New blogs and sites on the left

Dean Baker's Beat the Press offers commentary on economic reporting in the mainstream press.

Barbara Ehrenriech has Barbara's blog on working in America. It looks like a long blogentry or short essay every week. Sure to be worth watching.

Rick Perlstein author of Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, and the pamphletT he Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party has a new website.

Blue Force is a mega-blog with the mission "to facilitate a progressive national security dialogue, to elect politicians with a strong, progressive perspective on national security issues, and to educate elected officials and the general public on the relationships between national security and progressive values and issues."