Al Mariam’s Commentaries
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 cowardly terrorist brimming with self-hate and hate of humanity massacred 50 innocent people in Orlando, FL and severely injured many dozens more. The terrorist act…
Author’s Note to the Reader: Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced an agreement in which the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF), the ruling regime in Ethiopia, agreed to pay some USD$6.5 million dollars in “disgorgement” (a legal…
[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 a better world.” Was Muhammad Ali “The Greatest”? Ali told British actress Joanna Lumley in 1989 that it was all a publicity stunt to promote…
“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 of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-PLF), who wants to run WHO. That is the World Health Organization. (Truth be told, I…
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 upside the head on its so-called antiterrorism law (“Anti-Terrorism Proclamation No. 652/2009”.) Now, T-TPLF’s strategists have come up with a new trick to fool everybody:…
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 that is in power in Ethiopia today is a certified terrorist organization listed in the Global Terrorism Database. On May 28, 1991, the TPLF marched into…
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 — when journalists and bloggers are able to shine a light on injustice or abuse — that holds officials accountable and builds public confidence that the…
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” is a constitution of the T-TPLF, by the T-TPLF, for the T-TPLF. The T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples’ Liberation Front) is a certified terrorist…
There is “no famine in Ethiopia… Ethiopians aren’t starving to death… People aren’t dying… Animals are dying of thirst…” Alex de Waal Last week, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times (International Edition), Alex de Waal from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia declared the end of the…
Author’s Note: This is the third installment [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”. The twin aims of the series “Apartheid in Ethiopia” are: 1) to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that the political system created and maintained by the Thugtatorship of the…
