VOA Amharic Interview on Ethiopian Trust Fund Advisory Council August 10 2018

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy Beware what you wish for, you may get it… Meles Zenawi, the late thugmaster of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) used to taunt the opposition that if they don’t like his rule they can go into the bush and…

In my August 8, 2022, commentary, I asked: “US Special Envoy for the TPLF: From the “Ugly American” to the “American Easter Bunny” or is it Porky Pig?” Porky Pig, it was. Here we go again! Almost a month later, it is Porky Pig Dumbplomacy reboot in Ethiopia. On September 2, 2022, the US State…

We wanted to dismantle their network of corruption [in city government]. We tried to move corrupt officials out of their positions  and reshuffle them. The court would not allow us. They ordered us to return them to their positions. All 460 of them. Adanech Abibie, Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Author’s Note: While this commentary…

We remember our brother Eskinder Nega There is nothing more the T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front) would like to see than the memory of the great Eskinder Nega erased and obliterated from public memory and consciousness. The T-TPLF wants the world to forget Eskinder Nega. They want his memory to fade away…

Let me make a bold prediction. The fix is in! Blinken, Sullivan and Susan Rice have set up the preconditions to do a number on Ethiopia. Their plan is to break Ethiopia’s back and bring her to her knees using the leverage of US aid, multilateral loans from the World Bank, restrictions on U.S. investments,…