AUTHOR’S BLOG

The WHO’s Executive Board Doesn’t Care About Ethiopians

A shadow fell over the World Health Organization’s weeklong executive board session this week as it discussed the reappointment of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus to a second term as director-general. Dr. Tedros ran

Steinman Discusses Open Letter to US Special Envoy Jeffrey Feltman with Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation’s Shiferaw Lakew, Nov. 24, 2021

“Addis Dialogue” Interview with David Steinman

The Myth of Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism Under the EPRDF and its Implications for the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces as an Agent of Political Reform

Every analysis of Ethiopia’s civil war depicts it as a contest between ethnic federalism and nationalism. Yet the last three decades of Ethiopian history suggest this characterization of the conflict is misleading. Deconstruction

An Open Letter to US Special Envoy Jeffrey Feltman

Your Excellency: I am a US citizen who has advised Ethiopia’s anti-TPLF opposition on an unpaid basis since 1991 and am probably the TPLF’s most outspoken foreign critic. My partisan perspective on the

Statement on the WHO’s Announcement that Director-General Tedros Adhanom Will Get a Second Term

In December of 2020, David Steinman filed a complaint, or “Communication” as it’s formally known, with the International Criminal Court alleging that World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom was guilty of crimes against

Getting It Wrong in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Global defense news, analysis and opinion COMMENTARY Firmly siding with Abiy’s government and making the TPLF see its cause is hopeless will give the West a chance to end Ethiopia’s conflict sooner. Members

The TPLF’s Hidden Foreign Influence Must End

For several months, the UN has denied Ethiopia’s accusation of institutional bias in its handling of the Tigray conflict. The dispute was exacerbated by Ethiopia’s expulsion two weeks ago of seven UN officials

Statement on Tedros Adhanom’s re-nomination as WHO director-general

When candidates run for director-general of the World Health Organization, their home country’s fellow citizens are usually their biggest supporters. Tedros Adhanom’s 2017 race was an exception. Thousands of his fellow Ethiopians protested

Biden’s misguided Tigray policy

The dispatch of U.S. Special Envoy Jeffrey Feltman to persuade Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed to maintain a ceasefire, ease access for humanitarian relief, and punish human rights violations in the Tigray war takes on

China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic

INSIGHT INVESTIGATION In early 2020, the world missed its chance to stop Covid-19. Insight exposes how Beijing’s ten-year takeover of the global health watchdog sowed the seeds of disaster Jonathan Calvert and George

Don’t let Tedros be re-nominated as WHO boss

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom could put the planet at risk of another pandemic if re-elected to lead the global public health agency. Tedros served on the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, or

In defense of Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s public diplomacy team needs improvement, to put it politely. In its law enforcement action against top Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) leaders, it didn’t show the local population how that leadership had

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Money, Blood and Conscience is a historical thriller that combines investigative journalism and fiction to educate about the evils of the TPLF in an entertaining way. The publisher is sponsoring a contest to

Ethiopian | Ethiopian Human Rights| Money, Blood and Conscience
Harvard’s School of Public Health, cancel Tedros Adhanom’s award

Two years ago, I published a historical thriller, Money, Blood and Conscience, about an Ethiopian-American love affair during the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) dictatorship. I later decided to add to the book

Tedros Adhanom: WHO chief may face genocide charges

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insists that he is on the side of peace

TPLF | Ethiopian Government| Money, Blood and Conscience
Journalist Drags WHO Boss Before Criminal Court

[Translated from the Dutch original]

Ethiopian | Ethiopian Human Rights| Money, Blood and Conscience
COMMUNICATION

REQUESTING AN INVESTIGATION BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT OF DR. TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS

World Health Organization | Modern Ethiopian History | Novel
How Coronavirus Has Challenged the World Health Organization

The fight over the WHO has become yet another front in the emerging fight over American geopolitics in the era of a rising China.

Steinman | Ethiopian Famine | Money, Blood and Conscience
“The risk of another betrayal cannot be tolerated”

Could a new historical novel about Ethiopia’s former dictatorship be the final straw that forces the World Health Organization’s beleaguered Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gebhreyesus to resign?

Lady Gaga | Ethiopia Revolution | Money, Blood and Conscience
Lady Gaga Told: Cut Ties To W.H.O. Chief

NEW YORK– April 16, 2020 - An American adviser to Ethiopia’s democracy revolution has called publicly for Lady Gaga and the organizers of Global Citizen’s One World: Together At Home event to disassociate

Two years ago, I published a historical thriller blog, Money, Blood and Conscience, about an Ethiopian-American love affair during the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) dictatorship. I later decided to add to the book a nonfiction “afterword,” an author’s note to the reader. It called for Ethiopia’s former TPLF rulers to be held accountable for crimes against humanity.