How to Cause “Good Trouble in Ethiopia,” Part 2 There used to be an old sitcom on Western television in the 1970s called M*A*S*H, about a medical unit during the Korean War, and when the show was good, it was hilarious, and when it was terrible, it was excruciatingly not hilarious and maudlin (yeah, I know, I’m old). Anyway…

An Open (and Less than Respectful) Letter to Alan Boswell, ICG’s Horn of Africa Director Alan, Baby! I can’t tell you how pumped I am to the point of cheerful vomiting that you’ve put out an advert for a new Senior Analyst for Ethiopia at Crisis Group. Exciting! Challenging! Mortifying…

A short story Content Warning: Graphic Horror and Disturbing Language I don’t sleep well anymore . My own fault. Trying to write certain projects, being a workaholic, night-owl — call it what you want. Last Friday night was different because as I was nodding off, I swear, an entire short story unrolled as…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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. …

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