Month: May 2023
Hoover Digest: Research and Commentary on Public Policy
The Hoover Digest explores politics, economics, and history, guided by the scholars and researchers of the Hoover Institution, the public policy research center at Stanford University. The opinions expressed in the Hoover Digest are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, or their supporters. As …
Virginia joins list of GOP states leaving bipartisan effort to combat voter fraud amid conspiracies (Christina A. Cassidy and Denise Lavoie)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Election officials in Virginia have announced plans to withdraw the state from a bipartisan effort designed to ensure accurate voter lists and combat fraud — but that also has been caught up in conspiracy theories spread since the 2020 presidential election. When Virginia formally withdraws later this year, it will become …
Susan Rice: Ethiopia’s election was “absolutely — 100 percent” democratic (Opride Contributor)
U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Thursday briefed reporters and responded to questions on President Barack Obama’s five-day trip to Ethiopia and Kenya. She talked about the president’s itinerary and priorities during his controversial stopover in Addis Ababa. Ambassador Rice said Washington had concerns about “the integrity of the electoral process” during Ethiopia’s recent election, in which …
Susan Rice Laughed At EPRDF’s 100% Win
Good afternoon, everybody. I brought a special guest to discuss with you the President’s upcoming trip to Africa. Susan Rice is the President’s National Security Advisor. She has her own extensive personal experience in dealing with policy in Africa, and she obviously will be accompanying the President on that trip… Question: Can you speak a little bit …
Ethiopia’s Troubled Internal Situation (Donald Yamamoto)
Chairman Smith, members of the subcommittee, I am honored to testify before you today on the internal political situation in Ethiopia. As Africa’s second most populous nation, Ethiopia has an important part to play in enhancing the stability of East Africa. The United States believes that democracy is the best form of government for stability …
OBSERVING THE 2005 ETHIOPIA NATIONAL ELECTIONS (Carter Center)
Upon the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, The Carter Center observed the country’s May 15, 2005, elections for the national and regional parliaments. The May elections marked an historic event in the country, as Ethiopia witnessed its first genuinely competitive campaign period with multiple parties fielding …
Ethiopia, the Events of 2005 (Human Rights Watch)
The aftermath of Ethiopia’s landmark May 2005 parliamentary elections has laid bare the deeply entrenched patterns of political repression, human rights abuse and impunity that characterize the day-to-day reality of governance in much of the country. This dispiriting reality has come as a shock to many international observers who had viewed the electoral process with …
Ethiopian government blocks report of massacre by its forces (The Guardian)
An official inquiry into the killing of 193 unarmed protesters during the Ethiopian election has found that the victims were shot, beaten and strangled to death in a “massacre” by the security forces. But the government is trying to suppress the report on the killings, according to a senior member of the inquiry team. Scores …
Why not scientism? (Moti Mizrahi)
Philosophy is dead,’ Stephen Hawking once declared, because it ‘has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.’ It is scientists, not philosophers, who are now ‘the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge’. The response from some philosophers was to accuse Hawking of ‘scientism’. The charge of ‘scientism’ is …