Why I am Supporting Bernie Sanders for President (and Why You Should Too)
By Alemayehu G. Mariam I am now declaring my support for Bernie Sanders, the dark horse of the Democratic Party, to become the next President of the United States. It is refreshing act of moral...
View ArticleThen and Now: A Rejoinder to my Critics – By Messay Kebede
Prof. Messay Kebede In the last article I posted, titled “Unity Overrides Everything,” I urged the Amhara to join the ongoing Oromo protests even if their reluctance is understandable in the face of...
View ArticleFrom 119 this year to 120 next year – Celebrating Adwa Victory as the...
By Mammo Muchie Ethiopianism is at the heart of the quest for total African liberation and unity. This glorious early resistance should offer a powerful inspiration for the African people to confront...
View ArticleEthiopia Under the Boots of the T-TPLF Beast With Feet of Clay – Alemayehu G....
Author’s Note: This is the fourth commentary in a series dealing with land, land use, misuse, overlordship and ownership in Ethiopia. In my firstcommentary, I examined the decline and fall of...
View ArticleThe Protest in Oromia: The Need for Urgent Unified Action! – By Tarik Michael...
It has been more than three months now since the protest in the region of Oromia begun. Its main cause is the proposed master plan to expand the city of Addis Ababa. Our fellow brothers and sisters...
View ArticleOromo Protesters Burned Down Properties. Should we Condemn or Condone It?...
Seid Hassan- Murray State University February 13, 2016 Introduction In addition to the senseless killings of protesters by the ruling party against the Oromos, the latest video clips and news reports...
View ArticleUnderstanding ethnicity and politics in Ethiopia – Teshome Borago
by Teshome Borago I am writing this article after listening to the recent magnificent speech by the Addis Ababa mayor-elect and PATRIOTIC GInbot 7 party leader Dr. Berhanu Nega in Silver Spring,...
View ArticleAh! Qatari Resort in Addis Ababa! Why Don’t Ethiopians Eat Cake? – By...
Fifteen million Ethiopians are suffering Biblical famine right NOW! The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (T-TPLF) is chasing after “resort developers” from the Middle East. What...
View ArticleThe Danger Of a Single Story and What We Ethiopians Can Do About It
By Assegid Habtewold Based on Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie’s Global TED Talk, which was filmed in 2009, I recently wrote a blog. The talk was very powerful- over 9 million people have watched...
View ArticleForgiveness is the crucial to this senseless conflict occurred in Gambella –...
Starting from the day when guns erupted from 11:15 am in February 04, 2016 here in Gambella town many people were surprised for un expected event that was not thought to happen due to because most of...
View ArticleRespond to Professor Messay Kebede Article – By Kaleab Tessema
I barely remember a long time ago, Professor Messay had given a speech at Columbia University and I was there to listen his speech, and his speech was not inspiring to me at all. I can not even...
View ArticleWhy Did Ethiopians Remain Under Tyrants? – By Tefera Dinberu
This question revolves around many folks due to their aspiration for change, common among men and women who participated in the student movement since 1960’s and 1970’s. That generation having been...
View ArticleDemystifying: Ethnic Politics and Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia – By Melaku...
It is troubling to see a pure unitary position, unwilling even to recognize the existence of Ethiopians whose demand for democracy includes a right to preserve and promote local languages and...
View ArticleEthiopia feeling pinch of illicit financial outflows -By Tesfa Mogessie
17.02.2016 State creates new intelligence unit after reports that $26 billion left country in 10 years By Tesfa Mogessie ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Alarmed by increasing illicit financial outflows,...
View ArticleEthiopia: Unity in Opposition – Graham Peebles
Division and fear are the age-old tools of tyrants; unity and peaceful coordinated action the most powerful weapons against them. Frightened and downtrodden for so long, there are positive signs that...
View ArticleEthiopia: Looking for International Voices of Conscience – Dejenie A. Lakew
By Dejenie A. Lakew, Ph.D Ethnic cleansing is defined as the systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, with the intent of making it...
View ArticleThe Model and Making of Ethnic Federalism: Problems for Consideration –...
The Rationale for the System of Ethnic Decentralization in Ethiopia Decentralization and federation are institutional arrangements referring to the devolution and sharing of power among autonomous...
View ArticleEthiopia: Let drive the final nail into TPLF coffin – By Ewnetu Sime
The series of demonstrations by students in opposition of the implementation of the secretly prepared master plan by TPLF regime still going on in different locations. The regime acted violently and...
View ArticleA Special “Message in a Bottle” to Ethiopian Cheetahs: Born Free, Live Free!-...
(Classified: For Ethiopian Cheetahs’ Eyes Only) My first “Message” from 2013 This is my second special message to Ethiopia’s “Cheetah Generation”, Ethiopia’s young people, in three years. In January...
View ArticleWhat We Need is Values-Based Leadership – Assegid Habtewold
By Assegid Habtewold[1] Americans are busy voting for Presidential candidates. Have you asked yourself the parameters they use to choose one candidate over the other? Not just in the US, in those...
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