Recommended Web Sites
Third World Development
http://rrojasdatabank.net/nuevo3.htm
This web site, set up by a Chilean academic, is by far the best and most comprehensive site on development that I have found, with links to all major organizations (IMF, World Bank, UN agencies etc), as well as a vast range of academic literature. Both critical and conventional materials on development are covered. Very well organized and easy to use.
The Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin contains considerable material on land tenure, land reform, and agricultural politics, with considerable on-line materials. The principal repository for information on land issues.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/TWTwebsite_INDEX.html
Third World Traveler site. Radical take on development/Third World politics.
Transparency International. Private, nonprofit group that on the issue of governmental corruption, which regularly rates countries' levels of corruption. Very establishment in its approach and ideological bent.
Economics
http://www.cepr.net/Economic_Reporting_Review/
Economic Reporting Review. Critical evaluation of economics reporting in the mainstream press, written from a left-wing perspective by Dean Baker. Updated on a weekly basis. Excellent, measured analyses.
Economic Policy Institute, a labor friendly think tank. Useful economic analyses written from a labor perspective.
Military and Intelligence
GeneralFederation of American Scientists. Excellent web site on military and intelligence aspect of US policy, generally from a critical perspective. Run by an organization that represents the elite of the US scientific establishment. Especially good information on nuclear proliferation and space weapons. Also check out their excellent site on government secrecy.
National Security Archive. Private organization, based in Washington, DC, which catalogues and publishes declassified US government documents. Good web site, with full text links to many useful documentary materials, especially from the Cold War period.
Center for Defense Information. Military research organization, composed of ex-military types (including two retired admirals), who generally adopt a critical attitude toward US foreign policy.
CIA on Campus. Site that contains good information on the CIA's influence in US universities. Contains full text links to basic source material.
http://www.wsws.org/index.shtml
World Socialist Web Site. Run by a Trotskyist organization, with a a remarkably talented group of writers. Contains news and commentary, updated daily, with a large, searchable archive, dating back to 1998. Generally free of ideological cant (except on a few issues, like Australian or British electoral politics); this site offers excellent analyses of world economic trends; US-European rivalries; social inequalities; Asia's financial instability; intervention in the Balkans; and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Great movie reviews. A bit weak on some Third World issues, especially in subsaharan Africa. Coverage of the McVeigh execution was the best I have seen. Frequent translations into many foreign languages. Overall this is one of the very best sources of information emanating from the political left.
http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/
Le Monde Diplomatique. This is a monthly edition of Le Monde, the Paris daily. Le Monde Diplomatique offers (usually) very good world coverage, especially of western European and Third World issues. Their Africa coverage is especially good. Le Monde Diplomatique has also become the main journalistic forum for critiques of globalization and neoliberal policies more generally. I have listed the link to the English version of this French monthly; readers of French can link to the standard French version, which contains considerably more material.
Rulers.org. Excellent research site, that has up-to-date on the names of high level government officials throughout the world, with linked biographies. Contains data from 1700s to the present.
Elections around the World. Up to date information on electoral processes and outcomes.
http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00index.htm
World leaders, 1945-present.
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