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.
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DOMESTIC:
Chris Lynch – Christchurch’s Newsroom – Firefighters continue to battle large blaze in Waikari Valley
RNZ – Patient safety advocate ‘horrified’ at government’s plans to drop Therapeutic Products Act
The Guardian NZ – Behrouz Boochani: ‘I was not a victim. I was a fighter’
Waatea news – Benefit cuts attack on mana Māori
Newsroom – Shane Jones criticised over attack on Supreme Court ruling
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Is 2.8% per year population growth too much?
No Right Turn – Equality comes to Greece
The Knightly Views – Submission: Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill
Gordon Campbell on National passing bad policies under urgency
Bryan Bruce – Memo to Prime Minister Luxon
The Daily Blog – Luxon chased from Big Gay Out after speech promising cruelty: The ‘Tough Love’ of someone with 7 properties
The Daily Blog – TDB told you this was a hard right racist climate denying Government implementing culture war revenge fantasies as policy – how’s it going?
The Daily Blog – The wholesale abuse of power as this hard right racist climate denying Government blitzkriegs Parliament by misusing urgency
The Daily Blog – So where the bloody hell are you? Oh now middle classes want to talk about regulating Capitalism in NZ after Fletchers collapse?
The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Reason why Begging Google + Facebook for royalty crumbs isn’t enough for Domestic Media Industry or Fourth Estate Journalism
The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan: Russia takes Avdiivka, what next?
The Daily Blog – Simeon Brown is building a mass surveillance roading network and pretending it’s a road safety feature
The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: AM Show Classist Trash Propaganda
The Daily Blog – Tim Selwyn – MEDIAWATCH: Labour’s drip in need of a wipe: Hipkins on Q+A
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – Kremlin accused of ‘covering tracks’ as whereabouts of Alexei Navalny’s body remain uncertain
Haaretz Today | Gaslighter-in-chief Netanyahu Sows Division by Preaching ‘Unity’
The Washington Post – Ukrainian officials say Navalny’s death proves Putin’s regime is ‘evil’
Jacobin – The West Is Sabotaging a Global Pandemic Treaty
Caitlin Johnston – Nobody Who Gets Gaza Wrong Is Worth Listening To
Crikey – Alexei Navalny’s vision of a democratic Russia terrified Vladimir Putin to the core
Information Clearing House – The World Must Force Peace on Israel
Information Clearing House – The bloodshed in Gaza excludes Israel from the civilised world
Information Clearing House – How US economy benefits from war in Europe: WSJ
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