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 – Fast-Track projects: Speaker rules no private benefit in list

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – When haste makes waste & is risky, dangerous & mean

Waatea – Te Pāti Māori poll results shows unity, strength

Newsroom – Govt’s final climate plan relies on unproven technology

No Right Turn – A bad joke

Gavin Ellis – A glimmer of the role that newspapers should serve

Against The Current – The Green Party’s Green New Deal

The Daily Blog – They had a year after stupidly cancelling iRex Ferries and still can’t tell us cost, rail enabling or the fee for cancelling

The Daily Blog – Hear me out, assassinating CEOs might not be a bad idea

The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: That Q+A Atlas Network interview reeked of right of reply, not a serious critique

The Daily Blog – John Minto – No humanitarian visas for Palestinians but plenty of rest and recreation for genocidal Israeli soldiers in New Zealand

The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update: South Korea’s political crisis, a cause for concern?

The Daily Blog – Congratulations Winston – banning greyhound racing is righteous

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Māori tribes make rare plea to King Charles for intervention in New Zealand politics

Haaretz – Analysis | Netanyahu’s Testimony Depicted an Upside-down Israel. It Could Cost Him Down the Road

Caitlin Johnston – Taliban In Afghanistan Bad, Al-Qaeda In Syria Good

The Washington Post – Israel expands airstrikes across Syria amid widening power vacuum

Jacobin – US Trade Policy Toward China Endangers the Green Transition

Crikey – Is this the beginning of the end for Rupert’s empire?

The Intercept – REPUBLICANS SNEAK ANTI-TRANS HEALTH CARE PROVISION INTO DEFENSE BILL

Consortium News – Chris Hedges Report: The Middle East After Assad