23 Aug 2015
Ethiopian Bloggers in Kangaroo (Monkey) Kourt
Kangaroo/monkey kourt (in)justice T-TPLF style Last week, young Ethiopian bloggers collectively known as “Zone 9 Bloggers” (named after a cell block holding political prisoners at the infamous Meles Zenawi Kality Prison, a few kilometers outside of the capital) returned to the kangaroo/monkey kourt system of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF)
16 Aug 2015
Ethiopia: Our Need for Unity in Divinity Facing Adversity!
The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has been pursuing a systematic program of religious persecution and fomenting religious antagonisms in Ethiopia for quite some time. After the T-TPLF seized power in 1991, it sought to ingratiate itself with the Ethiopian Muslim community by making symbolic gestures of equality and tolerance. The patronizing
09 Aug 2015
Republunatics at the Debate (Gate)?
“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees,” said Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President of the United States. At the first Republican presidential hopefuls debate on August 6, 2015, we witnessed angry wasps at war. (I did not say WASPs.) “What a piece of
06 Aug 2015
Gettn’ Down With Ethiopia’s Thugtators!
Get down, like James Brown! Dances with the stars? Dances with wolves? How about dances with thugs! The Godfather of Soul, or as his fans call him J.B. (R.I.P. J.B.) had a song called, “The Boss”. It’s a cut on the soundtrack album for the movie “Black Caesar”. The movie is about an African American
02 Aug 2015
Barack Obama! Tell the Truth About Ethiopia!
Warning! Stop! Do not read further if you can’t handle the truth about Barack Obama. “Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.” “I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.” Bite your tongue, Barack Obama! When President Barack Obama visited Ethiopia last week, he shocked a lot of
31 Jul 2015
Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion
It is said that “smile and the world smiles at you.” Does it follow that if you laugh at the world’s most ridiculous election, the world will join you laughing? Last week, Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, broke out in uncontrollable laughter when she affirmed the recent 100 percent elektoral victory of
26 Jul 2015
Financing for (Under)development in Africa?
How the West underdeveloped Africa and is now trying to “finance develop” it The “Third International Conference on Financing for Development” was held in Addis Ababa last week. It was billed as a “gathering of high-level political representatives, including Heads of State and Government, Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, as well as
23 Jul 2015
Prof. Al Mariam’s Full VOA Amharic Service Interviews on Obama’s Ethiopia Trip
Prof. Al Mariam’s VOA Amharic Service Interview, July 22, 2015 Prof. Al Mariam’s 3-Part Interview on VOA Amharic Service, July 9, 2015
19 Jul 2015
My Private Letter to President Obama
July 16, 2015 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: Greetings! Mr. President. I was ecstatic when I heard you will be travelling to Ethiopia in late July “for bilateral meetings with both the country’s government and the leadership of the African Union.” Such a meeting
12 Jul 2015
Thus Spoke Ethiopia’s Reeyot!
Reeyot Invictus! Thus spoke Reeyot Alemu to the Voice of America- Amharic Service on July 9, 2015, a few hours after she was literally thrown out of the infamous Meles Zenawi Prison in Kality (Ethiopia’s “Robben Island”), on the outskirts of Addis Ababa: I will continue to fully struggle to make Ethiopia a good place