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Disinformation in T-TPLF Land of Living Lies: Pinocchio Preaches Truth Against Perception in Ethiopia?

Author’s Note: This is the third successive commentary I have written on the intensifying T-TPLF disinformation campaign in Ethiopia. On September 5, I  announced that the T-TPLF would soon roll out a massive disinformation campaign to discredit the widespread popular …

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The Truth About T-TPLF Genocide Lies and Disinformation in Ethiopia

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Author’s Note: I have written this commentary for several reasons.

First, in my September 5, 2016 commentary, I announced that the T-TPLF will soon roll out a major disinformation campaign to discredit the massive popular uprising in the country …

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Trumputin, the Manchurian Candidate?

manchurian-candidate7A couple of days ago President Barack Obama slammed Donald “Only-I-Can-Fix-It” Trump for showing up on Russian state-owned network and dissing America’s “dishonest” media.

Obama rhetorically wondered out loud: “Think about the fact that [Putin] is Donald Trump’s role model. …

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“Joy Comes in the Morning!”: My Message for the Ethiopian New Year 2009 (E.C.)

September 11, 2016 is the beginning of the 2009 Ethiopian New Year (Meskerem 1, Ethiopian Calendar [E.C.]).[1]

It is painful for me to utter the words, “Happy Ethiopian New Year- 2009” (Melkam Adis Amet) this new year.

2008 E.C. …

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The Lies and Disinformation Campaigns of the T-TPLF

Does the LF in TPLF stand for Lie Factory?

Deception 2The T-TPLF  (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front) has now launched a slick disinformation campaign to discredit and diminish the historic popular uprisings against it in Ethiopia.

The ruling T-TPLF …

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Ethiopia: When Cheetahs Cry, They Growl!

Cheetah 14Americans have no monopoly on heroes. Olympic heroes, that is.

On August 21, 2016, Feyisa Lelisa, the 26-year-old Ethiopian long distance runner at the Rio Olympics repeated an act that was once described as the “the most overtly political statement …

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Ethiopia: Beyond the Politics of Hate

Statement of my credo: Hate is the one crumbling wall that now stands between the people of Ethiopia and freedom, democracy and human rights in Ethiopia.  The T-TPLF has weaponized and politicized hate. But the mud walls of hate …

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Ethiopia: Rise of the “Amhara Retards” and Oromo “Criminals and Terrorists” in 2016?

Are Amharas “retards”?

Are Oromo protesters demanding an end to confiscation of their land “criminals and terrorists”?

Are we now witnessing the rise of the “Amhara retards” and the Oromo “criminals and terrorists ” in Ethiopia?

The T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of …

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Donald Trump, Assassin-in-Chief?: Cry Havoc! and .… Hillary!

In my July 25  commentary entitled “Cry Havoc! And Unleash the Dogs of War at the Republican Convention?”, I argued that Trump is a very dangerous demagogue hell-bent on starting a civil war in America.

In his convention speech Trump …

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Ethiopian Spring in the Summer of 2016?

No people [in the world] will remain smothered, meaning oppressed, for  ages.  It is [a] universal [truth]. No people, to the extent that they are people [human beings] and [as evident] in world history will not remain [like an inanimate

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In Defense of Donald Trump, Sacrificer-in- Chief (SIC)!

What has Donald Trump sacrificed?!

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In a stirring speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, Khizr Khan, father of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan who died in Iraq in 2004 after directing his …

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Ethiopia: The Volcano, the Beast and the Tiger

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy

Beware what you wish for, you may get it…

MLK40Meles Zenawi, the late thugmaster of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) used to taunt the …

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I Am With Her → Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary 30I am with Hillary Rodham Clinton now!

I was with Bernie Sanders.  I explained  how I felt the Bern back in February 2016.

Bernie is with Hillary now. All the way.

Bernie’s very last words in his convention speech were: …

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Cry Havoc! And Unleash the Dogs of War at the Republican Convention?: Deconstructing Donald Trump’s Dog Whistles

In “Julius Caesar”, Shakespeare speaking in the character of Mark Antony warned about the looming civil war that is likely to paralyze Italy following the death of Caesar:

… And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side …

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Beware the Spectre Haunting America!

Trump HeilA spectre is haunting America- the spectre of Trumpism.

Just days after two rogue policemen executed two African American citizens and a lone gunman assassinated 5 Dallas police officers and wounded 7 more, Donald Trump attempted to politicize  the tragedy

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“Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence” and Lawlessness Begets Anarchy

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This past week Americans underwent a trial by fire in their souls. Americans are mourning. Americans are in shock. Americans are in soul-searching agony.

