Ethiopia country
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Ethiopia book_quoted
“basically began creating chaos throughout Ethiopia. And then the U.S. immediately after this chaos began, ordered sanctions placed on Ethiopia to financially weaken it, which is, again, a pattern that we see repeatedly. So they create the c…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 9:31
Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack
Ethiopia book_quoted
“The Tigray People's Liberation Front, that's TPLF, launched an insurgency in November of 2020. So this is very recent. And Hassan blamed the U.S. And basically, as a result, in just two years, it was estimated that over 600,000 people were …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 11:04
Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack
Ethiopia book_quoted
“started the war because he had become arrogant after winning the Nobel Peace Prize when the TPLF was reported to have initiated the hostilities by attacking the Ethiopian army's northern command. On November 4, 2020, the Ethiopian governmen…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 36:43
Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack
Ethiopia host_asserted
“Unreported in this documentary is the fact that the first massacre of the war was committed by the TPLF militia that we trained, up to a billion dollars of your tax dollars, at Maikadra on the Sudan border, November 9th, 2020. The TPLF also…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 40:42
Mentions (35)
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Okay, everybody, welcome to Operation Gladio Story Hour. We're going to be talking about Ethiopia today. And Bridget, if you wouldn't mind, in the article that I sent you, could you cut and paste the regions of Ethiopia and kind of get a ma…
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I texted it. Okay. Yeah. It's in space. Bridget, it's in spaces as well. Or the signal. Okay. Thank you. So Ethiopia is very interesting. And just so that you guys know, I don't think I've mentioned this. When I was at U.S. Central Command,…
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And most, like the Horn of Africa, which for our purposes includes like Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya. And I don't remember if Uganda, I want to say it was, but maybe not. But that whole...…
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talking about a former Ethiopian diplomat by the name of Mohamed Hassan. And it goes back to the 1990s and him being involved in protests with a future Ethiopian president by the name of Melez Zenawi.…
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that the U.S. government is responsible for the destruction of the Tigray, T-I-G-R-A-Y, which you will see on that map is the northernmost segment of Ethiopia next to Eritrea. And you remember what we have talked about in Operation Gladio a…
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basically began creating chaos throughout Ethiopia. And then the U.S. immediately after this chaos began, ordered sanctions placed on Ethiopia to financially weaken it, which is, again, a pattern that we see repeatedly. So they create the c…
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The Tigray People's Liberation Front, that's TPLF, launched an insurgency in November of 2020. So this is very recent. And Hassan blamed the U.S. And basically, as a result, in just two years, it was estimated that over 600,000 people were …
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in this uprising. The U.S. main motive for encouraging the rebellion was to restore the TPLF to power in Ethiopia, which they had been installed in power from 1991 to 2018, and to use the TPLF to control the Strategic Horn of Africa region.…
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Egypt under Mubarak, South Africa under Mbeki, Nigeria under General Abaka, and Ethiopia under the TPLF rule. And its leader at the time was Zenawi, Z-E-N-A-W-I. And he was president from 1991 until 95.…
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Now, keep in mind, most of that time is President Clinton's term. He then went on to be prime minister from 95 until 2018. He served as prime minister. When they first came to power in Ethiopia in 1991, the TPLF had popular legitimacy becau…
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The Derg, D-E-R-G, a Marxist dictatorship led by, I'm going to butcher this name, Medinstu Halimaryam, M-A-R-I-A-M. The U.S. hated Medinstu because he closed U.S. military bases in Ethiopia and also…
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kleptocratic rule, Zenawi provoked ethnic division and committed large-scale war crimes against when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 and 2007 and provoked a war with Eritrea in 1998 where the TPLF carried out a large-scale ethnic cleansing…
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Ethiopia, because remember that the Eritreans are up north where this pocket of TPLF people are. So they're launching, they created basically, in our terminology, not that of this author's, in our terminology, they created basically Gladio …
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Eritrea and up north in Ethiopia, which the northern boundary, you know, Ethiopia doesn't have any water access. So in order to get to the water to where the Suez Canal is up north, you've got to get through Eritrea. And Eritrea at some poi…
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Because it's our tax dollars that are creating the instability. So in 2018, the TPLF was overthrown in a popular uprising that resulted in the rise to power of Abiy Ahmed, A-H-M-E-D, a former member of the Oromo Democratic Party.…
