{"id":376981,"date":"2018-09-12T05:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T04:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ethiopia-a-case-study-in-take-over-by-western-interests\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T05:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T04:18:39","slug":"ethiopia-a-case-study-in-take-over-by-western-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ethiopia-a-case-study-in-take-over-by-western-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: A Case Study in Take-Over by Western Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ethiopia is a landlocked country, bordering on Somalia which is dominating the Horn of Africa. Due to several border conflicts during the past decades with Somalia, many of them supportive of Ethiopia by the US military, the border between the two countries has become porous and ill-defined. Ethiopia is also bordering on Djibouti, where the United States has a Naval Base, Camp Lemonnier, next to Djibouti\u2019s international airport. The base is under AFRICOM, the Pentagon\u2019s African Command. AFRICOM has its boots in Ethiopia, as it does in many other African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s new Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has already demonstrated that he is poised to hand over his country to western interests, vultures, such as the World Bank, IMF and eventually the globalized Wall Street banking clan. In fact, it looks like these institutions were instrumental in manipulating parliamentary maneuvers, with arm-twisting of the ruling Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to make Mr. Abyi the new Prime Minister, succeeding Mr. Hailemariam Desalegn, who rather suddenly was forced to resign in February 2018, amidst endless foreign induced protests and violent street demonstrations. With EPRDF Ethiopia is a <em>de facto<\/em> one-party state. EPRDF is a coalition of different regional representations.<\/p>\n<p>Read also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/09\/02\/ethiopia-breaking-dam-for-western-debt-slavery.html.\">Ethiopia \u2013 Breaking the Dam for Western Debt Slavery <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proud Ethiopia has never been colonized by western powers, <em>per se<\/em>, except for a brief Italian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/ethiopia-a-case-study-in-take-over-by-western-interests\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is a landlocked country, bordering on Somalia which is dominating the Horn of Africa. Due to several border conflicts during the past decades with Somalia, many of them supportive of Ethiopia by the US military, the border between the two countries has become porous and ill-defined. Ethiopia is also bordering on Djibouti, where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}