Alemayehu G. Mariam The Culture of Impunity David Dadge, Director of the Vienna-based International Press Institute, the oldest press freedom organization in the world, recently wrote a compelling commentary in…
Alemayehu G. Mariam Barking Up the Wrong Tree This past week, the attack dogs of the dictatorship in Ethiopia were unleashed against Amnesty International (AI) because that organization had requested…
Alemayehu G. Mariam (In memory of those Ethiopians massacred and maimed by the dictatorship in power following the May 15, 2005 elections.) Reflections on a Democracy Unplugged “When the people…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Patriots and Tyrants Dr. Hailu Araya: Ethiopian patriot. Political prisoner. Educator. Poet. I am not writing to talk about Dr. Hailu, the Ethiopian patriot, the man…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam “We Shall Overcome…” In 1965, in a commencement address at Oberlin College, Ohio, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King spoke about the ultimate victory of good…
Alemayehu G. Mariam Pax Obama President Obama made a historic speech to Turkish lawmakers last week, but his message was global in scope and contained nuggets of his foreign policy…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam The Sky is Falling! British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants the G-20 (or Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the world’s largest…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Cry Me a River, Cry Me a Lake Amina was crying her eyes out. You could see the tear tracks on her tormented face. She is…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam From Discontent to Renewal In the Winter of our discontent, we complained about the wasted years of antagonism, discord and strife among pro-democracy elements of the…
May 4, 2009 A Plot Here! A Plot There! A Plot Everywhere! April, 2009. “The ‘desperadoes’ are here! They are going to ‘assassinate high ranking government officials and destroy public…