Political, Economic and Research Sites
Other Links


Blogs

  1. AndrewSullivan.com - Still a Christian Republican but seeing the light more each day.
  2. Antiwar.com-Fighting the Neocons
  3. BradBlog-Brad Friedman's excellent investigative blog.
  4. Bring it On-Blog devoted to Iraq and related to Paul Hackett
  5. Calitics-California politics
  6. Cannonfire-Joseph Cannon taking a hard left view.
  7. Counter Terrorism Blog-
  8. Daily Kos. Highest trafficked political blog.
  9. Democratic Underground-Left wing web site and blog updated six times weekly.
  10. Free Public.com-Tracking what the right is up to.
  11. Huffington Post-Arianna Huffington's blog of heavy hitting writers
  12. JoeTrippi.com-Howard Dean's former campaign consultant's web page.
  13. MyDD.com-Direct Democracy
  14. This Modern World-Satirical site by Tom Tomorrow
  15. News Hounds-Watching Fox so we don't have to.
  16. Progressive Blog Alliance
  17. Seeing the Forest-Liberal weblog
  18. Seven Oaks-A magazine of politics, culture and resistance from Canada
  19. Talking Points Memo-By Josh Marshall
  20. There Is No Crisis. Blog devoted to Social Security
  21. Think Progress-A project by the America Action Progress Fund
  22. Truthdig-Robert Scheer's blog, former columnist with the Los Angeles Times
  23. Toward Peace
  24. The Raw Story-Focuses on Tips, and gets some good ones. 1/28/06

California

  1. Alliance for a Better California-United to stop Arnold
  2. Arnold Watch--Keeping an eye on California's governor.
  3. Board of Equalization-Deals with Property Tax Issues
  4. California Budget Project-Working to improve public policies affecting the economic and social well-being of low- and middle-income Californians.
  5. California Clean Money Campaign -Clean election, clean money advocate.
  6. California Democratic Party
  7. California Department of Finance.
  8. Californians for Justice-working to empower communities pushed to the margins
  9. California Statistical Abstract
  10. Capital Basement-Includes a Newsletter, the Round Up, with political info from Sac.
  11. ContestTheVote -Fighting Arnold's special election
  12. Ella Baker Center For Human Rights-Bay Area based organization fighting the California Youth Authority.
  13. Franchise Tax Board-State income tax department
  14. Governor's Office-State Web site
  15. Public Policy Institute of California - Non-partisan policy think tank for CA
  16. Secretary of State-Government Web page
  17. Speak out California-Advocacy group helping define the progressive agenda.
  18. Rough and Tumble-"A Daily snapshot of California Public Policy and Politics"

Economic Related Web Sites

NGO Government Related Sites

  1. Economagic Data Collections-Lots of numbers
  2. Federal Debt to the Penny-U.S. Debt
  3. NationMaster-5,933 stats
  4. Project Vote Smart--Voting Histories for Congress

Business Related Web Sites

  1. BankruptyData.Com-Providing bankruptcy data.
  2. American Bankruptcy Institute-Non Partisan organization

Economics

  1. Concord Coalition - "nonpartisan, grassroots organization advocating fiscal responsibility while ensuring Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are secure for all generations". Their Budget analysis.
  2. OMB Watch-formed in 1983 to watch over the White House office of Budget and Management.

Articles

  1. New York Times article. Bush Administration Deficit Reduction Plan, January 2, 2005
  2. Social Security-Highlights of Financial Position-2004-Social Security Administration Publication
  3. Update on the Long Term Projections of Social Security-Congressional Budget Office
  4. The Budget and Economic Outlook-2006-2015-Congressional Budget Office
  5. Federal Reserve Study on the Distribution of Wealth-2001 (latest available)

Education

California Education Funding- March 2005, Hot Topic Article from U.C. Berkeley

Election Issues

  1. BlackBoxVoting-Official consumer protection group for elections, founded by Bev Harris.
  2. The Campaign Legal Center-Web Site committed to defending McCain-Feingold
  3. Election Science Institute Formerly Votewatch. Working on Ohio-3/16/05
  4. Help America Recount.-New 527 formed to recount numerous faulty elections.
  5. National Election Data Archive-Nonpartisan. Investigating the Accuracy of Elections
  6. National Voting Rights Institute- Challenges private financing of elections
  7. Open Secrets-A guide to the Money in elections.

