Post your daily read.

[CardSharp]

What we read and how we consume news plays a large part in how we perceive the world (and how we come across here on the forum), so that got me wondering. What is everyone reading out there? and do you recommend to others?

I'll start the ball rolling.




By subject...


US Military/Iraq and A-stan

Best defense - probably the best US military coverage by any journalist (no exaggeration), also check the comment section for current ex-service members and officers shooting the sh!t.
The Best Defense | FOREIGN POLICY

abumuqawama - US army captain's blog about the Iraqi resistance hosted by CNAS (David Petraus's affliated think tank)
Abu Muqawama | Center for a New American Security

Zero intelligence agent - NYU grad student who studies war through math models.
Zero Intelligence Agents

US army war college rss feed - plenty of free books and in-depth reports for military issues around the world.
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) | US Army War College



Chinese Military and others

China defense - Good news feed with plenty of updates
China Defense Blog: New photos of the H-6K variant

China defence mashup - another great news feed
China Military Power Mashup|China Powerful Military News, images and videos information

Kings of war - articles by various faculty and research students of the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Kings of War


General News
Asia times - plenty of updates and article most very good
Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News


Weapons and firearms

Nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles - Very knowledgeable guys, a little bit technical and sciency but you sort of need it for nukes and rockets
Arms Control Wonk • an arms control blog network

Firearms blog - friendly gun nuts with some coverage of military rifles
The Firearm Blog | Gun, Tactical & Hunting News


I'll stop now and let you guys share what you read everyday.

 

[FreekiN]

News
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Google News > Front Page
[it has everything from every major news website even a handy search option]

IT
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Ars Technica

Media
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DiGG

and youtube for several defence and political talkshows.

and Facebook is a must.

 

[genmirajborgza786]

News
---
Google News > Front Page
[it has everything from every major news website even a handy search option]

IT
---
Ars Technica

Media
---
DiGG

and youtube for several defence and political talkshows.

and Facebook is a must.

Facebook hehe... trust me i understand mine is very few geo-politics news etc

entertainment movies reviews cant live with out it even got kicked out of one forum for fighting with a critic i just hate hate hate simply hate him

about para-normal stuff but in limits & man inception just rocked !

 

[Hyde]

I read Geo, brecorder, PDF, Dawn news almost everyday.

But nowadays due to disastrous flooding I am just not in good mood nowadays so just open Geo front page and brecorder.com economy section for 2-3 minutes and close.

I go other news websites on weekly basis but these are the only one i visit almost everyday.

@ Non-Political news
I usually go

MarketWatch - Stock Market Quotes, Business News, Financial News
Forex | Forex Trading | Currency Trading | Forex Brokers

almost everyday for world economy/financial news

 

[CardSharp]

@ Non-Political news
I usually go

MarketWatch - Stock Market Quotes, Business News, Financial News
Forex | Forex Trading | Currency Trading | Forex Brokers

almost everyday for world economy/financial news

Neat, do you trade forex?

 

[GentlemanObserver]

OASC + STRATFOR, the rest are too many to list.

 

[CardSharp]

OASC + STRATFOR, the rest are too many to list.

Have you read George Friedman's ridiculous book?

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century: Amazon.ca: George Friedman: Books

I liked Stratfor up until this book came out, and they have a troubling habit of burying predictions that they got wrong.

 

[siegecrossbow]

In an effort to prevent the derailment of the 1962 thread I am going to repost my readings here:

Military/defence:

1) tiexue.net, a Chinese military forum. I read it once a week.
2) Pakistan defence forum!!!
3) sinodefenceforum. A site based in England that has a great deal of info on the Chinese military. There are threads dedicated to the JF-17, L-15, and the J-10.

Chinese history:

Chinese history forum.

 

[GentlemanObserver]

Have you read George Friedman's ridiculous book?

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century: Amazon.ca: George Friedman: Books

I liked Stratfor up until this book came out, and they have a troubling habit of burying predictions that they got wrong.

LOL yes i have. I had platinum membership due to work and i got this free during the promo. And i tend to agree with you on the forecasting by Strartfor...

 

[Patrician]

What I've read so far:

1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Imerialism, the highest state of capitalism - Vladimir Lenin
Sophie's World - Joestein Gaarder
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
The age of reason - Thomas Paine
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
A modest proposal - Jonathan Swift (The master of satire)
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine - H.G.Wells
The Theory of Everything - Stephan Hawking
A Brief History of Time - Stephan Hawking
Freedom at Midnight - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (read this if you really want to know about the events transpiring during the partition of British India.