Category Archives: Al Mariam’s Commentaries
Why Can’t Ethiopia Become Like Ghana?

I will confess publicly. I envy the Ghanaians. When Barack Obama made his first trip Africa, he did not choose to go Nigeria, the country with the largest population and…

Kim Davis: A Lesson in the Rule of Law

  In April 2010, Army doctor  Lt. Col. Terry Lakin refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he believed President Barack Obama is not born in the United States and therefore…

Famine Rides a Light Train in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s annual harvest of famine The Black Horseman of the Apocalypse is showing his fearsome face once again in Ethiopia. This time he is riding a light train. In February…

Ethiopia: Senator Marco Rubio is With Us!

A SECOND CALL TO ACTION A SECOND CALL TO ACTION Special note and request: I am asking my readers in the United States, particularly Ethiopian Americans in the great State of…

My Private Letter to Senator Ted Cruz

A CALL TO ACTION Special note and request: I am asking my readers in the United States, particularly Ethiopian Americans in the great State of Texas and in the Washington…

Ethiopia: But For “Sheer Lack of Better Alternatives?!”

In May 2015, I wrote a commentary entitled, “Why Is the T-TPLF Afraid of Its Own Shadow?” In that commentary,  I expressed puzzlement over the fact that  supporters  of  the…

Melkam Inqutatash… Happy Ethiopian New Year- 2008

I wish all of my weekly Ethiopian readers throughout the world a happy and prosperous Ethiopian New Year. I join you joyfully in ringing in 2007 and ringing out 2008….

Trump Meets Shakespeare

Could a Little Big Man thunder to “Make America Great Again”? William Shakespeare in “Measure for Measure” spoke of the allure and corruption of power in the innocent and virtuous…

Let Teddy Play On and On and On…

Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” opens with the Duke of Orsino declaring to the assembled musicians, “If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it… The Thugtatorship…

Ethiopia: Is the T-TPLF Ship of Hate Sinking… S.O.S.?

Is the T-TPLF Ship of Hate (I mean state) sinking in an ocean of fear and loathing? The T-TPLF is the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front, the ruling…

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