If you are a showtime subscriber check out Oliver Stone's untold history of the United States. From his point of view the reaction we get from the rest of the world should be expected. He goes into great detail about why.
I've had a subscription to the Guardian for ages (on my Kindle, I don't live in the UK) because I think it's the best newspaper out there, period. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Ownership for how it maintains independence (and why supporting it financially is a good thing).
just the basic huffingtonpost.com, bbc.co.uk(yes really, some partly consider this propaganda), freakonomics.com, HackerNews, Digg(yes I still check it from time to time), LinkedIn-News(this one is more based on who/what I subscribe to follow so this might be a special case)... oh and until GoogleReader disappeared I had TED.com feeds to read from time to time. I need to resubsribe with a different rss-reader.
I think these sites are pretty balanced sources of info & news, but I do understand that huffingtonpost leans a very deep left-wing. Not extremist, but pretty deep. Though I don't recall them outright purposely lying about stuff.
