Thomas C. Mountain , American journalist in Eritrea, discusses the empire’s economic interest in the Horn of Africa, the dying sock-puppet tyrant and tyranny in Ethiopia, the CIA’s scramble to find a replacement for the reportedly-comatose Meles Zenawi, Gayle Smith‘s warmongering from the White House, Plan B, the new naval installations to be put in in Djibouti, the US-Ethiopian-AU proxy war in Somalia and the major nationalist rebel army massing in Ethiopia.

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