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Mar 20

How to Cause “Good Trouble” in Ethiopia Part 1

The signs have been there for a long time. Massacres and persecution of Amhara. Shooting and teargassing people while they attend church. Attacking people while they celebrate Adwa Day… And when you have a mayor of a capital city who makes irresponsible remarks, who claimed that “a large migration” into…

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How to Cause “Good Trouble” in Ethiopia Part 1

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Feb 27

Where Is Ethiopia’s MLK? Where is the new Petros?

I drafted this article at close to two in the morning today, after I went to the celebration of the 127th Anniversary of the Victory of Adwa in Toronto. And it’s not enough, not nearly enough, to mark this landmark event in history. It needs and should be regularly evaluated…

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Where Is Ethiopia’s MLK? Where is the new Petros?

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Dec 16, 2022

Lies, Deceit and Aid: New Revelations about the World Food Programme’s conduct and the TPLF

A former director of the UN’s World Food Programme in Ethiopia has quietly put out a book that rips the veil off the politics, racism and deceit surrounding aid shipments to Tigray and confirming how the TPLF lied to the world while denying people food. The book is titled At…

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Lies, Deceit and Aid: New Revelations about the World Food Programme’s conduct and the TPLF

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Dec 2, 2022

The Digital White Man’s Burden and Liberal Sanctimony Over Social Media

The musician Moby wrote on November 29: “This will be my last tweet. Last night, Elon Musk posted an alt-right anti-Semitic meme, a fake CNN story, and an image of guns on his bedside table. Twitter has become a cesspool of racism, anti-Semitism, disinformation, and dimwitted alt-right hate, and it’s…

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The Digital White Man’s Burden and Liberal Sanctimony Over Social Media

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Dec 1, 2022

Ethiopian Diaspora Voters to Politicians: Ignore us at your peril

U.S. politics are weird. Americans don’t directly elect their President. There seems to be a constant, relentless cycle of elections going on. You can have whack-job crazy mavericks in either party who go off and do their own thing in either the House or Senate. …

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Ethiopian Diaspora Voters to Politicians: Ignore us at your peril

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Nov 9, 2022

Vandalizing Truth After Wrecking the Campuses: Another game in Canada rigged for the TPLF — and this time a diplomat might let himself be used

Canada keeps drinking the TPLF Kool-Aid. First a parliamentary subcommittee hearing that shamelessly favored advocates for the Junta, as…

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Vandalizing Truth After Wrecking the Campuses: Another game in Canada rigged for the TPLF — and…

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Nov 7, 2022

The War Crimes Trial of Alex de Waal

Time to Hold the Worst TPLF Propagandist Accountable Back in September of 2021, I published a story on Medium for which I’m still waiting to earn its proper outrage. TPLF operatives barged into the office of UNFP, the UN agency that provided services related to sexual and gender-based violence in Ethiopia and its region of Tigray. …

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The War Crimes Trial of Alex de Waal

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Oct 31, 2022

Out of their own mouths, the words that prove the Canadian subcommittee hearing was a sham

A travesty took place last Friday with the Canadian House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights. We have the proof in a video clip where you can see MPs try to prevent me from speaking, but it gets worse — much worse. They never intended to approach this subject…

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Out of their own mouths, the words that prove the Canadian subcommittee hearing was a sham

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Oct 27, 2022

The Man Who Said, “#NoMore” Before Anyone Else

As reported earlier, Imru Zelleke — ambassador and activist — passed away on Friday, October 21, 2022 in Virginia. His family has kindly shared a copy of a letter that shows his deep political conscience and how he stood by his principles. …

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The Man Who Said, “#NoMore” Before Anyone

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Oct 23, 2022

Obituary: Imru Zelleke, Survivor and Diplomat Who Saw Ethiopia Rise

Ethiopia, you have lost your grandfather, and I need you to know it, and I will mourn with you. Imru Zelleke died peacefully on Friday, October 21, 2022 in Virginia. I call him your grandfather, because Imru Zelleke is the man who could tell you who you once were, where…

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Obituary: Imru Zelleke, Survivor and Diplomat Who Saw Ethiopia Rise

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Jeff Pearce

Jeff Pearce

Writer person. Books - Prevail, The Karma Booth, Gangs in Canada; in June 2021, Winged Bull, a bio of Henry Layard, the Victorian era’s Indiana Jones.

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