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 because we don’t believe in citizens with two classes of information.
DOMESTIC:
RNZ – Poll shows support for using law to oust Darleen Tana from Parliament
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – How Aotearoa’s political economy works
Waatea – Hobson’s Pledge spends up on beach lies
Newsroom – Peters delivers self-uppercut with cynical boxing claims
No Right Turn – 21,000 unemployed under National
Gordon Campbell On Making Profits By Trashing Consumer Protections
Gavin Ellis – AI-created editorials: What in HAL’s name was the Herald thinking?
Against The Current – Juliet Moses: Defending Murde
The Daily Blog – Kamala Harris avoids Israeli Apologist VP
The Daily Blog – John Minto – PSNA welcomes Labour policy announcement of sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements
The Daily Blog – New Roy Morgan Poll shows splintering MMP spectrum and the Left need to win back male voters
The Daily Blog – What Winston’s false anti-Trans tweet and the anti-Muslim fascist attacks in UK have in common
The Daily Blog – Your borrowed Tax Cuts are costing you more than they are saving you
The Daily Blog – None of National’s get tough on crime virtue signalling will work
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting
Caitlin Johnstone – US Troops Get Hurt In The Middle East Because Of The Assholes Who Put Them There
The Washington Post – Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as VP pick
Jacobin – The Tim Walz VP Pick Shows America’s Politics Are Changing
Crikey – US recession fears a J-Horror jump scare for markets caught out on rates
The Intercept – THE U.S. HAS DOZENS OF SECRET BASES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY KEEP GETTING ATTACKED.
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-official-death-toll-in-gaza-is
Gaza’s official death toll is a lie. The casualty numbers are far, far higher
The figures have been stalled for months. That serves Israel’s interests by lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency