Politics
Let Them Tremble at OUR Power
"We were never asking to be seen. We are done being managed. Let them tremble — not because we are many, but because we have finally stopped being afraid of our own strength." Say that sentence out loud once before you read anything else. Remember how it sounds in your own voice. That's the sound they don't want you to hear yourself make.
Sira Staff · Jan 1 · 2 readers
Americans Should Have A Israel Problem. Not a Netanyahu Problem.
Remove Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow — indict him, vote him out, exile him — and ask yourself honestly what actually changes. The settlement outposts don't disappear. The ministries funding them don't close. The ideological current that produced them didn't arrive with him and won't leave with him. This is the same mistake this newsletter has made about Trump, about Obama, about Haile Selassie and the Derg: treating a system as if it were one man wearing a crown.
Sira Staff · Aug 24 · 2 readers
SENDING THE YOUNG TO DIE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY BEHIND ETHIOPIA'S "ZEMECHA"
They are knocking on doors in the middle of the night. Not in the mansions of Bole, but in the rented rooms of Kolfe and Shiromeda. They want to send you to the frontlines to fight for an "Ethiopia" in which — like every other Ethiopian, rich or poor — you are constitutionally barred from ever owning the ground beneath your feet. Let's talk about why the youth aren't fighting for a country. They're being harvested by a class that has never once sent its own sons.
Sira Staff · Aug 20 · 5 readers