The places where you can find better, more accurate, less-U.S.-centric news, these are hard to find. Here's a list for myself, and then a list of progressive and lefty news/comment sites.

ProPublica.org

TheGuardian

AlJazeera English

Wired

ZDNet

C-Net

Gizmodo

Salon

Reuters

Yes, 4 of them are tech news sites. I see a direct connection between many technology journalists and the urge to discover what's true in the world, not to be lied to.

**Soon Glenn Greenwald, formerly of the Guardian and the writer with whom Edward Snowden communicated the info he swiped, will be part of a news network which is temporarily being called New.co
I have reservations about Reuters, but they're generally okay.
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Some Lefty sites:

MotherJones

FireDogLake

RollingStone

Ted Rall

TruthDig for columnist Robert Scheer, mostly. Also Ann Wright.

Georgie Ann Geyer on Uexpress

Wonkette