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An Open Letter to Prime Minister Abiy: Do or Die Reform Imperatives

ANALYSIS, OPINION & MORE / October 24, 2021 / OPEN LETTER, Prime Minister Abiy, Yonas Biru, Yonas Biru (Ph.D)

Yonas Biru (Ph.D) October 24, 2021 Mr. Prime Minister The contents of this letter are a rehash of earlier blogs, open letters, and published articles. The conflation of economic pressure points and the convergence of national and international political compulsions give the issues in question new urgency and importance. Before I share my concerns, candid …

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TPLF’s and OFC’s Demands are Poison Pills to Repel Ethiopia’s Democratic Governance

ANALYSIS, OPINION & MORE / August 3, 2021 / Jawar Mohammed, PhD, Repel Democratic Governance, TPLF’s and OFC’s Demand are Poison Pills, Yonas Biru

Yonas Biru, PhD August 3, 2021 The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Federalist Congresses’ (OFC) demand to establish a provisional government is a poison pill to repel the results of the 2021 elections that have been endorsed by the African Union as “orderly, peaceful, and credible.” The constitutional basis of the authority …

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What Explains Biden’s Counterintuitive Policy on TPLF’s War on Ethiopia

ANALYSIS, OPINION & MORE / July 31, 2021 / Biden’s Counterintuitive Policy, PhD, TPLF’s War on Ethiopia, Yonas Biru

Yonas Biru, PhD July 31, 2021 After the September 11, 2001, attack in the US homeland, public diplomacy became a “top priority” of U.S. foreign policy. In an excellent 2005 article in the Institute for Policy Studies, John Gershman and R.S. Zaharna took note that “The perceptions of foreign audiences have domestic consequences, and public diplomacy, …

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Beyond Ethiopian Intellectual ኡኡታ: The Logic Behind US’s Intervention in Ethiopia

ANALYSIS, OPINION & MORE / July 22, 2021 / Beyond Ethiopian Intellectual, PhD, US’s Intervention in Ethiopia, Yonas Biru

Yonas Biru, PhD JULY 22, 2021 With all due respect, it appears to me that our intellectuals spend an exorbitant amount of time, scavenging quotes from cyberspace. Every utterance by the US Secretary of State and other US officials is scavenged from the cyberspace and analyzed for days until another quotable quote gets our attention. …

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