~ Early Web Links ~

Walmart Watch was a campaign site dedicated to monitoring and critiquing the business practices of Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers. The site focused on labor rights, worker wages, corporate accountability, and the social impact of Walmart's policies on communities.

Suliman is a political science student whose blog features sharp political essays on topics like war aesthetics, peace, and personal branding in the digital age. Hosted on Bearblog and part of the SimpleChats Webring, this thoughtful minimalist blog blends serious analysis with occasional lighter posts.

Rat Haus Reality is a sprawling activist and political commentary site covering nuclear waste dangers, corporate governance critique, the 9-11 attacks as crimes against humanity, and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination trial. Drawing on indigenous philosophy like the Hopi concept of Koyaanisqatsi, it advocates for environmental renewal, hemp as a resource, and conscious alternatives to consumer culture.

Fuck off Google! is a decentralized activist network campaigning against Google and Big Tech's data exploitation, tax evasion, and physical expansion into urban neighborhoods like Kreuzberg in Berlin. The site documents 'G-entrification,' mass surveillance, and censorship while promoting decentralized technologies and community resistance.

Jonathan Wallace's long-running online journal explores ethics, free speech, and political events through sharp personal essays, with the site publishing continuously since January 1995. Highlights include a massive 16,000-page manuscript on the history of free speech, experimental hyper-fiction, and pointed commentary on current events from ICE enforcement to international politics.

A curated links directory covering conservative and defense-oriented web resources, organized into sections ranging from Krav Maga and military blogs to political commentary, diplomacy, and book reviews. The collection reflects a distinct hawkish, right-leaning perspective with an eclectic mix of war bloggers, periodicals like National Review and The Claremont Institute, and miscellaneous oddities.

Leviathan Slayer is a libertarian political blog run by contributors Ross and jmc, covering topics like free trade, Austrian economics, Ron Paul, and critiques of government policy. Posts take aim at figures like Paul Krugman and Thomas Sowell while championing gold standard economics and anti-interventionist foreign policy.

The Living Room Candidate is an authoritative archive of presidential campaign television commercials spanning every election from 1952 to the present, hosted by the Museum of the Moving Image. Visitors can browse ads by year, type, issue, or curator-selected playlists, making it an invaluable resource for understanding how political advertising has shaped American democracy.

The Marxists Internet Archive is one of the largest online libraries of leftist political theory, hosting works from over 720 authors including Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky in 80 languages. Researchers and activists alike will find a vast collection of books, periodicals, speeches, and primary texts covering Marxism, socialism, communism, and related political philosophy.

Marxistiskt Forum is a Swedish-language resource collecting texts by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and other thinkers, alongside debate articles, journal articles, academic essays, and exam papers. It serves as a reference hub for Marxist theory and socialist thought for Swedish-speaking readers.