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Ethiopia: Lies, Damn Lies, Axum and the West.  By Jeff Pearce I want to tell you about Tito Minniti. An Italian pilot during the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia. The short version of the story goes like this: In late December of 1935, somewhere...

Antony Blinken: Abiy Ahmed’s Proxy Mesfin Arega   The US Secretary of state Mr. Antony Blinken recently, officially called for the “immediate withdrawal” of Eritrean forces and Amhara regional forces from Tigray.  This...

Jawar Mohammed’s “Hunger Strike” Drama  By  Gemechu Aba Biya  If there were an Oscar for the most delusional politicians, Jawar Mohammed of Ethiopia would win by a large margin. He believes he is the greatest political scientist who...

Dystopian Apartheid Oromuma and Geopolitical Squeeze Against Ethiopia Getaneh K Ethiopia, under PM Abiy Ahmed, is under category 4 diplomatic pressure with potentially severe consequences. Just in the last three days alone, between February...

Tigray in Ethiopia: Sorry, whose war is it? Jeff Pearce Today, there are news websites full of Debretsion Gebremichael’s statement from an audio recording — even without confirmation whether he’s still alive...

Rene Lefort’s Attack on the Prime Minister By Worku Aberra  (Professor) Last December, in an article titled “Mind over matter: Abiy Ahmed’s aim to “Pentecostalize Ethiopian politics”,  Rene Lefort engages in gratuitous ad hominem...

IS BRITAIN’S ANGLO-ETHIOPIAN SOCIETY INFILTRATED BY TPLF SUPPORTERS?   David Steinman It is well known that the TPLF sometimes infiltrates or otherwise exerts influence over international organizations such as the World Health Organization...

The ‘decline’ of collective intelligence among Ethiopian political elites: A historical perspective   GIRMA BERHANU (Professor) “Heaven and earth are such an immense realm that it can only be grasped by the collective intelligence...