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 – Treaty Principles Bill: Officials advise government against redefining principles

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – The ‘Infra Boys’ Highway to Budget Hell

Waatea – High Māori turnout best defence for Māori wards

Newsroom – Govt resolute in allowing 10yos to be treated as criminals

No Right Turn – National’s automated lie machine

Gavin Ellis – Readership: Numbers that didn’t make the news

Against the current – Has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sold out?

Gordon Campbell On Funding New Drugs, And Governing In Bad Faith

The Daily Blog – Harris’s Childless Cat Ladies of America smashes Trump’s United States of Wounded Masculinity

The Daily Blog – This Government just cut free health to Māori and Pacifica to satisfy their redneck racist electorate

The Daily Blog – Why ACT are hiding the first Covid Royal Commission report

The Daily Blog – The secret advice against Charter Schools that ACT tried to hide

The Daily Blog – God doesn’t like ACT

The Daily Blog –

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Fact-checking Trump’s debate claims: from abortion to Project 2025

Haaretz Today | ‘The Bibi Files’ Controversy Reminds Us Where Netanyahu’s Priorities Really Lie

Caitlin Johnstone – The US Empire Can Only Exist In A Continuous State Of Mass Military Violence

Washington Post – Harris keeps Trump on defensive

Jacobin – We Spoke to the Palestinian American Refused a DNC Speech

The Intercept – MOST AMERICANS WANT TO STOP ARMING ISRAEL. POLITICIANS DON’T CARE.

Consortium News – The Dangerous Silence on Nuclear War