We are often asked: How can I find reliable information? How can I stay informed without giving in to despair? Below are just a few options that can help with one or both of those questions.
Positive Journalism
The Solutions Journalism Network – https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/ (The Solutions Journalism Network is leading a global shift in journalism focused on advancing rigorous reporting about how people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures.)
Positive News Magazine – https://www.positive.news/ (The inspiring current affairs magazine. Fed up with bad news but want to stay informed? Positive News is the magazine for good journalism about the good things that are happening: Stories of social and environmental progress; Quality, independent reporting with a focus on solutions; Impactful photography and stunning visual design; Boosts your wellbeing and helps you engage in the world.)
The Smile: Good News for Progressives – https://www.readthesmile.com/
Yes! Newsletter – https://www.yesmagazine.org/get-yes-newsletter (YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism.)
Nonviolence Specific News
Waging Nonviolence – https://wagingnonviolence.org (Waging Nonviolence is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. With a commitment to accuracy, transparency and editorial independence, we examine today’s most crucial issues by shining a light on those who are organizing for just and peaceful solutions.)
Nonviolence News – https://nonviolencenews.org/ (Each week, Nonviolence News brings 30-50 stories of “nonviolence in action” to readers, illuminating the scale and scope of how nonviolence is actively shaping our world. The weekly enewsletter shows the hopeful, courageous, and inspiring ways people are changing the narrative, culture, society, and politics across the globe. Sign up here: https://nonviolencenews.org/about/
NH Sources
InDepthNH – https://indepthnh.org/ (InDepthNH protects independent journalism that holds government accountable to the people. Our investigative reporting prompts civil discourse that spurs citizens to action. We reveal wrongdoing, corruption and influence-peddling while giving voice to the disenfranchised. InDepthNH fulfills the press’ watchdog role as envisioned by the founders of our democracy.)
Robert Azzi / The Other – https://robertazzitheother.substack.com/about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Robert Azzi is a photojournalist, columnist and public speaker who lives in Exeter NH. An Arab American Muslim born in the Granite State, he has lived in Beirut, Cairo, Athens, Jeddah, and New York. Today, he writes on issues of identity, conflict, and Islam, particularly as they apply in the Middle East and the Global South.
International & National Sources About US Politics and Foreign Policy (just a few!)
Institute for Policy Studies – https://ips-dc.org/. (With over 60 years of groundbreaking public scholarship, the Institute for Policy Studies is the nation’s oldest multi-issue progressive research organization. )
Amanpour and Company – https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/ (PBS and WNET, in collaboration with CNN, run a one-hour late-night public affairs series Amanpour and Company on Mondays on PBS)
Common Dreams – https://www.commondreams.org/ (Common Dreams is a reader-supported independent news outlet created in 1997 as a new media model. Our nonprofit newsroom covers the most important news stories of the moment. Common Dreams free online journalism keeps our millions of readers well-informed, inspired, and engaged. We are optimists. We believe real change is possible. But only if enough well-informed, well-intentioned—and just plain fed up and fired-up—people demand it. We believe that together we can attain our common dreams.)
Democracy Now! – https://www.democracynow.org/ (Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Our reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.)
Haaretz – https://www.haaretz.com/ (Haaretz is Israel’s newspaper of record. It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues.)
The Intercept – https://theintercept.com/ (At The Intercept, we investigate powerful individuals and institutions to expose corruption and injustice. We see journalism as an instrument of civic action. We’re here to change the world, not just describe it.)
Mondoweiss – https://mondoweiss.net/ (Mondoweiss is an independent news organization that informs readers about developments in Israel/Palestine and related U.S. foreign policy.)
Portside – https://portside.org/ (Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it.)
The Progressive – https://progressive.org/ (A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good! Since 1909, The Progressive magazine has aimed to amplify voices of dissent and voices under-represented in the mainstream, with a goal of championing grassroots progressive politics.)
Books by Members
The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States. The US military industrial complex at the ground level. In her recent book, The Trillion Dollar Silencer, Joan Roelofs attempts to explain the silence about US military activities at home and abroad. There has been so little anti-war protest by progressives, libertarians, environmentalists, civil rights advocates, academics, clergy, community volunteers, artists, and others, although recent demonstrations indicate concern awakening. While fear, propaganda, and distractions account for some of the silence, and even consent, interests have not been sufficiently examined so that is what I research. She examines the many ways our economy and culture have been integrated with military projects and share in the vast funds of the Department of Defense. Watch an interview with Joan HERE.