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:
RNZ – Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee denies hiding after Newshub news
Gavin Ellis – Newshub bell is tolling but who can hear it?
Bryan Bruce – The Prime Minister’s moral compass clearly points to himself
Gordon Campbell on the flaws in anti-gang laws
No Right Turn – Climate Change: The opposite of what is needed
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Simeon Brown’s road-taxing bait-and-switch
Newsroom – Government puts Road to Zero out of its misery
Waatea – Government increases car rego and petrol
Chris Lynch: Christchurch’s Newsroom – Education Ministry response following “devastating” news on Rolleston College
The Daily Blog – Posie Parker Puncher gets mercy but victim ultimately wins politically
The Daily Blog – Luxon, the little baby Jesus and National Party entitlement – Luxon didn’t misread the room, the room misread him!
The Daily Blog – The more Seymour and Winston bully Luxon, the more tough love angry Dad routine the rest of us are forced to suffer!
The Daily Blog – Dear frightened Kiwis – this bloody gang patch ban won’t work and no we didn’t ‘just’ decriminalize domestic violence (it’s always been ignored)
The Daily Blog – To Kill A Wellington Mockingbird
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – UN finds ‘convincing information’ that Hamas raped and tortured Israeli hostages
Haaretz – Opinion | Israel’s Cruelty Is Concealed by Its Decentralization
The Washington Post – Supreme Court ruling darkens critics’ hopes for a judicial curb on Trump
Jacobin – Donald Trump’s Toxic Politics Continue to Set the Agenda
Caitlin Johnstone – “Pay No Attention To That Genocide Right In Front Of Your Face”
Crikey – Meta faces down a media more obsessed with peddling influence than public interest
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