By Teodros Kiros
The miserable life of Ethiopians is replete with facts such as:
- Ethiopia is ranked at 210th out of a total of 210 countries.
- That Ethiopia by any measure is the 2nd poorest nation in the world.
- That
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The gruesome reality Ethiopia’s regime cannot hide
The Beka Moment in Cambridge, Massachusetts
By Teodros Kiros
BOSTON — A supremely organized coterie of protesters rejected the mercenaries of Woyanne who came to beg for money to support a sham development without vision, without integrity.
Ethiopians celebrated resisting tyranny on March 9, 2011 in …
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Woyanne exclusivism in glaring display
By Teodros Kiros
Old, young, men and women came to Cambridge, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston), on a beautiful spring day to protest the stooges of Tyranny, when they dared to stage their mediocre five year plan. Tyrants are shameless …
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Only an Ethiopian uprising can save the economy
By Teodros Kiros
A careful study of world uprisings has convinced George Katsiaficas, the leading expert on social movements, that uprisings empower people and unleash their hitherto untapped passions and energies that fuel dormant economies and revive them in extraordinary …
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Revolution and Ethiopian youth
By Teodros Kiros
…Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has accused a little known Muslim extremist group of staging a wave of church burnings to provoke communal tensions in the Horn of Africa country. Meles expressed concern about regional instability, but
The Voices of 2005
By Teodros Kiros
The dark days of November 2005
It was 5 years ago on “November 1, 2005, that the ruling Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) under the leadership of Meles Zenawi unleashed a new form of terror on the …
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The General Will of the Ethiopian People
By Teodros Kiros
Jean Jacques Rousseau, the extraordinary political philosopher, famously argued:
…Sovereignty is purely and simply the exercise of the general will, and can in no circumstances therefore be alienated. And I affirm further that the sovereign is purely
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The silence of Ethiopian People
By Teodros Kiros
Silence is enigmatic. Silence speaks without speaking, hears without hearing, and sees without seeing. On the surface these enigmas are contradictory. How can silence hear without hearing, and see without seeing?
Those contradictions are the essence of …
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The Price of Liberty and Dignity
By Teodros Kiros
The defiant citizens of Libya fought against roaring tanks, piercing guns, and fast helicopters intent on destroying the resilient human bodies to silence, to perpetual acquiescence in the culture of tyranny.
Old men and women, boys and …
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An Ethiopian Uprising is Now or Never
By Teodros Kiros
The great Machiavelli, the architect of political thinking spoke convincingly about virtu and Fortuna. Virtu is skill, the ability to be skillful and flexible, when time requires it; Fortuna on the other hand, is the tuning of …
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The Moral Economy of A New Ethiopia in the Horizon
By Teodros Kiros
We Ethiopians know what we do not want, but some of us know what we do not want, as well us what we want and could want. When we ask for regime change, we do so with …
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