We witnessed the cold-blooded execution of two African American citizens by two rogue police officers. I …

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A Tribute to the Declaration of Independence — 1776

Dec of IndepThe old saying is, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

Well, this is my sincerest expression of flattery to the American Declaration of Independence.

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress (which managed the American revolution and set …

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Why Diaspora Ethiopians Must Engage in Human Rights Advocacy

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”  Elie Wiesel

Advocate10Lately, I have been talking to some young Ethiopian Diaspora activists in the U.S. about their views on the …

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Does (the Horn of) Africa Have Hope?

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In April 2014, I wrote a  commentary entitled, “Is there Any Hope for Africa?”

I wrote that commentary despairing over the endless man-made disasters in Africa over the past couple of decades.

In April 2014, the Central African Republic (CAR) …

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Affirmative Action Must Be Affirmative Inclusion

Justice Anthony Kennedy with Cal State San Bernardino Political Science Students and Faculty in 02/2015

On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. Texas that the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) program which considered race, among many other factors, in undergraduate admissions is constitutional.

The outcome of the Fisher …

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Ethiopia-Eritrea Wargames of Mass Distraction?

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De ja vu: Haven’t we seen that movie (circus) before?

In April 2011, I wrote a commentary about the T-TPLF’s art of war by mass distraction.

The T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front), the ruling regime in Ethiopia, …

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Donald Trump: Monster-in-Mischief!

Trump Monster 3Donald Trump wants to become the Commander-in-Chief of the United States.

This week Trump proved he is supremely qualified to be the Monster-in-Mischief of the United States of America.

A cowardly terrorist brimming with self-hate and hate of humanity massacred …

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Ethiopia: T-TPLF Criminals Nabbed in America Selling Unregistered Bonds!

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Author’s Note to the Reader: Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced an agreement in which the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF), the ruling regime in Ethiopia,  agreed to pay some USD$6.5 million dollars in …

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Farewell, The Greatest (A Tribute)

[Post updated 6/9/2016] A shorter version of this commentary was posted on 6/4/2016. See below.]

Muhammad Ali 16Was Muhammad Ali “The Greatest”?

Ali told  British actress Joanna Lumley in 1989 that it was all a publicity stunt to promote his fights.…

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Ethiopia: Guess Who is Coming to WHO in 2017?

Tedros Adhanom Pin “Wonders never cease!”

Well, “not only do they never cease, but new and ever new wonders come crowding on their heels.”

The “latest wonder” is Tedros Adhanom, the foreign minister of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-PLF), …

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State Terrorism and “Computer Crimes” in Ethiopia

Smoke and mirrors: The T-TPLF replacing its “anti-terrorism law” with a “computer crimes law”?

Criminal MInds 2The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is getting hammered left and right and upside the head on its so-called antiterrorism law (“Anti-Terrorism

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May 28, 1991: A Day that Shall Live in Infamy in the History of Ethiopia

“Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity.”

May 28,  2016: Ethiopia Day of Outrage  

On May 28, 1991, the curse of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) descended upon Ethiopia.

The T-TPLF regime that is in power in Ethiopia today is a certified terrorist …

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Human Rights and the “Virtue-ization” of Hypocrisy by Barack Obama

Last week, Barack Obama was in Vietnam preaching the gospel of human rights. He told his tired old story  about human rights to the Vietnamese:

When there’s freedom of the press — when journalists and bloggers are able to shine

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Does Ethiopia Need a Constitution?

Ethiopia Map10The question is NOT if Ethiopia needs a new constitution.

The question is, “Does Ethiopia need a constitution?”,  since it currently does not have one.

The so-called “1995 Ethiopian Constitution” is a constitution of the T-TPLF, by the …

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The Intellectual Poverty and Moral Bankruptcy of Ethiopia Famine Deniers

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There is  “no famine in Ethiopia… Ethiopians aren’t starving to death… People aren’t dying… Animals are dying of thirst…” Alex de Waal

Last week, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times (International Edition), Alex de Waal from Addis …

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The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia

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Author’s Note: This is the third installment [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”.

The twin aims of the series “Apartheid in Ethiopia” are:

1) to demonstrate …

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The Ant That Killed the Grand Old ElephANT (Party) in America

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An old African proverb says, “An ant can kill an elephant.”

The ant is said to get into the elephant’s ears and trunk and gnaw and nibble until the pachyderm goes completely crazy and dies from exhaustion.

