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The Wrath of Karuturi and the “Power of India” in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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 how thugs and those who do business with thugs resolve or do not resolve...
Fly, Ethiopia, Fly…[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“What if they were really set free?”
That was the question The Economist asked in the headline of its article last week about Ethiopians.
Its response was equally breathtaking:
“If the government let people breathe, they might fly.”
These...
The Dam-Nation of Ethiopia by the T-TPLF [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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 toldEgyptians during the inauguration of a national farmland project, “I...
The “End of the Story” for the T-TPLF in Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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,...
It’s not business as usual, Enough is enough! people are Saying No! [Wondemagne Ejigu Kebede]
I want to commence this article with a little story, that I think will depict what I want to say metaphorically. It was some few years back. I was in Nairobi, Kenya for a few days. I was in a bus and suddenly a preacher with a bible in his hand...
Ethiopia: Make Peaceful Change Impossible? Make Violent Revolution Inevitable![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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...
Ethiopian Spring in a Winter of Discontent? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
No one predicted the Arab Spring when it exploded on December 18, 2010sparking 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...
Ethiopia and the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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...