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The axis of shevil: Does Africa need Gayle Smith?

Sub-Title: What do Gayle Smith, Wendy Sherman and Susan Rice have in common?This past Thursday, Gayle Smith who is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National...

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Thus spoke Ethiopia’s Reeyot!

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...

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My private letter to President Obama

July 16, 2015 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 would be travelling...

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Financing for (under)development in Africa?

Sub-Title: How the West underdeveloped Africa and is now trying to “finance develop” itThe “Third International Conference on Financing for Development” was held in Addis Ababa last week. It was billed...

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Barack Obama, tell the truth about Ethiopia!

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...

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Reflections on Prof. Mesfin’s “Adafne”: Saving Ethiopians from themselves?

Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam’s latest Amharic 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,...

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America: Saving the last great hope of humanity from insanity

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize 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...

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Why I am supporting Bernie Sanders for President (and why you should too)

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 a refreshing act of moral self-affirmation for me to...

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Ah! Qatari resort in Addis Ababa! Why don’t Ethiopians eat cake?

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...

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How I “met” Reeyot

When Reeyot was arrested and imprisoned by the personal order of the late T-TPLF capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) Meles Zenawi in June 2011, I was outraged but not surprised. I had no idea who...

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Quo Vadis Ethiopia: Where are you (not) going?

[Excerpted English version of speech given at the “Conference on the Future of Ethiopia: Transition, Democracy, and National Unity” organized by Vision Ethiopia on March 27, 2016 at the Marriott...

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USAID and the famine in Ethiopia: What does Gayle E. Smith have to say?

Author’s Note: The following is a true and correct copy of my letter to USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith dated March 16, 2016, and the response I received from T.C. Cooper, Assistant Administrator,...

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U.S. senators speak loud and clear: Human rights violations in Ethiopia must...

Last July, Barack Obama visited Ethiopia and declared the ruling Thugtatoship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) regime a “democratic government.” The T-TPLF claimed with a straight face...

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Farewell, The Greatest: A tribute

Was Muhammad Ali “The Greatest”? Ali told British actress Joanna Lumley in 1989 that it was all a publicity stunt to promote his fights. Lumley: “Ali. You are the greatest. How are you the greatest...

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Does (the Horn of) Africa have hope?

In April 2014, I wrote a  commentary entitled, “Is there Any Hope for Africa?” I wrote that commentary despairing over the endless man-made disasters in Africa over the past couple of decades. In April...

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Farewell, Barack Obama!

As I bid you farewell and adieu, I ask you three questions on matters that are enormously important to me: Is Africa better off today than when you became president on January 20, 2009? Is Ethiopia...

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The times they are a-changin’ in the land of immigrants?

Introduction I have written this commentary to better reach a broader audience concerning issues involving President Trump’s January 27, 2017 Executive Order “Protecting the Nation From Foreign...

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Join me in my letter to President Trump

Author’s Note: Below is a copy of the letter I sent to President Donald Trump by email and U.S. mail. I am asking particularly all pro-democracy Ethiopian Americans and other Americans who believe in...

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No honour at Tampere University for a dictator in Ethiopia

Author’s Note: In my March 19, 2017 commentary,  I indicated that I will be contacting the President and Board Chairman of the Tampere University of Technology to withdraw or rescind the offer of an...

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Apartheid State of Emergency in Ethiopia 2.0

On October 9, 2016, the puppet prime minister (PPM) of the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) Hailemariam announced a “state of emergency” (SoE) in a 20-minute televised...

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