Ethiopia: Dictatorship is State Terrorism
Alemayehu G. Mariam Terrorism by “Anti-terrorism Law” Lately, Meles Zenawi, the dictator in Ethiopia, has been rounding up dissidents, journalists,… (more)
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Page 2What Should Starving Ethiopians do to Help Themselves?
Alemayehu G. Mariam In 1987 when Time Magazine featured a famine-stricken Ethiopian mother on its cover page, it failed to… (more)
Ethiopia: Educating a Dictator
Alemayehu G. Mariam Voice of America is the Voice of the Voiceless The Voice of America’s (VOA) Journalist Standards &… (more)
Ethiopia’s ruling junta ramps up the fear machine
By Yilma Bekele … within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to… (more)
Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship
Alemayehu G. Mariam Thugogracy in Africa If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people,… (more)
Out of Touch in the Horn of Africa?
By Alemayehu G. Mariam The Berlin Conference of 2009 In 1884, the Berlin Conference was convened by the European imperial… (more)