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 – Review of science sector, role of prime minister’s chief science advisor won’t be announced until next year

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Simeon Brown alienates another National electorate

Waatea – Rangatahi arrested after escaping OT boot camp

Newsroom – Ferry decision: You’re gonna need a smaller boat

No Right Turn – Climate Change: Sabotaging the Climate Commission

Against the current – The Politics of NZs Post journalism 

The Daily Blog – Tim Selwyn – The Podcast awards and the magic of television rubbing off

The Daily Blog – Hannibal Lester not only cooked the books, he ate them with a nice Chianti

The Daily Blog – BEN MORGAN: A bad week for Russia strategically but can Ukraine hold on?

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Changing face of capitalism: private equity threat to New Zealand economy

The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Shane Te Pou’s righteous crusade against the Solicitor-General

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – Syrians celebrate fall of Bashar al-Assad after five decades of dynastic rule

Haaretz – Analysis | Assad’s Ouster From Syria Presents Trump With His First Foreign Policy Crisis

Caitlin Johnstone – Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In

The Washington Post – An ousted Assad lands in Moscow, Russian outlet says; Iran says Assad was ‘stunned’ by his army’s collapse

Jacobin – Can Democracy Survive Online?

Crikey – ‘Any updates … greatly appreciated’: Western Sydney Uni staff gave intel to cops on Gaza protests

The Intercept – THE WHITE HOUSE GAVE ISRAEL COORDINATES TO SAVE AN AMERICAN’S FAMILY. THEN ISRAEL BOMBED THEM AGAIN.

Consortium News – Craig Murray: Fall of Syria About Greater Israel