By Yilma Bekele
‘Et, tu Brute?’ is what the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was heard to have said when he saw his dear friend Marcus Brutus in league with his assassins. In English he was saying ‘you too, Brutus?’ It …
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Et tu ESAT?
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Ethiopia: Copyrights and CopyCrimes
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Crimes Against the Mind
If a person were to maliciously burn or vandalize another’s house, it would be regarded as a serious property crime under the laws of any nation. If one were to walk into a …
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African Dictators: The People Don’t Love You!
Alemayehu G. Mariam
In February 2011, at the onset of the Libyan Revolution, Moamar Gadhaffi trumpeted to the world, “They love me. All my people with me, they love me. They will die to protect …
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As African Tyrants Fall
Alemayehu G. Mariam
The Invincible Dictators
Mohandas Karmachand Gandhi (The Mahatma or Great Soul) is today revered as a historical figure who fought against colonialism, racism and injustice. But he was also one of the greatest modern revolutionary political thinkers …
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Ethiopia: Remember the Slaughter of November (2005)!
Alemayehu G. Mariam
Cruel November
November is a cruel month. Bleak, woeful, and grim is the month of November in the melancholy verse of Thomas Hood:
…No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member–
No
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