My Full Interview on Voice of America Amharic Program on 03 08 2017
My interview on Voice of America Amharic Program on March 8, 2017. (Part I and II.)
My interview on Voice of America Amharic Program on March 8, 2017. (Part I and II.)
Guest Commentary: Helen Epstein I teach and write about public health in Africa. For years, something about Uganda stumped me. Since 2000, health services have improved in most African countries, but Uganda’s progress lags. Yet Uganda has a remarkable medical history. Well before colonial times, the Baganda, Uganda’s largest tribe, could distinguish plague from smallpox;…
I am celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Libertatum or the Great Charter of English Liberties. Whoa! Hold it! I understand your question! Why is a guy born in Africa (Ethiopia) now living in America celebrating a document written by a bunch of disgruntled and rebellious English barons quarrelling with a feudal monarch…
In America, they call it “Three-Strikes Law”. Criminals who commit three violent or serious crimes are given 25 years to life. The T-TPLF has declared war on Ethiopian taxi drivers! In Ethiopia, the T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front) is implementing (allegedly suspended for 3 months) what is the economic equivalent of three-strikes-and-you-are-out-of-the-taxi-business…
[This opinion piece first appeared in the Ethiopian Herald on December 19, 2021.] The New York Times’ motto is, “All the news that is fit to print.” That slogan suggests there is no place for “unfit” fake news, fake analysis and fake journalism. That motto is reinforced in the Times’ lofty profession of journalistic standards proclaiming…
Author’s Note: In the commentary below, I explain why every Ethiopian should rise up and defend Ethiopia’s name and honor against the well-planned and coordinated attack of the Axis Gang of Five who masquerade as human rights defenders and impartial media. I shall argue there is a well-coordinated global propaganda and psychological war being waged…
Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name… Lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from the TPLF (D)evil.” (Lord’s Prayer adaptation.) Thank God Almighty, We shall be delivered from the TPLF Devil soon! Can you talk/negotiate with the Children of Lucifer? It is official. At least from the Ethiopian Government’s side….