Selecting Person of the Year on December 31st of every year has been a long tradition of Ethiopian Review. The person or persons of the year are selected based on their positive contributions to the Ethiopian society over the past …
The 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, …
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 …
U.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 …
Regarding the present situation of unrest in Oromo towns and villages, many activists and observers repeatedly ask the question of knowing why other regions of Ethiopia where the discontent is no less general, especially the Amhara region, are not joining …
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 …
Is 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 …
The Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo), the Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) and the Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) collectively and in unison expressed their outrage at the treacherous decision by the ethnically-based and illegitimate regime of Ethiopia …
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
…Please listen to Prof. Al Mariam’s message on the role of the Ethiopian Youth in changing the future of their country.
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The Government of Ethiopia in Exile Organizing Committee (GEEOC) had earlier announced that the renowned Professor of constitutional law at California State University, Dr Alemayehu Gebremariam, will be addressing questions and issues on the process of forming an Ethiopian government …
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 …
The Government of Ethiopia in Exile Organizing Committee (GEEOC) had earlier announced that the renowned Professor of constitutional law at California State University, Dr Alemayehu Gebremariam, will be addressing questions and issues on the process of forming an Ethiopian government …
Elie 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 …
…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
The news that Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, in addition to wining a majority in Burma’s recent parliamentary elections, has enough seats to elect its own candidate to the presidency, is both a remarkable triumph of democracy and a …
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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Prof. 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 …
Mesrak Gessesse
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 …
It 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
Foreword 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 …
The renowned Professor of constitutional law at California State University, Dr Alemayehu Gebremariam, will hold a Question & Answer session on the process of forming Ethiopian government in exile. Refer to the below link for details.
Lately, 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 …
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 …
A special 4-hour press conference was held on Saturday September 12, 2015 to answer some of the fundamental questions about the need for creating a government of Ethiopia in exile. Addis Dimts was one of the many media reporters that …
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 …
In 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 …
A special 4-hour press conference was held on Saturday September 12, 2015 to answer some of the fundamental questions about the need for creating a government of Ethiopia in exile.
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86izQlOD6s
Thank you for listening!
የኢትዮጵያ የስደት መንግስት ማቋቋም …
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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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 …
The Government of Ethiopia in Exile Organizing Committee (GEEOC) held its first press conference on Saturday, September 12, 2015 to discuss the ongoing processes and activities in regards to the formation of Ethiopian government in exile.
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) …
Could 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 …
ENTC/EYNM/SHENGO issued a joint press release in support of the struggle in Ethiopia. In their statement, political opposition groups, the civic society, and all patriotic Ethiopians need to come together and act fast to supplement this struggle and do everything …
Government of Ethiopia in Exile Organizing Committee (GEEOC) issued a press release announcing that it will soon be holding a press conference. This press conference will be open to the public as well. Click here to participate.…
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 …
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 …
Donald 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 …
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) …
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 …
“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, …
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 …
Warning!
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 …
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, …
Alemayehu G Mariam
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 …
Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo), Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) jointly hosted a consultative conference on the process of the formation of a unified …
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 …
Washington, DC, July 14, 2015
The Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) strongly condemns the recent verdict of the Ethiopian Federal High Court Fourth Criminal Bench concerning eighteen Ethiopians of Muslim faith who were found guilty on counts of …
Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo), Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) jointly hosted a consultative conference on the process of the formation of a unified …
Ethiopian National Transitional Council(ENTC) and Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) jointly issued a certificate of recognition to the Ethiopian heroine journalist Reeyot Alemu.
Reyot, not only has been unbreakable to the brutality of the regime but she still vows to …
Reeyot 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 …
My 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 …
Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo), Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) are jointly hosting a consultative conference on the need for the formation of an …
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 …
http://almariam.com/2015/06/28/the-jiggery-pokery-jurisprudence-of-justice-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, …
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Roosevelt
An ounce of action is worth more than tons of preaching
The consensus is that dictatorial regimes stay in power mostly by fear rather than by their …
Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (Shengo), Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) have jointly issued an announcement regarding the consultative conference that is scheduled for July …
What 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 …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2015. Washington, DC
We in the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE) are deeply grieved at the murder of Samuel Aweke Alem, a charismatic and highly popular lawyer who recently ran as a Blue …
Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) has sent an urgent open letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking him to look into the murder of Ethiopian opposition Semayawi Party candidate Samuel Awoke in Debre Markos, Ethiopia, on June 15, …
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 …
Today, 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 …
What do you get when you cross a thugocracy with democracy?
A thugmocracy.
When thugs are “elected” to political office, they become thugmocrats. Naturally, “elected” thugmocrats run thugmocracies.
If democracy is a government of the …
According to the National Election Board of Ethiopia, the result of last week’s national election is that the EPRDF has achieved a complete victory by grabbing all the parliamentary seats. The same board and the Woyanne government qualified the result …
On May 24 last week, the ruling party in Ethiopia held a sham election, claiming 100% win. The election confirmed what most Ethiopians and foreign observers have been saying all along — there is not even a semblance of democracy …
Echoes of deceit
On May 24, 2015, Ethiopia had an “election”.
On May 27, 2015, the Associated Press reported that “early results” of ballot counts showed the ruling Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF) had won 100 percent …
Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), Ethiopian People’s Congress for United Struggle (SHENGO), Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) have jointly issued a press release that they will be holding a joint consultative …
Readers may remember that I was recently involved in a dispute with Tecola Hagos over his article unjustly criticizing the conference on the Horn of Africa, organized by ESAT (see http://www.ethiomedia.com/100leads/4867). In addition to criticizing his assessment of the conference, …
Congratulations are in order to the T-TPLF for winning a hard fought thuglection!
“Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.”
But not in T-TPLF’s Ethiopia!
