last update :Sep 5, 2005

Here is a list of interesting sites in English. Please note that the same thing applies to the French and Persian trees ; i.e. on each of them, you'll find a favorite list in their language.

What a pleasure when the knowledge is free and shared : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Progressive News agencies, journalists, not in the "mainstream" :

http://www.selvesandothers.org/view18.html My favorite of the moment, articles written by “Robert Fisk ”, think and enjoy !

http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/

http://www.counterpunch.org/

http://www.medialens.org/

http://pilger.carlton.com/

About Iran :

http://roozonline.com//11english/ A selection of articles by some prominent Iranians (watch in particular Shirin Ebadi and Hossein Bastani)

http://www.iranmania.com/news/ AFP news about Iran

http://www.payvand.com/news/

Newspapers and Magazines

http://www.outlookindia.com/

http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en some articles of the excellent "Le Monde Diplomatique"

http://www.progressive.org/

http://www.monthlyreview.org/index.html

Humor

http://www.theonion.com

http://www.satirewire.com

Progressive Organizations, for a better world

http://www.attac.org/index.htm (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens.)

http://www.maxhavelaar.nl/

http://www.grameen-info.org/        a bank lending money to poor !

http://www.rsf.fr

http://www.amnesty.org/

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Poetry Arts

http://www.bedribaykam.com/            He has surely something to tell us

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/works/   The great Walt Whitman

Persian poetry translated into English

http://www.shamlu.com/        Ahmad Shamlu

http://www.forughfarrokhzad.org/selectedworks/selectedworks1.asp        Frough Farrokhzad

Dictionaries

http://www.babylon.com/

http://www.farsidic.com/dict/

http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Philosophy

The great Bertrand RUSSELL :

http://www.yurimarcialis.it/russell/11.html

http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/brtexts.html

http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/einstein_russell.htm

Michel Foucault

David HUME :

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3067/hume/h_index.html

A Treatise of Human Nature

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/D-G/ABC1.html Gilles Deleuze's ABC Primer, with Claire Parnet

Quotes from Gaston Bachelard    The rational materialist

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

Philosophizing Dangerously with Friedrich Nietzsche

Directed creativity                the process for solving a problem

some classics of early modern philosophy

Will Duant Foundation