Ethiopian Thugmocracy – By 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...
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Remembering Dennis Hastert – By Alemayehu G. Mariam
Dennis Hastert Today, Dennis Hastert, the former Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2007) and lobbyist appears in U.S. federal court for arraignment (enter a plea of guilty...
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Black Ethiopia Jews Ask Do their Lives Matter
By Kai EL’ Zabar Efrat Yerday, columnist “The Hottest Pale in Hell” magazine and activist photo credit: Kai ELZ When I mentioned to my publisher that I had been invited to Israel as a journalist she...
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Why Africa needs to become more like China
The World Economic Forum By Anders Borg When you are looking over the beautiful Atlantic Ocean from the harbour in Cape Town, host city of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015, it is easy to...
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Happy 800th Birthday, Magna Carta! – Alemayehu G. Mariam
Today, June 15, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Libertatum or the Great Charter of English Liberties. On that date, King John of England affixed his seal on the Magna Carta and...
View ArticleThe Impasse of Fear in Ethiopia and the Necessity of Comprehensive Struggle
Messay Kebede “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. Roosevelt “An ounce of action is worth more than tons of preaching”, Mahatma Gandhi The consensus is that dictatorial regimes stay in...
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Abel Wabela: “To Fight Bystander Apathy…This is My Mission as a Human”
By Melody Sundberg@melodysundberg Global Voices Advocacy In April 2014, nine bloggers and journalists were arrested in Ethiopia. Several of these men and women had worked with Zone9, a collective blog...
View ArticleObama’s visit to Ethiopia, a bitter no-sweet taste for Ethiopians
By Hailu Kassa 03/0702015 In an ideal situation, who does not rejoice at the prospect of a planned visit to one’s country by the most powerful man on earth and the leader of the free world? It would...
View ArticleBeyond Fear: Experience of Ethiopian Freedom Struggle
By Tesfaye Demmellash (PhD) After noting in a recent writing the “paralyzing” grip of fear on the Ethiopian people, namely, our inability in the face of naked and insidious tribal tyranny “to react and...
View ArticleAfrica: Has Africa Benefitted From First Black Man in White House?
By Njonjo Kihuria Our writer Njonjo Kihuria delves into President Barack Obama’s Africa policy and argues that the chance for the leader of the free world to do something for the continent is now...
View ArticleMy Private Letter to President Obama (Alemayehu G. Mariam)
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...
View ArticleBerhanu Nega: Eritrea’s cannon fodder or Ethiopia’s big hope?
Many Ethiopians had a diverse reaction to the latest news that Dr Berhanu Nega has gone to Eritrea to lead the armed struggle against the Ethiopian regime. I first met Dr. Berhanu Nega in New York city...
View ArticleBill Gates: Countries with booming economies still need foreign aid
WRITTEN BY Bill Gates Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation As the New Horizons satellite was beaming pictures of Pluto back to Earth last week, giving humans their first up-close look at a...
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A Silicon Valley mogul wants to create a new country to house the world’s...
Refugee camps are overflowing around the world.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) WRITTEN BY Hanna Kozlowska@hannakozlowska The number of refugees in the world is growing, now at an all-time high of nearly...
View Article‘Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope.’ By Yilma Bekele
I saw the inscription ‘Out of despair, a stone of hope’ chiseled out of the rock that has the likes of MLK emerging. The boulder in the background is ‘despair’, and ‘hope’ is symbolized by by the slice...
View ArticleFinancing 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...
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Analysts: Obama’s Africa Trip Underscores Drive for Foreign Policy Legacy
Luis Ramirez/VOA July 29, 2015 9:41 AM WHITE HOUSE—U.S. President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa this week culminates a streak of accomplishments that he has achieved at a time in a president’s term...
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Laughing at Ethiopia’s 2015 Elektion: Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam
July 31, 2015 by Alemayehu G. Mariam UPDATE: Prof. Al’s response on the word “Elektion”: A real election is spelled “election”; a bogus and fraudulent one I spell with a ‘k’. There is no such word as...
View ArticleBarack Obama! Tell the Truth About Ethiopia! – By 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...
View ArticleThe Obama Kenya speech that should have been repeated in Ethiopia
By Nahom Mola When all is said and done, President Obama’s speech to the Kenyan people delivered at the Safaricom Arena on July 26th(Obama’s Nairobi speech), was perhaps the highlight of his historic...
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