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.

  • FossilPoetOP
    3•2 years ago

    Democracy Now! only came up because there was criticism of NATO. Including some sources like this was actually a point of contention for me to begin with, but I realized some folks may be more open to them and progress from there, especially for the sake of different viewpoints (read: non-Western ones). They haven’t been added because my biggest fear was actually too much focus on domestic US affairs. I’ve had to come up with a lot of filters for this and have been actively removing content that falls afoul of it. The “Uyghur genocide” media obsession has also died off in favor of the “Ukraine genocide” media obsession, and that’s been my biggest headache from these US-based sources…filtering out US State Dept./CIA/NATO talking points being parroted.

    Al Jazeera generally struck me as more neutral, but they’ve definitely been on the defensive at points against accusations of anti-Americanism. They’re just kind of the biggest go-to when people ask me for starting points of non-Western media. SCMP also has anti-CPC content at times, but I’ve seen some different perspectives provided that are worth entertaining. Anything that falls too critical on certain subjects gets yanked, as I “practice what I preach” and read the timeline daily myself.

    I will definitely check out The New Atlas, and I’ve heard of Multipolarista and seen some of their stuff published in the MR Online Newswire, so yet another good source I’ve managed to overlook several times!