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 – Parliament has been suspended before the Treaty Principles vote went through

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – What Donald Trump’s second Presidency means for us financially

Waatea – Mahuta warns AUKUS pact could disrupt Pacific

Newsroom – Majority of landlords reject Government’s no-cause evictions

No Right Turn – D-day for the government

Gavin Ellis – Tar from Trump’s brush could splatter NZ media

Against the Current – Simon Wilson: Trying to Explain away the failure of the Democratic Party Elite

Gordon Campbell on the Crown’s sorry excuse for an apology

The Daily Blog – BREAKING: Willie Jackson kicked out of Parliament for calling Seymour a Liar + Gerry Brownlee suspends proceedings

The Daily Blog – I Hikoi’d across Bridge in 2004 and 2024 – here’s why it was different and why National should be worried

The Daily Blog – Military Boot Camps that the military don’t want to boot

The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Kieran McAnulty crucifies Simeon Brown on TVNZ Breakfast

The Daily Blog – Luxon’s MMP excuse for Treaty Principles Bill is political cowardice personified

The Daily Blog – WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: – Koro Bom – a great tōtara has fallen

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Republicans baffled after Trump picks ‘reckless’ Gaetz for attorney general

Haaretz – Israel’s Army Investigates if It Breached International Law by Killing Hundreds of Gazans

Caitlin Johnston – The Incoming Trump Administration Is Already Filling Up With War Sluts

The Washington Post – Trump picks Gaetz and Gabbard for top jobs, daring Senate GOP to defy him

Jacobin – Inflation Didn’t Have to Doom Biden

Crikey – Self-loathing Democrats searching for ‘why’ in the aftermath

The Intercept – TRUMP’S FAMILY SEPARATION CZAR IS BACK

Consortium News – Trump Doesn’t Hide Plan to Use Military Against Protestors & Immigrants