World News (potentially biased)

• Aljazeera (Mideast)
• BBC News (Britain)
• Haaretz (Israel)
• India Times (India)
• Indo-Asian News Service (India)
• iol (South Africa)
• Pravda (Russia)
• Xinhua (China)
• The Hill
• The Nation
• AlterNet
• Bureaucrash
• Democracy Now
• Indymedia (IMC)
• Infoshop

---

Blogs

• Empty Wheel

---

Miscellaneous

• CIA World Factbook and other publications
• CrunchBase: Database of companies, important people, investors, etc.
• DEA drug schedule
• History of Economic Thought - economics info
• Markets Wiki
• Rand Paul now against medical marijuana
• South Asia Terrorism Portal
• statewatch (EU)
• Timezone Map of the World
• Map Projections
• More Map Projections
• WhatTheFont
• xkcd.org (best comic on the 'net)
• Woe Unto You, Lawyers, essay by Fred Rodell
• Smilies collection

---

Papers

Citeseer - technical paper repository

arXiv - scientific papers

Social Science Research Network - academic paper repository

---

A few Research- and Non-Governmental Organizations

• Adam Smith Institute
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Amnesty International
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• Federation of American Scientists (FAS) (Secrecy News)
• Freedom House (Freedom in the World index)
• Greenpeace
• Heritage Foundation (Index of Economic Freedom)
• Human Rights Watch
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Jane's Information Group
• Oxfam International
• Red Cross
• RAND Corporation
• World Bank
• World Economic Forum
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)

---

Science

• ScienceNews
• New Scientist
• Futurity
• Physorg
• Interactions.org
• Genetic Engineering News
• Science Daily
• HyperPhysics
• Physics News Update
• Bad Science

---

Global trade

• Alibaba
• Globalspec

---

Religion Commentary

• Conservapedia
• RationalWiki
• Counter-Apologetics Wiki
• Talk.origins archive
• Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
• Satanism vs Wicca