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[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 11 months ago

First Thought provides good 5 min (almost daily) short, BIASED (take out the letter “i” and it’s the same thing lol) news. Benjamin Norton+Multipolarista gives in-depth analysis of current events (can’t recommend Multipolarista enough, I am HARD-PRESSED to find a single take they have that is less than spectacular. I haven’t seen any take from them that seems like they are compromising or trying to play a middle ground, they are pretty explicitly anti-imperialist and openly communist) other than that, Barrett on YT has good China news and also a few modern politics analysis but mostly China(or at least that’s what they specialize with) I’d love to see any other good ML news sources. I used to watch “Democracy Now!”, it’s from the US and is probably the furthest left show on public TV channels but even still it leaves lots to be desired. They have anti-occupation news from Palestine often (though I suspect that will drop off after what’s been going on lately, smh)

[–] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 11 months ago

F I R S T T H O U G H T

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

BreakThrough News is good for video content, as is Geopolitical Economy Report (previously Multipolarista, as @ButtigiegMineralMap mentioned). Generally anti-imperialist sources/aggregators are more plentiful than explicitly communist ones, e.g. MintPressNews, Electronic Intifada, teleSUR, and a few YouTube channels like Richard Medhurst who have generally solid analyses

[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Lol ur right, I forgot that they changed the name of Multipolarista thanks for giving the actual name🫡

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mint press is kinda cringe. They repeatedly defended Russel Brand and used far right USian “journalists” as sources for anti-Ukraine stuff.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know much about that situation, but they've at least been consistently anti-imperialist in my experience

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they’ve put out some good stuff, maybe it’s mainly the Instagram account that’s questionable.

[–] kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 11 months ago

I learned so much from Breakthrough. They have such a variety of guests too which is cool.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily a communist news source, but I stay tapped in on my community through Black Agenda Report and Black Power Media.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Just looking at who they associate with they are definitely comrades by any means.

[–] ledlecreeper27@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Liberation News, Workers’ World, Fight Back! News

[–] SankaranSpy@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ledlecreeper27@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t think so, they are just websites.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I second what other people said. In addition some news podcasts I’d recommend are economic update, news views with garland nixon, trash future. Not a news podcast itself, but they talk about events on Marx Madness before they read theory. In addition, you’ll be familiar with Al Mayadeen and workers world if you browse Lemmygrad, and covert action magazine is good.

Edit: forgot to mention, these telegram channels: https://t.me/PalestineResist https://t.me/TheDigitalPartisan https://t.me/Slavyangrad