Prof. Al Mariam’s Voice of America Interview (Amharic) on U.S. Government Shutdown, January 28, 2018

Blinken is like the proverbial man with a hammer for whom everything looks like a nail. Blinken’s doctrine is to hammer anyone who disagrees with him with sanctions. Is the U.S. planning to invade Ethiopia directly or indirectly? Read below for the answer. Senator John McCain was right on the button when he opposed Antony…

  Exactly two weeks from today, June 21, 2021, Ethiopia will have its first historic free and fair election. It is a day I have waited to see for a long time. In 2010, the terrorist organization TPLF declared victory by claiming to have won 99.6 percent of the seats in Parliament. The U.S. merely…

What Would Dr. King Say?Recently, there was a “tempest in a teapot” between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama over Dr. Martin Luther King’s role and contributions in the civil rights movement. Hilary said, “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a President…

The weaponization of the International Human Rights Commission by the TPLF’s Patrons/Partners-in-Crime is finally exposed. The “report” is a political hit job with the singular aim of shamelessly demonizing the Ethiopian Government and the Ethiopian National Defense Force, Militia and Fano, and canonization of the terrorist TPLF. The Report mentions ONE and ONLY one human…

Author’s Note: In this memorandum commentary, I reflect on a poem read by the late Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah at the inauguration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 in honor of Ethiopia. Nkrumah’s special poem extols Ethiopia’s natural beauty and bounty and the wisdom of its people. Nkrumah’s poem, “Ethiopia Shall Rise”,…