That …

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Ethiopia: Bekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt

In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial.

In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the …

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My Brother, Eskinder (“Invictus”) Nega: You Are Not Alone and We Love You!

We remember our brother Eskinder Nega

Eskinder Nega 1There is nothing more the T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front) would like to see than the memory of the great Eskinder Nega erased and obliterated from public memory and consciousness. The …

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U.S. Senators Speak Loud and Clear: Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia Must Stop!

Cardin 6Last July, Barack Obama visited Ethiopia and declared the ruling Thugtatoship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) regime a “democratic government.”

The T-TPLF claimed with a straight face that it had won the 2015 “election” by 100 percent or …

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USAID Hunger Games in Ethiopia

Hunger or famine games in Ethiopia?

Famine 7USAID says there is no famine in Ethiopia, only hunger (a/k/a “severe malnutrition”, “food insecurity”, “food scarcity”, “food insufficiency”, “food deprivation”, “severe food shortages”, “chronic dietary deficiency”, “endemic malnutrition”, etc.) caused by El Nino …

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USAID and Famine in Ethiopia: What Does Gayle E. Smith Have to Say?

Author’s Note: The following is a true and correct copy of my letter to USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith dated March 16, 2016, and the response I received from T.C. Cooper, Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Legislative and Public …

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Hillary’s Inquisition and the Art of Defending the True Democratic Creed

Hillary 1After Bernie Sanders’ crushing victory in the Wisconsin primary (56.6% v. 43.1) on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton landed a low blow challenging Sanders’ political stripes.

Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?  Are zebras donkeys (no pun …

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The Bantustanization (Kililistanization) of Ethiopia

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Author’s Note: This is the second installment in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Ethnic Apartheid in Ethiopia”.

The twin aims of the series are: 1) to demonstrate beyond a shadow …

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Quo Vadis Ethiopia: Where Are You (not) Going?

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(Excerpted English version of speech given at the “Conference on the Future of Ethiopia: Transition, Democracy, and National Unity” organized by Vision Ethiopia on March 27, 2016 at the Marriott Georgetown.)

I want to thank Vision Ethiopia and the

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Cuba! Hail, Barack Obama, Diplocrite-in-Chief !

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President Barack Obama is in Cuba!  On a mission. Liberate Cubans from “communist” mental slavery!

Hooray! Cuba libre! Free Cuba!

Back in 1898, another American president-to-be, Teddy “The Rough Rider” Roosevelt and crew caught a boat from Tampa, FL and …

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I Remember the March 21, 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa

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Every year, I remember two massacres in Africa.

In March, I remember the March 21, 1960 white apartheid regime Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.

In November, I remember the Meles Massacres of June 8, 2005 and November 1-10 and 14-16, …

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The T-TPLF Crocodile Weeps in Ethiopia!

Adding insult to injury

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Hailemariam Desalegn and his T-TPLF have massacred hundreds of people over the past few months. Now, they are on a charm offensive.

A couple of days ago, in Ethiopia’s monkey (kangaroo) parliament, a member is videotaped …

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Trumpenstein Goes to Circus Court: Trump’s Trump Card Against Hillary

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Robert Kagan, a well-known neocon, recently argued “Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster. Now he’s strong enough to destroy the party.”

Kagan reamed establishment Republicans: “Trump is no fluke. Nor is he hijacking the Republican Party or the conservative movement. …

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The T-TPLF’s War on Ethiopian Taxi Drivers

TPLF 30In America, they call it “Three-Strikes Law”. Criminals who commit three violent or serious crimes are given 25 years to life.

The T-TPLF has declared war on Ethiopian taxi drivers!

In Ethiopia, the T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation …

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Kickin’ it with Reeyot Invictus and…

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Author’s note: This is Part I in a forthcoming series relating my conversations with Reeyot Alemu and her amazing story in the defense of press freedom in Ethiopia. It is also about conversations with an extraordinary group of young …

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A Special “Message in a Bottle” to Ethiopian Cheetahs: Born Free, Live Free!

(Classified: For Ethiopian Cheetahs’ Eyes Only)

My first “Message” from 2013

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This is my second special message to Ethiopia’s “Cheetah Generation”, Ethiopia’s young people, in three years.

In January 2013, I wrote a new year’s message in which …

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Bern, Baby, Bern in “Hell (All Y’all) Women Who Don’t Support Hillary”?

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A fatwa against young women?

Hell hath no fury like a…

Who said that? William Congreve or William Shakespeare?

