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 – Interview: ‘I didn’t want to smile’

Waatea – Willie Jackson criticizes Luxon’s leadership

Newsroom – China ship drills send waves across NZ’s bow

No Right Turn – A reversal on secrecy?

Against The Current – Nick Mowbray: Scapegoating The Poor

 

The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Luxon train-wreck interview with Mike Hosking is so embarrassing it hurts

The Daily Blog – 5 things on NZFs war on ‘woke’ banks

The Daily Blog – We need to talk about our military spend in the age of Orange America Retribution and Chinese encroachment

The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: Chinese naval activity in the Tasman Sea

The Daily Blog – WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: My Oral Submission to the Justice committee on the Treaty Principles

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Trump says Zelenskyy set to visit White House on Friday to sign minerals deal

Haaretz – ‘Enemy Inside the Wire’: Steve Bannon’s Toxic Take on Jews, Israel and the Far Right

Caitlin Johnstone – When There’s No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money

Jacobin – Marx on Trump’s Abuses of Power

Crikey – Greens demand Albanese stand up to Trump’s ‘bully boy’ tactics on tech

The Intercept – Grow a Spine: Democrats Have a Lot to Learn From the German Left

Consortium News – The West, Not Russia, Drove the Ukraine Conflict