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    THE U-TURN SPIRIT

    I think what we all do when we take time to write our ideas and make arguments is like painting (not that I know anything about painting). Mind you – WE ALL (from tanika-moulded PFDJ to Gangman-style opposition) HAVE THE SAME THING IN MIND: AN ERITREA THAT WE CAN BE PROUD TO CALL HOME. Simple because we have no choice…

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    THE U-TURN

    Disclaimer: This is not an academic journal written for the esoteric value of intellectual consumption – it is a blog written on personal initiative to promote a specific ideological point of view of the PFDJ. SENSITIVE READERS – PLEASE, STAY OUT. I have become an evangelist and I am on a mission to convince you to join me in taking…

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    Creative Destruction

    The aim of this article is to give clarifications and responses to some of the concerns and comments made to the two articles in the U-Turn debate. Some wanted to know about the personal motivations for making the U-Turn. Well, like all good Eritreans I have been hopping from one opposition to the other. I am one of those people…

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    The Third Way

    By way of introduction – this is the Third Way. But first let us see what the other two ways look like. THE FIRST WAY I would be using this term to refer to the worldview and politics of the PFDJ as a political party currently in charge of guiding and administering government in Eritrea. The term does not refer…

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    Advocates of Civil War

    HOUSEKEEPING A few points to make sure that we actually engage in meaningful exchange: (1) The assumption here is that you do not know how to bring political change in Eritrea. Of course, I do not know either and that is why I need your input. (2) If you know how to “uproot the President and his PFDJ”, do not…

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    The Brewing Nightmare

    Abstraction Today’s article targets Peacetime Heroes – the elite – but it is about Wartime Heroes – the riffraff. The two are mutually exclusive in form and substance. The elite talk – the riffraff walk. The riffraff plant the seeds – the elite harvest them. The elite think and plan – the riffraff hack and chop. A dialectical process of…