TDB Daily Reading List 7th August 2024 – Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Politics opinion daily reading list
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, this will never be behind a Paywall because we don’t believe in citizens with two classes of information.
DOMESTIC:
RNZ – Poll shows support for using law to oust Darleen Tana from Parliament
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – How Aotearoa’s political economy works
Waatea – Hobson’s Pledge spends up on beach lies
Newsroom – Peters delivers self-uppercut with cynical boxing claims
No Right Turn – 21,000 unemployed under National
Gordon Campbell On Making Profits By Trashing Consumer Protections
Gavin Ellis – AI-created editorials: What in HAL’s name was the Herald thinking?
Against The Current – Juliet Moses: Defending Murde
The Daily Blog – Kamala Harris avoids Israeli Apologist VP
The Daily Blog – John Minto – PSNA welcomes Labour policy announcement of sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements
The Daily Blog – New Roy Morgan Poll shows splintering MMP spectrum and the Left need to win back male voters
The Daily Blog – What Winston’s false anti-Trans tweet and the anti-Muslim fascist attacks in UK have in common
The Daily Blog – Your borrowed Tax Cuts are costing you more than they are saving you
The Daily Blog – None of National’s get tough on crime virtue signalling will work
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting
Caitlin Johnstone – US Troops Get Hurt In The Middle East Because Of The Assholes Who Put Them There
The Washington Post – Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as VP pick
Jacobin – The Tim Walz VP Pick Shows America’s Politics Are Changing
Crikey – US recession fears a J-Horror jump scare for markets caught out on rates
The Intercept – THE U.S. HAS DOZENS OF SECRET BASES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY KEEP GETTING ATTACKED.
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-official-death-toll-in-gaza-is
Gaza’s official death toll is a lie. The casualty numbers are far, far higher
The figures have been stalled for months. That serves Israel’s interests by lulling western publics into a false sense of complacency