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Curated feed list for digest-engine's news ingestion.
This file is USER-EDITABLE and is meant to be edited. Only the RCI feeds below
are a confirmed, deliberate choice (they are the theoretical basis the political
prompt reasons from — see synth/prompts/political.md). Everything else is a
starting spread, not a canon.
Every <outline> with an xmlUrl is fetched. Three attributes are passed through
to the LLM: "category" ("theory" frames the section, "news" is raw reporting,
"osint_military" is force-movement reporting), plus "owner" and "bias".
OWNER AND BIAS ARE NOT A RELIABILITY SCORE. They record who pays for an outlet
and whose politics it carries, because no outlet in this file is neutral and
synth/prompts/political.md is told to read every story against its ownership —
a private Western paper is the organ of a fraction of capital exactly as a
state wire is the organ of a capitalist state. Fill them in for anything you
add; the prompt falls back to "ownership not recorded here" when they are
missing, which is a worse answer than one honest line.
HOW MANY FEEDS IS TOO MANY: every feed here contributes up to
NEWS_MAX_ENTRIES_PER_FEED entries to one prompt. This file holds around three
dozen feeds, so keep that variable low (5 is the shipped default) unless you
have moved the digest to a model with a much larger context window than the
14B one this project defaults to.
VERIFICATION: every feed below was fetched and confirmed returning a real
RSS/Atom/RDF document on 2026-08-06, except the four marked VERIFY, which
answered 401/403/404 to that check from this machine (bot-blocking or a moved
path — re-test from the container host's own network before trusting them).
-->
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RCI (Revolutionary Communist International, formerly the IMT) theoretical
sources. The RCI has national sections in 70+ countries
(marxist.com/links.htm) — these three are flagship + the user's own Austrian
section + the English-language paper, not the full list.
The section's social-media and podcast output is NOT here: it is a separate
source with a separate config, feeds/rci-social.json, tagged
"theory_social" so the prompt can tell a video announcement from an
analytical article. marxist.com's own podcast episodes do arrive through
this feed, posted as articles prefixed "[Podcast]".
-->
<outline text="Theory" title="Theory">
<outline type="rss"
text="In Defence of Marxism (marxist.com)"
title="In Defence of Marxism (marxist.com)"
category="theory"
owner="Revolutionary Communist International"
bias="Marxist; the analytical basis this section reasons from"
xmlUrl="https://www.marxist.com/feed/rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.marxist.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Der Funke (RCI Austria)"
title="Der Funke (RCI Austria)"
category="theory"
owner="Revolutionäre Kommunistische Partei (RKP), Austrian section of the RCI"
bias="Marxist; the household's own section"
xmlUrl="https://www.derfunke.at/feed/rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.derfunke.at/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The Communist (RCI, English-language)"
title="The Communist (RCI, English-language)"
category="theory"
owner="Revolutionary Communist Party (Britain), RCI section"
bias="Marxist"
xmlUrl="https://communist.red/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://communist.red/"/>
</outline>
<!--
Workers', labour and movement press. Not "theory" — these are reporting,
written from inside the movement rather than about it, and the political
prompt weighs them as such: closer to the shop floor than any outlet below,
and with their own political lines that are not the RCI's.
-->
<outline text="Workers' and movement press" title="Workers' and movement press">
<outline type="rss"
text="Peoples Dispatch"
title="Peoples Dispatch"
category="news_labour"
owner="Tricontinental-linked left movement media, non-commercial"
bias="Communist/anti-imperialist; reports movements and left governments of the global south that the wires ignore"
xmlUrl="https://peoplesdispatch.org/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://peoplesdispatch.org/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Morning Star"
title="Morning Star"
category="news_labour"
owner="People's Press Printing Society, a readers' co-operative; politically close to the Communist Party of Britain"
bias="British communist daily; trade-union movement coverage found nowhere else in this file"
xmlUrl="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/rss.xml"
htmlUrl="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Labor Notes"
title="Labor Notes"
category="news_labour"
owner="Labor Education and Research Project, non-profit"
bias="US rank-and-file labour; strikes and contract fights reported from the members' side, not the union bureaucracy's"
xmlUrl="https://labornotes.org/rss.xml"
htmlUrl="https://labornotes.org/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Jacobin"
title="Jacobin"
category="news_labour"
owner="Jacobin Foundation, subscriber-funded"
bias="US social-democratic left; reformist rather than revolutionary — useful reporting, a politics this section does not share"
xmlUrl="https://jacobin.com/feed"
htmlUrl="https://jacobin.com/"/>
</outline>
<!--
Palestine and the region. Grouped deliberately so the split in ownership is
visible in one place: the first four are Palestinian, anti-Zionist or
movement outlets; the last two are Israeli papers, kept because what the
Israeli ruling class tells itself is evidence — of its own intentions, never
of what happened to Palestinians. See the "Zionist media" section of
synth/prompts/political.md for the zero-trust rule that applies to them.
