ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Can a Divided America Deter China and Russia? By Robert M. Gates The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever. Never before has it faced four allied antagonists at the same time—Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran—whose collective nuclear arsenal could within a few years be nearly double …
The Bloc Must Add Ukraine—but It Won’t Be Simple By Carl Bildt Over the last six decades, no part of European integration has been as transformational as the gradual enlargement of what is now the European Union. The EU’s expansion brought democracy to places that knew only authoritarian rule. It turned what was a perennially conflict-ridden …
Amda-Siyon (131U“13UU) was the founder of the powerful Christian empire. His wars were accompanied “by carnage and destruction which sent tribes and groups fleeing from the storm centre, abandoning their territory, to seek refuge in difficult areas, where geographic features and distance from the zone of conflict held out hope of asylum. This altered the …
This book is a study of the origins and evolution of an Ethiopian insurgent movement, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, that emerged some 34 years ago and has determined much of contemporary Ethiopia’s political development. The study is primarily a narrative political and military history but also intends to address general sociological issues of ethnic-based …
The primary concern of this research project was carrying out a comparative study on folkloric constructions and expressions of ethnic and local identity among the southwestern Oromo (Macha) of Ethiopia. The focus was on identification, documentation, description and sub-group-oriented comparative analysis of folklore, specifically oral narratives – seen as local discourses of and expressive basis …
Salaalee is one of the Awrajjas which formerly constituted the province of Shawaa (Shawaa Kifla Hager). Most of the boundaries of Salaalee are enscribed by the Abbay River and its tributaries like the Jamaa and Mugar Rivers. The capital of the Awrajja, Fiche, is located about 112 kms North-west of Addis Ababa, on the way …
Donald N. Levine (1974), author of Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multi-ethnic Society, who has popularized Carlo Conti-Rossin’s description of Ethiopia as ‘un museo di popoli’ – ‘a museum of peoples’ (pp. 19-20) has credited the evolution of multi-ethnic Ethiopia as an ‘Amhara thesis’, ‘Oromo anti-thesis’ and the ‘Ethiopian synthesis’. Whatever the merits of …
In a 2006 episode of the television show “Boston Legal,” conservative lawyer Denny Crane asserted that he had a constitutional right to carry a concealed firearm: “And the Supreme Court is going to say so, just as soon as they overturn Roe v. Wade.” That was a joke, an unimaginable event, when the show aired 17 years ago. …
Awatchdog group is suing to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, saying he violated the constitution and is disqualified from holding future office. The lawsuit is so far one of the strongest challenges to Trump’s eligibility to seek re-election. Source
Most schools have a double standard when it comes to dress codes and almost always it’s girls who are policed on how they dress, wear their hair and so on. Conservative schools can be sticklers for rules and one girl from a private Christian high school was asked not to dye her hair. What the …