Starve the Beast, Feed the People
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Americans fed up with uncontrolled deficit government spending are often heard invoking a familiar battle cry:… (more)
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Page 16Ethiopia: Educating a Dictator
Alemayehu G. Mariam Voice of America is the Voice of the Voiceless The Voice of America’s (VOA) Journalist Standards &… (more)
U.S. Africa Policy: Empty Words, Emptier Promises
Alemayehu G. Mariam (This is the second installment in a series of commentaries I pledged to offer on U.S. policy… (more)
Ethiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi
There is the economics of Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism. There is Levitt & Dubner’s freakonomics of weird… (more)
Ethiopia: An Imaginary Conversation with Nelson Mandela
Alemayehu G. Mariam The Triumphalism of African Dictators There is nothing that is both amusing and annoying than the chest-beating… (more)
Ethiopia: The Silence of Lying Lips
Alemayehu G. Mariam Lies, Junk and Cut-and-Paste Meles Zenawi, the dictator-in-chief in Ethiopia, says he does not want to talk… (more)