Summary: Here are my favorite sources of information. You might find some of them of use. In the comments post your favorite sources of information.
Contents
- Economics
- Military Affairs
- Online magazines for a general audience
- Politics and Geopolitics
- Science
- General News agencies — my favorites
- Other sources useful for research
- Special interests
- For More Information
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(1) Economics
- Top Recommendation: Paul Krugman’s column at the New York Times
- Brad DeLong’s website (Prof Economics, Berkeley)
- Calculated Risk — notes about today’s economic indicators; not so hot analysis
- China Financial Markets by Michael Pettis (Prof Finance, Peking U) — news from the new center of the world
- The Economist magazine
- Marginal Revolution — website of Tyler Cowen (Prof Economics, George Mason U)
- Roubini’s Economonitor — a wide range of economic commentary
For more see Reliable sources of information about Economics.
(2) Military Affairs
- Information Dissemination — All about naval affairs
- Marine Corps Gazette
- Small Wars Journal
(3) Politics and Geopolitics
- TOP recommendation: Glenn Greenwald
- AntiWar website
- Foreign Affairs magazine
- Foreign Policy magazine
- The Monkey Cage — political science research
- Naked Capitalism
- Stratfor Global Research
- Tom Engelhardt’s TomDispatch
- Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone
For more sources see A guide to sources of geopolitical insight on the Internet.
(4) Science
- Climate Etc — website of Judith Curry (Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Nature magazine
- New Scientist magazine
- NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — Especially note the ENSO tracking page
- Roger Pielke Jr’s website (Prof Environment Science, U CO Boulder)
- Science magazine
(5) Online magazines for a general audience
(6) General News agencies — my favorites
- Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters, Der Spiegel
(7) Other sources useful for research
- Questia Online Research — online books and magazines, worth the money
- Scribd online library — worth the money
- Snopes Urban Legend Archive — check that story before you pass it on
(8) Special interests
Where to go to follow this unusual solar cycle:
(9) For More Information
About the mainstream media:
- A time-saving tip when reading the daily news, 2 January 2008
- Only our amnesia makes reading the newspapers bearable, 30 April 2008
- “Elegy for a rubber stamp”, by Lewis Lapham, 26 August 2008
- “The Death of Deep Throat and the Crisis of Journalism”, 23 December 2008
- The media doing what it does best these days, feeding us disinformation, 18 February 2009 — About sea ice
- The magic of the mainstream media changes even the plainest words into face powder, 24 April 2009
- The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and understand the world, 2 June 2009
- We’re ignorant about the world because we rely on our media for information, 3 June 2009
- We know nothing because we read newspapers, 12 October 2009 – About mythical numbers
- The Raymond Davis incident shows that we’re often ignorant because we rely on the US news media. There is a solution., 18 February 2011
I like Next Big Future.
AFAICT, “Next Big Future,” like slashdot and so many of the other techno-utopian sites, operates primarily in order to paint rosy visions of a fabulous yet strangely never-quite-arriving future in order to pacify the gullible millions. “Sure, my husband just got fired and my wages just got cut again and my son can’t find a job after graduating from Northwestern, but none of that matters because in another 15 years we’ll have fusion power and True AI and humanoid robots and the Singularity!”
In short, these outlets provide the same service that the Catholic Church did to the elites of past eras: keeping the hoi polloi in line by feeding them fairytales about Pie in the Sky by and by.
Chill out.
jonh,
The comments section here is home for pedantry and over-the-top rhetoric! Such are always in order, so long as stated as personal views — or verdicts supported by some scaffolding of facts.
Next Big Future is on our blogroll. Providing a vision of hope, with some factual basis (it’s not sci-fi) is a valuable service.
To this day I remember the thrill of watching on TV “The Twenty-First Century” (sponsored by Union Carbide, 1967-1970), seeing the wonders of the future. I don’t recall what they describe. Probably much of it remains in the future, but the optimism it provided was IMO valuable.
I would suggest you check out Mosler Economics. An automobile manufacturer , economist and Hedge fund operator
And New Economic Perspectives — The Economics department of the University of Missouri Kansas City
You may disagree with them but you shouldn’t ignore them especially Bill Black Cheif prosecutor during the Savings and Loan clean up.
Yaker,
(1) As I’ve repeatedly said, we’ve gone over this material many times here. Giving yet another link to these sites is a reading FAIL.You might find it worthwhile to read the posts about MMT. You’ll see I provide ample references for anyone interesting in learning about MMT. Also, you’ll see that these issues were debated at extreme length.(2) The two points I made, repeatedly stated, are consistent with MMT.Yaker,
My apologies. I didn’t see that your comment was on the new post. It looked like a comment in an on-going discussion on another thread!
It is, of course, quite appropriate here!
Thanks. I am new to this site and hadn’t seen any references to MMT. I especially like your correction. Too many people can’t admit when they are wrong so they ignore it, it’s refreshing when I find I am not alone.
Writing in comments is largely a process of making mistakes in expression and formulation. It’s like chatting at the pub — with a stenographer recording for all to see every wrong and silly sentence.
I try telling that to my Grandkids. Never put in writing what you would be embarrassed to see on the front page of the New York Times. Amazing how some never get it.
Nice
Good to see a List
Thx
Breton
would suggest reading john pilger and Arundhati Roy both are very passionate, opinionated, informative and moving.
Kara,
Thanks for the recommendations!
John Pilgar: an Australian journalist based in London. See his website!
Arundhati Roy: an Indian author and political activist who was best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes.
“Billionaires Warn Higher Taxes Could Prevent Them From Buying Politicians“, Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 8 December 2012 — Opening:
I come to this question with an interesting personal perspective.
Near two weeks ago I concluded two years of service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (‘Mormons’). As with other LDS missionaries, I did not read newspapers or non-religious books, use the internet (except to e-mail family), watch television, or engage in real political discussions for the duration of those two years. Spending two years ‘unplugged’ is one of the best things that I – a “digital native” – have ever done. It has fundamentally changed the way I think about the world and how to best attain knowledge.
From this technology-dry experience I learned a great lesson: unplugging improves our ability to study, ponder and synthesize. I can scarcely believe how much my capacity to analyze, concentrate, and remember what I come across has been improved during my time away from the busy, scattered, condensed world of the internet. The practical application: read less blogs and more books. Reading one or two more books a month and 20 or 30 less posts is worth it.
I like the way one social commentator put it:
Nicolas Carr, “Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?” Wall Street Journal, 5 June 2010.
A Mormon eccleastical leader makes a similar point in a humorous sermon:
Dallin Oaks, “Focus and Priorities”, Conf Report of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, April 2001.
While my own personal experience does not carry the weight as a double-bling controlled experiment, it matches what these men say. The title is true. We are what we read. So read a book!
My suggestion for info diet — learn a language, not just enough to walk around and say hello, but at least to the level where you can read the news and the political debates overseas. Then, you get another perspective outside of the Anglo bubble.
Side note: Mr. T. Greer, you make a very interesting point about disconnecting from the internet.
Cathryn,
That’s a powerful and out-of-the-box recommendation!
I dare anyone to attempt to categorize the Jesse Venture video at the below link: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura Brain Invaders {posted at YouTube with no additional information}
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http://youtu.be/18PtOXrzDVE
Questia link leads to NYReview
Hans,
FIxed! Thank you for catching this, and posting a note about it.