Just got swept off of Reddit completely, only a matter of time of course. What do you guys use to keep up with current events? Lefty subreddits (if you can call any subreddit that much “left” anymore with the tankie crackdowns) were my biggest source of current events and comrade’s perspectives on such.

So what do you comrades use? Any good newsletters? Other social media platforms?

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    Some good ones already mentioned but I have a few others. I will try to divide them according to whether or not I actually trust their subjective opinions or I merely read to get the objective facts. My key piece of advice is don’t look for news from an ML perspective read news with your own ML perspective that you develop over time (if something is repeatedly wayyy slanted or just plain incorrect, then ditch it ofc but the leftists of the media world are not super numerous so they will miss things that you should still be paying attention to. ). It’s like exercising a muscle. I actually recommend making a twitter feed which you only use for news so it functions like a free news aggregator.

    Objective sources (I don’t really take their analysis SUPER seriously but they can feed you good info):

    Al-mayadeen (best data from the west asian perspective imo; right on the edge of subjective/objective)

    South China Morning Post

    Walter bloomberg & FXHEDGE - these are twitter feeds which compile news from a variety of (only follow these if you want very economic oriented data - with inflation and the economy in turmoil I recommend this) I cancelled my WSJ and FT subscriptions thanks to these (NOTE: FXHEDGE has published some incorrect headlines, but 99% of the time is reliable)

    Yaneer Bar-yam - covid specific he’s the only guy who’s really solid on covid who, while I think kind of a lib, doesn’t post about politics outside of covid. he’ll retweet significant findings whenever there are any.

    Subjective: These are the ones where about 80% of their articles (varies by source) have good subjective analyses/interpretations

    Brasilwire - super good resource for Brazil

    Telesur - based almost 100% of the time and great info

    Michael-hudson.com for economic analysis (GOAT of global economics imo)

    Wallstreetonparade for FINANCIAL analysis - they do one article a day and I highly recommend just scanning now and then to get an idea of what is going on in the markets

    Dongshengnews.org - HIGHLY RECOMMEND FOR Chinese news

    Grayzone (max b has gone off the deep end on covid imo, but generally this is a solid news source)

    MULTIPOLARISTA - based all around

    Caitlin Johnstone - based all around, a lot of commentary but it is good reading

    Breakthrough news - agree 100% with @kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml

    MOhammad Marandi- Excellent voice for learning about Iran and west asia

    Arnaud Bertrand - Twitter only guy with excellent CHina economic analysis threads

    THOMAS C. MOUNTAIN - super underappreciated expert on the horn of africa - a key geostrategic region.

    Mintpressnews - based 100% of the time afaik

    FRINGE: these are sites which host some great writers and about 60% of their articles may expand your mind but exercise extreme caution about taking everything posted there at face value

    Strategic culture.org (may be blocked try w vpn) - some excellent analyses but questionable politics

    the cradle: I would say this is right on the edge of subjective and fringe, but they host some weirdos just a bit too much, but some REALLY excellent western asia analysis.

    Our hidden history this is a twitter account I follwo that has some mind blowing stuff- it is pretty conspiratorial but still 99% of it is factual and that 1% may very well also be but hard to verify. Some great youtube videos like docs on cointelpro and so forth. They have some good takes where they tie modern events to past events you may have no idea occured.