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, this will never be behind a Paywall. We promise not to link to Democracy Project.

DOMESTIC:

Against the current – The Night won’t end: Biden’s war on Gaza

Gavin Ellis – Stuff Circuit’s chilling and timely voice from the grave

No Right Turn – Climate Change: National’s vice-signalling

Gordon Campbell on why we shouldn’t buy new planes for the PM

Newsroom – Former Health NZ chair unrepentant over sacking

Waatea – Youth mental health getting worse

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Bernard’s mid-winter pick ‘n’ mix for Monday, June 24

RNZ – Job seekers now required to attend a seminar after six months on the benefit

The Daily Blog – We will arrest 14 year olds without a warrant to send them to Military Boot Camps that don’t work – welcome to Nu Zilind Land of the Wrong White Crowd

The Daily Blog – Simeon Brown is a fundamentalist Christian who has weaponised impatience to kill more people on roads

The Daily Blog – Dear stupid sleepy hobbits of muddle NuZilind – we need waaaaaaaaay more cops to Police CBD

The Daily Blog – Professor Susan St John – Review of crippling debts to government now delayed to the Never Never.

The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan: Miyamoto Musashi and Ukrainian strategy

The Daily Blog – Tim Selwyn – The late late news – Goodbye TV Journalism

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Israeli defence minister flies to US for ‘critical’ talks on Gaza and Lebanon

Haaretz Today | The Three Questions Netanyahu Fears Most

The Washington Post – Climate change is already making your bills more expensive

Jacobin – We Can Have Cop City, or We Can Have Democracy

Crikey – AI-generated news is unhuman slop. Crikey is banning it

The Intercept – THE U.S. SAYS A FAR-RIGHT UKRAINIAN ARMY UNIT CAN NOW GET AID. A PHOTO SHOWS TRAINING WAS ALREADY HAPPENING.