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 – Seymour’s late, missing, discarded, allergenic, nutritionless, dangerous & skimpy school lunch programme is unravelling
Waatea – Retail crime panel chair defends $920 daily fee
NewsRoom – Oranga Tamariki not meeting minimum care standards five years on
No Right Turn – Still against a four-year term
Gordon Campbell On School Lunches, And The Coalition Government Eating The Young
The Daily Blog – What has NZ First Minister Mark Patterson done?
The Daily Blog – Alternative Green Budget could kill Labour
The Daily Blog – If there is a snap election this year – when could it happen?
The Daily Blog – Idiotic New Citizens Arrest powers enabling Vigilantes and Retail Staff to be thugs will kill someone
The Daily Blog – Van Velden’s Covid Inquiry hatchet team self explode rather than carry out her Kangaroo Court
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – Trump says no significant security guarantees in Ukraine minerals deal
Caitlin Johnstone – The Empire At Its Most Honest
Jacobin – US Pop Culture Has Long Raged Against Health Care Injustice
The Intercept – BERNIE SANDERS HASN’T STOPPED ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL — BUT HE WON’T STOP TRYING
Consortium News – Patrick Lawrence: Trump Takes on the Deep State?