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:

Gavin Ellis – Trans-Tasman imbalance in court suppression orders

Gordon Campbell on the death of library browsing

Against the Current – President AOC?

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – The hunt is on for an asterix for farm emissions

No Right Turn – Climate Change: Bad faith from National

Newsroom – Govt sidelines Climate Commission in seeking do-over of advice

Waatea News – Māori ward value proved in practice says Mahuta

RNZ – Ministry for the Environment asks for voluntary redundancies

Chris Lynch Christchurch NewsRoom – Dairy farm to pay $215k for exploiting workers

The Daily Blog – This Government has betrayed and sacrificed our Independent Foreign Policy for what?

The Daily Blog – Ummm – we are in dangerous climate change territory and this Government will only make it far worse

The Daily Blog – The Working Group – NZs number 1 weekly political podcast (not funded by NZ on Air)

The Daily Blog – Ben Morgan: Russian tactics improve but is it enough?

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – A We Society. Not a Me Society.

The Daily Blog – Malcolm Evans  – The Al Jazeera OCTOBER 7 Documentary

INTERNATIONAL:

The Intercept – Forget a Ban — Why Are Journalists Using TikTok in the First Place?

Information clearing House – Israel Pays a Political Price for Killing Aid Workers – When They’re Not Palestinians

Crikey – Labor’s supermarket code of conduct will likely inflate grocery prices

Caitlin Johnstone – As Support For Gaza Goes Mainstream, Don’t Let The Empire Co-Opt The Movement

Jacobin – To Make Unions Resonate Again, Study the CIO’s History

Washington Post – ‘Increasingly chaotic’: Why House Republicans are heading for the exits

Haaretz – ‘I Wanted to Be Clear About the Urgency’: Why This Palestinian-American Doctor Walked Out on Biden

The Guardian – Israel withdraws troops from southern Gaza for ‘tactical reasons’

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