Global & Alternative News Sources
- After September 11: A New Worldview
- This worldpress.org special report captures a vast amount of global press coverage of the War on Terrorism. Scroll down the page to read region-by-region coverage, including Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Mideast. Each source is identified as to its political orientation or editorial stance.
- Afghanistan News Sources Online - most in English
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- AlterNet.org Special Feature
- AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit U.S. organization supporting independent journalism. This special site collects links to alternative press stories, selected background writings on terrorism, anti-war and peace movements, and foreign policy issues.
- Afghanistan News
- Afghan Online Press and Azadi Afghan Radio are located in the United States and operate independently of any government. There is no current electronic news available from within Afghanistan because the Taliban has banned all broadcasting.
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BBC News
- The BBC now provides online, searchable access to current world news and events, health and education topics, as well many other resources including radio and television listings.
- Beyond the Frame
- The Media Education Foundation (MEF) provides access to alternative perspectives via streaming video and audio (using RealPlayer) and transcripts. "The website features interviews with a range of writers and activists
currently including: Noam Chomsky, Robin Morgan, Michael Klare, Nawal el
Saadawi, Robert Jensen, Henry Giroux, Cynthia Enloe, Howard Zinn, Nancy
Carlsson-Paige, Diane Levin, Seth Ackerman, Janine Jackson, Sut Jhally,
Lorraine Ali and Rob Okun. This list is drawn from personal contacts, and
we will greatly expand the diversity of the people represented to ensure
that many different perspectives are addressed."
- India News Sources Online - Most in English
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- Indonesia News Sources Online - some in English
- The largest Muslim population in the world resides in Indonesia.
- Iran News Sources Online - some in English
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- Iraq News Sources Online - some in English
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- Israeli News Sources Online - most in English
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- Kuwait News Sources Online - some in English
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- Lebanon News Sources Online - some in English
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- Middle East News Online: American Under Attack - In English
- Middle East News Online relies on its own network of reporters and journalists from the Middle East and North African regions. The service has produced a special page of reports and analyses concerning the September 11 attacks.
- Muslim News Special Report: Attack on USA
- THis newspaper reports "objective news and views of Muslims in the United Kingdom." It has prepared special coverage of the September 11 attacks.
- Pakistan News Sources Online - most in English
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- Palestine News Sources Online - some in English
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- News from Qatar:
- Qatar News Sources Online - most in English
- al-Jazeera - in Arabic
- Saudi Arabia News Sources Online - some in English
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- United Arab Emirates News Sources Online - some in English
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- World Socialist Web Site
- Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, this site provides news, analysis, and links that support a Trotskyist socialsim.
- Znet
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This e-magazine includes discussions and interviews with Chomsky, Fisk, Galeano, Choudry, Zinn, and more. You may also search the Chomsky Archive, explore "Reactions to the Terror", and find links to many other sites on the terrorism crisis.
Fulltext & Mega-Sites
- ABYZ News Links
- ABYZ News Links is a portal to online news sources from around the world. It is primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies.
- After September 11: A New Worldview
- This worldpress.org special report captures a vast amount of global press coverage of the War on Terrorism. Scroll down the page to read region-by-region coverage, including Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Mideast. Each source is identified as to its political orientation or editorial stance.
- Attacks in US: News and Resources
- Google provides links to current news from around the world, support resources, relief funds, airline and business contact information, and New York hospital information.
- Ethnic NewsWatch - UW Restricted
- This fulltext electronic resource provides access to over 100 ethnic community newspapers published in the U.S.. While there is approximately one month delay in adding news articles to the searchable database, Ethnic NewsWatch provides a list of
Feature Articles that address the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- Lexis-Nexis - UW Restricted
- contains hundreds of national and international news sources, including some files in Spanish, French, German and Italian. Most files are searchable in their entirety, some going back to the early 1980's and most updated daily.
- NewsBank Special Report: Terrorism in the U.S.
- This site is a collection of mostly AP wire service stories organized in a simple, topical arrangement.
- Television Archive - a library of world perspectives concerning September 11th, 2001
- "The events of September 11th affected the entire world. Reactions around the globe have been captured in this archive of television news broadcasts from the period following the attacks." All materials can be viewed online using various streaming media players. Coverage from 20 broadcast outlets including NBC, BBC, CBC, and NHK.
- World News Connection - UW Restricted
- Fulltext, searchable news stories published or broadcast in non-US news media. ALl articles are in English originally or have been translated into English.
Photojournalism
- Camera Works
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Print Resources in the UW Libraries
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Suggested Reading Lists
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See also: September 11: Crisis in Context
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Last modified: Friday October 01, 2004