My Interview (Amharic) on Hiber Radio on Trump’s Immigration Executive Order

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for…

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…

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 resolve or do not resolve their disputes.   But I am deeply concerned about the economic…

I just returned from Ethiopia after a 48-year absence. Ethiopia has changed in ways I could not possibly imagine. It also has not changed at all. The old saying is true. The more things change, the more they remain the same. I will share my experiences in my forthcoming commentaries. But there is one thing…

More than two months after Herman Cohen made his unprovoked, depravedly hateful and arrogantly insulting comments about the Amhara people, he has issued a Twitter apology “about the pain and discomfort I caused within the Amhara community”. On June 26, 2019, I wrote  a commentary entitled “Herman (Harm Man) Cohen’s Second “Coup” in Ethiopia? We Demand…

Prof. Alemayheu G. Mariam VOA Interview on Ethiopian Political Prisoner Bekele Gerba.   Click on the link below to listen: http://almariam.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Prof-al-voa-bekele-gerba.mp3