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.

 

DOMESTIC:

RNZ – Watch: James Shaw resigns as Green Party co-leader

The Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis – Can CNN’s Mark Thompson cure my obsessive compulsive disorder?

Gordon Campbell on wasting money on Defence, and Melanie, RIP

No Right Turn – Robbing from the poor to pay the rich

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Dawn Chorus for Tuesday, January 30

Newsroom – International warning over Govt’s ‘rare’ stance on WHO

Newsroom – Judiciary and courts included in Govt’s cuts, raising further constitutional red flags

Waatea News – Nelson Council backs iwi housing push

The Daily Blog – Ummm – is anyone else paying attention to China’s economic woes and how is India a solution?

The Daily Blog – Oh now Luxon is the super strategist chess player Svengali is he?

The Daily Blog – Punishing UNRWA while Palestinians die is unconscionable, why Helen Clark is right and if it is a taxpayers issue, shouldn’t the IDF refund us?

The Daily Blog – So is David Seymour’s race baiting racist redneck banjo twanging cross burning culture war revenge fantasy Treaty Principles Referendum divisive?

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Jackie Foster – WHEN DOES MEDIA REPORTING BECOME HARASSMENT

The Daily Blog – Leslie Bravery – Julian Assange has been imprisoned for 1752 days

INTERNATIONAL:

The Guardian – To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer

Haaretz – Irresponsible, Shameful, Lethal: Netanyahu’s Disgraceful Efforts to Bring Home Israeli Hostages

The Washington Post – U.S. mixed up enemy, friendly drones in attack that killed 3 troops

Jacobin – Joe Biden Shouldn’t be Able to Just Unilaterally Bomb Yemen

Caitlin Johnstone – More US-Driven Escalations Toward War In The Middle East

Crikey – The Lenin century: A rollicking tale, and we’re all still in it

 

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