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 – NZ shares fall sharply as market opens to US tariff chaos

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Trump just detonated a neutron bomb under the global economy, but NZ could win

Waatea – Justice Committee Recommends Dropping Treaty Principles Bill

Newsroom – Call for PM to step in over minister’s carbon trading conflict of interest

No Right Turn – The return of dirty politics

Gavin Ellis – BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY)

Against the Current – Fighting Oligarchy: Bernie Sanders and AOC take on the Billionaires

Gordon Campbell On The Clash Between Auckland Airport And Air New Zealand

The Daily Blog – Sad day for rednecks – Justice Select Committee rules against ACTs racist Treaty Principles Referendum

The Daily Blog – It’s ok when ACT MPs do it

The Daily Blog – Israel caught out lying about latest Gaza war crime while America censors free speech on Campus

The Daily Blog – The character assassination of Benjamin Doyle was Alt-Right Culture War Dirty Politics

The Daily Blog – Phil Goff has shown more spine against Trump than the entire Government combined

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Asian markets plunge further amid tariff fallout; Trump says ‘sometimes you have to take medicine’

Harretz – The Real Housewives of Hasbara: When the Gaza War Is Good for Business

Caitlin Johnstone – Hamas Succeeded In Exposing The True Face Of The Empire

Jacobin – Unions Need to Mount a Militant Response to Trump’s Assault

Crikey – We didn’t give in to Xi. Why should we be cowed by the American version?

The Intercept – SMALL-DOLLAR DONORS ARE ASKING JOHN FETTERMAN FOR THEIR MONEY BACK

Consortium News – X Made Me Dark