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 – Treaty Principles Bill: Officials advise government against redefining principles
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – The ‘Infra Boys’ Highway to Budget Hell
Waatea – High Māori turnout best defence for Māori wards
Newsroom – Govt resolute in allowing 10yos to be treated as criminals
No Right Turn – National’s automated lie machine
Gavin Ellis – Readership: Numbers that didn’t make the news
Against the current – Has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sold out?
Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad Faith
The Daily Blog – Harris’s Childless Cat Ladies of America smashes Trump’s United States of Wounded Masculinity
The Daily Blog – This Government just cut free health to Māori and Pacifica to satisfy their redneck racist electorate
The Daily Blog – Why ACT are hiding the first Covid Royal Commission report
The Daily Blog – The secret advice against Charter Schools that ACT tried to hide
The Daily Blog – God doesn’t like ACT
The Daily Blog –
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – Fact-checking Trump’s debate claims: from abortion to Project 2025
Haaretz Today | ‘The Bibi Files’ Controversy Reminds Us Where Netanyahu’s Priorities Really Lie
Caitlin Johnstone – The US Empire Can Only Exist In A Continuous State Of Mass Military Violence
Washington Post – Harris keeps Trump on defensive
Jacobin – We Spoke to the Palestinian American Refused a DNC Speech
The Intercept – MOST AMERICANS WANT TO STOP ARMING ISRAEL. POLITICIANS DON’T CARE.
Consortium News – The Dangerous Silence on Nuclear War