Tag Archives: Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Freedom Speech In The Current Ethiopian Context

January 23, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Fekadu A. Shibeshi University of Washington At the verge of the Second World War the then US president, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the 77th Congress with the historical presidential speech referred as the “four freedom speech.” The aim … read more »

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Obama Administration Undermines Black Education

March 14, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

There have been many frauds of historic proportions — for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was praised in the 1930s, when he called … read more »

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Democracy, Utopia or Opiate?

February 5, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

The real safeguard of democracy is education. –Franklin D. Roosevelt After a few hours of following the current debates between the Republican candidates for the presidency in America, I couldn’t resist the thought that “democracy” had become much less than … read more »

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The new professor Asrats and Birtukan Midekssas? By Girma Kassa

January 31, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

  “The Only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear” Aung San Sun Kyi. “Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished.” … read more »

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Open letter to Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi

March 7, 2011 by benim

Eskinder Nega from Addis Ababa Dear Ato Meles Zenawi, Perhaps it is the jinx of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unprecedented 12 years in office. He had after all controversially breached the unwritten code scrupulously respected by all Presidents after George Washington, … read more »

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