Prof. Alemayheu G. Mariam VOA Interview (Amharic) on Political Prisoner Bekele Gerba
Prof. Alemayheu G. Mariam VOA Interview on Ethiopian Political Prisoner Bekele Gerba.
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Prof. Alemayheu G. Mariam VOA Interview on Ethiopian Political Prisoner Bekele Gerba.
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Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my first commentary, I examined the decline and fall of “Karuturistan”, the hundreds of thousands of hectares of land “owned” by Karuturi Global, in Western Ethiopia. In the second commentary, I questioned if…
Every year, I remember two massacres in Africa. In March, I remember the March 21, 1960 white apartheid regime Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. In November, I remember the Meles Massacres of June 8, 2005 and November 1-10 and 14-16, 2005 in Ethiopia committed by the black apartheid regime of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation…
In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial. In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the Scopes trial was widely seen as a struggle between the “ignorati” who fought to keep their…
This op-ed piece first appeared in The Hill on 7/20/2017; and is available at this link: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/342924-trumps-africa-policy-should-end-us-aid-to-dictators-rights It was published on almariam.com on Earlier this month, President Donald Trump was criticized for letting his “unelected” daughter Ivanka sit in for him during the high-level “Partnership with Africa, Migration and Health” session at the G-20. Ms. Trump was criticized for not…
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable…In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” — John F. Kennedy The quiet riot of civil disobedience in Ethiopia over the past two years is slowly morphing into a creeping and enveloping civil war….
BY ALEMAYEHU MARIAM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/21/18 02:30 PM EST 20 Originally Posted on The Hill on 02/21/18 http://thehill.com/opinion/international/374900-to-save-ethiopia-from-civil-war-solutions-must-work-from-the-ground-up Ethiopia teeters on the edge of a precipice. For the past two years, waves of defiant public protests have made the country ungovernable and posed an existential threat to the ruling party that has been in power since…
Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my first commentary, I examined the decline and fall of “Karuturistan”, the hundreds of thousands of hectares of land “owned” by Karuturi Global, in Western Ethiopia. In the second commentary, I questioned if…
Every year, I remember two massacres in Africa. In March, I remember the March 21, 1960 white apartheid regime Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. In November, I remember the Meles Massacres of June 8, 2005 and November 1-10 and 14-16, 2005 in Ethiopia committed by the black apartheid regime of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation…
In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial. In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the Scopes trial was widely seen as a struggle between the “ignorati” who fought to keep their…
This op-ed piece first appeared in The Hill on 7/20/2017; and is available at this link: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/342924-trumps-africa-policy-should-end-us-aid-to-dictators-rights It was published on almariam.com on Earlier this month, President Donald Trump was criticized for letting his “unelected” daughter Ivanka sit in for him during the high-level “Partnership with Africa, Migration and Health” session at the G-20. Ms. Trump was criticized for not…
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable…In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” — John F. Kennedy The quiet riot of civil disobedience in Ethiopia over the past two years is slowly morphing into a creeping and enveloping civil war….
BY ALEMAYEHU MARIAM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/21/18 02:30 PM EST 20 Originally Posted on The Hill on 02/21/18 http://thehill.com/opinion/international/374900-to-save-ethiopia-from-civil-war-solutions-must-work-from-the-ground-up Ethiopia teeters on the edge of a precipice. For the past two years, waves of defiant public protests have made the country ungovernable and posed an existential threat to the ruling party that has been in power since…
Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my first commentary, I examined the decline and fall of “Karuturistan”, the hundreds of thousands of hectares of land “owned” by Karuturi Global, in Western Ethiopia. In the second commentary, I questioned if…
Every year, I remember two massacres in Africa. In March, I remember the March 21, 1960 white apartheid regime Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. In November, I remember the Meles Massacres of June 8, 2005 and November 1-10 and 14-16, 2005 in Ethiopia committed by the black apartheid regime of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation…
In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial. In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the Scopes trial was widely seen as a struggle between the “ignorati” who fought to keep their…
This op-ed piece first appeared in The Hill on 7/20/2017; and is available at this link: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/342924-trumps-africa-policy-should-end-us-aid-to-dictators-rights It was published on almariam.com on Earlier this month, President Donald Trump was criticized for letting his “unelected” daughter Ivanka sit in for him during the high-level “Partnership with Africa, Migration and Health” session at the G-20. Ms. Trump was criticized for not…
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable…In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” — John F. Kennedy The quiet riot of civil disobedience in Ethiopia over the past two years is slowly morphing into a creeping and enveloping civil war….
BY ALEMAYEHU MARIAM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/21/18 02:30 PM EST 20 Originally Posted on The Hill on 02/21/18 http://thehill.com/opinion/international/374900-to-save-ethiopia-from-civil-war-solutions-must-work-from-the-ground-up Ethiopia teeters on the edge of a precipice. For the past two years, waves of defiant public protests have made the country ungovernable and posed an existential threat to the ruling party that has been in power since…