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Opensecrets.org - http://www.opensecrets.org/
The web site of the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit U.S. research group which tracks money in politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government. |
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Transparency International - http://www.transparency.org/
A non-governmental organisation dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing corruption. |
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Federation of American Scientists - http://www.fas.org/
Topics covered include arms sales monitoring, biological weapons, cyberstrategy, intelligence reform, military analysis, monitoring emerging diseases, nuclear weapons, secrecy and government, and space policy. Also has links to various Washington-based working groups. |
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Common Cause - http://www.commoncause.org
Citizens' lobbying group with 250,000 members nationwide devoted to making government more accountable and ethical at the national, state and local level. Widely regarded as the leading organization working for campaign finance reform. |
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Center for Public Integrity - http://www.publicintegrity.org/
Nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington, DC, that concentrates on ethics and public service issues. |
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Project on Government Oversight - http://www.pogo.org/
A non-partisan non-profit government watchdog whose mission is to investigate, expose, and remedy abuses of power, mismanagement, and government subservience to special interests by the federal government. |
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse - http://trac.syr.edu/index.html
Uses the Freedom of Information Act to acquire data and trends information on the enforcement activities of the federal government including the FBI, IRS, Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration. |
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Government Accountability Project: Whistleblower Support - http://www.whistleblower.org/
Whistleblowing, governmental wrongdoing and official misconduct. |
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The Memory Hole - http://thememoryhole.org/
Includes documents released under the US Freedom of Information Act that reveal government activities rarely reported by the mainstream media. |
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Center for Governmental Studies - http://www.cgs.org/
Non-profit, non-partisan organization that studies and helps implement innovative approaches to improving social problems and the processes of self-government in the areas of political reform, media and civic participation, and sustainable communities. |
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Congressional Accountability Project - http://www.congressproject.org
Ralph Nader organization working against corruption in the US Congress by pushing for ethics violation investigations, increased transparency and other reforms. |
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Better Government Association - http://www.bettergov.org
Originally founded 75 years ago to fight the pernicious influence of Chicago's Capone mob. Today continues to investigate waste, fraud and corruption in politics and government. |
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The Problems of Not Having a TV in the UK. - http://www.marmalade.net/lime/
An example of how people who do not have televisions are treated by the British Television Licensing Authority. |
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Government Purchasing Project - http://www.gpp.org
Dedicated to protecting the environment and human health through the effective use of purchasing power in addition to traditional advocacy. GPP works to encourage the government to use its immense purchasing power to promote safe, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally-sound products. |
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Prime-Time Propaganda - http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/index.html
The Clinton Administration has admitted to paying the television networks to give the government editorial control of television shows. Not a joke. |
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Center for Reform - http://www.uscfr.com/
Dedicated to educating and assisting the public in constructive citizenship, with a strong anti-government bent. Site features newsletters, reports, and essays on current issues. |
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America's Survival, Inc. - http://www.usasurvival.org/
Mission is to expose and educate the American people about the influence of global institutions, including an International Criminal Court, on their lives. Run by Cliff Kincaid. |
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The Taxpayer Assets Project - http://www.tap.org/
Founded by Ralph Nader in 1988 to monitor the management and sale of government property. |
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Almanac of Policy Issues: Government Reform - http://www.policyalmanac.org/government/index.shtml
Background information and links on government reform issues, including campaign finance reform, term limits, devolution, government performance (GPRA), and regulatory reform. |
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USDOJ and Government Watch - http://www.dojgov.net
Breaking news and issues on constitutional abuse by the US Department of Justice, INS and other government agencies. |
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Ombudsmen To Promote Government Integrity - http://www.ombudsmen.org/
Non-profit tax deductible organization devoted to correcting corruption in government through educating the public and investigative work. |
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America for Sale? - http://members.tripod.com/usa_rights/
Site charges that "America and its laws are for sale to the highest bidder." Police, county, state, and government abuse stories and discussion. |
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AgainstAmerica - http://www.againstamerica.com
Forum for all people concerned discussing American imperialism, culture and injustice on the rest of the world |
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Why Were Government Propaganda Experts Working On News At CNN? - http://www.fair.org/activism/cnn-psyops.html
Reports in the Dutch newspaper Trouw and France's Intelligence Newsletter have revealed that several officers from the US Army's 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN's Atlanta headquarters last year, starting in the final days of the Kosovo War... A senior US official described OPD as a "vast psychological warfare operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in enemy territory." |
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The True Size of Government - http://govexec.com/features/0199/0199s1.htm
Article discusses the actual size of the United States Federal workforce. |
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The F.B.I (Fumbling Bumbling Idiots) - http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2191/FBI.htm
Alleges that the FBI has been responsible for a "vast array of criminal actions, incompetence and arrogance that has leaked from nearly every department." |
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Surveillance Enabling - http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/29/surveillance/
Salon article supporting the view that U.S. agencies share with international policing community, what activists to watch out for, even when only misdemeanors occurred. |
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Big Brother - http://www.shire.net/big.brother/
Argues that government control has increased at the expense of individual liberties in the US and the world at large. |
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Argus - http://www.promethea.org/argus/
A resource dedicated to exposing corruption, civil rights violations, genocide, and other forms of political oppression around the world, by providing reviewed links to useful sources on abusive and dangerous authority. |
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CIA Testing LSD on Citizens - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/Hearing05.htm
Stansfield Turner's testimony at 1977 Senate Hearing on the subject of this agency using Lysergic Acid on unwitting subjects. |