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:
No Right Turn – A revolting breach of Te Tiriti
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Bishop wants house prices to halve vs income
Newsroom – Newshub to close down its newsroom, all news shows from June
Waatea News – Māori role in waterfront lockout remembered
RNZ – Government intervention to save Newshub ‘highly unlikely’
Otaihanga Second Opinion – Missing the health target
Chris Lynch Christchurch’s Newsroom – Newshub to close in major restructuring by Warner Bros Discovery New Zealand
The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Another one bites the dust – Newshub latest casualty of legacy ratings systems implosion
The Daily Blog – Like TDB warned you – here come the Machine Guns from ACTs gun lobby glee club
The Daily Blog – John Minto – New Zealand should NOT designate Hamas a terrorist group
The Daily Blog – Professor Susan St John – Is Child Poverty really too hard to cure?
The Daily Blog – Why National have to mislead about School property crisis, Beneficiaries, Truancy and Gangs
The Daily Blog – Right wing ‘feelings; have replaced Left wing ‘feelings’ as policy and we are all worse off!
The Daily Blog – Sweden Joins: Dangerous NATO escalation of Ukraine War 2 years on
The Daily Blog – Rise of the NuZilind Gumboot Ubermensch: Why not let redneck muppets rewrite the laws of black holes as well?
The Daily Blog – Could Māoridom become the competitive friction against the self-interested Public Service that well regulated Capitalism demands?
INTERNATIONAL:
Information Clearing House – Will Egypt Sells Out Palestinians for $10 Billion Loan Package?
Crikey – Mardi Gras, police and yet another culture war get the Sydney media excited
Caitlin Johnstone – When The Slaughter Stops In Gaza
Jacobin – The War on UNRWA Is Israel’s Awful, Absurd War in Microcosm
The Washington Post – Trump defeats Haley as Biden wins in Democratic race
Haaretz – This Ramadan, Will Israel’s Far-right Ministers Set Fires or Be Reined In?
The Guardian – Congress ‘gradually destroying’ US relations with Pacific ally, Marshall Islands president warns
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