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.

This will never be behind a Paywall.

DOMESTIC:

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Dawn Chorus for Monday, January 15

Bryan Bruce – The words we use simultaneously reflect and shape the way we think.

Otaihanga Second Opinion – US lessons for New Zealand’s health system: profiteering, hospital adverse events and patient outcomes

RNZ – ‘Extra long-haul’ flights boom would blow climate targets, campaigner says

Waatea News – THOUSANDS EXPECTED TO ATTEND NATIONAL HUI FOR UNITY AT TURANGAWAEWAWE ON 20th JANUARY

Newsroom – Dame Anne Salmond: How to split a society

Against the Stream – ZB Plus: Just another megaphone on the conservative noise machine

Against the Stream – NZ Government implicated in the slaughter of innocent Palestinians 

The Daily Blog – More double standards – Imagine if a pro-Palestinian protestor had acted as hatefully as this pro-Israeli protestor

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – BROKEN AND CORRUPT

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab – I am Palestinian

The Daily Blog – Tim Selwyn – Mensch and Übermensch – the unbareable whiteness of being.

The Daily Blog – NZ are bombing a nation for the rules based order but won’t demand an Israeli ceasefire for the rules based order – Kiwis should be ashamed of themselves

The Daily Blog – NZ lost the right to share Jacinda’s wedding joy

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Patrick O’Dea – Everybody knows the trial is over, everybody knows that the good guys lost.

The Daily Blog – 101 days of horror in Gaza – NZ is now a legitimate target for protest against Israeli war crimes

The Daily Blog – Feral anti-vaxxers protest Jacinda’s wedding day

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Taiwan’s election result is a triumph for democracy – and a thorn in Beijing’s side

Haaretz – Bombing Yemen Does Not Benefit America, but It Boosts Iran, Russia and China

The Washington Post – The economy is improving under Biden. But many voters aren’t giving him credit.

Jacobin – The Long, Disastrous Career of Nikki Haley

Caitlin Johnstone – If You’ve Just Started Paying Attention To US Foreign Policy

Crikey – Gina Rinehart tried to censor Crikey articles using ‘ridiculous’ trademark request to tech companies