In the past I have used Reddit and Twitter as my main news aggregators, but obviously those are going down the toilet. What are some good places to go to get some good news? (aside from here of course!)
I personally really like First Thought on youtube. It’s self-described as “openly biased towards marxist principles”. Honestly the funny part is that the reporting is less biased than some well established companies, their bias is inserted after the main reporting to explain how it relates to socialist principles. It’s a channel run by JT, Hakim, and Yugopnik
WHAT THE FUCK.
I’ve been subscribed to Second Thought for years and I’ve never once even heard of First Thought. If the YouTube algorithm were actually interested in pushing content I were interested in, that should’ve come up at some point. I know it seems paranoid, but I can’t think of any rational explanation for why I’m just now hearing about it other than that YouTube doesn’t want people to know about that channel for some reason.
I thought “Second Thought” was just a clever name, like “on second thought, after doing some basic research, capitalism is bad and Americans have just been brainwashed into defending it and it’s time to start understanding that en masse.”Oh the First Thought channel is relatively new, around 3 months or so? That would probably explain it. I’ve been enjoying it as well!
Oh okay, good. I have been busy the past few months so I haven’t watched Second Thought lately. I bet he mentions First Thought in his videos these days.
Also in their podcast, The Deprogram. If you like their main channels and the small amount of analysis they put up on the First Thought channel, you’d probably like some of their discussions in The Deprogram podcast too.
I catch every episode of the podcast and First Thought and I hardly even watch the main channels anymore
I personally really like Naked Capitalism, which though it is not communist per se, all the writers are very skilled and the guest posts are very good indeed. Sometimes the posts are more complex economic theory, but in general it’s very approachable; and the daily “links” post is an excellent aggregate of general news on all sorts of topics, and the commenters there are not braindead but extremely insightful (for example, Michael Hudson comments there every now and again).
For military things I like b from Moon of Alabama, he’s not left-wing exactly but he seems to be a fellow traveler sometimes. Cory Doctorow has good tech insights in Pluralistic. Michael Roberts has good marxist analysis of markets, especially focused on falling rate of profit.
On geopolitical/military things some right-wing sources are quite decent, if you can ignore the bullshit (mostly inane ravings on gender and wokeness), like Simplicius or Andrei Martyanov. Big Serge also has eventually some very good breakdowns of war stuff, but most of his posts are paywalled.
I’d mostly just check out Naked Capitalism’s daily links pages and then pick and choose whatever interesting websites catch your eye there.
This post from a week ago has some good links
The Guardian (not leftist, buuuut…)
Some More News (weekly single issue YouTube vid)
Even more news (podcast variant of previous, has SMN episodes, and occaisonal extra stories)
Liberation News
Edot: formatting, forgot TN Holler (mid south regional paper, focused on TN, occasionally talks bout the surrounding states)
Dang Cong San, Xinhua, and Granma. I like reading the news from a variety of different socialist countries.
And also TeleSUR.
