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  • Faarseebulaa
    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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  • Peace Laureate
    Cyber Essay | ⏭

    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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  • Public Funds
    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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  • Squandering Billions
    Editorial | ⏭

    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...

    Read More How Ethiopia's Regime Is Squandering Billions It Cannot Afford to Cling to PowerCyber Trolls—The Regime’s Costly Propaganda WarfareContinue

  • Clapping for Lies
    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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  • An Open Letter to the Caffee Oromia
    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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  • Maize Ban
    Campaign | Editorial | ⏭

    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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  • Amorelite
    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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  • Intellectualism
    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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  • A Chilling Assimilation Blueprint of 1933 for the Oromo
    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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  • "Systematic Dispossession of Oromia"
    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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  • Oromo Dispossession
    Campaign | Editorial | Politics | ⏭

    Legal Path to Further Oromo Dispossession? The Oromo People Must Reject the Draft Property Ownership Proclamation

    By OT Editorial Posted on2025-05-022025-05-02
    2 Comments

    Excerpt: A dangerous new draft law in Ethiopia threatens to legalize a deeper level of Oromo dispossession by allowing foreign nationals to own immovable property—including ancestral lands in Oromia. More than just an economic shift, this proposed legislation risks permanently severing the Oromo people from their land, culture, and identity. What’s at stake is not...

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  • Jawar Mohammed
    Opinion | Politics

    Jawar Mohammed: From Oromo Icon to PP Sympathizer?

    By Abbaa Gaatoo Posted on2025-04-292025-04-29

    Preview: A Revolutionary Spirit in Question Once the fearless voice of Oromo freedom, now sounding like a Prosperity Party (PP) loyalist? Jawar Mohammed’s latest interview on Kush Media Network (KMN) left many shocked — and some wondering: Has the revolutionary spirit faded, or is there a bigger game at play? Read below the full reflection...

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  • A Prerequisite for the Abbuu Seeraa Airport Project
    Editorial | ⏭

    The Oromo People Demand a Prerequisite for the Abbuu Seeraa Airport Project

    By OT Editorial Posted on2025-04-272025-04-26

    Prefer listening? Play the audio of full article. The Tranquil Indigenous People Before colonization and forced annexation, indigenous peoples thrived across the globe — civilizations, cultures, and ways of life intricately woven with their environments over thousands of years. They were not waiting to be "discovered"; they were living fully, imagining, governing, trading, and sustaining...

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  • The Tragedy Behind the Abuu Seeraa Airport Deal
    Editorial | ⏭

    Development Draped in Dispossession: The Tragedy Behind the Abuu Seeraa Airport Deal

    By OT Editorial Posted on2025-04-232025-04-23

    “That is what prosperity looks like,” boasts a Prosperity Party (PP) regime loyalist in his Facebook repost, proudly sharing a photo announcing a $7.8 billion agreement between Ethiopian Airlines and the African Development Bank to build Africa’s largest airport in Abuu Seeraa, near Bishoftu town in Oromia. A gleaming model aircraft in the hands of...

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  • Propaganda Dressed as Pity
    Editorial | ⏭

    The Politics of Easter Charity: Propaganda Dressed as Pity

    By OT Editorial Posted on2025-04-192025-04-19

    The sickening propaganda machine of the Prosperity Party (PP) regime has reached a new low—one that defeats description, but not scrutiny. This Easter weekend, one of the holiest in the Ethiopian calendar, the Mayor of Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) and the Prime Minister himself embarked on a public relations roadshow. The show? Distributing cooking oil—and yes,...

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