I can recommend the following writers:

Noam Chomsky; John Pilger; Naomi Klein; Seamus Milne; Gregg Palast; George Monbiot; Mark Weisbrot and the late Howard Zinn to name those I gain most from reading.

Here also are some news & analysis sources I can recommend...

Collective of some of the best independent political writing from around the world organised at MIT, including everything by Chomsky.
http://zmag.org/znet

Correcting the distored view of corporate media in the UK.
http://medialens.org/

Daily 1 hour of video news from an independent TV company in NYC, they have an excellent search facility where you can watch old shows and interviews on very interesting topics, a really awesome tool. Its the best TV news ever in my opinion. Makes the rest look shockingly bad.
http://www.democracynow.org/

The Real News network, an independent run internet based current affairs programme.
http://therealnews.com