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Ethiopia: The Corruption Game By Alemayehu G. Mariam House cleaning or window dressing? Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and how to collect nickels and dimes to build it. That kind of pl… more »

Ethiopia: Corruption and the "miseducation" of Ethiopian youth By Alemayehu G. Mariam “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela. For the late Meles Zenawi and his apostles (the Melesistas)… more »

Ethiopia: Shadowboxing Smoke and Mirrors By Alemayehu G. Mariam Meles Zenawi when he was alive and his apostles today (“Melesistas”) keep playing us in the Diaspora like a cheap fiddle. They make us screech, shriek, scream and shout by simply showi… more »

Watching American Diplocrisy in Ethiopia By Alemayehu G. Mariam America is Watching!? Diplomacy by hypocrisy is “diplocrisy”. Edmund Burke, the British statesman and philosopher, said “Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, f… more »

The Audacity of Evil in Ethiopia By Alemayehu G. Mariam Triumph of Evil? “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”, said Edmund Burke. But what happens when evil triumphs over a good young woman journalist na… more »