03 Jan 2016
The Dam-Nation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF
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, “I totally understand the concern of Egyptians as water is a matter of life or death. We
27 Dec 2015
The “End of the Story” for the T-TPLF in Ethiopia?
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, “deputy prime minister” to Meles and “deputy chairman” of the T-TPLF front organization called the
20 Dec 2015
Ethiopia: Make Peaceful Change Impossible? Make Violent Revolution Inevitable!
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 cling to power in Ethiopia? Most regretfully, the answer is in the affirmative. For the past
16 Dec 2015
The Soft Bigotry and Hard Hubris of Justice Antonin Scalia
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia 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 that African American students should attend “a less advanced school” because they are simply
13 Dec 2015
The Week Love Conquered Hate in San Bernardino, CA
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 on a dark night. It was the worst international terrorist attack on U.S. soil since
09 Dec 2015
Rise of the Trump-aryans!
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 do we just sing out loud, “Hail to the Chief”? The Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, publisher
06 Dec 2015
Ethiopian Spring in a Winter of Discontent?
No one predicted the Arab Spring when it exploded on December 18, 2010 sparking 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 local municipal and police authorities and trigger a revolution to transform the Middle East and
29 Nov 2015
Ethiopia and the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies
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 art” of economic numerology, Mephistophelian cunning in making deals with corrupt African thugtators and the
22 Nov 2015
America: Saving the Last Great Hope of Humanity From Insanity
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 time when we fail to protest the madness of politician wannabes and the lunacy of
13 Nov 2015
Remembering the Meles Massacres of 2005 in Ethiopia Ten Years After
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 we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby