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.

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DOMESTIC:

The Knightly Views – Politicians must get the message: Journalism is facing an extinction event

Gordon Campbell on National spreading panic about the economy

Against the Current – Bashing Chloe 

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – We’re not as fragile or as lazy as Luxon says

Newsroom –Government downplays autonomous sanctions work

Waatea News – Detention record questioned in human rights review

NZ Guardian – New Zealand’s fertility rate hits record low as births fall

RNZ – Grant Robertson retires from politics

Chris Lynch, Christchurch’s Newsroom – Police speaking to people seen walking on Port Hills track before fire

The Daily Blog – Grant Robertson: An honourable legacy

The Daily Blog – Understanding Bloke Down Pub Politics : What NZ First Antivaxxers and ACT Treaty haters have in common

The Daily Blog – Waatea News Column: Prime Minister’s State of the Nation Speech an open threat to the poorest amongst us

The Daily Blog – Another bad TVNZ poll for Labour – Chippy needs a reset + they need a ‘Rebuilding Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of Progress’ weekend

 

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – What does Alexei Navalny’s death tell us? That Putin seems to be devising his most ominous scheme yet

Information Clearing House – Julian Assange’s Final Appeal

Crikey – Meat us halfway: Culture warriors ham it up over diet advice

Jacobin – Austria’s Communist Party Is Defying the Right-Wing Turn

The Washington Post – Trump didn’t quit NATO, but a potential second term alarms allies

Haaretz – New Zealand Fell in Love With the Jewish Comedy ‘Kid Sister.’ Then the Gaza War Broke Out

 

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