exploring solutions.

Bad Corp is a slick reference on who owns whom and where your grocery money is going. Their corporate reviews section is broad and systematic, including lists of products and names of directors as well as corporate ownership trees.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. government's Interenational Justice Statistics resources include papers and recent data sets from the UN. The College of DuPage has a U.S. federal government Criminal Justice Internet Resource Guide; state by state statistical resources can be found by googling the state name with "criminal justice statistics".

The Project on Government Oversight links to primary sources on government contractors. This watchdog also keeps an library of detailed reports on corruption in the U.S. government, and a contract oversight archive.

International Futures is a customizable systems dynamics model created by Barry B. Hughes. Good way to explore what mega-models do, but you want to learn how to create your own if you're going to interpret the results of one of these things, it helps to be able to read the fine print.

Looking for numbers to compare international trends? GEO Data Portal allows users to select from over 400 different variables and a complete list of nations to compile customized .xls tables (other formats also available) of global statistics on socio-economic and environmental conditions. The US Census Bureau provides figures on poverty, income levels, housing, business and trade, and population maps.

SEDAC is a spatial information source on socioeconomic data and applications, including downloads of population, landscape and climate estimages, natural disaster hotspots, Central American land cover and U.S. census microdata.

Not sure how to work with statistics? Statsoft has a free on-line crash course in elementary statistics. A word of caution about the statistical incompetence and the scientific peer review process. It's easy to screw up statistics, so be careful what you say, and who you quote - don't be one of the many activists who spread conveniently garbled statistics at the expense of their own credibility. This short paper (pdf) is an excellent beginners' guide to recognizing dishonest or shabby statistics.

PubMed is a searchable database with over 15 million bibliographic citations and brief abstract summaries for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Medline is a more extensive (subscription only) version of the same service - your local university library should have access, so log on to one of their computers to use it for free. For more basic general health science information, the National Institutes of Health website is an authoritive source.

Children's Health Environmental Coalition is a resource on environmental toxins known to affect children's health.

Johns Hopkins Magazine features dense lead stories on medical research written for a general audience.

The US Environmental Protection Agency's Envirofacts Data Warehouse can identify sources of pollution in your zip code and provide the compliance records of local polluters. How far are you from a Superfund site? The US Geological Survey has more extensive water data on the quantity, usage, quality, and connectivity of water supplies. The EPA can also bring up watershed data from state maps.

Environmental Media Service Library is an extensive topic indexed library of fast facts, expert contacts and scientific essays you can access on-line. Union of Concerned Scientists is a progressive advocacy think tank in the U.S. that publishes policy news and in-depth reports on environmental issues in their immediate political context.

World Resources Institute is a conservative independent environmental think tank that works with governments and the private sector to develop environmental policy solutions, rather than lobbying for political change. Browse their projects to review their work areas, or explore Earth Trends and Research Topics, their research and information portals. Also a source of educational power point materials and data sets on coral reefs, material outflows from industrial countries, and carbon dioxide inventories.

The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre is a current source of data on marine, freshwater, forest, mountain and protected habitats and species.

Eldis is the ultimate guide to international development information, running weekly reports on policy progress and emerging issues. The Eldis list of 35 issue guides ranges from Aid & debt to HIV/AIDS to World Bank & IMF. The perspective is from within the development community (not outside the World Bank paradigm), so the focus is on how to make development work for the benefit of communities and the environment. Their Statistics include health, labor, agricultural, nutrition, crop forecast, trade, poverty, and education data.

The tools and methods section on RTI International is a nice overview of research processes to look at when brainstorming on a development topic you intend to study in-depth, if you haven't settled on a research approach yet.

PRAXIS is an index of archival resources on international and comparative social development. The Dev-Zone Knowledge Center is a similar project, created in New Zealand as an educational resource on global development isues which also lists quite a few scholarships and grants.

The international development think tank id21 reports current research on health, education, urban poverty and infrastructure, and socio-economic policy in the developing world.

Global Policy Forum is a large index of issue papers on development, conflict and environmental policy. Beyond Intractability is a knowledge base worth visiting for its illustrative case studies and its refreshing problem-solving approach.

African Studies Center is a University of Pennsylvania index of research materials on Africa.

Institute for Security Studies: South Africa runs policy papers on current conflicts and other security issues throughout Africa. Also features monographs on topics in human security, fact files by country, and key documentation on the Darfur conflict.

First Press is a UK journal of the critical social sciences, from the Sussex portal the global site.

Pop Planet is a U.S. government database with scholarly articles on population & environment linkages and a handful of country profiles.

ParEcon is ZNet's knowledge base on participatory economics. UN Economic and Social Development resources include a topical directory of global and regional institutes, the UN STATS Common Database, and regional economic and social commissions with their own publications, such as the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

The World Bank's website includes basic information on a wide range of important topics in development. While the World Bank's self-perceived role as a global problem-solver may make this resource feel like an encyclopedic advertisement for the benevolent face of the forces of globalization, many of these reports are simply pragmatic, non-polemical case studies on social and environmental issues.