Two high priestess of the establishment democratic party last week issued their fatwas from the Clinton Canine Command Center (CCCC) against …

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On the Passing of Justice Antonin G. Scalia

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In January 2013, the late U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin G. Scalia  declared the U.S. Constitution “is not a living document. It’s dead, dead, dead.”

Justice Scalia made the remark at Southern Methodist University law school indicating his exasperation …

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Ah! Qatari Resort in Addis Ababa! Why Don’t Ethiopians Eat Cake?

Fifteen million Ethiopians are suffering Biblical famine right NOW!

The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is chasing after “resort developers” from the Middle East.

What about the fifteen million facing the Biblical Black Horseman?

The T-TPLF says, …

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War of the Long Knives and Cheap Shots on Bernie Sanders

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It is the season for the Clintons to tar and feather Bernie Sanders.

Could their campaign of fear and smear against Bernie Sanders succeed?

I was shocked to see last week Chelsea Clinton rolled out in the role of attack …

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Ethiopia Under the Boots of the T-TPLF Beast With Feet of Clay

Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my first commentary, I examined the decline and fall of “Karuturistan”, the hundreds of thousands of hectares …

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Why I am Supporting Bernie Sanders for President (and Why You Should Too)

Bernie Sanders pixI am now declaring my support for Bernie Sanders, the dark horse of the Democratic Party, to become the next President of the United States.

It is refreshing act of moral self-affirmation for me to support a man who lives …

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Addis Ababa Master Plan? No, the T-TPLF Masters’ Plan!

Author’s Note: What’s in a label? Well, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet…”?  That may be true, provided, of course, those roses are not roses raised on the …

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No Country Left for Ethiopians?

Author’s Note: My commentary this week follows last week’s comment on the collapse of Karuturi Agro Products, Plc., in Gambella, Ethiopia. In 2010, the T-TPLF handed over 100 thousand hectares of land the infamously  “iconic land grabber”  Sai …

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The Wrath of Karuturi and the “Power of India” in Ethiopia

Authors note: I have written this commentary not because I care about the legal dispute between Karuturi and the T-TPLF over a land deal in Gambella. I could not care less how thugs and those who do business with thugs

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Fly, Ethiopia, Fly…

“What if they were really set free?”

That was the question  The Economist asked in the headline of its article last week about Ethiopians.

Its response was equally breathtaking:

If the government let people breathe, they might fly.

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Can You Spare a Dime for T-TPLF Ambassadors?

Alms 2 pixA few days ago, I read a heart-rending  article  about the serious cash flow problems the diplomatic missions of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) are facing worldwide.

According to the malaria-researcher-turned-“Ethiopian”-foreign-minister-overnight, Tedros Adhanom, “Ethiopian diplomatic missions …

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The Dam-Nation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF

The damnation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF

GERDLast week, before the ink had dried on the “new agreement” on the so-called Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian President General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told Egyptians during the inauguration of a national farmland project, …

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The “End of the Story” for the T-TPLF in Ethiopia?

end of story pixThe obituary and epitaph for the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Liberation Front (T-TPLF) was written last year by Bereket Simon, the former “communication minister” and longtime sidekick of the late criminal mastermind of the T-TPLF, Meles Zenawi and Addisu Legesse, …

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Ethiopia Make Peaceful Change Impossible? Make Violent Revolution Inevitable!

In December 2015, there is only one question that is uppermost in the mind of every Ethiopian:

Will the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s  Liberation Front (T-TPLF) kill, massacre, slaughter, murder and unleash a campaign of bloodbath and bloodshed to …

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The Soft Bigotry and Hard Hubris of Justice Antonin Scalia

Scalia IIU.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin showed his true colors during oral argument on December 9, 2015 in Fisher v. University of Texas. (Click HERE to read the full transcript.)

Scalia resorted to inflammatory blather to make his absurd point …

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The Week Love Conquered Hate in San Bernardino, CA

Hate Kills, Love Heals!

December 2, 2015, is a date which shall live in infamy in the history of the City and County of San Bernardino, CA.

The scourge of terrorism descended on our city and county like a thunderclap …

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Rise of the Trump-aryans!

HeilIs America becoming “Trump-aryana”?

When Trump becomes President of Trump-aryana, do “we greet” him by extending the right arm in the air with a straightened hand and shouting out, “Heil to the Chief! We salute him, one and all.”

Or …

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Ethiopian Spring in a Winter of Discontent?

