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:
Gordon Campbell on the politics as a morality play
No Right Turn – Luxon can’t be trusted on Te Tiriti
Newsroom – NZ First’s doomed deal to reopen Marsden Point refinery
Waatea News – Cultural reports needed to guide rehabilitation
Guardian NZ – Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says
RNZ – Auckland fuel tax scrap nothing but ‘political populism’ – public transport advocate
The Daily Blog – Luxon manages to be the cowardly lion, the Tin man and the brainless scarecrow all in one (Seymour is Oz and Winston the Wicked Witch of the West)
The Daily Blog – Netanyahu needs perpetual conflict and by joining America’s Red Sea War, NZ is empowering that
The Daily Blog – Peeni’s “I lift my gun and I let the shots do the talking’ vs EFFs kill the boer
The Daily Blog – The next Deputy Leader of the country doesn’t believe the Prime Minister – how Seymour gets his Treaty Principle amputation through
The Daily Blog – Māoridom (and all NZ) have everything to fear – of course the Right want to dump Treaty Principles!
The Daily Blog – Population demographic meltdown vs 12month maternity leave + fully funded ECE
INTERNATIONAL:
Haaretz – Lebanon Rocket Barrage Targets Northern Israel; U.S. Intel Says Hamas Only Lost Third of Fighters
The Washington Post – Trump poised for victory in Nevada’s GOP caucuses
Jacobin – Americans Have Many Good Reasons to Be Unhappy With This Economy
Caitlin Johnston – The US Keeps Bombing People While Saying It Doesn’t Want To Fight
Crikey – Clearview AI is still collecting photos of Australians for its facial recognition database
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