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Obama and the circus of clowns in Ethiopia [By Abebe Gellaw]
The historic state visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Ethiopia has just accomplished what was expected all along. On the one hand, TPLF and its cronies tried to use it as a spectacle full of absurdities, comedic political circus and amateurish...
Barack Obama! Tell the Truth About Ethiopia! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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...
Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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,...
Financing for (Under) development in Africa? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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...
Cut U.S. aid to Ethiopia's despotic government: [Ali Mohamed]
Cleveland
President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa this month includes a stop in Ethiopia, the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the Horn of Africa nation.
In late May, Ethiopian voters went to the polls to elect a new parliament....
Thus Spoke Ethiopia’s Reeyot! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
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...
Ethiopian Thugmocracy [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
What do you get when you cross a thugocracy with democracy?
A thugmocracy.
When thugs are “elected” to political office, they become thugmocrats. Naturally, “elected” thugmocrats run thugmocracies.
If democracy is a government of...
Making Sense of an Electoral Score of 100 Percent [By Messay Kebede (PhD)]
According to the National Election Board of Ethiopia, the result of last week’s national election is that the EPRDF has achieved a complete victory by grabbing all the parliamentary seats. The same board and the Woyanne government qualified...