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 – NZ shares fall sharply as market opens to US tariff chaos
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Trump just detonated a neutron bomb under the global economy, but NZ could win
Waatea – Justice Committee Recommends Dropping Treaty Principles Bill
Newsroom – Call for PM to step in over minister’s carbon trading conflict of interest
No Right Turn – The return of dirty politics
Gavin Ellis – BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY)
Against the Current – Fighting Oligarchy: Bernie Sanders and AOC take on the Billionaires
Gordon Campbell On The Clash Between Auckland Airport And Air New Zealand
The Daily Blog – Sad day for rednecks – Justice Select Committee rules against ACTs racist Treaty Principles Referendum
The Daily Blog – It’s ok when ACT MPs do it
The Daily Blog – Israel caught out lying about latest Gaza war crime while America censors free speech on Campus
The Daily Blog – The character assassination of Benjamin Doyle was Alt-Right Culture War Dirty Politics
The Daily Blog – Phil Goff has shown more spine against Trump than the entire Government combined
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – Asian markets plunge further amid tariff fallout; Trump says ‘sometimes you have to take medicine’
Harretz – The Real Housewives of Hasbara: When the Gaza War Is Good for Business
Caitlin Johnstone – Hamas Succeeded In Exposing The True Face Of The Empire
Jacobin – Unions Need to Mount a Militant Response to Trump’s Assault
Crikey – We didn’t give in to Xi. Why should we be cowed by the American version?
The Intercept – SMALL-DOLLAR DONORS ARE ASKING JOHN FETTERMAN FOR THEIR MONEY BACK
Consortium News – X Made Me Dark