Category Archives: Al Mariam’s Commentaries
A Special “Message in a Bottle” to Ethiopian Cheetahs: Born Free, Live Free!

(Classified: For Ethiopian Cheetahs’ Eyes Only) My first “Message” from 2013 This is my second special message to Ethiopia’s “Cheetah Generation”, Ethiopia’s young people, in three years. In January 2013,…

Bern, Baby, Bern in “Hell (All Y’all) Women Who Don’t Support Hillary”?

A fatwa against young women? Hell hath no fury like a… Who said that? William Congreve or William Shakespeare? Two high priestess of the establishment democratic party last week issued…

On the Passing of Justice Antonin G. Scalia

In January 2013, the late U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin G. Scalia  declared the U.S. Constitution “is not a living document. It’s dead, dead, dead.” Justice Scalia made the…

Ah! Qatari Resort in Addis Ababa!  Why Don’t Ethiopians Eat Cake?

Fifteen million Ethiopians are suffering Biblical famine right NOW! The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is chasing after “resort developers” from the Middle East. What about the…

War of the Long Knives and Cheap Shots on Bernie Sanders

It is the season for the Clintons to tar and feather Bernie Sanders. Could their campaign of fear and smear against Bernie Sanders succeed? I was shocked to see last…

Ethiopia Under the Boots of the T-TPLF Beast With Feet of Clay

Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my first commentary, I examined the decline and…

Why I am Supporting Bernie Sanders for President (and Why You Should Too)

I am now declaring my support for Bernie Sanders, the dark horse of the Democratic Party, to become the next President of the United States. It is refreshing act of…

Addis Ababa Master Plan? No, the T-TPLF Masters’ Plan!

  Author’s Note: What’s in a label? Well, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet…”?  That may be true,…

No Country Left for Ethiopians?

Author’s Note: My commentary this week follows last week’s comment on the collapse of Karuturi Agro Products, Plc., in Gambella, Ethiopia. In 2010, the T-TPLF handed over 100 thousand hectares of…

The Wrath of Karuturi and the “Power of India” in Ethiopia
The Wrath of Karuturi and the “Power of India” in Ethiopia

Authors note: I have written this commentary not because I care about the legal dispute between Karuturi and the T-TPLF over a land deal in Gambella. I could not care less…

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