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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...
America: Saving the Last Great Hope of Humanity From Insanity [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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...
“Terrorist” for being a ‘bachelor’! [Zone9]
BefeQadu Z.Hailu
Edited By:Endalk H. Chala
Aduňa Kesso is a Qeerroo. According to Aduňa, Qeerroo in Afan Oromo means ‘a young; bachelor who who does not have a child yet’. “You can’t help it I’m a Qeerroo”, he jokes comparing...
Remembering the Meles Massacres of 2005 in Ethiopia Ten Years After [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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...
Barbarians in the Headquarters of Voice of America ?[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The ancient Romans secured their cities with gates and walls against marauding barbarians.
The Romans aimed to keep the “barbarians at the gate” out and fend off any attack.
The modern day barbarians of press freedom secretly breached...
Reflections on Prof. Mesfin’s “Adafne”: Saving Ethiopians From Themselves?[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam’s latestAmharic book, “Adafne: Fear and Failure”, is at once a lamentation on the decline and decay of Ethiopian society from the corrosive effects of bad governance, tyrannical rule and moral corruption...
Can the T-TPLF Stop the Famine in Ethiopia? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
It is a big international secret that Ethiopia today is in the middle of a Biblical famine.
For the second time since 1984-85!
Last week, the Global Post headlined an article posing the question:
Ethiopia is facing its worst drought in 30...