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No one predicted the Arab Spring when it exploded on December 18, 2010sparking the Tunisian Revolution.

No one could have predicted a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi would set himself on fire to protest harassment, abuse and humiliation by

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Ethiopia and the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies

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John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: “For no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.”

Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his “devilish art”  of  “forging illusions”.

I am seething in temporal temper over the World Bank’s “devilish …

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America: Saving the Last Great Hope of Humanity From Insanity

Hope2Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

I would add, “There must never be a …

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Remembering the Meles Massacres of 2005 in Ethiopia Ten Years After

Ethiopian Martyrs of June and November, 2005

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.

When

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Barbarians in the Headquarters of Voice of America ?

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The ancient Romans secured their cities with gates and walls against marauding barbarians.

The Romans aimed to keep the “barbarians at the gate” out and fend off any attack.

The modern day barbarians of press freedom secretly breached the “gates”

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Reflections on Prof. Mesfin’s “Adafne”: Saving Ethiopians From Themselves?

Mesfin 3Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam’s latest Amharic  book, “Adafne: Fear and Failure”, is at once a lamentation on the decline and  decay of Ethiopian society from the corrosive effects of bad governance, tyrannical rule and moral corruption and a call to action …

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Another Letter to My Ethiopian Sisters

Mesrak Gessesse

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I am now writing this as I just finished my annual mammogram and ultra sound testing for breast cancer.

Exactly five years ago to the day on October 25, 2010, I wrote an article discussing my experiences after …

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Can the T-TPLF Stop the Famine in Ethiopia?

Famine 2It is a big international secret that Ethiopia today is in the middle of a Biblical famine.

For the second time since 1984-85!

Last week, the Global Post headlined an article posing the question:

Ethiopia is facing its worst drought

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A Government-in-Exile for Ethiopia?

Government in exile chartForeword to a “government-in-exile for Ethiopia”

A few weeks ago, I gave an interview to an Ethiopian civic group on the topic of “government in exile” under international law.

I was asked to comment on whether the idea and practice …

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Did Reagan Get it Right on Immigration and Refugee Policy?

ReaganLately, I have been talking about “Republunatics” and “Republooney Toons”.

Some may feel I have been ragging too much on the Republicans and the Republican Party.

Not to worry. I have much so more in store …

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Republooney Toons in the House?

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The last time I wrote about Republicans, I warned aboutRepublunatics at the Gate. The White House Gate, that is.

Now, I am issuing an APB for Republooney Toons in the house. The House of Representatives, that is.

What …

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Why Can’t Ethiopia Become Like Ghana?

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I will confess publicly.

I envy the Ghanaians.

When Barack Obama made his first trip Africa, he did not choose to go Nigeria, the country with the largest population and largest economy.

He did not choose Nelson Mandela’s South Africa …

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Kim Davis: A Lesson in the Rule of Law

Kim Davis20In April 2010, Army doctor  Lt. Col. Terry Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he believed President Barack Obama is not born in the United States and therefore constitutionally unfit to become U.S. President and  commander-in-chief.

Lakin was court …

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Famine Rides a Light Train in Ethiopia

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Ethiopia’s annual harvest of famine

The Black Horseman of the Apocalypse is showing his fearsome face once again in Ethiopia.

This time he is riding a light train.

In February 2014, I wrote a commentary entitled “A Glimpse of

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Ethiopia: Senator Marco Rubio is With Us!

A SECOND CALL TO ACTION

A SECOND CALL TO ACTION

Special note and request: I am asking my readers in the United States, particularly Ethiopian Americans in the great State of Florida to join me in advocating against confirmation of

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My Private Letter to Senator Ted Cruz

 

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A CALL TO ACTION

Special note and request: I am asking my readers in the United States, particularly Ethiopian Americans in the great State of Texas and in the Washington metropolitan area, to join me in advocating against confirmation …

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Ethiopia: But For “Sheer Lack of Better Alternatives?!”

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In May 2015, I wrote a commentary entitled, “Why Is the T-TPLF Afraid of Its Own Shadow?

In that commentary,  I expressed puzzlement over the fact that  supporters  of  the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) …

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Trump Meets Shakespeare

Trump 2Could a Little Big Man thunder to “Make America Great Again”?

William Shakespeare in “Measure for Measure” spoke of the allure and corruption of power in the innocent and virtuous character of Isabella:

“Could great men thunder
As Jove himself …

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Let Teddy Play On and On and On…

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Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” opens with the Duke of Orsino declaring to the assembled musicians, “If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it…

The Thugtatorship of  the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has pulled out …

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Ethiopia: Is the T-TPLF Ship of Hate Sinking… S.O.S.?