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that they found necessary by the decision of the U.S. Defense Secretary John Foster Dulles in the 1950s to support Ethiopia's occupation of Eritrea. Eritrea rejected loans from the World Bank and the IMF and promoted economic self-reliance …
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or anybody else to include the Department of Defense from the U.S. in its country. To punish it for its defiance, the U.S. began imposing crippling sanctions under the false pretext that Eritrea supported the Somalian terrorist group al-Sha…
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wrote in Black Agenda Report that such negative and prejudiced views obscured the fact that Eritrea is a functioning and proudly sovereign state, which overcomes the hardships created by U.S. sanctions to care for its people. It was Eritrea…
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started the war because he had become arrogant after winning the Nobel Peace Prize when the TPLF was reported to have initiated the hostilities by attacking the Ethiopian army's northern command. On November 4, 2020, the Ethiopian governmen…
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Elbiger, who is reportedly married to the current British ambassador to Iraq, Mark Bryson Richard, relentlessly pushed this narrative of genocide perpetrated by the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and in September 2022 won an Emmy Award for h…
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Unreported in this documentary is the fact that the first massacre of the war was committed by the TPLF militia that we trained, up to a billion dollars of your tax dollars, at Maikadra on the Sudan border, November 9th, 2020. The TPLF also…
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used humanitarian relief supplies, that's your tax dollars, committed gang rapes, and fabricated evidence of Ethiopian war crimes. Western media generally left the impression that Ethiopian army would carry out a genocide if the U.S. did no…
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or monopolize the debate. The consequences was to help build public support for the U.S. sanctions and the military intervention, which the usual cohorts of liberal proponents of humanitarian intervention were eager to support. Danish journ…
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that Western media, academics, and humanitarian aid organizations demonized a friendly person and fueled a big war with dire misproductions and shocking lies. Central to these lies was the use of the word genocide. Soldaris wrote that the m…
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by the TPLF. A key media influencer promoting the genocide narrative was none other than the World Health Organization Director General Tedros, whatever you say his last name. A go-to media source who hid his own background as part of the T…
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And let me read just this little bit. Khashoggi was directly involved in helping organize and fund the top secret Operation Moses in 1984 to airlift 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel during a famine caused by the Ethiopian civil wa…
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on interrogation that was created by the FBI. They dubbed it in Portuguese. During class hours at the International Police Academy, discussions of domestic politics was not allowed. The academy's official liked to point out that whether you…
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They've done it to their own people repeatedly. On August 22nd, a top-level CIA source sat in a meeting in Addis Ababa between Gaddafi and Ethiopian leader Colonel Mariam. During this meeting, Gaddafi stated flatly that he was going to have…
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The project to place nuclear-powered detection gear in the Indian Himalayas to monitor China's weapon development came before the 303, as did the continuation of the U.S. intelligence ground stations in Iran, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. The gro…
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It concerned him that so many Americans knew nothing about it. And it was even worse considering the new technology of drones. That deeply concerned him. By 2012, there were two types of drone wars, one conducted by U.S. military in Afghani…
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became the most active branch of the World Anti-Communist League, which now operated globally against communist groups and governments. No, they didn't. They actually worked against their own domestic audience. In 1984, committees were esta…
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If he knew of the CIA connections, it obviously didn't bother him. But everybody knew back then that it was a CIA front. So he continued to write and do spying for them. His visit to Ethiopia in 1964 offered a representative impression of t…
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The overwhelming majority of the intellectuals is anti-communist labor socialists. They are willing to assist the emperor in the modernization of the nations, but they want to be handled as adults. Tosset advised his audience to establish a…
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of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which is the CIA. Quote, the emperor would think twice before attacking a group that has sympathy, respect, and organizational support of the democratic labor world, which eventually can mobilize world …
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The dark days of Admiral Turner were over, unquote. And Shackley was going to once again be at the top of the spear of the new administration. Quote, before his fellow ex-fives, Shackley read a paper on paramilitary covert actions in the 19…