Hello! This is my first post on Lemmygrad! I am excited to be here!

I have recently created a Twitter bot with the intent to pull news from anti-imperialist/non-Western sources hourly, ideally to provide a different perspective for people to look into that may color their attitude toward Western media. At the least, it’s a great resource for myself. I would love to have recommendations on sources to add and criticism of my current list.

Current sources I am using:

  • Al Jazeera (Qatar)
  • South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  • MintPress News (US)
  • The Intercept (US)
  • Telesur English (Venezuela)
  • The Grayzone (US)
  • MR Online Newswire (US)
  • Asia Times (Hong Kong)
  • Press TV (Iran)
  • Granma (Cuba)
  • People’s World (US)
  • Palestinian Chronicle (Palestine)
  • Nhân Dân (Vietnam)
  • Syrian Arab News Agency (Syria)
  • Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting / FAIR (US)
  • Xinhua News Agency (China)
  • Daily Nation (Kenya)
  • China Daily (China)
  • People’s Daily (China)

Sources I am considering:

  • RT (Russia) - After obvious ordeal is over, too much coverage on it already
  • Sputnik (Russia) - After obvious ordeal is over, too much coverage on it already
  • Pyongyang Times (DPRK) - No RSS feed, have to make way to pull items manually
  • The Global Times (China) - Possibly too tabloid
  • Workers Today (Italy?) - Seems to have more explicit aim toward general Marxism-Leninism as opposed to coverage of anti-imperialist/non-Western affairs
  • Redfish (Germany) - See RT and Sputnik, given this source is related to Russian media
  • China News Service (China) - Afraid I may have too many sources from China
  • Democracy Now! (US) - Possibly too focused on domestic US affairs, but some good criticism appears so unsure

I would love to find more sources covering Africa, South/Central America and the Caribbean, Austronesia, and Indigenous peoples. I have not linked the bot because I am not necessarily trying to self-promote, but would gladly share it if enough interest was shown.

  • @SaddamHussein24@lemmygrad.ml
    8•2 years ago

    CGTN: Chinese state TV for international audiences in english, has a youtube channel

    TheNewAtlas: Exposes US meddling around the world, has a channel on youtube and odysee

    Al Mayadeen: English language arab media channel, has an antiimperialist, prosyria and proiran editorial line

    • FossilPoetOP
      3•2 years ago

      I don’t know how Al Mayadeen slipped my mind, thank you! As for the others, I’m generally trying to avoid YouTube for two reasons:

      1. People engage written stories on a different level, they can do so silently or at the headline level and skim from there. YouTube videos are not as accessible in this way, such as during school, work, etc.
      2. YouTube has shown it has no qualms with removing sources of “enemies of the state” lately. I don’t go as far as to call it “censorship,” because the word is meaningless now, but it’s definitely not a great place to be at.