Alternative news sources on the Iraq war

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Al Ahram weekly newspaper from Egypt features regular articles from Edward Said — <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg>

Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV station — <http://english.aljazeera.net>

Al Jazeera (not the TV station) — <http://www.aljazeerah.info>

AlterNet's Iraq page — <http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/>

Common Dreams News Centre — <http://www.commondreams.org>

Insightful commentary can be found at Counter Punch<http://counterpunch.org>

Electronic Iraq<http://electroniciraq.net>

US media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Iraq page — <http://www.fair.org/international/iraq.html>

A site collecting the writings of respected British journalist Robert Fisk, who is currently in Baghdad — <fisk.com>

Green Left Weekly, Australia's leading socialist newsweekly — <http://www.greenleft.org.au>

Iraq Action Coalition is an online media and activists' resource centre — <http://leb.net/IAC/>

The Iraq Body Count web site provides an independent and comprehensive count of civilian deaths in Iraq caused by the military actions of the USA and its allies — <http://www.iraqbodycount.net>

Iraq Peace Team's eyewitness accounts from Baghdad — <http://iraqpeaceteam.org>

Iraq.ru, a site created by Russian journalists and military experts — <http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news074.htm>

Kurdistan Observer <http://www.kurdistanobserver.com> and Kurdish Media <http://www.kurdmedia.com/> collect reports on Kurdish opposition to an impending Turkish invasion of northern Iraq.

Labourstart's trade unions and the Iraq war page — <http://www.labourstart.org/iraq/newswire.shtml>

Background articles from Middle East Report Online<http://www.merip.org/mero/mero.html>

US-based Pacifica radio programs provide in-depth critical coverage — <http://www.pacifica.org>

Dissident Australian journalist John Pilger's web site — <http://www.johnpilger.com/>

ZNet Iraq Watch — <http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Iraq/IraqCrisis.htm>

From Green Left Weekly, April 2, 2003.
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