Poor Ethiopia is condemned to wear the Thugtatorship …
By William Davison | Bloomberg
A month before Ethiopia’s elections, opposition activist Getahun Abraham walked into a compound of government offices in the southern town of Gimbichu, doused his body in gasoline and set himself alight.
By Morgan Winsor | International Business Times
May 20, 2015
Gayle Smith, President Barack Obama’s nominee to run the U.S. Agency for International Development, boasts …
By Awol Allo | Aljazeera
May 20, 2015
It was only two months ago during the Israeli election that the White House was scrambling to convince
By Howard French | Foreign Policy
When President Obama recently nominated Gayle Smith to be the next administrator of the United States Agency for International …
Why are the T-TPLF gods of FEAR, TERROR AND DREAD afraid of their own shadows in 2015?
On May 24, 2015, a “parliamentary election” is scheduled in Ethiopia. “Election” as in rigged.
Five years ago on May 23, 2010, the …
አሰቃቂው የስደት ጉዞና የኢትዮጵያውያን ስደተኞች መከራ
Written by መታሰቢያ ካሳዬ | Addisadmassnews.com
May 16, 2015
“ኢትዮጵያውያን በአደገኛ ሁኔታ የሚደረገውን የስደት ጉዞ ይደፍራሉ” (ሂዩማን ራይትስ ዎች)
በየመን የባህር ዳርቻዎች በውሃ ተገፍተው የሚወጡ አስከሬኖችን የሚቀብር ድርጅት ተቋቁሟል፡፡ ከሟቾቹ ውስጥ ከፍተኛውን ቁጥር የሚይዙት …
«መበለቶችም ቅሚያቸው እንዲሆኑ፥ ድሀ አደጎችንም ብዝበዛቸው እንዲያደርጉ፥ የድሀውን ፍርድ ያጣምሙ ዘንድ፥ የችግረኛውንም ሕዝቤን ፍርድ ያጐድሉ ዘንድ የግፍን ትእዛዛት ለሚያዝዙ፥ ክፉንምጽሕፈት ለሚጽፉ ወዮላቸው!»
— ትንቢተ ኢሳያስ 10‹ 1-2
ሰዋስው ስለሺ ዮሐነሰን
ግንቦት 12, 2015
በተለይ እግዚአብሔርን እናውቃለን ብለን፣ ለወገን፣ ለአገር፣ ለሰው
Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) and United Ethiopian Muslims Peaceful Movement Support Group (UEM-PMSG) have jointly issued a press release underscoring the timeliness of forming an all inclusive unified force that should lead the struggle for independence from the tyrannical …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 12, 2015
Washington, DC. The Ethiopian National Election is on May 24, 2015, less than two weeks away, but the authoritarian regime, under the control of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) for the …
ሜይ 2 ቀን 2015 ዓመተ-ምህረት ታላቅ ህዝባዊ ስብሰባ አካሄደ፣
May 12, 2015
በእዕቱ እውቁ የኢትዮጵያውያን ሰብዓዊ መብት አቀንቃኝና ለአዲሲቱ ኢትዮጵያ የጋራ ንቅናቄ(አኢጋን) መስራችና መሪ አቶ ኦባንግ ሜቶ እና እውቁ የምሥራቅ አፍሪካ ፖለቲካ ተንታኝና አሰባሳቢ ማንነት በአንድነት መጽሀፍ ደራሲ አቶ የሱፍ …
May 11, 2015
By Gheremew Araghaw | Time for Change http://tinyurl.com/n4wq2ad
አያልቅበት ስንታየሁ ሱዳን ውስጥ ለ3 ዓመት ያህል የኖረ የብርሀኑ ጌታነህ ወዳጅ ነው። የሚናፍቃቸውን እና ያላባት ብቻቸውን ያሳደጉትን፤ ለስደቱ ምክንያት የሆኑትን እናቱን ለማየት የዛሬ ዓመት ገደማ ወደ ሀገሩ ተመለሰ።
ሱዳን …
A friend in need is a friend in deed, indeed!
Last week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stunned the world by rescuing more than two dozen abducted Ethiopians marked for beheadings in Libya by the ruthless self-styled terrorist group known …
By Elsabeth Iqubay and Alemayehu Anbesse | Addis Admas News
May 10, 2015
ህልማቸው በሜዲትራንያን ባህር የተዋጠው 7ቱ ኢትዮጵያውያን ወጣቶች
በቅርቡ በሜዲትራኒያን ባህር ከዘጠኝ መቶ በላይ ሰዎችን አሳፍራ ስትጓዝ ሰጥማ 28 ተጓዦች ብቻ በህይወት በተረፉባት ጀልባ ላይ ተሳፍረው ከነበሩት …
In her Letter to the Washington Post, U.S. Undersecretary Wendy R. Sherman chastised the editorial board for “mischaracterizing her remarks” in its May 1 editorial. At issue is what Ms. Sherman said and meant by her words during her press …
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By Judah Ari Gross | Times of Isreal
May 5, 2015
College Peer …
A joint press release has been issued in relations to the recent statements of the Asst. Secretary and by extension the State Dept.
The folly of willful ignorance
I did not vote for Ronald Reagan to become U.S. president. But I appreciated some of his witticisms before he became president. In 1964, two years after he dumped the Democrats and joined the Republicans, …
On Wednesday, April 22nd, Theodore (Teddy) Fikre filed a formal lawsuit in the Greenville Civil Courthouse against the Barack Hussein Obama, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Wells Fargo for an incident that took place on February 26th whereby Mr. Fikre …
April 29, 2015
Nestled in the turbulent Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent modern nation-state and second most populous. Discourse on Ethiopia has traditionally revolved around poverty, conflict, disease, and famine, yet …
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