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    Green Justice or Ethnic Injustice?

    APRIL 23, 2012 12:08AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: meles zenawi, ethiopia parliament, expulsion amharas, ethnic cleansing ethiopia, amhara north gojam, amhara sefaris, benji maji ethiopia, ethiopia gura ferda, zenawi africa climate change, african economic conference, ehtiopia deforestation, ethiopia gambella, land grab ethiopia india, land grab ethiopia saudis, ethiopia chinese investment, oakland institute ethiopia, ethiopia rural lands administration and use proclamation no.456/2005, revised snnprs determination of executive organs’ powers and responsibilities proclamation no. 106/2007, snnprs rural land administration and use regulation no 66/2007, forest development, conservation, and utilization proclamation no.542/2007, ethiopia proclamation no. 299/2002, ethiopia environmental impact assessment, ethiopia forest conservation, ethiopia north gojam, ethiopia shiferaw shigute, un commission of experts ethnic cleansing, article 7(d) rome statute, politics

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    Ethiopia: The Bridge on the Road(map) to Democracy

    APRIL 16, 2012 1:25AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: ethiopians seattle, ethiopian public forum seattle, ethiopia dictatorship, ethiopia democracy, meles zenawi massacre, ethiopia 193 unarmed protesters, ethiopia rule of law, ethiopia economy inflation, ethiopia transition to democracy, ethiopia civil dialogue, meles zenawi

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    No Way for Ethiopian Refugees in Norway

    MARCH 26, 2012 12:54AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, meles zenawi, jan kjerstad ethiopian refugees, bjorn heidenstrom refugees, nansen passport, dr. fridtjof nansen refugees, ethiopia human rights watch, 1967 protocol relating to the status of refugees, 1951 refugee convention, norway ethiopia 350 million aid, erik solheim ethiopia, norway aid ethiopia, ethiopia norway memorandum understanding, ethiopia norway mou, ethiopian refugees norway deportation, ethiopian refugees norway, ethiopian refugees yemen, ethiopian domestic workers lebanon, alem dechassa lebanon, ethiopian domestic workers abuse, ethiopian domestic workers middle east, ethiopian domestic workers, ethiopian refugees

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    Political Prisoners Inside Ethiopia’s Gulags

    FEBRUARY 27, 2012 12:07AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: ethiopian gulags, andualem aragie, soviet gulags, swedish journalists ethiopia, n.y. times nicholas kristoff, ethiopia human rights report, ethiopia prisons, maekelawi, ethiopia human rights watch, ethiopia u.n. committee against torture, ethiopia dewar report prison, birtukan midekssa political prisoner, meles zenawi, reagan-fascell fellow, national endowment for democracy, andualem aragie, unity and democracy party, negasso gidada, andualem aragie beaten, bekele gerba, olbana lelisa, tilahun fantahun, ethiopia constitution, proclamation no.414/2004, ethiopia universal declaration of human rights, ethiopia international covenant on civil and political rights, u.n. body of principles for the protection of all persons under any form of detention or imprisonment, u.n. declaration against torture, convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, african [banjul] charter on human and peoples’ rights, rome statute international criminal court, alemayehu g mariam

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    Deutsche Welle (Ethiopia): A Disgrace to Press Freedom?

    FEBRUARY 20, 2012 3:47AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, ethiomedia, hate speech ethiopia, german federal constitutional court, art. 5 (1) basic law for the federal republic of germany, alemayehu g mariam, eskinder nega, girma seifu, berhanu nega, thilo hoppe, code of ethics of the society of professional journalists, ethiopia disgrace to press freedom, fascist woyane regime, ludger schadomsky open letter, meles zenawi, bereket simon, ludger schadomsky deutsche welle, ethiopia press freedom, deutsche welle ethiopia, deutsche welle amharic, ethiomedia, hate speech ethiopia, german federal constitutional court, art. 5 (1) basic law for the federal republic of germany, alemayehu g mariam, eskinder nega, girma seifu, berhanu nega, thilo hoppe, code of ethics of the society of professional journalists, ethiopia disgrace to press freedom, fascist woyane regime, ludger schadomsky open letter, meles zenawi, bereket simon, ludger schadomsky deutsche welle, ethiopia press freedom, deutsche welle ethiopia, deutsche welle amharic

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    The Dragon’s Dance with Hyenas

    FEBRUARY 13, 2012 1:12AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: chinese dragon, watusi shuffle, african hyenas, african union building new, china in africa, china in ethiopia, teodoro obiang nguema, china noninterference, china model, china model africa, liu guijin china's special representative african affairs, yoweri museveni uganda, paul kagame rwanda, robert mugabe zimbabwe, new breed of african leaders, kwame nkrumah, ghana constitution, african dictators, inc., world bank ease of doing business index, meles zenawi, global financial integrity ethiopia, world press freedom index, china zambia, michael sata zambia china, jia qinglin, chairman of the national committee of the chinese people's political consultative conference, alemayehu g mariam, economy

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    African Beggars Union Hall?

