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 – Stats NZ boss to step down after Manurewa Marae election inquiry

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – The ambulances at the bottom of our cliffs are full

Waatea – Cook Islands-China deal sparks public outcry and confussion

Newsroom – ‘It’s getting harder to keep our powder dry in superpowers’ tussle’

No Right Turn –Restore birthright citizenship

Gavin Ellis – Media reform paper: The good, the not-so-good, and the ugly

Against the Current – Jewish Coalition Condemns Luxon’s scheduled meeting with zionist group

Gordon Campbell On Why Europe Is Being Made To Go It Alone

The Daily Blog – ACT still parroting tough on crime nonsense despite Tim Jago

The Daily Blog – Destiny Church weren’t ‘protesting’ they were persecuting & Mark Mitchel enabled these Zionist Christofascist leather thugs

The Daily Blog – Dear Young Kiwis – flee! If this many NZers were leaving under Labour it would lead every news headline

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When overlaying fact in health systems with fiction morphs into embellishment

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – US ‘backstop’ vital to deter future Russian attacks on Ukraine, says Starmer

Haaretz – Biden Envoy Brett McGurk Offers Dangerous Revisionism About Netanyahu and the Hostages

Caitlin Johnston – I Write About Israel All The Time Because I Have To, Not Because I Want To

Jacobin – Edward Sard and the Rise of the Permanent War Economy

Crikey – Instead of defending its artists, Creative Australia hangs Sabsabi and Dagostino out to dry

The Intercept – TRUMP’S EPA KILLS GRANT TO CLIMATE NONPROFIT OVER ITS SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE

Consortium News – SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Munich Strategy