Al Mariam’s Commentaries
The damnation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF Last week, before the ink had dried on the “new agreement” on the so-called Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian President General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told Egyptians during the inauguration of a national farmland project, “I totally understand the concern of Egyptians as water is a matter of life or death. We…
The obituary and epitaph for the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Liberation Front (T-TPLF) was written last year by Bereket Simon, the former “communication minister” and longtime sidekick of the late criminal mastermind of the T-TPLF, Meles Zenawi and Addisu Legesse, “deputy prime minister” to Meles and “deputy chairman” of the T-TPLF front organization called the…
In December 2015, there is only one question that is uppermost in the mind of every Ethiopian: Will the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) kill, massacre, slaughter, murder and unleash a campaign of bloodbath and bloodshed to cling to power in Ethiopia? Most regretfully, the answer is in the affirmative. For the past…
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia showed his true colors during oral argument on December 9, 2015 in Fisher v. University of Texas. (Click HERE to read the full transcript.) Scalia resorted to inflammatory blather to make his absurd point that African American students should attend “a less advanced school” because they are simply…
Hate Kills, Love Heals! December 2, 2015, is a date which shall live in infamy in the history of the City and County of San Bernardino, CA. The scourge of terrorism descended on our city and county like a thunderclap on a dark night. It was the worst international terrorist attack on U.S. soil since…
Is America becoming “Trump-aryana”? When Trump becomes President of Trump-aryana, do “we greet” him by extending the right arm in the air with a straightened hand and shouting out, “Heil to the Chief! We salute him, one and all.” Or do we just sing out loud, “Hail to the Chief”? The Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, publisher…
No one predicted the Arab Spring when it exploded on December 18, 2010 sparking the Tunisian Revolution. No one could have predicted a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi would set himself on fire to protest harassment, abuse and humiliation by local municipal and police authorities and trigger a revolution to transform the Middle East and…
John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: “For no falsehood can endure/ Touch of celestial temper.” Of course, Milton was writing about Satan and his “devilish art” of “forging illusions”. I am seething in temporal temper over the World Bank’s “devilish art” of economic numerology, Mephistophelian cunning in making deals with corrupt African thugtators and the…
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” I would add, “There must never be a time when we fail to protest the madness of politician wannabes and the lunacy of…
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby…
