Ron Jacobs, the author of ‘Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies’ have some insightful exchanges with Thomas Mountain, an independent journalist, educator, and activist from Eritrea about Africa, China, and the West. By Ron Jacobs, Ron Jacobs: You mention you live in Eritrea. I recall going to a couple meetings back in the 1970s […]
Continue ReadingBy Eric Draitser, This week, Eric has an in-depth conversation with independent journalist Thomas Mountain. They discuss the current political situation in Ethiopia, grounding the discussion in a historical framework that informs an understanding of the politics of today. Eric and Tom examine the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea as well as some of the […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C Mountain, Faced with a combination of body blows ranging from spiking prices for maize, import dependent Kenya’s staple food, IMF mandated food subsidy cuts, a foolhardy USA instigated invasion of Somalia, election triggered ethnic warfare and a simmering independence movement by the Muslims in the Mombasa coastal region Kenya is in trouble, […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C. Mountain, While Liberia could afford an election in which the President Ellen Johnson ran unopposed, the people of the country have neither electricity or running water. Long the golden girl of the western banktatorships Ellen Johnson spent the year before her election in 2006 campaigning in Liberia while drawing a healthy salary […]
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