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Is the T-TPLF Ship of Hate (I mean state) sinking in an ocean of fear and loathing?

The T-TPLF is the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front, the ruling criminal enterprise masquerading as a government in Ethiopia.

This past …

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“America Needs to be Respected Again” on the Red Carpet?

Obama ReceptionDonald Trump’s shtick is: “America needs to be respected again because the rest of the world has lost respect for America.”

I don’t care much for The Donald.

But his shtick gnaws away at my mind as I think over …

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Ethiopian Bloggers in Kangaroo (Monkey) Kourt

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Kangaroo/monkey kourt (in)justice T-TPLF style

Last week, young Ethiopian bloggers collectively known as “Zone 9 Bloggers” (named after a cell block  holding political prisoners at  the infamous  Meles Zenawi Kality Prison, a few kilometers outside of the capital) …

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Ethiopia: Our Need for Unity in Divinity Facing Adversity!

The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has been pursuing a systematic program of religious persecution and fomenting religious antagonisms in Ethiopia for quite some time.

After the T-TPLF seized power in 1991, it sought to ingratiate itself …

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Republunatics at the Debate (Gate)?

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“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees,” said Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President of the United States.

At the first Republican presidential hopefuls debate on August 6, 2015, …

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Gettin’ Down With Ethiopia’s Thugtators!

Get down, like James Brown!

Dances with the stars?

Dances with wolves?

How about dances with thugs!

The Godfather of Soul, or as his fans call him J.B. (R.I.P. J.B.) had a song called, “The Boss”. It’s a cut on …

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Barack Obama! Tell the Truth About Ethiopia!

ObamaWarning!  

Stop!

Do not read further if you can’t handle the truth about Barack Obama. “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.”

“I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.”

Bite your tongue, Barack

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Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion

It is said that “smile and the world smiles at you.”

Does it follow that if you laugh at the world’s most ridiculous election, the world will join you laughing?

Last week, Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, …

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Financing for (Under)development in Africa?

Alemayehu G Mariam

Fin Devt

How the West underdeveloped Africa and is now trying to “finance develop” it

The “Third International Conference on Financing for Development” was held in Addis Ababa last week. It was billed as a “gathering of  high-level political …

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My Private Letter to President Obama

Obama Africa

July 16, 2015

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Greetings! Mr. President.

I was ecstatic when I heard you will be travelling to Ethiopia in late July “for bilateral meetings …

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Thus Spoke Ethiopia’s Reeyot!

Reeyot pix 3Reeyot Invictus!

Thus spoke Reeyot Alemu to the Voice of America- Amharic Service on July 9, 2015, a few hours after she was literally thrown out of the infamous Meles Zenawi Prison in Kality, (Ethiopia’s “Robben Island”) on the outskirts …

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A Teachable Moment for Ethio-Americans on July 4, 2015

BOR1My topic for my Monday Commentary this week was not about a teachable moment for Ethiopian-Americans.  I dropped my intended topic and wrote this piece because I was madder than a nest of hornets.

A couple of weeks ago, I …

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Ethiopia: The TPLF Banana Republic

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Author’s note: As I was archiving my commentaries from years past for public access on my website (almariam.com), I discovered commentaries and articles I had written on the print edition of Ethiopian Review Magazine (ERM) before that magazine went

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The “Jiggery Pokery” Jurisprudence of Justice Scalia

http://almariam.com/2015/06/28/the-jiggery-pokery-jurisprudence-of-justice-scalia/

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice  Antonin Scalia

The angry wasp in the colony of worker bees

Hell hath no fury than a dissenting Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court!

When Scalia wins and writes for the majority, he floats like a butterfly. Did anyone say, …

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The Axis of Shevil: Does Africa Need Gayle Smith?

Gayle Smith HearingWhat do Gayle Smith, Wendy Sherman and Susan Rice have in common?

This past Thursday, Gayle Smith who is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council directed by  Susan Rice, had her confirmation …

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Happy 800th Birthday, Magna Carta!

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Today, June 15, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Libertatum or the Great Charter of English Liberties. On that date, King John of England affixed his seal on the Magna Carta and formally accepted the principle of …

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Remembering Dennis Hastert

Dennis HastertToday, Dennis Hastert, the former Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2007) and lobbyist appears in U.S. federal court for arraignment (enter a plea of guilty or not guilty) on charges that he broke federal law by withdrawing

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