-->
<outline text="Palestine and the region" title="Palestine and the region">
<outline type="rss"
text="The Electronic Intifada"
title="The Electronic Intifada"
category="news"
owner="independent, reader-funded, Palestinian-led"
bias="Anti-Zionist, Palestinian standpoint; openly partisan and says so"
xmlUrl="https://electronicintifada.net/rss.xml"
htmlUrl="https://electronicintifada.net/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Mondoweiss"
title="Mondoweiss"
category="news"
owner="independent US non-profit, reader-funded"
bias="Anti-Zionist; US-focused reporting on Palestine and the lobby"
xmlUrl="https://mondoweiss.net/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://mondoweiss.net/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="+972 Magazine"
title="+972 Magazine"
category="news"
owner="Israeli-Palestinian journalists' collective, non-profit"
bias="Anti-occupation Israeli/Palestinian left; frequently the first to document what Israeli outlets will not"
xmlUrl="https://www.972mag.com/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://www.972mag.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Middle East Monitor"
title="Middle East Monitor"
category="news"
owner="London-based non-profit; funding not publicly itemised, editorially pro-Palestinian"
bias="Pro-Palestinian regional coverage; Islamist-sympathetic on some questions"
xmlUrl="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Haaretz"
title="Haaretz"
category="news_zionist"
owner="Schocken family (Amos Schocken) and Leonid Nevzlin, Israeli private capital"
bias="ZIONIST — liberal-Zionist, i.e. it opposes the occupation's methods while taking the settler-colonial state as given. Its own investigative desk has repeatedly documented Israeli army killings, so it is the most useful of the Israeli papers; it is still an Israeli bourgeois paper and gets the zero-trust rule."
xmlUrl="https://www.haaretz.com/cmlink/1.4605102"
htmlUrl="https://www.haaretz.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The Times of Israel"
title="The Times of Israel"
category="news_zionist"
owner="privately held (Seth Klarman, US hedge-fund capital, principal backer)"
bias="ZIONIST AND APOLOGIST FOR THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA. Reproduces IDF statements as fact, launders massacres into 'strikes on militants', and treats Palestinian casualty figures as contested while treating Israeli ones as given. Zero trust on any claim about Palestinians. Read only as evidence of what the Israeli state is saying about itself."
xmlUrl="https://www.timesofisrael.com/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://www.timesofisrael.com/"/>
</outline>
<!--
Anglo-European private capital's press. The house organs of different
fractions of the ruling class — finance capital (FT), the boardroom (WSJ),
liberal internationalism (Guardian, NYT, Economist). The prompt is told to
read them as such, and specifically that the business press is often the
most candid source in this file: it briefs capital honestly because capital
is the reader.
-->
<outline text="Private capital's press" title="Private capital's press">
<outline type="rss"
text="Financial Times — home"
title="Financial Times — home"
category="news"
owner="Nikkei Inc. (Japan)"
bias="The paper of internationally-minded finance capital. Candid about crises and profit rates because its readers must act on them"
xmlUrl="https://www.ft.com/rss/home"
htmlUrl="https://www.ft.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The Economist — International"
title="The Economist — International"
category="news"
owner="Exor (Agnelli family) with Rothschild and Schroder family stakes"
bias="Classical liberalism written for the people who run states and firms; its 'we' is the ruling class"
xmlUrl="https://www.economist.com/international/rss.xml"
htmlUrl="https://www.economist.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The Wall Street Journal — World"
title="The Wall Street Journal — World"
category="news"
owner="News Corp (Murdoch family control)"
bias="US business conservatism; the editorial page is openly the employers' side, the reporting is aimed at investors"
xmlUrl="https://feeds.a.dj.com/rss/RSSWorldNews.xml"
htmlUrl="https://www.wsj.com/world"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The New York Times — World"
title="The New York Times — World"
category="news"
owner="New York Times Company; Sulzberger family control through dual-class shares"
bias="US liberal establishment; reliably follows Washington's framing on any war the US is party to"
xmlUrl="https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml"
htmlUrl="https://www.nytimes.com/section/world"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="CNBC — International"
title="CNBC — International"
category="news"
owner="Comcast / NBCUniversal"
bias="Markets-first business television; states plainly what capital expects to happen next"
xmlUrl="https://search.cnbc.com/rs/search/combinedcms/view.xml?partnerId=wrss01&amp;id=100727362"
htmlUrl="https://www.cnbc.com/world/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The Guardian — World"
title="The Guardian — World"
category="news"
owner="Scott Trust Ltd, a private trust; no shareholders, no proprietor"
bias="British liberal centre-left and Atlanticist; the least proprietor-driven of the big British papers, still firmly within the establishment"
xmlUrl="https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.theguardian.com/world"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Washington Post — World (VERIFY: 401/403 to our check)"
title="Washington Post — World"
category="news"
owner="Jeff Bezos, sole owner (Amazon)"
bias="US liberal establishment, owned outright by one of the largest capitalists alive — treat its coverage of Amazon, logistics and labour accordingly"
xmlUrl="https://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/world"
htmlUrl="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/"/>
</outline>
<!--
State broadcasters and state wires — of every bloc, filed together on
purpose. A state broadcaster is the outlet of a capitalist state whether the
state is NATO's or its rivals'; the prompt is told that "state-affiliated"
names who signs the cheque, not a special propaganda bucket that Western
outlets are exempt from.
