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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 the disgraceful “red carpet” treatment President Barack Obama received last month when he visited Ethiopia,

  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) returned to  the kangaroo/monkey  kourt system of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF)

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 with the Ethiopian Muslim community by making symbolic gestures of equality and tolerance. The patronizing

“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, we witnessed angry wasps at war. (I did not say WASPs.) “What a piece of

ከፕሮፌሰር አለማየሁ ገብረማርያም   ትርጉም በነጻነት ለሀገሬ  ማስጠንቀቂያ! አቁም! ስለ ባራክ ኦባማ እውነት ማወቅ ካልፈለግህ ይህን ጦማር ማንበብ አቁም። “እውነትን ለሚጠሉ ሁሉ እውነት ጥላቻ ይመስላቸዋል፡፡”  “ም ላሴን  ብቆነጥት አምሮየን ያመዋል!” ባራክ ኦባማ መላስህን ቆንጥጥ ! ባለፈው ሳምንት ፕሬዚዳንት ባራክ ኦባማ ኢትዮጵያን በጎበኘበትጊዜ የሚከተለውን መግለጫ በመስጠት በርካታ ህዝቦችን አስደንግጧል፡ “ወደእነዚህ ጉዳዮች በሚመጣበት ጊዜ እጅግም  ምላሴን አልቆነትጥም ፡፡ በዴሞክራሲያዊ ምርጫ የተመረጠውን የኢትዮጵያን