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Please post lesser-known websites that might be useful information sources in wartime.

If possible, please avoid the more overtly radical left OR right-leaning news/propaganda sites; I'm interested in more unfiltered web ennui. An example:

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

Blog from Baghdad.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.agonist.org/

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.indymedia.org/
http://www.urban75.com/

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Who do people think is the best of a bad bunch when it comes to net broadcasts? I want to listen to the latest reports on the radio when I'm at work.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

For some reason I'm getting cut off the BBC stations every few seconds, which doesn't usually happen. Is this because it's busy? Should that matter?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

ps. this is very good http://www.yearzero.org/home/index.php

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

It's really fucking overwhelming, isn't it? Just the sidebar links list on ONE of these sites is enough to cross my eyes.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Still getting a bad gateway on that blog. I've tried everything.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The strangest thing about that blog is the Samuel Huntington quote on the left. I can see why the quote would appeal, but Huntington is an odd choice of commentator in this context.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose some people will look at recent events as the ultimate confirmation of Huntington's thesis, but I rather think that the policy of our administration over the past year has been the ultimate confirmation of Huntington's influence.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i was looking for a broader Euro-centric (i.e. not 'suck-up-to US' UK media) perspective recently and found the International Herald Tribune: European edition http://www.iht.com/frontpage.html

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Lynskey, I think the blog doesn't work for some people while working fine for others because underscores are not supposed to be used in hostnames and your ISP is refusing requests for illegal hostnames. I have the same problem from my main ISP but can see it fine from another. There is possibly another way of getting to the page itself if you can work out the path on the webserver each subdomain redirects to, but I can't find it.

Reading it through http://www.anonymizer.com/ should work; at least, it does for me. It tends to eat half of the images, though. Try here or go to the main page and type the blog URL into the free private surfing trial address box.

― Frazer, Thursday, 20 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

It scares me that there hasn't been an update since right before the bombing started on Friday.

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 23 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Could be because of the power disruptions they've had. Baghdad's got five million people or so and even the Iraqi government is saying very few people have been killed or injured there (so far)...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 March 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been worried too. Ned has a point though.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 23 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

www.iraqbodycount.com

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 23 March 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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