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 – Acting Prime Minister David Seymour calls China flotilla a ‘tactical error’
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Interview: ‘I didn’t want to smile’
Waatea – Willie Jackson criticizes Luxon’s leadership
Newsroom – China ship drills send waves across NZ’s bow
No Right Turn – A reversal on secrecy?
Against The Current – Nick Mowbray: Scapegoating The Poor
The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Luxon train-wreck interview with Mike Hosking is so embarrassing it hurts
The Daily Blog – 5 things on NZFs war on ‘woke’ banks
The Daily Blog – We need to talk about our military spend in the age of Orange America Retribution and Chinese encroachment
The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: Chinese naval activity in the Tasman Sea
The Daily Blog – WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: My Oral Submission to the Justice committee on the Treaty Principles
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – Trump says Zelenskyy set to visit White House on Friday to sign minerals deal
Haaretz – ‘Enemy Inside the Wire’: Steve Bannon’s Toxic Take on Jews, Israel and the Far Right
Caitlin Johnstone – When There’s No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money
Jacobin – Marx on Trump’s Abuses of Power
Crikey – Greens demand Albanese stand up to Trump’s ‘bully boy’ tactics on tech
The Intercept – Grow a Spine: Democrats Have a Lot to Learn From the German Left
Consortium News – The West, Not Russia, Drove the Ukraine Conflict