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 – David Seymour not keen on swastika ban – despite gang patch crackdown

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – A deliberate and unnecessary crash landing

Waatea – Government delays kura Māori truancy reporting policy

Newsroom – Seymour is relying on us not knowing our history

Against the Current – The Flag of Genocide 

 

The Daily Blog – Groan – Young Labour wander into free speech culture war

The Daily Blog – National are so racist that only they would ban the Nazi salute so they can arrest Māori

The Daily Blog – 617 suicides – The real reason we never want to mention suicide in NZ

The Daily Blog – 3 Buck Chuck *ucks West Coast

The Daily Blog – Education Minister Erica Stanford’s claims about Māori fact checked as lies

The Daily Blog – Dr David Robie – Commonwealth takes bold step to protect freedom of expression

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – North Korean troops fighting for Russia in Ukraine will ‘surely return in body bags’, US envoy says

Haaretz – What Will Israel’s UNRWA Ban Look Like for Palestinians? Experts Warn of ‘A Massive Ripple Effect’

The Washington Post – Bird flu detected in a pig for the first time in the U.S., raising concerns

Jacobin – Palestine Needs Mass Support, Not Sectarian Marginalization

Crikey – Introducing the Bullshit O’Meter: A tool for you to see how AI slop is mutating news

Consortium News – Doing Time for Palestine

The Intercept – MISSOURI COULD BECOME THE FIRST STATE TO OVERTURN A TOTAL ABORTION BAN