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 because we don’t believe in citizens with two classes of information.

DOMESTIC:

RNZ – Maritime Union ‘disgusted and angry’ ferry talks not on Christopher Luxon’s agenda during South Korea trip

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – No new funding for cycling & walking

Waatea – Preparations made for historic funeral

Newsroom – Justification for raising speed limit on motorway is ‘nonsense’

No Right Turn – Climate Change: Failed again

Gavin Ellis – An audience in the hand versus one in Neverland

Against the Current – Sometimes it’s the tiniest spark that lights the biggest fires

The Daily Blog – Dow drops 600 points as Wall Street crash zone season starts

The Daily Blog – New Roy Morgan Poll all gravy for National as men run screaming from the Left

The Daily Blog – BEN MORGAN: Pokrovsk, does Ukraine have bigger plans there?

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Geoff Fischer – Mission Accomplished: The Treaty Principles Bill

The Daily Blog – John Minto – Government must follow UK lead and suspend Rakon bomb-component exports to the US

 

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – As furious protesters take to the streets, Netanyahu may well have reached his political dead-end

Haaretz – Fifty Shades of Antisemitism: What Trump Says About U.S. Jews, in Office and on the Campaign Trail

Caitlin Johnstone – You Can Measure The Health Of A Society By How It Treats Its Warmongers And Its Peacemongers

The Washington Post – As U.S. readies last cease-fire push, Netanyahu digs in on border demands

Jacobin – Germany’s Far Right Is Exploiting a Broken Economic Model

Crikey – AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds

The Intercept – ISRAEL’S WEST BANK ATTACKS FUEL ITS ANNEXATION PLANS

Consortium News – Aren’t Palestinians Human?