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:

Gavin Ellis – Where will consumers turn to get a fair go?

Gordon Campbell on Luxon’s landlord myths, and the needless nightmare of high interest rates

No Right Turn – Climate Change: A test for National

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – How strangling housing supply is killing our capital city

Newsroom – Amazon cloud pays barely $1m tax on $391m revenues

Waatea News – Luxon rules out rescue for TVNZ jobs

RNZ – Cuts and closures in New Zealand’s news media industry: What you need to know

Otaihanga Second Opinion – Road ambulance service cuts highlight vulnerability of ownership model

Chris Lynch – Christchurch’s Newsroom – “Spineless” Venues Ōtautahi cancels Graham Linehan booking

Bryan Bruce – I have just signed Child Poverty Action’s petition to save the school lunch programme from David Seymour’s proposed cuts 

The Daily Blog – And then they came for the mega landlords??? Wait WHAT?

The Daily Blog – Tim Selwyn – R.I.P Television: Will you still need me when I’m 64?

The Daily Blog – Simeon fails to deliver the roads he just promised while Shane Jones betrays NZ to big oil and gas – welcome to Old Zealand (

The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Q+A Review – The creepy Chris Bishop Interview: Crayfish for him, Austerity for us

The Daily Blog – The Liberal Agenda – The Assange Documentary ‘The Trust Fall’ review: 5 stars

INTERNATIONAL:

Information Clearing House – Biden’s Red Line: Why U.S. Could Be Days Away From Suspending Arms Sales to Israel

Crikey – Here’s how to make Facebook really pay for news

Caitlin Johnstone – This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal

Jacobin – The Enduring Predictability of the Mostly Apolitical Oscars

The Washington Post – Gaza war may stoke ‘generational’ terrorism threat, top intel official says

Haaretz – U.S. Progressive Groups Launch First of Its Kind Campaign Against AIPAC’s ‘Dark Money’

The Guardian – Trump ‘will not give a penny to Ukraine’ if he wins, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán says

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