Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Political opinion daily reading list
Because so much of the mainstream media is polluted by right wing free market ideologues pushing corporate interests:
TDB daily collates the best NZ Left Wing, Independent and Progressive Political Opinion and includes the best international voices.
Unlike Victoria University’s The Democracy Project, this will never be behind a Paywall.
DOMESTIC:
RNZ – Watch: James Shaw resigns as Green Party co-leader
The Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis – Can CNN’s Mark Thompson cure my obsessive compulsive disorder?
Gordon Campbell on wasting money on Defence, and Melanie, RIP
No Right Turn – Robbing from the poor to pay the rich
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Dawn Chorus for Tuesday, January 30
Newsroom – International warning over Govt’s ‘rare’ stance on WHO
Newsroom – Judiciary and courts included in Govt’s cuts, raising further constitutional red flags
Waatea News – Nelson Council backs iwi housing push
The Daily Blog – Ummm – is anyone else paying attention to China’s economic woes and how is India a solution?
The Daily Blog – Oh now Luxon is the super strategist chess player Svengali is he?
The Daily Blog – Punishing UNRWA while Palestinians die is unconscionable, why Helen Clark is right and if it is a taxpayers issue, shouldn’t the IDF refund us?
The Daily Blog – So is David Seymour’s race baiting racist redneck banjo twanging cross burning culture war revenge fantasy Treaty Principles Referendum divisive?
The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – WHEN DOES MEDIA REPORTING BECOME HARASSMENT
The Daily Blog – Leslie Bravery – Julian Assange has been imprisoned for 1752 days
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer
Haaretz – Irresponsible, Shameful, Lethal: Netanyahu’s Disgraceful Efforts to Bring Home Israeli Hostages
The Washington Post – U.S. mixed up enemy, friendly drones in attack that killed 3 troops
Jacobin – Joe Biden Shouldn’t be Able to Just Unilaterally Bomb Yemen
Caitlin Johnstone – More US-Driven Escalations Toward War In The Middle East
Crikey – The Lenin century: A rollicking tale, and we’re all still in it
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