Government Web Sites

Economic Data

  1. Bureau of Economic Analysis-Home page
  2. Bureau of Economic Analysis-GDP Commerce Department Stats
  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics- Home Page
  4. Bureau of Labor Statistics - CPI files
  5. Bureau of Labor Statistics charts and graphs
  6. BLS-Employment Charts-Employment status
  7. BLS-Employment Situation - Includes Average Hourly wage graphs
  8. Congressional Budget Office (includes budgets)
  9. Historical Budget Data from CBO
  10. National Economic Council-White House economic think tank.
  11. Office of the President-GPO
  12. Social Security Administration Homepage for Reports
  13. White House Office of Budget and Management - aka OMB

Other Government Sites

  1. The Constitution-the Constitution of the United States
  2. CIA's World Factbook-Facts and figures on the countries of the world.
  3. Fundrace-Tracks political donations by donor.
  4. U.S. Senate Votes-By senator, Legislation
  5. House of Rep votes--roll call votes by session.
  6. National Endowment for Democracy--Non-partisan, private insitution promoting democracy. Funded by congress

Humor

Buckfush.com-Very funny anti Bush cartoons

INTERNATIONAL WEB SITES

International Organizations

  1. The United Nations
  2. The World Bank
  3. The International Monetary Fund

U.K. Web Sites

United Kingdom National Statistics

Iraq

  1. AfterDowningStreet.org-Formed to pursue the truth about why we went to iraq and what the President told the country.
  2. Defense Department Casualty Link U.S. Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan
  3. Downing Street Memo-7-23-2002 memo that proves Bush lied to the American people.
  4. Iraqi Body Count-Update of reported Iraqi civilian deaths in the Iraq war and occupation.
  5. Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count-Day-by-day casualty figures and news alerts.
  6. Iraq Revenue Watch-Financed by George Soros, an initiative of the Open Society Institute
  7. Operation Truth-Nonpartisan organization focused on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Newspapers


Domestic

Name E-mail Address Left, Right or Center
Los Angeles Times letters@latimes.com Left to Center
San Francisco Chroncile letters@sfchronicle Left
New York Times letters@nytimes.com Left to Center
Washington Post letters@washpost.com Center
Honolulu Advertiser letters@honoluluadvertiser.com Center
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune   Left to center


International Newspapers and Online Publications

  1. al Jazeera-Controversial but informative Middle Eastern media outlet
  2. Daily Star-centrist English language newspaper from Lebanon
  3. Financial Times-From England, widely read in U.S.
  4. Haaretz-Left of Center Israeli Paper.
  5. International Herald Tribune-Owned by the New York Times
  6. Guardian-Liberal UK Paper

Magazines and Online Publications

  1. Alter Net-progressive News Links and articles
  2. The American Interest-Launched September 2005, non-partisan.
  3. The American Prospect-Liberal magazine
  4. Buzzflash.com-Online news source growing in strength and numbers.
  5. Common Dreams-News center of progressive articles
  6. Counter Punch-Political Newsletter
  7. Foreign Affairs-Scholarly analysis of World Affairs.
  8. The Free Press- Seeking Truth to Power, Since the 1970s, from Columbus Ohio.
  9. New Yorker-Arts and letters and Seymour Hersh.
  10. Mother Jones Magazine -since the 1960s, from San Francisco
  11. National Journal-Weekly Non-partisan Magazine of Washington D.C. politics
  12. Salon-Investigative reporting
  13. Sojourners-Christians for peace and Justice
  14. The Nation-Long time Progressive Magazine
  15. The New Republic-Long time Progressive Magazine with intellectual analysis.
  16. The Progressive-since 1909, editor Mathew Rothschild
  17. TruthOut-Professional Writers
  18. Utne Reader-Reprints alternative articles from 2,000 sources
  19. Washington Monthly-Editor is former Clinton speech writer. 

