Category Archives: Al Mariam’s Commentaries
Al Mariam’s Voice of America Interview (Amharic) on Trump’s Firing of FBI Director James Comey

              My interview with Voice of  America (Amharic) on the firing of James Comey, FBI Director, on May 13, 2017.  

Universities are battlegrounds, Berkeley faculty forgot how to fight

Originally appeared in The Hill (o5/12/17.) http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/333175-universities-are-battlegrounds-berkeley-faculty-have [Posted on almariam.com on 7/28/17.] The People’s Republic of Berkeley, with its capital at UC Berkeley, was once ground zero in the battle to save the soul…

My Interview (Amharic) on Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) on “Law Day” 05/10/17

          My interview on  Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) on “Law Day” (05/10/17) To view video, click on the link below:

Glimpses of Trump’s Foreign (Human Rights) Policy in Africa

“Guiding all of our foreign policy actions are our fundamental values: our values around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated. These are our values… not our policies…   Policies…

US doesn’t need Ethiopia in its war on terror in the Horn of Africa

Originally appeared in The Hill (o5/05/17.) [Posted on almariam.com on 5/24/17.] http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/332093-us-doesnt-need-ethiopia-in-its-war-on-terror-in-the-horn-of ======================== Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited the Middle East and Africa to “reaffirm key…

The Good Kops/Bad Kops T-TPLF Con Game (Over) in Ethiopia

“Oh! What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” The length to which the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation (T-TPLF) will go to scam, hoodwink,…

The T-TPLF Spook Who Sat by the Jailhouse Door in Ethiopia (Part I)

Author’s Note: This is Part I of a two-part translation of an Amharic interview[1] with a former, now-exiled anonymous T-TPLF  “mole” (deep- cover intelligence operative) who was trained to infiltrate…

About Time for the T-TPLF to Get in Their Spaceships and Scoot Out of Ethiopia?

Houston, we ain’t got NO problem! I dreamt the nightmare was finally over. It could have been a vision. I am not sure. There stood I watching the launch pad…

Apartheid State of Emergency in Ethiopia 2.0

On October 9, 2016, the puppet prime minister (PPM) of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) Hailemariam announced a “state of emergency” (SoE) in a 20-minute televised…

The Torture Chronicles of Ethiopian Patriot Habtamu Ayalew (in His Own Words)

Author’s Note: Following is my translation of the Amharic interview given by Habtamu Ayalew to the Voice of America (VOA), Amharic Program on March 15, 2017 and broadcast on the…

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