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Trashin’ Addis Ababa (New Flower) [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: The purported prime minster of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, is a sanitary engineer with a master’s degree from Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland. The sanitary engineering profession is concerned with the...

Hearing Ethiopia on The Hill [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Having been on this Committee now 36 of my 37 years, I have to tell you that I remember when Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania, one of the most brutal dictatorships, with the Securitate, the KGB equivalent, every year his lobby form would...

Join Me in My Letter to President Trump [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: Below is a copy of the letter I sent to President Donald Trump by email and U.S. mail.
I am asking particularly all pro-democracy Ethiopian Americans and other Americans who believe in freedom, the rule of law, democracy and...

Blood Lobbying: Ethiopian Babies Starve, T-TPLF Feeds Lobby Firm $150,000 Per Month [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Millions of Ethiopians starve to death as the T-TPLF spends millions to keep itself alive
The latest USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS) report stated: “The 2017 Humanitarian Resources Document released by the Government...

The Day America Taught the World the Meaning of the Rule of Law [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Fundamental to the work of this court is a vigilant recognition that is it but one of three equal branches of our federal government. The work of the court is not to create policy or judge the wisdom of any particular policy promoted by the...

The Times They Are A-Changin’ in the Land of Immigrants? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s note: I have written this commentary to better reach a broader audience concerning issues involving President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States”...