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:

No Right Turn – Climate Change: The climate will get its day in court

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – The magical thinking is still strong in Wellington

Newsroom – EV sales plummet after clean car scheme scrapped

Waatea News – Words matter in ACT treaty mangling

Guardian NZ – New Zealand appeals for release of pilot kidnapped in West Papua one year ago

RNZ – PM Christopher Luxon rules out support beyond Select Committee for Treaty Principles Bill

Chris Lynch Christchurch News – Four pro-Palestine protestors arrested in Lyttelton

Bryan Bruce – The “Bugger Ya” People

The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Luxon’s AM Show appearance was a nightmare of alpha private school boy spin

The Daily Blog – Luxon’s Waitangi Speech was terrible and repetitive and repetitive and repetitive

The Daily Blog – Entire Waitangi History in 7 parts plus conclusion

The Daily Blog – Qanon antivaxxers push new hard racist Government into extending Covid inquiry into a grievance carnival

The Daily Blog – Luxon’s sister-in-law tobacco lobbyist and the defence of 2 degrees of separation in NZ

The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update

 

INTERNATIONAL:

Information Clearing house – Scott Ritter: How the Chechen miracle kick-started the Russian ‘Path of Redemption

Crikey – Profiteering is driving inflation, says former ACCC head. And here’s the hard evidence

Caitlin Johnstone – The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now

Jacobin – Dark Money Is Casting a Shadow Over 2024 Political Ads

The Washington Post – Mother of Oxford school shooter found guilty of involuntary manslaughter

Haaretz – Hostages’ Families to Intensify Their Campaign as Netanyahu Rebuffs Mediation Efforts

The Guardian – As Putin and Trump threaten from east and west, Europe must stand up for itself

 

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