De ja vu: Haven’t we seen that movie (circus) before? In April 2011, I wrote a commentary about the T-TPLF’s art of war by mass distraction. The T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean…
Donald Trump wants to become the Commander-in-Chief of the United States. This week Trump proved he is supremely qualified to be the Monster-in-Mischief of the United States of America. A…
Author’s Note to the Reader: Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced an agreement in which…
[Post updated 6/9/2016] A shorter version of this commentary was posted on 6/4/2016. See below.] “I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be…
“Wonders never cease!” Well, “not only do they never cease, but new and ever new wonders come crowding on their heels.” The “latest wonder” is Tedros Adhanom, the foreign minister…
Smoke and mirrors: The T-TPLF replacing its “anti-terrorism law” with a “computer crimes law”? The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is getting hammered left and right and…
May 28, 2016: Ethiopia Day of Outrage On May 28, 1991, the curse of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) descended upon Ethiopia. The T-TPLF regime…
Last week, Barack Obama was in Vietnam preaching the gospel of human rights. He told his tired old story about human rights to the Vietnamese: When there’s freedom of the press…
The question is NOT if Ethiopia needs a new constitution. The question is, “Does Ethiopia need a constitution?”, since it currently does not have one. The so-called “1995 Ethiopian Constitution”…
On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Fischer v. Texas that the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) program which considered race, among many other factors, in undergraduate admissions is constitutional….