Ethiopian News and Politics Journal
World Press Freedom Day: Free Press Stamped Out in Ethiopia
May 3rd
SOCEPP: There is no freedom of the press in Ethiopia. The attempt to dupe the world with claims to the contrary did not have the life of a dew. Dozens of independent journalists were arrested, tortured even, killed or forced into exile and newspapers banned outright. Censorship is stifling, several journalists still languish in the notorious prisons of Kaliti and Kilinto and some have been to taken to the Zwai labor camp recently. Read More…
Ruling by Ethiopia’s Supreme Court in Eskinder Nega Case Another Missed Opportunity
May 3rd
Today, Freedom Now, Amnesty International, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the Committee to Free Eskinder Nega, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, English PEN, the International Press Institute, the International Women’s Media Foundation, Media Legal Defence Initiative, the National Press Club, PEN American Center, PEN Canada, and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, condemned the decision by the Ethiopian Supreme Court upholding the 18-year sentence imposed against independent journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega. Read More…
Quote of the Week: Of Appeals to the Past
May 2nd
"Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretation of the present. What animates such appeals is not only disagreement about what happened in the past and what the past was, but uncertainty about whether the past really is past and, over and concluded, or whether it continues, albeit in different forms, perhaps." Edward Said in "Culture and Imperialism"
May Day 2013: The Worsening Plight of Workers in Ethiopia
May 2nd
EPRP: The plight of Ethiopian workers is at its worst because the regime is one of the worst rights violator that Ethiopians have to .gif)
endure. The statistics and praises of its foreign masters and local acolytes aside the regime in Addis Abeba is dictatorial and exploitative, it is anti worker and has aggravated the poverty and suffering of the majority of the working people. No decent and honest worker in Ethiopia will stage a genuinely joyful May Day 2013 demonstration. The EPRP continues the struggle of the basic rights of Ethiopia’s working people. Read More…
Screen Propaganda, Hollywood and the CIA
May 2nd
By Julie Lévesque: “One of the most pervasive trends in 21st century western culture has become somewhat of an obsession in America. It’s called “Hollywood history”, where the corporate studio machines in Los Angeles spend hundreds of millions of dollars in order to craft and precisely tailor historical events to suit the prevailing political paradigm.” (Patrick Henningsen, Hollywood History: CIA Sponsored “Zero Dark Thirty”, Oscar for “Best Propaganda Picture”) Read More…
The Jennifer Turn
Apr 27th
By Hama Tuma: The primary curse goes to that Angelina Jolie person. “Haro sur Angelina”, curse on that Joly who started out with much fanfare the adoption racket of Ethiopian children. The famous actress adopted an alleged orphaned child who was sold away by her own mother and a very cruel government that controls the adoption industry. The little girl was renamed Zahra and taken to Hollywood with the actress padding her resume as a “do gooder”. One fellow wrote that Ethiopians live under stone-age poverty (what exactly does this mean really? Were people starved during the stone- age?) and Angelina type of actions is God sent and to be praised. Read More…
Thatcher: an Obituary from Below
Apr 25th
By Richard Seymour: Thatcher’s great achievements were also what made her so vile. Her many talents were harnessed to bigoted, class-supremacist ends. Read More…
