Al Mariam’s Commentaries Archive
21 Oct 2020
Why I Support ESAT Again and Again and Again… and You Should Too!
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
18 Oct 2020
The Daylight Mugging of Ethiopia by Donald Trump and Abdel Fattah El-Sisi!
“Mueller’s team tried to understand both the $10 million contribution Trump gave to his campaign 11 days before the 2016 election and the Trump campaign’s ties to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In the closing weeks of the 2016 campaign, Trump and Sisi met in New York during the United Nations General Assembly. The Republican
12 Oct 2020
America! Are You Better Off Today Than Four Years Ago?
Friends, Americans, countrymen and women, lend me your ears! As November 3, 2020 draws near, I want you to ask yourselves one and only ONE question. Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Let me break it down for you! Do you feel healthier today than four years ago? Do you
04 Oct 2020
Professor Mesfin Woldemariam: Eulogy For a Man Who Spoke Truth to Power
I do not believe this country belongs to a single bully (gulbetegna) [thug]. This land was built by my father and mother, grand-parents and great grandparents. No one can force me into exile. No one can intimidate me and take away my rights as an Ethiopian. I won’t let it happen. Let me make it
29 Sep 2020
Saving the “Last Best Hope of Earth” from the Beast!
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
20 Sep 2020
PM Abiy Ahmed’s Project X(cellent) Thunderbolt
… We have a big problem generating foreign exchange. I want to appeal to you now to bring the money [dollars, Euros] you have stashed away in Dubai. We are facing severe hard currency problems. We have the problem not as a government but as a country. We want you to help us now. I’m
13 Sep 2020
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM DONALD J. TRUMP, NOVEMBER 3, 2020
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 Let it be the unanimous Declaration of the People of the United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to save their Constitution, defend the rule of law, maintain peace and harmony among themselves and pass on
10 Sep 2020
Happy 2013 Ethiopian New Year of Peace, Prosperity and Progress
Author’s Note: Since 2008[1], I have issued my personal New Year’s Message to my readers and all Ethiopians on my blog site. As I was drafting my 2013 (2020) New Year’s Message today, I paused to listen to an extraordinary two-part interview given by H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed which was aired over the
06 Sep 2020
Take Your Counterterrorism Aid to Ethiopia and Shove It!
Today, Africa is a Continent of COMPETING BEGGAR NATIONS. We vie with one another for favours from our former colonial masters; and we deliberately fall over one another to invite neocolonialists to come to our different territories to preside over our economic fortunes… … We may continue and indeed we will be right to continue
30 Aug 2020
Should Ethiopia Sue the United Kingdom in the International Court of Justice for the Terrorist Attack on Its Embassy in London?
Author’s Note: Last week, a gang of thugs, hooligans and hoodlums launched a violent terrorist attack on the Embassy of Ethiopia in London in an apparent attempt to occupy the premises and quite possibly take hostages. The terrorist attack on the Ethiopian Embassy could easily have become a repeat of the Iranian Embassy siege that