-->
<outline text="State broadcasters and wires" title="State broadcasters and wires">
<outline type="rss"
text="BBC News — World"
title="BBC News — World"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="British state: royal-charter corporation, licence fee, board appointments via government"
bias="The state broadcaster of a NATO power. Its house style reads as neutrality; on any war Britain is party to it follows the Foreign Office's frame"
xmlUrl="http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"
htmlUrl="https://www.bbc.com/news/world"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Deutsche Welle — Top stories"
title="Deutsche Welle — Top stories"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="German federal state broadcaster, funded from the federal budget"
bias="Germany's outward-facing outlet; German foreign-policy framing by design, and formally committed to a pro-Israel editorial line"
xmlUrl="https://rss.dw.com/rdf/rss-en-all"
htmlUrl="https://www.dw.com/en/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="France 24 — English"
title="France 24 — English"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="France Médias Monde, French state-owned"
bias="French state's foreign-facing outlet; reliable French/EU establishment framing, and the Françafrique blind spot that comes with it"
xmlUrl="https://www.france24.com/en/rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.france24.com/en/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Al Jazeera English — All"
title="Al Jazeera English — All"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="Qatari state (ruling Al Thani family)"
bias="Gulf monarchy's outlet. The best-resourced on-the-ground reporting from Palestine in this file, and near-silence on Qatar itself and on Gulf migrant labour — both facts are the same fact"
xmlUrl="https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml"
htmlUrl="https://www.aljazeera.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Middle East Eye"
title="Middle East Eye"
category="news"
owner="privately held, London; funding not disclosed and widely reported as Qatar-aligned"
bias="Critical of Israeli, Gulf-monarchy and US policy in the region; its own funding is the thing it does not report on"
xmlUrl="https://www.middleeasteye.net/rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.middleeasteye.net/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="RT (Russia)"
title="RT (Russia)"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="ANO TV-Novosti, funded by the Russian state"
bias="The outlet of the Russian capitalist class and its state. Not 'the other side' — Russian capital's own imperialism is the one thing it will not report. Its critiques of NATO can be materially accurate and are made in the interests of a rival bourgeoisie"
xmlUrl="https://www.rt.com/rss/"
htmlUrl="https://www.rt.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="TASS (Russia)"
title="TASS (Russia)"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="Russian state news agency"
bias="The Russian state's wire — read for what Moscow is announcing, not for what happened"
xmlUrl="https://tass.com/rss/v2.xml"
htmlUrl="https://tass.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Global Times (China)"
title="Global Times (China)"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="People's Daily, i.e. the Communist Party of China"
bias="Chinese state, nationalist register. China's own capital export and its treatment of Chinese workers are the subjects it does not cover"
xmlUrl="https://www.globaltimes.cn/rss/outbrain.xml"
htmlUrl="https://www.globaltimes.cn/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="CGTN — World (China)"
title="CGTN — World (China)"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="China Media Group, Chinese state"
bias="Beijing's outward-facing broadcaster; same blind spots as Global Times, calmer register"
xmlUrl="https://www.cgtn.com/subscribe/rss/section/world.xml"
htmlUrl="https://www.cgtn.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Anadolu Agency — English (Turkey)"
title="Anadolu Agency — English (Turkey)"
category="news_state_affiliated"
owner="Turkish state agency"
bias="Ankara's wire. Useful on Palestine and on Turkey's neighbourhood, silent on Kurds and on repression at home"
xmlUrl="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/default?cat=guncel"
htmlUrl="https://www.aa.com.tr/en"/>
</outline>
<!--
Asia, Africa and Latin America — mostly the local bourgeois press, included
because a digest assembled only from London, New York and Moscow gets the
world wrong. Their national capitalist classes have their own interests, and
those interests are visible in the copy.
