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 – Christopher Luxon doubles down on trade war comments after Winston Peters’ criticism

Waatea – Auditor-General: Crown Failing to Track Treaty Settlement Obligations

Newsroom – Treaty Principles Bill may be resurrected; the opposition is primed

No Right Turn – Good fucking riddance

Gavin Ellis – Time to treat social media like a cancer-causing industrial chemical

Against The Current – Dirty Politics 2.0: Lobbying in the shadows

Gordon Campbell On Marketing The Military Threat Posed By China

The Daily Blog – Treaty Principles Bill failing in Parliament: Winners, Losers + Predictions

The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Trust in media drops again as Western Democratic Institutions fail to address inequality of unbridled free market neoliberalism

The Daily Blog – Now the Treaty Principles Referendum has been defeated, we must unite to fight the Regulatory Standards Bill

The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan: Russian Summer offensive is likely, but is unlikely to be successful

The Daily Blog – NZCTU give us their vision for Aotearoa New Zealand

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Trump warns exemptions on smartphones, electronics will be short-lived, promises future tariffs

Haaretz – Israeli Troops Killed a Palestinian They Sought to Arrest. His Body Bore Signs of Strangulation

Caitlin Johnstone – Every Day The Gaza Holocaust Continues, The Empire Tells The Truth About Itself

Jacobin – The Method in the Far Right’s Madness

Crikey – Crikey is running for Parliament. No, actually. Here’s why

The Intercept – The Tesla Takedown Shows How We Can Make Oligarchs Feel the Pain

Consortium News – Chris Hedges Report: The Military History of the Internet