NOTE: All mainstream U.S. political news sources, whether they be
 individual journalists, news services or network media, should be 
 assumed to be acting as defacto agents of the United States government. 

 WORLD:
 Africa/Asia News        - via U.N's I.R.I.N
 Missionary News Service - 3rd World News (mostly non-religious)
 7am World Wire          - BBC/Guardian/Nando/Newsday/Fox/etc
 Agence France Presse    - French Newswire
 Latin American Post
 Euro News               - Germany/France/Holland/Belgium
 Kyodo Wire              - Japan
 Taliban News            - yep, still there (comes and goes)
 Kavkaz News             - For the well-informed Holy Warrior 
 News For the Ummah
 Jordan Times            - next door to Palestine-Israel
 PR Newswire             - Gobs of Press Releases
 Federal Register        - The Official Word

 LOCAL:
 News for the Blind      - Nat.Fed. of the Blind news by telephone

 CKNW                     - Quickie Headlines - Vancouver, BC
 CKPG                     - Quickie Headlines - Prince Rupert, BC
 Georgia Straight         - Vancouver, BC weekly
 Vancouver, BC - AltavistaNews Search
 Vancouver, BC - NewsTrove Search
 Vancouver, BC - Google USENET postings
  (Both the Vancouver Sun and The Province are owned and operated by the same
   corporation. Both engage in such crude censorship as airbrushing protesters
   out of pictures. Neither can be considered honest or reliable sources of
   information. The Georgia Straight is far better in both respects.)

 KING                     - Quickie headlines Seattle
 The Stranger             - Seattle (Wkly)
 Seattle Press            - independant (Wkly?)
 SFD Morning Reports      - Seattle Fire Dept. fire/ambulance
 Seattle - Altavista NewsSearch
 Seattle - NewsTrove
 Seattle - Google USENET postings
  (Like most small town newspapers, the Seattle Times and the P-I are local 
  Booster rags that censor and massage embarassing news. The news search
  engines are more inclusive and The Stranger is more honest.)

 REFERENCE: 
 AllTheWeb  - news search engine