May 13Good Riddance to Bad RubbishRevoking Tom Gardner’s Media License in Ethiopia is a VERY good thing. I have an old Elton John tune going through my head, though slightly revised lyrics for the sad piano: “Goodbye, English Doofus…” No, I will not be respectful. No, I will not modify my language when it comes…Ethiopia10 min read
May 3An Open Letter to The EconomistAddis Ababa Correspondent Tom Gardner has crossed an ethical line no reporter should. It’s high time he was given the boot home and fired. The following is the text of an open letter I’ve submitted to the editors of The Economist in Britain. The email referred to was sent by Tom Gardner to an official at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on Sunday, May 1, at 11:00:49 EST. …Journalism6 min read
Apr 13Drag the TPLF in front of the International Criminal Court!I’ve been swapping emails with the University of Gondar this week. It’s sent me a few details of their horrific findings over the mass graves of TPLF victims discovered in Welkait, where Jemal Countess and Betty Sheba Tekeste spoke to witnesses and survivors. For the now infamous site called Gehanem…Ethiopia6 min read
Apr 4My Vision of a Pan-African News Network: How a Dream Crashed and BurnedWell, kids, this is why we can’t have nice things. Because there’s always someone who won’t bust their ass to put in the work and thinks you can get by with the cheap product. This is a rant, by the way. I have pushed for ages for a Pan-African news…Ethiopia10 min read
Apr 4Original Network Pitch DocumentNote: What follows are excerpts from a document created February 27, 2022 that was supposed to be absorbed into a greater proposal for a Pan-African news network, for which we were seeking about $20 to $30 million in start-up capital. Because I can no longer trust that my former “partners”…Journalism22 min read
Mar 3How Idiots Who Don’t Read Fail EthiopiaA Rant. With Facts. I was hoping to have a nice break. You get tired yelling into a hurricane. It’s no big secret that the Movement, if we can call it that, has splintered for the moment over how much or how little Abiy’s government…Ethiopia9 min read
Feb 7The Afar Still Wait for the World to Notice Their PlightThis won’t take long. Unless you think about it hard, and you have a conscience, and then it will weigh on you for hours. How many stories about the horrors going on in the Afar region did you see over the weekend? …Ethiopia3 min read
Feb 7Wolf in the Fold: How the WHO’s Director Will Even Betray the World’s Health for the TPLFAnd how Ethiopia’s Mengele really belongs in a courtroom Tedros Adhanom must feel pretty untouchable these days. …Ethiopia8 min read
Dec 28, 2021PROSECUTE!It’s Time for Ethiopia to Put the U.S., the UN and the TPLF On Trial. It’s Time for an African People’s Tribunal. A few days ago, I stood in what felt like the frozen still image of a cyclone, the appalling destruction that TPLF marauders committed on the police station…Ethiopia8 min read
Dec 8, 2021The UN Can Publicly Confirm the TPLF’s Looting in Wollo… But It Hasn’t. Again.A leaked internal UN Security Update from Monday, December 6, paints a very different picture of the TPLF’s humiliating retreat from Dessie and Kombolcha than the one Getachew Reda is trying to sell online. And it also raises the question again of how long the UN will hide specific details…Ethiopia3 min read