Al Mariam’s Commentaries Archive
09 Dec 2019
Congratulating Abiy “Champion of Peace” Ahmed!
In his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel provided for an award to be given to “champions of peace to be selected by a committee of five persons in the Norwegian Storting”. I wish to congratulate the “2019 Nobel Champion of Peace”, H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia. He
07 Dec 2019
Three-Ring Media Circus in Oslo?: Why I Support PM Abiy’s Decision Not to Give Media Interviews at the Nobel Ceremonies
“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth.” H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed is scheduled to formally accept his Nobel Peace Prize and deliver his Nobel lecture at Oslo City Hall on December 10. The media hounds are carping over the fact that PM
01 Dec 2019
You Snooze, You Lose! Wake Up Slumbering Diaspora Ethiopian Giant!
Author’s Note: I have written this commentary as a wake-up call to diaspora Ethiopians, particularly those in the United States. Fundamental and structural changes are taking place in Ethiopia. Ethnic apartheid is taking its last gasps of air. The masters of ethnic apartheid are living out their last days in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
25 Nov 2019
Ethiopia: An African Political Miracle in the Making?
There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.” -Mahatma Gandhi Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.” -Mahatma Gandhi Ethiopia rising from the ashes of ethnic apartheid For
22 Nov 2019
Ethiopia: I Remember the Slaughter of November 2005 in 2019!
Special Author’s Note: For years, I have memorialized the month of November by remembering the hundreds of innocent Ethiopians who lost their lives or were maimed and disfigured in the Meles Massacres of 2005. Indeed, I joined the Ethiopian human rights movement in 2005 ONLY because of the Meles Massacres. [1] Prior to that time,
17 Nov 2019
“OK, Hippos!”, Growled Ethiopia’s (Abo Shemanes) Cheetahs
… Ethiopia’s Cheetah Generation is the only generation that could rescue Ethiopia from the steel claws of T-TPLF tyranny and dictatorship. It is the only generation that can deliver Ethiopia from the venomous fangs of a benighted dictatorship and sweep away a decaying and decomposing garrison state built on a foundation of lies and corruption
10 Nov 2019
DIGITAL PSYCHO-TERRORISTS’ INFOWARS ON ETHIOPIA: Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me!
Author’s Note: The information war (InfoWars) on Ethiopia today is in full swing. Lies, fake news and disinformation intended to bamboozle, hoodwink and confuse Ethiopians are spreading on social and legacy media like the bubonic plague. The vectors of this social pandemic are social media rodents, online mind-sucking ticks and cyber tsetse flies that spread
28 Oct 2019
“Medemer” by Abiy Ahmed, Ph.D., An Interpretive Book Review, (Part II)- Working Through Political Entropy in Ethiopia With Medemer
“Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and Nobel Peace Laureate 2019, 280 pp. (October 2019) Reviewer’s Note: Part I of my book review on the “philosophy” of Medemer appeared in my October 20, 2019 commentary My review of “Medemer” is intended for the benefit and convenience of English-speaking audiences who have
20 Oct 2019
“Medemer” by Abiy Ahmed, Ph.D., An Interpretive Book Review in Two Parts (Part I)
“Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, 2019 Nobel Peace Laureate, 280 pp. (October 2019) Part I — The “philosophy” of “Medemer” Reviewer’s Note: This review is intended for the benefit and convenience of English-speaking audiences who have a sincere desire to understand and rigorously critique “Medemer” philosophy for what it
13 Oct 2019
Peace in Ethiopia, Eritrea and All Africa: Congratulations PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afewerki!
The guns silenced, the suffering people of Ethiopia and Eritrea may now speak, shout out, that the two countries hereafter “shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” Witnessing swords beaten into plowshares is a source of