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, TDB will never be behind a Paywall because we don’t believe in citizens with two classes of information.
DOMESTIC:
RNZ – David Seymour not keen on swastika ban – despite gang patch crackdown
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – A deliberate and unnecessary crash landing
Waatea – Government delays kura Māori truancy reporting policy
Newsroom – Seymour is relying on us not knowing our history
Against the Current – The Flag of Genocide
The Daily Blog – Groan – Young Labour wander into free speech culture war
The Daily Blog – National are so racist that only they would ban the Nazi salute so they can arrest Māori
The Daily Blog – 617 suicides – The real reason we never want to mention suicide in NZ
The Daily Blog – 3 Buck Chuck *ucks West Coast
The Daily Blog – Education Minister Erica Stanford’s claims about Māori fact checked as lies
The Daily Blog – Dr David Robie – Commonwealth takes bold step to protect freedom of expression
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – North Korean troops fighting for Russia in Ukraine will ‘surely return in body bags’, US envoy says
Haaretz – What Will Israel’s UNRWA Ban Look Like for Palestinians? Experts Warn of ‘A Massive Ripple Effect’
The Washington Post – Bird flu detected in a pig for the first time in the U.S., raising concerns
Jacobin – Palestine Needs Mass Support, Not Sectarian Marginalization
Crikey – Introducing the Bullshit O’Meter: A tool for you to see how AI slop is mutating news
Consortium News – Doing Time for Palestine
The Intercept – MISSOURI COULD BECOME THE FIRST STATE TO OVERTURN A TOTAL ABORTION BAN