ከአማራ ሚድያ ኮርፖራሽን ጋር ያደረግኩት ቃለ መጠይቅ፣ ስለ ምዕራቡ/አሜሪካ ኢትዮጵያ ዉስጥ ጣልቃ ገብነት October 21 2021

The narrative not long ago was that Ethiopia is imploding. The message (disinformation) spread by our shameless “friends” announced, “All Ethiopians who live in Ethiopia, abandon all hope. All expatriates, get the hell outta ‘Dodge City’ Ethiopia!” But Ethiopia is alive and well and humming towards peace and prosperity. I am a witness to that….

Author’s Note: This is the second installment in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Ethnic Apartheid in Ethiopia”. The twin aims of the series are: 1) to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that the political system created and maintained by the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s…

Americans have no monopoly on heroes. Olympic heroes, that is. On August 21, 2016, Feyisa Lelisa, the 26-year-old Ethiopian long distance runner at the Rio Olympics repeated an act that was once described as the “the most overtly political statement in the history of the modern Olympic Games.” On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and…

Donate to ESAT: https://gf.me/u/y5a9gm When ESAT was first established in April 2010, I served as the chairperson of its  Advisory Committee. It was the worst of times. In 2009, the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), presently consigned to the trash heap of history, had enacted a “counterterrorism” and an anti-civil society law shutting down the…

The dangerous lies, disinformation and fabrication campaign of the New York Times on Ethiopia The New York Times, Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera and other international media have all pulled out their long knives against Ethiopia. In a well-coordinated media assault, these “nattering nabobs of negativism” have ganged up on Ethiopia as  propagandists for the now-defunct…