    FEBRUARY 6, 2012 12:12AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: african union new headquarters, china africa union building, meles zenawi africa union building, china gift africa, meles zenawi, equatorial guinea teodoro obiang nguema african union, teodorin obiang racketeering, africa rising, africa panhandling, richard poplak african union building, african union burundi uganda somalia darfur, african union mission in somalia, amisom, african union convention on preventing and combating corruption, african charter on democracy, elections and governance, new partnership for africa's development, nepad, declaration on democracy, political, economic and corporate governance, george ayittey, african union international criminal court, african union gadhafi, african union bashir sudan, botswana ketumile masire ethiopia elections, ethiopia global financial integrity, africa basic statistics, world bank ethiopia $380, africa renaissance, africa rising, china economic investment africa 150 billion, alemayehu g mariam

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    Ethiopia: Copyrights and CopyCrimes

    JANUARY 22, 2012 9:21PM

    By al mariam


    Topics: sopa, stop online piracy act, pipa, preventing real online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property act, elias wondimu who’s who in black los angeles, wendy belcher princeton university, tsehai conferences, article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights, meles zenawi, tsehai publishers, elias wondimu, son of sam law, tiglachin, mengistu hailemariam, shambel belayneh, teodros “teddy afro” kassahun, muluken melesse, kuku sebsebie, aster aweke, ali birra, hirut bekele, mary armede, asnaketch worku, ketema makonnen, kassa tessema, kiros alemayehu, alemayehu eshete, bizunesh bekele, mahmoud ahmed, tilahun gessesse, ethiopia copyrights

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    Ethiopia: Middle Passage to the Middle East

    JANUARY 16, 2012 2:44AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: international maid trade, atlantic slave trade, middle passage, fugitive slaves, khaled ali beydoun, ethiopia human traffickers, ethiopian women domestic workers middle east, ethiopia bina fernandez, ethiopia domestic workers saudi arabia, ethiopia domestic workers yemen, ethiopia domestic workers united arab emirates, contract slavery, shweyga mullah, meles zenawi, where is ethiopia’s flag, ethiopia private employment agency proclamation no. 104/1998, employment exchange services proclamation no. 632/2009, 2011 unhcr report ethiopia, united nations protocol to prevent, suppress, and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, united nations protocol against the smuggling of migrants by land, sea, and air, convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and the united nations convention against transnational organized crime, slavery saudi arabia yemen emirates, politics

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    Africans Unite! Ethiopians Unite!

    JANUARY 9, 2012 12:21AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: ethiopian unity, ethiopia bob marley, african unite, preamble u.s. constitution, abraham lincoln, jesse jackson, barack obama accra speech, oromo ethiopia, amhara ethiopia, tigray ethiopia, gurage ethiopia, gambella ethiopia, afar ethiopia, ogaden ethiopia, anuak ethiopia, ethiopia orthodox, ethiopia muslim, ethiopia protestant, ethnic federalism ethiopia, kilil ethiopia, oromo liberation front, olf secession, olf ethiopian unity, olf national council, olf minneapolis, ethiopia tplf, meles zenawi, tribalism africa, ethnic politics africa, oromo secession, africa idfentity politics, ethiopia human rights, alemayehu g mariam

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    Ethiopia: 2011 in the Republic of Corruptistan

    DECEMBER 26, 2011 12:27AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: ethiopia republic of corruptistan, ethiopia 11.7 billion stolen, journalist dawit kebede, seed ethiopian diaspora, why ethiopia poor, why ethiopians starving, fakeonomics meles zenawi, dictatorship state terrorism, things fall apart africa, thugtatorship, meles zenawi, alemayehu g mariam, karuturi ethiopia, politics

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    Patriot Yenesew Gebre: Give me Liberty or Give me Death!

    NOVEMBER 21, 2011 1:37AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: ethiopia yenesew gebre, tarcha dawro zone, southern ethiopia, meles zenawi, ethiopia bureau of investigative journalism, famine southern ethiopia, soviet psychiatry dissenters, mohamed bouazizi ethiopia, patrick henry liberty death, politics

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    Ethiopia: Unfreedom of Information

    JULY 18, 2011 12:45AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: meles zenawi, goodluck johnathan freedom information, ethiopia election, kenya election, uganda election, yoweri museveni, alllasne ouattara icc, gbenga adefaye, nigerian guild of editors, ethiopian satellite television, esat, ethiopia woubshet taye, awramba times, reyot alemu feteh, ethiopia committee to protect journalists, ethiopia swedish journalists, ethiopia arrested johan persson, ethiopia arrested martin schibbye, ethiopia world press freedom day, ronald reagan information oxygene, ethiopia voa, ethiopia oa blacklist, ethiopia freedom of information, ethiopia proclamation no. 590/2008, ethiopia press freedom, ethiopia censorship, nigeria freedom of information law, nigeria corruption, africa thugtatorship, africa corruption, ethiopia corruption, africa politics, africa transparency accountability, shakespeare ethiopia

