Thought for Today

Globalization is not happening only because America backs it. Globalization happens because people find value in it. They find value in the connectivity; they find freedom in it; they find better lives. What is driving globalization are three billion capitalists. They're being transmuted into a global middle class, which will be the dominant power in the global economy and the global political system in the twenty-first century. The genie's out of the bottle. The latest tallies of international violence say that it's almost all occurring in places that are yet to be deeply integrated into the global economy, which tells me that we're in a frontier integrating age, just like we went through in America in the nineteenth century. by Thomas Barnett

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Long time activist and current EPRDF supporter Adal Isaw and Alemayoh Zemedkun, former assistance attorney general with grudge against the government of Ethiopia discuss on the state of the democratic process in Ethiopia. Moderator Alula Kebede.

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Ethiopian Music Legend Gebretsadik WeldeYohannes(RIP)

A Week in the Horn of Africa

(May 15, 2009)

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WASHINGTON, May 14, 2009 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today $540 million in International Development Association (IDA) funding for the Protection of Basic Services (PBS) Program Phase II Project for Ethiopia