Note: The inclusion of a book or other resource on this page does not necessarily mean I agree with the author. My view is that reading from a range of perspectives is necessary to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the world. For that reason, I subscribe to, and read from, a wide range of news and information feeds. The following list includes of many of the books, websites and other resources I have found most useful in shaping my views.

Books

Books: Geopolitics and war

• American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World by Eric Margolis
• America’s “War on Terrorism” by Michel Chossudovsky
• China is Communist, Dammit!: Dawn of the Red Dynasty by Jeff J. Brown
• China Rising: Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations by Jeff J. Brown
• Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir by Sibel D. Edmonds
• Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman
• Geopolitics For Dummies by Chris Kanthan
• Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning by by Andrei Martyanov  
• Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance by F. William Engdahl
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu 
• The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine
• The Dirty War on Syria by Tim Anderson
• The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot
• The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy by F. William Engdahl 
• The War Against Putin: What the Government-Media Complex Isn’t Telling You About Russia by M. S. King
• The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire by WikiLeaks
• Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War  by Michel Chossudovsky
• War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier by by Smedley Butler
• War with Russia: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate by Stephen F. Cohen
• Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline by Morris Berman
• 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth

Books: Neoliberalism and economics

• A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
• A Game of Mates: How Favours Bleed the Nation by Cameron Murray & Paul Frijters
• Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy by Kerry-anne Mendoza
• Brexit – A Corporate Coup D’etat by Graham Vanbergen
• Disaster Capitalism by Antony Loewenstein
• Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips
• Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Peter Schweizer
• The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century by Andrew Gavin Marshall
• The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order  by Michel Chossudovsky
• The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Books: Propaganda & Media

• American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News by James O’Keefe
• Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith
• Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media by David Edwards, David Cromwell
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
• Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible by Roy Eidelson
• Propaganda by Edward Bernays
• Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality by David Edwards & David Cromwell
• War Is A Lie by David Swanson

Books: History

• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Gore Vidal’s State of the Union: The Nation’s Essays 1958-2008 by Gore Vidal
• Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War by Gerry Docherty, James MacGregor
• History as Mystery by Michael Parenti
• Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion by Jeffrey St. Clair
• Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in the Vietnam War by Gina Marie Weaver
• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War by Arkady Ostrovsky
• The Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings
• The Lords of Creation (Forbidden Bookshelf) by Frederick Lewis Allen
• The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau
• The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine
• The Phoenix Project by M. R. Pritchard

Books: Economics & politics

• Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
• Das Kapital – Capital by Karl Marx
• Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason by David Harvey
• Understanding Marxism by Richard D. Wolff

Books: Religion

• From Yahweh to Zion by Laurent Guyénot
• Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak
• Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan

YouTube channels

• Breaking the set – Political comment
• Clarke and Dawe – Political satire, Australia
• Corbett Report –  An independent, listener-supported alternative news source with podcasts of interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and more.
• Empire Files – A documentary & interview series hosted by Abby Martin – reporting on war & inequality from the heart of Empire // New episode every week on teleSUR english
• Eva K Bartlett – Writings, interviews and lectures to primarily end Imperialist, Zionist, Gulf and allies’ wars and invasions (and aggressive acts like sanctions) against sovereign nations and innocent people
• NonStampCollector – Religious satire
• MintPressNews – Independent news
• Ron Paul Liberty Report – Interviews and commentary from Ron Paul, libertarian US politician – see Ron Paul Institute
• Rutherford Institute – Political commentary from John Whitehead on government power and liberty (see also on Newsbud)
• Shadowproof – Reader-supported journalism dedicated to exposing abuses of power in business and government
• Suzi3D –  Kiwi journalist, activist, exile and poet Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D on Twitter and her website at https://suzi3d.com
• teleSUR English – Independent news
• TYT Politics – Independent news & comment
• Vanessa Beeley – a British investigative journalist focused on the Middle East.

Web links

News

• Al-Masdar Al-‘Arabi (The Arab Source) – news and analysis from the Arab world
• BBC – UK state owned news organisation
• Counter Punch – Alternative news and comment
• Haaretz – News from Israel (somewhat moderate)
• Independent Australia – Australian branch of the UK based Independent news
• Mint Press News – An independent watchdog journalism organization founded by Mnar Muhawesh
• New Matilda – Alternative news and comment from Australia
• RT – (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian international news network funded by the Russian government
• South Front – Global current events and analysis with a military focus
• Sputnik – Russian news launched in 2014 by the Russian media group Rossiya Segodnya a news agency wholly owned and operated by the Russian government, created by an Executive Order of the President of Russia
• TelesurTV – A socialist, multi-state funded, pan–Latin American terrestrial and satellite television network sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Bolivia that is headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela
• The American Conservative – Mainstream conservative articles and analysis
• TheFreeThoughtProject.com – Independent news and comment
• The Diplomat – Online magazine focussed on world events
• The Nation – National newspaper based in Pakistan
• The New York Times – US national newspaper based in New York and publicly traded but primarily controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family
• The Washington Post – Has a particular emphasis on US national politics and was formerly owned by the Graham family, who sold the newspaper in 2013 to billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash
• WikiLeaks – A multi-national media organization and associated library founded by Julian Assange in 2006 and specialising in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption.

Comment & analysis

• Dissent Sans Frontiers – Political, critical travel weblog managed by Ryan Mallett-Outtrim who is an Australian activist and journalist currently living in Quito, Ecuador
• Films for Action – News and comment articles and documentaries
• Global Research – Founded by Michel Chossudovsky, the Global Research website  publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focusing on social, economic, strategic and environmental issues.
• Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) – Australian conservative think tank with close ideological and political affinities with the Liberal Party in Australia
• Media Lens – A British media analysis website established in 2001 by David Cromwell and David Edwards  to scrutinise and question the mainstream media’s coverage of significant events and issues
• Newsbud – Founded by Sibel Edmonds, Newsbud is an is an independent news, analyses and multimedia network that covers select, but significant, blacked out stories and issues
• The Australia Institute – Progressive analysis
• The Conversation – Peer reviewed and other articles
• The Daily Signal – Online magazine of the Heartland Foundation (Extreme right wing lobby group)
• The Heartland Institute – American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank founded in 1984 and associated with the Koch brothers
• The National Interest – A mouth piece of the US military industrial complex and published by the Center for the National Interest
• The Rutherford Institute – Founded in 1982 by constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute is one of the USA’s leading advocates of civil liberties and human rights
• The Saker – Weblog focussed on political comment and analysis critiquing US foreign policy
• The Unz Review – A collection of interesting, important, and controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American mainstream media
• We Are Change – a nonpartisan, independent media organization comprised of individuals and groups working to expose corruption worldwide, founded by Luke Rudkowski

Other web

• Independent Science News – ISN aims to call attention to defects in science and in the science media and to remedy them as far as possible
• Phys Org – Science news
• RationalWiki – A wiki analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement
• Skeptical Science –  This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
• 911Truth.org – Mission: TO EXPOSE the official lies and cover-up surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001 in a way that inspires the people to overcome denial and understand the truth
• Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth – The architects, engineers, and scientists who make up AE911Truth provide forensic evidence, video documentation, and eyewitness testimony that offer clues to the identity of the perpetrators.