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:
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – No new funding for cycling & walking
Waatea – Preparations made for historic funeral
Newsroom – Justification for raising speed limit on motorway is ‘nonsense’
No Right Turn – Climate Change: Failed again
Gavin Ellis – An audience in the hand versus one in Neverland
Against the Current – Sometimes it’s the tiniest spark that lights the biggest fires
The Daily Blog – Dow drops 600 points as Wall Street crash zone season starts
The Daily Blog – New Roy Morgan Poll all gravy for National as men run screaming from the Left
The Daily Blog – BEN MORGAN: Pokrovsk, does Ukraine have bigger plans there?
The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Geoff Fischer – Mission Accomplished: The Treaty Principles Bill
The Daily Blog – John Minto – Government must follow UK lead and suspend Rakon bomb-component exports to the US
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – As furious protesters take to the streets, Netanyahu may well have reached his political dead-end
Haaretz – Fifty Shades of Antisemitism: What Trump Says About U.S. Jews, in Office and on the Campaign Trail
Caitlin Johnstone – You Can Measure The Health Of A Society By How It Treats Its Warmongers And Its Peacemongers
The Washington Post – As U.S. readies last cease-fire push, Netanyahu digs in on border demands
Jacobin – Germany’s Far Right Is Exploiting a Broken Economic Model
Crikey – AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds
The Intercept – ISRAEL’S WEST BANK ATTACKS FUEL ITS ANNEXATION PLANS
Consortium News – Aren’t Palestinians Human?