The Mainstream___________________________

The Wall Street Journal This is what the people who run the world read.
The Washington Post This is read by the people who think they run the world.
The New York Times The largest metropolitan newspaper in the US.
The Economist The magazine equivalent of the Wall Street Journal.
Foreign Affairs Published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
The New Yorker A well-known channel for writers like Seymour Hersh.

News Metadata____________________________

CJR: Who Owns What Listings of major media companies.

Alternative Sources of Information____________

PBS Frontline The best source for in-depth analysis of the issues.
Bill Moyers Journal Features concise and insightful reporting.
BBC World News Has stories that are not always reported by US outlets.
Cryptome An excellent source for "sensitive" information.
Project Censored News that's underreported and misrepresented.
SourceWatch Come watch the great propaganda machine in action.
Jane's Information Group A clearinghouse for publicly available intel.
The National Security Archive Lots and lots of declassified documents.
Declassified Documents A portal to declassified information.
Mother Jones Smart, fearless, journalism (you can say that again).
FAS Secrecy Blog Secrecy News from the Federation of American Scientists.

Politics and Culture__________________________

OpenSecrets.org Follow the money trail.
Noam Chomsky Articles, interviews, and letters by this MIT Professor.
Ellsberg.net The official site of Daniel Ellsberg.
Spitfire List Site maintained by anti-fascist researcher Dave Emory.
Adbusters A magazine dedicated to culture jamming.
EFF The Electronic Freedom Foundation.
The Cyphernomicron Explores the implications of strong crypto.
Assassination Politics A thought experiment by Jim Bell.
Thoughtcrime Labs Moxie Marlinspike's inner sanctum.

Hi-Tech News_______________________________

Slashdot "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
Wired Kevin Poulsen's articles are consistently good.
CNET Tech news from CBS Interactive.
IEEE Spectrum Magazine Monthly publication by the IEEE.

Hi-Tech Security News________________________

Bruce Schneier's blog Musings from the man who popularized cryptography.
Richard Bejtlich's blog Comments on digital security and forensics.
McGrew Security blog Wesley McGrew tackles security issues.
Microsoft Response Center Blog where Microsoft talks about recent vulnerabilities.
US-CERT Security Alerts Advisories issued by the Dept. of Homeland Security.
INSECURE Magazine Free publication that comes out every few months.
Threat Expert This site features informative write ups on malware.

Security: Research Publications_________________

Phrack One of the original repositories of hacker lore.
Uninformed Hosts a series of well-written articles.
Hakin9 Magazine Offers solid introductory material on a variety of topics.
29A An older zine, has articles by people like Holy Father.

Security: Labs and Projects______________________

Insecure.org Home of Fyodor, the creator of nmap.
The Metasploit Project Famous for creating a framework for launching exploits.
OWASP The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
Security-Assessment.com A company from New Zealand that does solid research.
Vienna Computer Products Peter Kleissner revives the Stoned Bootkit.

Security: Forensics_____________________________

Windows Incident Response Harlan Carvey's forensics blog.
SANS Forensics Blog Consistently a source of good info.
The Honeynet Project Sets up bait networks and studies how they're attacked.
opensourceforensics.org List of well-known open source forensic tools.

Security: Reversing_____________________________

DumpAnalysis.org Dmitry Vostokov: debugging black belt
Wheaty Productions, Inc. The homepage of Matt Pietrek
Reddit.com Reverse-engineering links
Linkers and Loaders Book Useful when working with the PE file format.