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    Ethiopia: Educating a Dictator

    JULY 4, 2011 12:50AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, u.s. supreme court first amendment cases, 18 u.s.c. sections 242, 18 u.s.c. sections 241, blacklisting ethiopians voa, sara palin palling terrorists, tea party obama adolf hitler, bushism, george bush wimp, reagan war monger, ronald reagan enemy of working people, jesse jackson hitlerian racism, nixon political enemies project, free speech neo-nazis klansmen, pentagon papers case, mccarthy witch hunts, clear and present danger test, sedition act of 1918, president lincoln, american civil war, u.s. alien and sedition acts, john peter zenger, ethiopia bill of rights, ethiopia al-qaeda, ethiopia first amendment, johann wolfgang von goethe, deutche welle german radio ethiopia broadcast, rwanda radio mille collines, birtukan midekssa, eskinder nega, serkalem fasil, article 19 universal declaration of human rights, zenawi world leaders forum, zenawi columbia university, berhanu nega, merra gudina, seeye abraha, getachew metaferia, beyene petros, paulos milkias, ethiopian diaspora, ethiopia critics blacklist voa, voa ethiopia jamming, meles zenawi, voa broadcasting board of governors, voa audiences bill of rights, voa journalist standards & practices, voice of the voiceless, voice of america amharic program

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    Ethiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi

    JUNE 19, 2011 11:42PM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, ethiopia george ayittey, ethiopia inflation, ethiopia economy, ethiopia coffee, ethiopia ken ohashi, ethiopia economist magazine, meles zenawi, zenawi gtp, hailemariam desalegn, ethiopia world bank, ethiopia ken ohashi, ethiopia imf, ethiopia oxford poverty and human development initiative multidimensional poverty index 2010, ethiopia coffee, ethiopia devaluation currency, ethiopia gtp, ethiopia growth and transformation plan, ethiopia inflation, ethiopia growth and transformation plan, ethiopia economy, ethiopia freakonomics, ethiopia adam smith

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    Ethiopia: An Imaginary Conversation with Nelson Mandela

    MAY 8, 2011 11:50PM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, african dictators, mandela on peace, nkosi sikelel' iafrika, mandela on demoracy, mandela on freedom, imaginary interview mandela, nonviolent change africa, mein kampf, hitler, hitler zimbabwe, robert mugabe, muammar gaddafi, zenawi contract, ethiopia 99.6 elections, ethiopia 193 unarmed demonstrators, ethiopia 2010 election, ethiopia 2005 election, meles zenawi, yoweri museveni, african dictators, triumphalism, nelson mandela

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    Ethiopia: The Silence of Lying Lips

    MAY 2, 2011 12:18AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, human rights and labor, bureau of democracy, section 1001 (a) (3) (c) (1) (2), title 18, secretary of state hilary clinton, 504 of the trade act of 1974, 116(d) and 502 b (b) of the foreign assistance act of 1961, bereket simon, implausible lies, zenawi lies, hailemariam desalegn, human rights ethiopia, 2010 u.s. state department country reports on human rights ethiopia summary, meles zenawi

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    Ethiopia: We Went, We Saw, We Got Chased Out…

    APRIL 24, 2011 11:47PM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, ethiopia barley rice republic, ethiopia food aid, ethiopia oxford poverty and human development initiative multidimensional poverty index, ethiopia 11 percent growth, ethiopia 14.9 percent growth, ethiopia millennium goals, ethiopia european union, ethiopia imf, u.s. policy ethiopia, in-yo’-diaspora-face, water war egypt ethiopia, weapons of mass distraction. regime change eritrea, noam chomsky free speech, jeffrey sachs, joseph stiglitz, jagdish bagwati, columbia president lee bollinger, ted vestal, ethiopian human rights activists, zenawi world leader’s conference columbia university, ethiopian embassy, ethiopians howard university, girma birru, fekade shewakena, ethiopian opposition, growth and transformation plan, zenawi regime, diaspora ethiopians, ethiopia economy, ethiopian dictator, meles zenawi

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    The End Game of African Dictators

    APRIL 17, 2011 11:48PM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, africa dictatorship, ethiopia dictatorship, end game, albert einstein, charles taylor, luis moreno-ocampo, allasane ouattara, cote d’ivoire, african union, ecowas, new breed african leaders, ivorian popular front, gbagbo university abidjan, gbagbo university paris sorbonne, kwame nkrumah, president-for-life, gbagbo arrest, thugogracy, thugtatorship, africa thugdoms, meles zenawi, omar al-bashir, moamar gadhafi, hosni mubarak, cote d’ivoire, laurent gbagbo

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    Ethiopia: The Art of War by Mass Distraction

    APRIL 11, 2011 3:13AM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, hermann goering, ethiopia dictatorship, jerrold post, eritrea, ethiopia, meles zenawi, change north africa, nile water war, eritrea regime change, ethiopia eritrean war, islamic courts union, somalia, al queida, al shabab

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