Political Advocates and Web Sites

  1. ActBlue-Activist tools that help Democrats fundraise.
  2. Alliance for Justice-Promoting a Fair and Independant Judiciary
  3. American Civil Liberties Union-still going strong after all these years.
  4. America Votes-run by Ann Richards' daughter, Cecile Richards, it aims to bring progressive groups together
  5. Buyblue.Org. A concerted effort to inform consumers as to where some of their purchase money goes.
  6. Campaign for America's Future -Advocacy group supporting Social Security
  7. Campaign for National Majority--San Francisco based organization focusing on governor's races.
  8. Center for American Progress--Liberal research and advocacy group based in D.C. headed by John Podesta
  9. Center for Responsive Politics-Tracking money in politics. also know as Open Secret.
  10. Centrist Coalition-Moderate politicians joined for bipartisanship leadership.
  11. Common Cause-Holding Power Accountable
  12. Corpwatch Holding Corporations accountable
  13. Democratic Fundamentalism-A "good government" web site.
  14. Democratic Leadership Council- Powerful moderate Democratic Group closely linked to Clinton
  15. Democracy for America-Howard Deans political action group
  16. Democracy Now-web Site for liberal radio talk show
  17. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-aka FAIR
  18. Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights-aka Consumer Watchdog
  19. The Independent Sector--Web site resource for non-profits.
  20. Media Matters for America-Heavy hitting non-partisan organization researching and correcting conservative misinformation in the media.
  21. MoveOn.Org-Progressive Activist Group
  22. National Council of Churches USA-36 Ecumenical churches representing 45 million people
  23. National Democratic Network-National Membership group led by Simon Rosenberg fighting for centrist/progressive ideas.
  24. Not in Our Name-Anti War Group
  25. Open Voting Consortium - Developing voting software that is transparent and auditable.
  26. People for an American Way-Since the Bork hearings, Ralph Neas and PFAW have championed liberal values on the courts and elsewhere.
  27. Progressive Democrats of America--Active group supporting progressive politics.
  28. Project for an Old American Century-Founded in 2002. Good liberal resource for news and links.
  29. Public Campaign Action Fund-Non profit working for to reform campaign contribution laws.
  30. Public Citizen-Protecting Health, Safety and Democracy
  31. StartChange-formerly Stop Sinclair.Org, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group.
  32. Third-Way-Senate focused progressive advocacy group led by centrist senators.
  33. WesPac-SecuringAmerica-Wes Clark's web site and PAC

RIGHTS GROUPS

Environmental Groups

  1. National Resource Defense Council -Working to Save the Planet
  2. Sierra Club

Human Rights Groups

  1. Amnesty International-London based, working to protect human rights Worldwide
  2. Global Exchange-San Francisco based group focusing on world peace
  3. Human Rights Watch -Defending human rights worldwide.
  4. Human Rights First-Formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

Legal Rights

  1. Center for Constitution Rights-Committed to the creative use of law for a positive force for social change

Woman's Rights and Issues

  1. National Organization of Women
  2. Emily's List - Working to elect pro-choice women to government

San Francisco

  1. DemocracyAction-San Francisco based political action group founded by former volunteers for Kerry-Edwards. Jim chairs Issues Committee.
  2. Private Industry Council of SF
  3. Bay Area Dems-Local group of professionals
  4. San Francisco For Democracy-Formerly Howard Dean's group 

Taxes

  1. Tax foundation Since 1937, educating and writing about taxes. 
  2. Lisa Keister-Author "Wealth in America"
  3. Tax Policy Center -JV between Urban Institute and Brookings.
  4. IRS Collection Stats-IRS site.
  5. Source of Income and AGI Stats-IRS web page.
  6. Inland Revenue Tax Receipts-UK Tax Receipt Figures
  7. Tax Policy Center's Income tax composition from 1934-2009

 

Think Tanks 501(c)(3)

  1. Breakthrough Institute-Progressive ideas to solve the world's problems
  2. Brookings Institute-Since 1916 a prestigious Washington think tank.
  3. Economic Policy Institute-Economic research for working people.
  4. Carnegie Endowment-for International Peace
  5. Center for American Progress-Progressive ideas for a stronger America. 
  6. Center of Budget and Policy Priorities-Non partisan think tank.
  7. Commonweal Institute-Moderate-Progressive Think Tank
  8. Democracy Corps-Think tank founded by James Carville, Bob Shrum and Stanely Greenberg
  9. Frameworks Institute - Framing the public resource around social problems.
  10. Independent Institute. A nonpartisan think tank from Oakland, CA
  11. Institue for America's Future-Challenging the big money corporate agenda
  12. Institute for Policy Studies-Since 1963
  13. Institute for International Economics-Free trade oriented think tank.
  14. National Bureau of Economic Research-Since 1920, non partisan research organization.
  15. New America Foundation-Center right think tank of mostly under 40 intellectuals
  16. Progressive Policy Institute-Think tank associated with the Democratic Leadership Council
  17. Rockridge Institute-George Lakoff's think tank for framing progressive politics
  18. New Politics Insititute-Formed by NDN's Simon Rosenberg
  19. United For a Fair Economy-Raises awareness that concentration of wealth and power is bad for the economy.

 

Right Wing Web Sites

  1. American Enterprise Institute-Since 1943, trying to privatise everything.
  2. CATO Institute-Libertarian Think Tank
  3. Federalist Society-Conservative lawyers and judges
  4. Heritage Foundation-Ultra conservative think tank
  5. Pacific Research Institute-San Francisco based free market think tank
  6. Project for New American Century-Far right wing think tank geared towards world domination by U.S.
  7. USA Next-Hit group promoting privatization of Social Security.
  8. Luntz's Suggestions for Bush Victory

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