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 …
Open Letter to PM Hailemariam Dessalegn, by Tedla WoldeYohannes Ph.d
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 …
The DC task force has organized a huge demonstration on September 19 in Washington DC. Many Ethiopians are expected to arrive in DC from all over the United States and Canada. The task force has been working for the past …
A 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. …
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. …
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 …
Confronted with fiercely determined resistance from all corners of Ethiopia, the Woyane regime has desperately resorted to its notorious and contemptible tactics of divide-and-concur, genocide, and sinister power-sharing scam to abort a budding insurrection. Ethiopians in the Diaspora, …
Does the LF in TPLF stand for Lie Factory?
The 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 …
Let me begin by sharing my surprise at the dazzling nature of Amhara open resistance and determination in the fight against the government and the repressive forces of the TPLF. Of course, the wide but subdued discontent of the Amhara …
From the Petition Coordinating Committee
The Committee calls on academics, scholars, scientists, and professionals of Ethiopian origin to sign the petition posted on Petitionbuzz.com to express their solidarity with peaceful demonstrators and protestors in Ethiopia. The purpose of the petition …
Americans 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 …
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 …
I have been asked “the question” so many times regarding Trump or Hillary. By way of background, I have followed every national convention—Republican and Democrat—from the time I was age 9, and
…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 …
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 …
…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
By Kersye Merfo
First of all, spelling out why the current protest has been necessitated is a confirmation of the ever-enduring sense of Ethiopian identity. Secondly, let us agree that three words summarise the issues: Ethiopian nationalist resurgence. Adding my …
What has Donald Trump sacrificed?!
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 …
Below is my response to Gen. Tsadkan’s reply to my review of his article. The reply is posted at: http://www.ethiomedia.com/1012pieces/5863.html
Dear Lt. General Tsadkan Gebre Tensay:
I thank you for sending me your reactions to my review of your article …
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
Beware what you wish for, you may get it…
Meles Zenawi, the late thugmaster of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) used to taunt the …
I 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: …
I read with great attention and interest a recently posted article [see http://www.ethiomedia.com/1012pieces/ethiopia_political_challenges_and_proposed_solutions.pdf] in which Lt. General Tsadkan Gebre Tensay analyzes with a sharp critical eye the ruling government and party of present-day Ethiopia and gives us a blueprint …
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 …
A 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
…
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 …
The 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 …
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel
Lately, I have been talking to some young Ethiopian Diaspora activists in the U.S. about their views on the …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Donald 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 …
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 …
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, …
[Post updated 6/9/2016] A shorter version of this commentary was posted on 6/4/2016. See below.]
Was Muhammad Ali “The Greatest”?
Ali told British actress Joanna Lumley in 1989 that it was all a publicity stunt to promote his fights.…
“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), …
Smoke and mirrors: The T-TPLF replacing its “anti-terrorism law” with a “computer crimes law”?
The 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 …
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 …
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
The 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 …
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 …
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) today released a searchable database that strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada to Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands.
Among the secret accounts …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We remember our brother Eskinder Nega
There 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 …
Last 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 …
Hunger or famine games in Ethiopia?
USAID 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 …
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 …
ይህ ጽሁፍ በቅርቡ ቪዥን ኢትዮጵያ ከኢሳት ቴሌቪዥን ጋር በመተባበር ባዘጋጀው ጉባኤ ላይ ያቀረብኩት ነው።
የኢትዮጵያ ተቃዋሚ ፓርቲዎች አሁን በስልጣን ላይ ያለውን መንግስት በሰላም ወይም በሃይል ከስልጣን ለማውረድ ቢችሉም እንኳን፤ ባለፉት 24 አመታት የተዘረጋውን ዘውጋዊ ክፍፍል ለማብረድና ብሄራዊ አንድነትን መልሶ ለመገንባት …
After 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 …
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 …
(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.)
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I want to thank Vision Ethiopia and the
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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 …
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, …
Adding insult to injury
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 …
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. …
In 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 …
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 …
Ethiopians in the Washington DC Metro Area are shocked to learned about the passing of Dr. Maigenet Shifferraw this week.
Dr Maigenet and her husband Prof. Getachew Metaferia are prominent members of the Ethiopian community and strong advocates of human …
On February 23, 2016 in a televised interview Prime Minister Haile Mariam Dessalegn announced that the three month long public uprising is accompanied by an armed insurrection. Ironically what the Prime Minister described is the same route that put his …
Logically, one would hope that the Oromo uprising and the undeniable general discontent and frustration in the country call for a serious movement toward a reformist dissent within the TPLF and perhaps the army. In whichever way the present situation …
(Classified: For Ethiopian Cheetahs’ Eyes Only)
My first “Message” from 2013
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Seid Hassan | Murray State University
In addition to the senseless killings of protesters by the ruling party against the Oromos, the latest video clips and news reports also indicate that the same protests in Oromia region have led …
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, …
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 …
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 …
I 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 …
In the last article I posted, titled “Unity Overrides Everything,” I urged the Amhara to join the ongoing Oromo protests even if their reluctance is understandable in the face of the protests being confined to ethnic issues. Some of my …
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 …
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 …
Those who closely follow current events in Ethiopia, especially those who honestly wonder, like me, why other ethnic groups, especially the Amhara who are the number one target and victim of the TPLF since it seized power in 1992, are …
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 …
“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.”…
A 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 …
That in less than six months after announcing a 100 percent electoral victory in national elections the TPLF faces a formidable uprising in Oromo regions and in a lesser scale in some parts of Ethiopia constitutes the mother of all …
The damnation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF
Last 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, …
