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 – Chinese warships in Tasman Sea inch closer to Australia

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Govt set to hike insurance costs $400/year

Waatea – Shane Jones: China meets Pacific aid needs

Newsroom – China ties behind Kiribati-NZ impasse, opposition leader says

No Right Turn – Fiame stares down her corrupt party

Gavin Ellis – NZME’s ‘news that resonates’ sets off bad vibrations

Against the Current – Abby Martin & Mohamed El-Kurd: The Politics of Appeal

Gordon Campbell On Why Our China Panic Is About To Get Expensive

The Daily Blog – How come Manurewa Marae and Māori Party are corruption but this isn’t?

The Daily Blog – There are few moments of joy in this burnt angry life, let’s enjoy them

The Daily Blog – The Left have to embrace populism in an age of Trump Culture Wars

The Daily Blog – Sooooo, about Andrew Bayly

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Trump says Putin will accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine

Haaretz – Israel’s Government Wants to Silence All Criticism, and Will Target Human Rights to Do It

Caitlin Johnstone – Israel Pushes New Atrocity Narrative Just As Ceasefire Deadline Approaches

Jacobin – Democrats Appear Paralyzed. Bernie Sanders Is Not.

Crikey – Dutton echoes Trump, Musk and Carlson by peddling Great Replacement Theory

The Intercept – HOW TRUMP TWISTED DEI TO ONLY BENEFIT WHITE CHRISTIANS

Consortium News – The Global Spread of Palestine’s Agony