-->
<outline text="Asia, Africa, Latin America" title="Asia, Africa, Latin America">
<outline type="rss"
text="South China Morning Post — World"
title="South China Morning Post — World"
category="news"
owner="Alibaba Group"
bias="Hong Kong paper owned by Chinese capital; better sourced on China than the Western wires, constrained on anything Beijing treats as settled"
xmlUrl="https://www.scmp.com/rss/91/feed"
htmlUrl="https://www.scmp.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Nikkei Asia"
title="Nikkei Asia"
category="news"
owner="Nikkei Inc. (which also owns the FT)"
bias="Japanese capital's view of Asian supply chains and rearmament; business-first"
xmlUrl="https://asia.nikkei.com/rss/feed/nar"
htmlUrl="https://asia.nikkei.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The Hindu — International"
title="The Hindu — International"
category="news"
owner="The Hindu Group (Kasturi and Sons), Indian private capital"
bias="Indian liberal, historically left-of-centre and unusually willing to cover farmers' and workers' agitations"
xmlUrl="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/feeder/default.rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.thehindu.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="AllAfrica — latest"
title="AllAfrica — latest"
category="news"
owner="AllAfrica Global Media; aggregates African outlets, each item's real publisher named in the item"
bias="Aggregator, so the bias is whichever paper filed it — check the item's own attribution before leaning on it"
xmlUrl="https://allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rdf/latest/headlines.rdf"
htmlUrl="https://allafrica.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Daily Maverick (South Africa)"
title="Daily Maverick (South Africa)"
category="news"
owner="independent South African publisher, reader- and sponsor-funded"
bias="South African liberal; strong on state capture and mining capital, hostile to the organised left"
xmlUrl="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/dmrss/"
htmlUrl="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="MercoPress (South America)"
title="MercoPress (South America)"
category="news"
owner="Mercosur-region news agency, Montevideo"
bias="South American business and trade press; commodity prices, ports and trade blocs, from capital's side"
xmlUrl="https://en.mercopress.com/rss/"
htmlUrl="https://en.mercopress.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Buenos Aires Times (Argentina)"
title="Buenos Aires Times (Argentina)"
category="news"
owner="Perfil group, Argentine private media capital"
bias="Argentine liberal-business English edition; the place to watch austerity, the IMF and the response to both"
xmlUrl="https://www.batimes.com.ar/feed"
htmlUrl="https://www.batimes.com.ar/"/>
</outline>
<!--
Austrian press, for the household's own country. Regional and national
bourgeois papers — the local political weather the Austrian section is
organising in.
-->
<outline text="Austria" title="Austria">
<outline type="rss"
text="DER STANDARD"
title="DER STANDARD"
category="news"
owner="Bronner family with a Süddeutsche Zeitung stake"
bias="Austrian national liberal daily"
xmlUrl="https://www.derstandard.at/rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.derstandard.at/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="VOL.AT (Vorarlberg)"
title="VOL.AT (Vorarlberg)"
category="news"
owner="Russmedia, Vorarlberg private media group"
bias="Regional bourgeois press; local employers, local politics, no national line to speak of"
xmlUrl="https://www.vol.at/rss"
htmlUrl="https://www.vol.at/"/>
</outline>
<!--
Military/OSINT reporting. There is no free structured API for military
movements — see digest-engine/README.md, "Military movement" — so this is
the honest substitute: outlets that do the tracking themselves, carried
through under category="osint_military" so the prompt can tell reporting on
troop and fleet movements apart from general news.
Deliberately NOT included: Liveuamap (liveuamap.com/rss is a paid-API signup
page, not a feed), ISW/understandingwar.org and Long War Journal (both 403 to
the verification fetch — re-check from the real network and add them here if
they work). None of these outlets is independent of the states it reports on;
most are read by, and sell to, the arms industry.
-->
<outline text="Military / OSINT" title="Military / OSINT">
<outline type="rss"
text="Bellingcat"
title="Bellingcat"
category="osint_military"
owner="Dutch-registered foundation; funders have included the NED and European governments"
bias="Open-source investigation, genuinely rigorous method, and a target selection that tracks Western foreign-policy priorities"
xmlUrl="https://www.bellingcat.com/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://www.bellingcat.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Naval News"
title="Naval News"
category="osint_military"
owner="private defence-trade publisher"
bias="Trade press for naval procurement — accurate on hulls and deployments, reads arms spending as good news"
xmlUrl="https://www.navalnews.com/feed/"
htmlUrl="https://www.navalnews.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="The War Zone"
title="The War Zone"
category="osint_military"
owner="Recurrent Ventures, US private media"
bias="Well-sourced US military reporting written for enthusiasts of it"
xmlUrl="https://www.twz.com/feed"
htmlUrl="https://www.twz.com/"/>
<outline type="rss"
text="Defense News"
title="Defense News"
category="osint_military"
owner="Sightline Media Group, US defence-trade publisher"
bias="The arms industry's own trade paper — contracts and budgets reported as business news, because that is what they are to its readers"
xmlUrl="https://www.defensenews.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/"
htmlUrl="https://www.defensenews.com/"/>
</outline>
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