these sites will provide you with news gathered from different independent sources, thus: a lot of the stuff you find here you won’t find in the regular news...

hintergrund.de
independent news and information portal (german) 
democracynow.org
independent news program, radio and TV, airing in North America and online
indymedia.org
international network of media and activists for independent and non-commercial news
germany.indymedia.org
german indymedia version
noam chomsky
a lot of material by a brilliant thinker and activist. get an insight into the political and social system we are living in. interviews, essays etc.
noam chomsky / wiki
zmag.org
a community of people committed to social change 
archive.org
'universal access to human knowledge.' - incredible online archive of all sorts of media
schnews.org.uk
very lively party, protest and news site coming from brighton, uk

digital civil rights / data protection
edri.org
european digital rights was founded in june 2002. currently 28 privacy and civil rights organisations have edri membership. they are based or have offices in 17 different countries in europe. members of european digital rights have joined forces to defend civil rights in the information society.
ccc.de
chaos computer club. europe's largest hacker group

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