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 – Stats NZ boss to step down after Manurewa Marae election inquiry
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – The ambulances at the bottom of our cliffs are full
Waatea – Cook Islands-China deal sparks public outcry and confussion
Newsroom – ‘It’s getting harder to keep our powder dry in superpowers’ tussle’
No Right Turn –Restore birthright citizenship
Gavin Ellis – Media reform paper: The good, the not-so-good, and the ugly
Against the Current – Jewish Coalition Condemns Luxon’s scheduled meeting with zionist group
Gordon Campbell On Why Europe Is Being Made To Go It Alone
The Daily Blog – ACT still parroting tough on crime nonsense despite Tim Jago
The Daily Blog – Destiny Church weren’t ‘protesting’ they were persecuting & Mark Mitchel enabled these Zionist Christofascist leather thugs
The Daily Blog – Dear Young Kiwis – flee! If this many NZers were leaving under Labour it would lead every news headline
The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When overlaying fact in health systems with fiction morphs into embellishment
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – US ‘backstop’ vital to deter future Russian attacks on Ukraine, says Starmer
Haaretz – Biden Envoy Brett McGurk Offers Dangerous Revisionism About Netanyahu and the Hostages
Caitlin Johnston – I Write About Israel All The Time Because I Have To, Not Because I Want To
Jacobin – Edward Sard and the Rise of the Permanent War Economy
Crikey – Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry
The Intercept – TRUMP’S EPA KILLS GRANT TO CLIMATE NONPROFIT OVER ITS SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE
Consortium News – SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Munich Strategy