Monthly Archives: June 2016

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?

Horn Hope 12

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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About the Report of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea – Messay Kebede

I post this short memo to explain why I did not sign the petition protesting against the report of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in which it is stated, among other things, that “crimes against humanity have …

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Ethiopia-Eritrea Wargames of Mass Distraction?

Wargames

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!

TTPLF Fraud1

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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ENTC Press release – TPLF bond sale in US was illegal

ENTC issued a press release on the recent SEC finding of the Nile bond sales that the TPLF/EPRDF regime was conducting for the last few years. In April 2013, when the regime started organizing bond selling events across the US, …

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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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