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America: Saving the Last Great Hope of Humanity From Insanity [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
I would add, “There must never be a time when we...
We are still prisoners! [ZoneNine]
Evidently six members of the Zone9 & three journalists are released from prison after they spent 14 to 18 months in prison. The three journalists and the two bloggers were released as the charges were ‘withdrawn’in July. While the other...
“Terrorist” for being a ‘bachelor’! [Zone9]
BefeQadu Z.Hailu
Edited By:Endalk H. Chala
Aduňa Kesso is a Qeerroo. According to Aduňa, Qeerroo in Afan Oromo means ‘a young; bachelor who who does not have a child yet’. “You can’t help it I’m a Qeerroo”, he jokes comparing...
Remembering the Meles Massacres of 2005 in Ethiopia Ten Years After [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.
When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply...
Ethiopian plane hijacker deemed mentally unsound[swissinfo]
A psychiatric evaluation has revealed that the co-pilot who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight and re-routed it to Geneva in 2014 was not of sound mind when he did so. As a result, the Swiss Attorney General will drop all charges against...
They can jail the journalist but not journalism [By Abebe Gellaw]
On November 7, 2015, journalist Serkalem Fasil posted a Facebook reminder. It was her husband’s birthday. “Four years and two months have passed since we physically separated,” she wrote.
“No matter how long it takes, I will persevere...
Barbarians in the Headquarters of Voice of America ?[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The ancient Romans secured their cities with gates and walls against marauding barbarians.
The Romans aimed to keep the “barbarians at the gate” out and fend off any attack.
The modern day barbarians of press freedom secretly breached...