Ethiopia: The Power of Grassroots Advocacy Over Paid Lobbying
Author’s Note: This commentary is the third installment in an ongoing series opposing the lobbying efforts of the Praetorian regime in Ethiopia which rules by a declaration of emergency. For years and...
View ArticleMy Interview on Voice of America Amharic Program on 03 08 2017 (Part I)
My interview on Voice of America Amharic Program on March 8, 2017. (Part I.)
View ArticleHearing Ethiopia on The Hill
“Having been on this Committee now 36 of my 37 years, I have to tell you that I remember when Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania, one of the most brutal dictatorships, with the Securitate, the KGB...
View ArticleMy Full Interview on Voice of America Amharic Program on 03 08 2017
My interview on Voice of America Amharic Program on March 8, 2017. (Part I and II.)
View ArticleTrashin’ Addis Ababa (New Flower)
Author’s Note: The purported prime minster of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, is a sanitary engineer with a master’s degree from Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland. The sanitary...
View ArticleNo Honor 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...
View ArticleHabtamu Ayalew’s Shocking Revelations on Torture in Ethiopia- VOA Interview...
“The former spokesman for the opposition Andenet (Unity) party was arrested on July 8, 2014 and charged with terrorism for allegedly collaborating with the opposition Ginbot 7, which the Ethiopian...
View ArticleThe Lords of Living Lies in Ethiopia
Author’s Note: In this commentary, I take a careful look at the “very sophisticated report from the Embassy [of Ethiopia]” submitted for the record at the “Democracy Under Threat in Ethiopia” hearing...
View Article“Ethiopian Prime Minister will not receive an honorary doctorate at the...
Reported in the Swedish Yle’s Finnish-Swedish broadcasting media. Original report link: https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2017/03/29/etiopiens-premiarminister-blir-inte-hedersdoktor-vid-finskt-universitet...
View ArticleThe Torture Chronicles of Ethiopian Patriot Habtamu Ayalew (in His Own Words)
Author’s Note: Following is my translation of the Amharic interview given by Habtamu Ayalew to the Voice of America (VOA), Amharic Program on March 15, 2017 and broadcast on the same day and on March...
View ArticleApartheid 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...
View ArticleAbout Time for the T-TPLF to Get in Their Spaceships and Scoot Out of Ethiopia?
Houston, we ain’t got NO problem! I dreamt the nightmare was finally over. It could have been a vision. I am not sure. There stood I watching the launch pad excitedly, anxiously, happily. I can hear...
View ArticleThe T-TPLF Spook Who Sat by the Jailhouse Door in Ethiopia (Part I)
Author’s Note: This is Part I of a two-part translation of an Amharic interview[1] with a former, now-exiled anonymous T-TPLF “mole” (deep- cover intelligence operative) who was trained to infiltrate...
View ArticleThe Good Kops/Bad Kops T-TPLF Con Game (Over) in Ethiopia
“Oh! What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” The length to which the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation (T-TPLF) will go to scam, hoodwink, bamboozle, con, dupe,...
View ArticleGlimpses of Trump’s Foreign (Human Rights) Policy in Africa
“Guiding all of our foreign policy actions are our fundamental values: our values around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated. These are our values… not our policies… Policies change…...
View ArticleAl Mariam’s Voice of America Interview (Amharic) on Trump’s Firing of FBI...
My interview with Voice of America (Amharic) on the firing of James Comey, FBI Director, on May 13, 2017.
View ArticleEthiopia: Who for WHO? A Top Leader of a Terrorist Organization, That’s Who!
Author’s Note: In this commentary, I make the case against Tedros Adhanom, a top leader of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front, a terrorist organization, who is a finalist for the director-general...
View ArticleUS doesn’t need Ethiopia in its war on terror in the Horn of Africa
Originally appeared in The Hill (o5/05/17.) [Posted on almariam.com on 5/24/17.] http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/332093-us-doesnt-need-ethiopia-in-its-war-on-terror-in-the-horn-of...
View ArticleMy Interview (Amharic) on Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) on “Law Day”...
My interview on Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) on “Law Day” (05/10/17) To view video, click on the link below:
View ArticleEthiopiaWIN.et and Tewdros Kassa-hun
Author’s Note: This month the Ethiopian popular music megastar Tewdros “Teddy Afro” Kassahun released his “Ethiopia” album, which quickly topped the World Albums Billboard chart during the week of May...
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