My Interview On Addis Dimts Radio 02 26 2017 (Amharic)
My interview with radio journalist Abebe Belew on the massive nearly $USD2 million lobbying effort in the U.S. by the T-TPLF.
My interview with radio journalist Abebe Belew on the massive nearly $USD2 million lobbying effort in the U.S. by the T-TPLF.
What do Gayle Smith, Wendy Sherman and Susan Rice have in common? This past Thursday, Gayle Smith who is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council directed by Susan Rice, had her confirmation hearing to become the next Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. It was…
On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. Texas that the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) program which considered race, among many other factors, in undergraduate admissions is constitutional. The outcome of the Fisher case was in great doubt in December 2015 when I wrote a commentary entitled, “The Soft Bigotry and Hard Hubris…
John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: “For no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.” Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his “devilish art” of “forging illusions”. I am seething in temporal temper over the World Bank’s “devilish art” of economic numerology, Mephistophelian cunning in making deals with corrupt African thugtators and the…
Alemayehu G. Mariam February 4, 2008 Academic Unfreedom in Ethiopian UniversitiesUniversities in democratic societies crank out legions of technorati, digerati and literati every year. But what do universities in police states produce? Hordes of ignorati? Welcome to higher education in the Land of Absurd-istan! In an incisive article posted on the web-based legal research service,…
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Let it be the unanimous Declaration of the People of the United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to save their Constitution, defend the rule of law, maintain peace and harmony among themselves and pass on…
Author’s Note: This is the sixth installment in a series I have called “What Do WE Want and Do NOW?”. The serialized commentaries have three aims: 1) take stock of the impact of the recent uprisings in Ethiopia against the backdrop of the extreme repression (“state of emergency”) unleashed by the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean…
What do Gayle Smith, Wendy Sherman and Susan Rice have in common? This past Thursday, Gayle Smith who is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council directed by Susan Rice, had her confirmation hearing to become the next Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. It was…
On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. Texas that the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) program which considered race, among many other factors, in undergraduate admissions is constitutional. The outcome of the Fisher case was in great doubt in December 2015 when I wrote a commentary entitled, “The Soft Bigotry and Hard Hubris…
John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: “For no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.” Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his “devilish art” of “forging illusions”. I am seething in temporal temper over the World Bank’s “devilish art” of economic numerology, Mephistophelian cunning in making deals with corrupt African thugtators and the…
Alemayehu G. Mariam February 4, 2008 Academic Unfreedom in Ethiopian UniversitiesUniversities in democratic societies crank out legions of technorati, digerati and literati every year. But what do universities in police states produce? Hordes of ignorati? Welcome to higher education in the Land of Absurd-istan! In an incisive article posted on the web-based legal research service,…
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Let it be the unanimous Declaration of the People of the United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to save their Constitution, defend the rule of law, maintain peace and harmony among themselves and pass on…
Author’s Note: This is the sixth installment in a series I have called “What Do WE Want and Do NOW?”. The serialized commentaries have three aims: 1) take stock of the impact of the recent uprisings in Ethiopia against the backdrop of the extreme repression (“state of emergency”) unleashed by the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean…
What do Gayle Smith, Wendy Sherman and Susan Rice have in common? This past Thursday, Gayle Smith who is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council directed by Susan Rice, had her confirmation hearing to become the next Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. It was…
On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. Texas that the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) program which considered race, among many other factors, in undergraduate admissions is constitutional. The outcome of the Fisher case was in great doubt in December 2015 when I wrote a commentary entitled, “The Soft Bigotry and Hard Hubris…
John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: “For no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.” Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his “devilish art” of “forging illusions”. I am seething in temporal temper over the World Bank’s “devilish art” of economic numerology, Mephistophelian cunning in making deals with corrupt African thugtators and the…
Alemayehu G. Mariam February 4, 2008 Academic Unfreedom in Ethiopian UniversitiesUniversities in democratic societies crank out legions of technorati, digerati and literati every year. But what do universities in police states produce? Hordes of ignorati? Welcome to higher education in the Land of Absurd-istan! In an incisive article posted on the web-based legal research service,…
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Let it be the unanimous Declaration of the People of the United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to save their Constitution, defend the rule of law, maintain peace and harmony among themselves and pass on…
Author’s Note: This is the sixth installment in a series I have called “What Do WE Want and Do NOW?”. The serialized commentaries have three aims: 1) take stock of the impact of the recent uprisings in Ethiopia against the backdrop of the extreme repression (“state of emergency”) unleashed by the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean…