I started making this list after Drop Site News revealed its true colors in January 2026, when they parroted what was pretty obvious CIA propaganda about who was doing agitation in Iran, and what the Iranian people generally want. (The real answer: the CIA/Mossad, and to keep their sovereign government, respectively). I had recommended Drop Site to friends since their founding, and I now understand this recommendation to have been in error.

But people still ask me where to get good quality information. So, I spent a week compiling a list of who is doing trustworthy, non-establishment-influenced, reporting work in English. (With some fact-based agitprop thrown in for good measure, of course.)

The important thing to remember is that humans are complex, and it could be that any of these has poor judgement, or is influenced by U.S. imperialism, and I am simply unaware. Generally, the below outlets have exhibited good judgment and anti-imperialist and pro-worker viewpoints. But none has been observed perfectly, and people can change (or their true allegiances could be revealed after years under the radar). All this to say: if you get the sense any are straying from anti-imperialist or pro-worker viewpoints, you should jettison them. Plenty of information comes from the other outlets in the list.

After checking out the list, and realizing what a kick-ass RSS feed a list with them—and only them—would provide, I realized a newfound hope in journalism. Of the thousands of sources for “news,” a few good ones actually do exist. I left a career in journalism in 2020 and have been pretty down on the profession since. But maybe 2026 is a golden age of reporting & provision of important context, and we just weren’t aware.

You should help spread word of their existence. And spread word of how bad others tend to be. Until we stop drinking, daily, the poison of poor information sources, our minds will never be able to heal and start thinking critically about the world around us.

Without further ado, I present the list, in no particular order. Handles here are from Twitter (“X.”) Sometimes it’s an individual reporter; sometimes it’s an outlet; sometimes I list both because people move around and both seem decent.

• Adam Johnson, @adamjohnsonCHI
• Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein
• Jason Hickel @jasonhickel
• Vincent Bevins @Vinncent
• Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec
• Electronic Intifada @intifada
• Asa Winstanley @asawinstanley
• J.P. Hill @JPHilllllll
• “21st Century Wire” – its founder Patrick Henningsen, @21WIRE
• TruthOut 
• The Grayzone News
• Members of Grayzone: Max Blumenthal, Wyatt Reed, Kit Klarenberg, Anya Parampil
• Brian J Berletic
• Alan MacLeod, @alanrmacleod
• Nick Cruse @SocialistMMA
• Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst
• Matt Kennard @kennardmatt
• The Empire Files @EmpireFiles
• Abby Martin @AbbyMartin
• Ryan Knight and his podcast Amped Up, at @ProudSocialist
• @PushDemsLeft
• Kelly Hayes @MsKellyMHayes
• Kim Kelly @GrimKim
• Cory Doctorow @doctorow
• Ben Norton @benjaminnorton
• Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek
• BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom
• The anonymous account @zei_squirrel
• BRICS News @BRICSinfo
• African Hub @AfricanHub_
• Working Class History @wrkclasshistory
• The American Prospect

Maybe sometimes, but not always, the following:

• The Lever (run by a Zionist so take with a grain of salt)
• The Markup (very curious how they’ve throttled their own output to roughly once a quarter)
• In These Times (historic labor pub, though you’ll see occasional neoliberal perspectives).
• The Nation (occasionally masterful investigations but occasional bad political takes)
• Al Jazeera English (large and may be subject to large non-U.S. influence but covers US pretty well)
• Current Affairs (run by an anti-union dude but generally good politics)