This @HermelaTV panel last night was/is FANTASTIC.

Democrats need to understand going into tight mid-term elections that what happens to Ethiopia could effect the outcome & control of Congress.

AU Ethiopia Peace Talks: Day 2 #VotePeaceEthiopia
The strategy outlined here by Elias Hiruy and @NebiyuAsfaw of @EA_DevCouncil and the @GleanEthiopia nexus is exactly what is needed, and has already delivered big time.

Its a big part of why the Biden Administration has been softening its position on Ethiopia in recent months.
@EA_DevCouncil and @GleanEthiopia have a cheat sheet to help HOA, East Africa and Pan African US based diaspora voters to know how to #VotePeaceEthiopia

Here's the first @HermelaTV Peace Talks show. If I heard right there is going to be one every night.
Hermela and her crew running these through to the election on Nov 4th, and everybody amplifying the audience would be an invaluable way to leverage better outcomes for Ethiopia in both South Africa and Washington DC. #VotePeaceEthiopia
Actually this is the first one, streamed 24 Oct. featuring @karanjasan and @PeeblesGraham - a bit of a marathon but super interesting, Karanja's take on Uhuru Kenyatta is fascinating - as is Peebles' satellite high view of imperialist dysfunction.
In the first three days of this series, 100k + streams already. And massive level of engagement during them all. A Tour de Force.
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More from @althecat

Oct 28
An essential truth about TPLF, Tigray Genocide & the Tigray war.

The PR launch of #TigrayGenocide accompanied the attack by the TPLF on Nov. 3-4 2020. It’s purpose, to manipulate Western Powers & public opinion to support a violent insurrection, a coup. And it worked.
Whilst @SecPompeo initially responded to the attack in horror on behalf of the US, the ruse worked, and as the world was distracted by the high stakes US election #TigrayGenocide exploded on social media and was swallowed without discernment by the Govt. Elect of @JoeBiden.
Everything that has happened since in Ethiopia has rested on this big lie - the most successful disinformation campaign in warfare since the fake WMDs pretext for the Iraq war in 2003.
Read 27 tweets
Oct 27
Hillarious. The @threadreaderapp computer said no to unrolling @SMGebru’s thread. It’s not old it’s yesterday. Image
The thread is interesting though and as @SMGebru has blocked a lot of people worth sharing. ImageImageImageImage
Complete fantasy from the look of things, he’s claiming TPLF forces are “encircling the encirclers” among other things. Image
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Oct 26
I expect Tigray's children, nearly all of whom will have been brought up in faith like all Ethipoians make very poor killers when deployed as child soldiers by the TPLF forces in human waves. Which may explain why so few of them are given guns.
Which reminds me how much I have become desensitised simply by observing this war.

The horrors which will emerge once the true story is told of what has happened will have an enormous impact globally.
And the fact that all of this has happened with active Western IC - including #HRW and @amnesty support for the evil that brought this about in many ways makes the Western powers failures here worse than those in Cambodia and Rwanda.
Read 4 tweets
Oct 26
Excellent myth-busting here from the incomparable @JonAbbink. A deep dive into the notable absence of any religious dimension to the Northern Ethiopian conflict. Jon also sets the record straight on a large number of other aspects of this war. canopyforum.org/2022/10/26/has…
@JonAbbink Great piece Jon! When I was in Amhara Addis and Afar in April May and June through a coinciding Easter/Ramadan celebrations I fell in love with the "singing city" of Addis, where the overlapping Islamic and EOC calls to prayer were almost continuous where I was staying.
While in Addis I met some Catholic missionary nuns and went to a wonderful Geez Mass, in a tiny Franciscan church. Three priests, entirely sung with continuous music and incense burning. 3 hours long. I loved it :)
Read 17 tweets
Oct 24
Ok Senait. I admire your passion, but disagree (do not equate likes for agreement) and this tweet of yours contains an element of why. Peace talks are very difficult and necessarily need to be very focused on a single outcome, and to not be politicised.
This is why they take place in silence, and fairly often in secret. They need to be compartmentalised.

US foreign policy is conducted by committee and it is a disaster for that very reason.
It allows special interests to pay for policy related to peace and security and it underpins all the hazards and disasters of the past more than a century of corporate imperialism and American over-reach.
Read 6 tweets
Oct 24
CORRECTION: TPLF is attending the talks, and according to @ProfKindeya a delegation has already arrived there.

This is very good news. A negotiated solution is the path to a durable peace. So what should we expect based on precedent in terms of timing of resolution & visibility.
Based on the size of the delegation from the TPLF attending the talks & what we know about who the other participants/observers are (AU, US, UN - apparently not the EU - though that may change) - this is likely to take some time.
The presumable TPLF position going into the talks is that they will want to:
a) Stay in power in Tigray with a high level of autonomy.
b) Retain their armed forces
c) Negotiate a return of Wolkait (i.e. their "Western Tigray") or at least an open transport corridor to Sudan.
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