Places that will help you LEARN....

Databases

Medline for free

Questia: the world's largest online library

Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Columbia Journalism Review's Who Owns What database
OpenSecrets - the online source for money in politics data
Uncover Database of over 18,000 academic journals
Tag Lines Galore

Dictionaries, Thesauri and Glossaries

American Sign Language Dictionary

Marxist Glossary for the true definition of "teleology"
Roget's Thesaurus

Fonts

Fun stuff

Acronym Finder
PhoneSpell What does your phone number spell?

Information

Albion Monitor progressive investrigative journalism on the net. Most articles are by subscription only but many are free.

All the News thats not fit to print A progressive roundup of media criticism on the web

Federation of American Scientists

- an archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals, from the regular range of left, right and "center" positions.

Today in Radical History

A resource for capitalist media journalists - from a pro-capitalist perspective of course! Check out the crap that passes for background theseadays...

FranceWatcher - documenting French imperialism in Africa

Institute for Public Accuracy - from the fine folks who put out Extra! magazine and track right-wing bias in the mainstream media

Investigative Reporters and Editors At least this site seems to have a progressive slant of sorts but its no fun to navigate around - "search this site" was the option for me!

National Security Archive

Pacific News Service Progressive news, stuff by youth in prison, international analysis and more

Sources Canadian sources database for reporters - their database isn't always the speediest though

Trade Union Resources on the Web lots of links to all kinds of unions, most of which are unfortunately reformist in nature

Journals

Womanist Research and Theory - academic feminists of colour