Year: 2013
- Art Review
Argo: ‘the best bad idea’
Reviewed by Andrew DeCort Amidst strong competition, it’s debatable whether deserved to win this year’s Oscar for Best Picture. But it’s undoubtedly a great movie, and it’s worth paying attention to for at least six reasons. First, doesn’t hesitate to expose the moral shadiness of the US’s relations with Iran as the backdrop to the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis. …
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Are women really interested in the emancipation?
Ashenafi Zedebub Nowadays, it is not at all strange to see women being posted at a higher – or even at the highest top sometimes – level in either government or non-government organizations. Today, we seen women named or elected to hold office of a prime minister, minister, bank president, CEO of insurance establishments and other organizations; to see them…
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Ethiopia’s accession to the WTO : Inevitable revision of laws and procedures
Kiya Tsegaye The World Trade Organization was transformed from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was established in 1947. A series of trade negotiations, GATT rounds began at the end of World War II and were aimed at reducing tariffs for the facilitation of global trade on goods. The purpose of the WTO is to ensure…
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Hugo Chavez’s constitutional legacy
William Partlett After his recent death, Hugo Chavez’s legacy is being widely debated. Those on the right see his death as a chance for Venezuelans to emerge from repressive dictatorship – for instance, Republican Senator Marco Rubio has argued that Chavez’s death is an opportunity to “turn the page on one of the darkest periods in its history and embark…
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The ‘New Model’ for emerging totalitarianism
A look at the fast spreading new form of appetite for dictatorship Taye Negussie (PhD) Recently, Marcel H. Van Hergen, one of the noted contributors to the Project Syndicate, posted an article entitled, ‘Putinism’s Authoritarian Allure”. In the article, Hergen demonstrated an unprecedented current trend in Western Europe with many far-right parties retreating from their staunch anti-communist and anti-Russian ideologies,…
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Will there be a Russian Spring?
Not if Russian President Vladimir Putin can help it! Mark N. Katz But can he help it? Authoritarian rulers elsewhere have tried to prevent democratic revolution against them. Some have done this successfully – often for a long period of time – but have eventually succumbed. Other authoritarian regimes, by contrast, have managed to face down any and all opposition,…
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State legislatures launch their ‘War on Women’
Tomas Mega, U.S. correspondent Liberals thought the re-election of a Democratic President, a U.S. Senate majority and increasing Democratic numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives all meant good things for the rights of American women. Not so. With 30 states having Republican governors, and 27 states with Republican led legislatures, the post-2012 Presidential election cycle has begun with…
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Pan-Africanism and the youth in Africa: between now and then
The song of Pan-Africanism cannot be sung in today’s Africa the same way as it was half a century ago Eyob Balcha, special to Addis Standard Pan-Africanism then Think about a young African in the late 1950s or in the 1960s on the streets of Algiers, Accra or Arusha. You will get a characteristic picture of a…
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Sexual abuse against children in Ethiopia: Increasingly worrisome
Emnet Assefa In the second week of March this year, participants of a talk show on Sheger 102.1 FM radio station, the only private FM radio station in Ethiopia, picked up a troubling topic as their agenda: sexual abuses against children in Ethiopia. A frustrated representative from the Ethiopian Woman Lawyers Association (EWLA), who was part of the discussion, spoke…
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Ethiopia’s HDI:Improving, yet among the worst performers
Ethiopia’s HDI shows an impressing progress, but only when it is compared to its own figures of the past Bisrat Teshome, Special to Addis Standard, (@Bisree) For many years economists around the world have differed over what exactly constitutes good measures of human wellbeing and development. Owing to that the closest measurement agreed by many was the use of…
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