Al Mariam’s Commentaries Archive

Ethiopia has far too many implacable enemies, some snake in the grass frenemies and very few friends. Ethiopia just lost her most courageous, steadfast and unapologetic friend, defender and champion in the US Government. Jim Mountain Inhofe, the late senior senator from Oklahoma, was Ethiopia’s best friend in the US Senate until he retired in

The Bli-Den administration (Bli-Den-State) State Department has quietly launched a new kind of diplomatic offensive in Ethiopia. I call it “gangster diplomacy.” Using the US Embassy in Ethiopia, the Bli-Den-Min (administration) State Department is organizing Western embassies as a street gang to wage a relentless psyop op war (PSYWAR/psychological operations warfare), Cyops (cyber warfare operations)

If South Sudan had planned and constructed a pipeline and refinery in Ethiopia, she would have been economically immune from the vagaries of Sudanese conflict and politics. She would not have found herself over the barrel. South Sudan should never have allowed itself to be held on the wrong side of the barrel of the

There is an old saying, “He  who pays the piper calls the tune.” That phrase originated from the German fable of the Pied Piper of Hamelin who was hired to rid the village of Hamelin of rats (not Democ Rats variety), but did not get paid for his work. So, he stole all of the

Author’s Note: Today, February 11, 2024, is a date that shall live in eternal glory in Ethiopian history and immortal memory in the consciousness of all Africans. If Ethiopia’s victory at the Battle of Adwa in 1896 teaches Ethiopia’s enemies and frenemies anything, it is this: Ethiopians will never, never be dictated to by any