Institute for Women's Policy Research is a George Washington University project on women in the USA. Women Watch is a UN resource on the advancement of women, including a directory of UN entities, programs and events on gender equity. Gender Statistics and Indicators cover children, education, and women's progress in several reports that describe trends in the data and show summary statistics. These data are also broken down by region and country. Other reports are organized under 12 major themes.

For research on the U.S. military, start by searching Defense Link, the military's official website. Independent sources of data on the military include the Center for Defense Information, the Federation of American Scientists' Military Analysis Network, and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) also has a guide to U.S. Military Weapons Systems.

Loyola University's project on Strategic Intelligence, Military Intelligence and Economic Intelligence is a huge collection of links to government and military intelligence websites, with a new international intelligence center. The FAS Intelligence Resource Program provides in-depth information on agencies around the world, and publishes Secrecy News two or three times a week.

John Pike's Global Security links to official and unofficial resources on intelligence policy, structure, function and operations, and features a world intelligence guide. Mario Profaca, a Croatian journalist, also has a massive collection on intelligence matters.

Other general intelligence research portals include Intel Brief, Intel Forum, Center for National Security Studies, and the UK-based Quarterly Journal of Intelligence and National Security and The Lobster. Intelligence Online is a French-based online service. Agentura is devoted to intelligence agencies in Russia. The Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies covers global intelligence organizations by country, intelligence reform, intelligence threats and assessments.

Future War focuses on Information Warfare and has a large collection of articles and links.

Privacy International and EPIC are public interest research groups focused on surveillance and civil liberties issues including police information systems, ID cards and freedom of expression. Article 19 is a London-based NGO that monitors freedom of expressoin and campaigns for the right to access information held by governments, public authorities and corporations.

The University of Michigan's extensive index of statistical resources on the web is littered with dead links, but it does have a page dedicated to Military and Defense Statistics. The Washington-based Almanac of Policy Issues also has a readable description of the Fiscal Year 2004 Pentagon Budget.

Political Economy of Civil Wars is an e-bibliography of reports, papers and book chapters, produced in 2001 at a Stanford workshop but addressing many on-going resource driven civil wars. The Economics of Civil War, Crime and Violence is a World Bank program and collection of policy research reports.

321 energy is all business news on the energy industries.

Post Carbon Institute Think Tank is a blog by research fellows currently covering peak oil, community supported manufacturing, and local money (energy backed currency). World Changing is a blog on energy technology and policy.

Mineral Policy Institute campaigns against destructive mining projects in Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Full reports on each campaign issue.

Tailings.info is a comprehensive and easy to navigate web thesis on mine tailings and how they go wrong, produced to inform engineers on how to prevent failures.

The US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has a great deal of data on energy consumption, pricing, sectoral and geographic demand (within the U.S.) and greenhouse gas emissions (in annual reports for each fuel). Also check out the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas.

The Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center includes comparisons of alternative fuels, state and federal incentives and laws, and what alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure are already available.

Concerned about the radioactive waste legacy of nuclear weapons production, testing, and nuclear materials production for the energy industry? The U.S. Department of Energy has a large library of environmental management (i.e., clean-up or containment related) technical reports on-line at DOE Information Bridge, in addition to these guidance documents. If you live near a legacy waste site, check for a Community Advisory Board (also known as Site Specific Advisory Boards) in your area. These citizen volunteer boards have close contact with DOE officials and can often obtain further information upon request.

If you're more interested in the high level nuclear waste byproducts of commercial nuclear power production, many of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's reports are available on-line. You may also find some of these resources helpful. Also check out these Yucca Mountain Geophysical Studies, provided by the USGS.

WWW.History is a topical index of annotated web resources on American history. History Cooperative is a mainstream non-profit American history project. Many large collections of historical primary data are available on-line, including NARA (the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration), The Truman Library, The Smithsonian Institute's Research resources (scroll down for the best parts), and The American Colonists' Library for early American history e-documents.

Many Pasts is a collection of first-person narratives of American history written by ordinary individuals and dating from the 16th century, organized chronologically. It is run by George Mason University's History Matters, a teaching resource that also includes Making Sense of Evidence, a guide to analyzing primary materials as a historian would.

American Political Prints 1766-1866 is a collection of political cartoons from Harpers Weekly chronicling American history through humorists' commentary.

Making of America is an on-line collection of the Cornell University Library that covers the antebellum history in American history through reconstruction.

Cold War International History Project is run by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Free Documentaries is a searchable collection of documentary films to download.

Radical Reference is a miscellany of timely and timeless reference resources. Their questions answered index is broad but instructive.

Radical University includes a newsfeed but features criticism, opencourseware, knowledge sharing projects and several universities.