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Why Is the T-TPLF Afraid of Its Own Shadow? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Why are the T-TPLF gods of FEAR, TERROR AND DREAD afraid of their own shadows in 2015?
On May 24, 2015, a “parliamentary election” is scheduled in Ethiopia. “Election” as in rigged.
Five years ago on May 23, 2010, the ruling Thugtatorship...
El-Sisi: Ethiopia’s Friend in Need, Indeed! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
A friend in need is a friend in deed, indeed!
Last week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stunned the world by rescuing more than two dozen abducted Ethiopians marked for beheadings in Libya by the ruthless self-styled terrorist...
THE TANGLED WEB WENDY SHERMAN WEAVES [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In her Letter to the Washington Post, U.S. Undersecretary Wendy R. Sherman chastised the editorial board for “mischaracterizing her remarks” in its May 1 editorial. At issue is what Ms. Sherman said and meant by her words during her...
WENDY SHERMAN AND THE ETHIOPIAN “ELECTION” THAT ISN’T [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The folly of willful ignorance
I did not vote for Ronald Reagan to become U.S. president. But I appreciated some of his witticisms before he became president. In 1964, two years after he dumped the Democrats and joined the Republicans, Reagan...
ETHIOPIA: CRY ONCE AGAIN, OUR BELOVED COUNTRY! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Ethiopian lives matter!
Exactly ten years ago in 2005, almost to the month, the late supreme leader of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF), Meles Zenawi, personally directed a campaign of brutal suppression of...
A special tribute to Prof. Donald Levine [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
This past January, Prof. Levine emailed to tell me about his long-planned visit to Ethiopia that had been thwarted by his illness. He had set three objectives for that trip. He wanted to be present for the launching of his book Interpreting...
Ethiopia: The Meles Jinx, the GERD Nixed? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
To “build the dam” or to “abandon” it: That was Meles’ question!
Exactly four years ago, almost to the day, on April 2, 2011, the late Meles Zenawi gave a speech in Guba, Benishangul Gumuz in Western Ethiopia, setting out his dream...