Welcome to the TZM newsletter for the new-year 2014. The dominant news story at the close of 2013 was of course the passing at 95 of Nelson Mandela on December 5th – one of the few giants of our generation and a man who came to symbolise human progress against dogma, structural violence and inequality. […]
Key source: Bradley Manning offers partial guilty plea in WikiLeaks case www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/08/bradley-manning-wikileaks-responsibility-trial This isn’t going to be an in-depth look into the build-up of Bradley Manning’s arrest or conviction. Nor will it be a fact file or record of the information that he has been accused of supplying to WikiLeaks; a record including, but not […]
Key source: US judge orders piracy trial to test IP evidence www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19887765 Let’s answer that question, shall we? Liberty is something that humans will always strive for because an ‘unwarped’ mind – a mind that comprehends the immediate flaws in Kim Il-sung’s eternal, post-death presidency over the *cough* “Democratic” *cough* “People’s” *cough* “Republic” of Korea […]