“What #Washington seeks is what Bush announced: control, or at least dependable clients. #US and #British internal documents stress that “the virus of nationalism” is their greatest fear, not just in the Middle East but everywhere.” #NoamChomsky#Ethiopia#USbackedTPLF
@aaronjmate@owenjonesjourno Whenever liberals talk about “unity” and parking a side “moral purity”, they mean uniting with the right. There is no historical urgency that would convince liberals to work with the real left.
An Israeli "observer delegation" was kicked out of the @_AfricanUnion summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Israeli were escorted out by security guards during the opening ceremony.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry is blaming South Africa and Algeria for getting Israel kicked out.
However, with all due respect, Israel is not an African nation, what gives it a right to "observer" an African summit? African sovereignty must be respected. The colonial era is long gone.
The African Union should also remove the United States and European delegates from having "observer status" in African Union summits. Last we checked, Africa does not have an observer status in America or the E.U.
Israelis are crying about Israel “Observers” being kicked out of AU summit.
What the fuck is Israel doing in an African Union summit to begin with? And what they fuck are they observing? 😂
@Getahun22552418 Independent=western? So is all the call to arms Tigrayan clergy made in the name of “defending yourself from the genocide war being waged against you”.
@AdhanomAzeb@NatyYifru The oscillation of ethno-fascists between hero and victims may seem like an extreme shift in the outset but the core is the same. Which is I am hero like no other (specialness), to I am a victim like no other (specialness).
How exactly are the Chinese, who have never fired a gun at any country to reach their current economic heights the bad guys, and Americans/NATO who have been on a world tour of murder, looting, and war, the good guys?
The Government of Ethiopia has released a Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for the Partial Privatization of @ethiotelecom to invite proposals from interested parties
"hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it’s going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started"
- philosopher Mary Midgley
@EugenePuryear What I found more significant here is Kenya no longer seems to be a client state. Having an independent foreign policy is no easy matter, especially for a country like Kenya.
#Ethiopia#EOTC
The EOTC attack has awakened the silenced/exhausted majority of democratic and pan-Ethiopian instincts. If the majority is to have any chance of success at building a democratic and egalitarian Ethiopia, it must overcome its perennial collective action problems-1
#PEACE#EOTC
Two narratives about #Ethiopia's past
*Oppression- which is accepted by most Ethiopians and is mainly focused on past govts
*Humiliation- accepted by hardline Oromos who see themselves as heirs of an imagined Oromo humiliation (NB ሰብረውናል፣ እንሰብራቸዋለን)-1
@awolallo Since Orthodox Christianity played a dominant role in Ethiopia history, do you believe Christian Oromos and Muslim Oromos also need to have that discussion?