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Editorial | ⏭
The Habesha Axis and the Horn's Tipping PointThe Case for Empowering the Oromo for Regional Stability
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-292025-05-29
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The emerging Habesha Axis—an uneasy alignment of Amhara, Tigray, and Eritrean elites—reveals a deeper truth: historic rivals will unite to suppress Oromo political empowerment. Despite decades of hostility, these actors find common cause in opposing self-determination for Oromia. This convergence is not about unity, but about preserving an old imperial center. Naming it for what it is, the article argues that it is crucial to understanding why Ethiopia’s future hinges on justice for the Oromo and Oromia.
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Editorial | Politics
Amhara Fano's Expansionist Vein Disguised as PeaceA Comparative Reading of Responses to the U.S. Call for Negotiation
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-282025-05-27
Amhara Fano’s response to the U.S. call for negotiation reveals an expansionist agenda cloaked in grievance. Their demand to “return” disputed regions like Wolkait and Raya signals territorial revisionism. In contrast, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) emphasizes accountability and genuine dialogue. As journalist Sajid Nadeem noted in his May 24 podcast, Fano’s maximalist tone risks undermining peace. Negotiation must be rooted in inclusivity—not in reclaiming imperial boundaries through the language of justice.
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Editorial
Assert Your Rights – Stand Tall or Be TrampledThe Power of Posture in Politics, Society, and the Mind
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-272025-05-26
You were not born to be bowed. You were born to rise. In politics, society, and your own mind—never let anyone write your story in your silence. Assert your rights boldly, for the dignity of your people and the clarity of your truth.
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Editorial
A Cry for Justice: Save Oromo Refugees Trapped in Saudi Detention
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-252025-05-25
Oromo refugees in Saudi Arabia are enduring appalling conditions—crammed in overcrowded cells, denied proper food, medicine, and justice. Most are victims of human trafficking, not criminals. Some now face execution on fabricated charges, while the Ethiopian embassy remains shamefully silent. The world must act before more lives are lost.
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The Abject Poverty of the Indigenous Oromo
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-242025-05-24
The Indigenous Oromo remain deeply impoverished despite living on some of the most fertile land in Ethiopia. This article unpacks how systemic exclusion, political betrayal, and false narratives like “Baale Giize” continue to marginalize the Indigenous Oromo while others prosper at their expense.
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Article | Commentary | ⏭
Digital Serfdom in Ethiopia: Faarseebulaa, Propaganda, and the Politics of Praise
By Olii Boran (PhD, Sociology) and Ed Chapman (Digital Forensics Researcher) Posted on2025-05-222025-05-22
Faarseebulaa refers to Ethiopia’s emerging class of Digital Serfs—individuals who voluntarily serve authoritarian systems through online propaganda. Unlike historical peasants or proletariats who resisted oppression, the Faarseebulaa defend it for personal gain, low self-worth, and limited awareness. They are not rulers, yet they passionately safeguard the system that exploits the majority.
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A Postcard for a Nobel Peace Laureate: From Sisters Twinned in Sorrow
By Daughters Twinned in Resolve Posted on2025-05-212025-05-21
This haunting postcard captures the grief of two Ethiopian mothers — one Oromo, one Tigrayan — whose suffering stands as a silent rebuke to a Nobel Peace Laureate. History may forget his speeches, but not the faces he left behind in ashes.
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Corruption | Editorial | ⏭
When Public Funds Become Private Fortunes: Why Misusing Public Money Must Be a High Crime
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-202025-05-19
While millions of Ethiopians suffer without basic services, the regime's ruling elite continue to exploit public funds as if they were private fortunes. Lavish lifestyles, overseas treatments, fleets of gas-guzzling SUVs — all financed at the people's expense. This article exposes the mechanisms of corruption, proposes a framework for restitution, and issues a warning: there will be no sunset clause for the theft of public funds.
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How Ethiopia's Regime Is Squandering Billions It Cannot Afford to Cling to PowerCyber Trolls—The Regime’s Costly Propaganda Warfare
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-182025-05-18
Excerpt: Ethiopia is now well known for squandering billions on trivial projects while the citizens in millions are hurting. The regime pays cyber trolls more than doctors — perhaps at a ten-to-one ratio — builds palaces while hospitals collapse, and fights dissent harder than it fights poverty. This is an empire betrayed from within. Ethiopia...
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Editorial | Politics
Clapping for Lies in Ethiopian Politics: A Reckoning for Ethiopia's Belly-Politicians
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-172025-05-17
Ethiopia’s parliament has become a theatre of false applause, where belly-politicians betray their people by clapping for lies in Ethiopian politics.
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Campaign | Editorial | Open Letter | Politics | ⏭
An Open Letter to the Caffee Oromia: Fulfill Your Sacred Mandate
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-152025-04-29
An Open Letter to the Caffee Oromia: This is a plea wrapped in pain and principle. As the Oromo people endure loss, disillusionment, and unanswered sacrifices, the silence of their elected house grows louder. This letter calls on Caffee Oromia to rise — not just as an institution, but as a conscience.
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A Coward's Policy in Oromia: The Maize Ban That Threatens Food Security
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-152025-05-13
When maize becomes a threat and feeding your people a crime, governance has failed not only in courage—but in conscience. The senseless maize ban just imposed across Oromia’s Rift Valley belt is yet another tragic episode of hapless leadership—one that shuns dialogue in favor of desperate, random firefighting, even if it means starving its own population in the months ahead.
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Cyber Essay | ⏭
Amorelite: An Illuminating Word We Didn't Know We Needed
By Malkkaa Beenyaa (MA, Social Psychologist) Posted on2025-05-102025-05-09
An Essay by Invitation Excerpt The rise of the Amorelite — a corrupt, conscience-free elite class — is not just a sign of decay in Ethiopia and Oromia; it is the disease itself. This essay names and frames the unspoken social affliction eating away at power, ethics, and humanity. Read it. Name it. Confront it....
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Commentary
When Intellectualism Becomes ComplicitHow Ethiopia’s intellectual legacy must confront its role in cultural erasure and ideological domination.
By Roobaa Hawaas Posted on2025-05-082025-05-08
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Excerpt: When intellectualism aligns with power instead of truth, it risks becoming a refined tool of domination. This reflection challenges the legacy of Ethiopian academia and calls for a return to ethical, justice-driven scholarship. Introduction Throughout history, intellectuals have often served as society's conscience—interpreters of truth, critics of power, and illuminators of the human condition....
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Article | Editorial | Politics | Verifiable History
Haile Selassie’s Chilling Assimilation Blueprint of 1933 for the Oromo: When ‘Unity’ Meant Erasure
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-072025-05-07
Excerpt This article unveils the Chilling Assimilation Blueprint of 1933 for the Oromo people, a calculatedly policy framework of Haile Selassie's regime. Drawing from historical documents and translated accounts, it exposes how forced identity erasure was justified in the name of "national unity". Far from being a relic of the past, the blueprint reveals patterns...
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Cyber Essay | ⏭
We Shall Stand for Oromo and Oromia
By Intala Oromo fi Ilma Oromo Posted on2025-05-042025-05-03
A Cyber Essay on Honoring a Civilization Rooted in Equality, Rising in Unity, and Ready for the Future. We shall stand for Oromo and Oromia—unapologetically, unashamedly, and unbreakably. Just as Americans revere their Flag, the French guard their Revolution, and the British preserve their Legacy, so too shall we uphold the pride, dignity, and future...
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