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So, can you really blame Ethiopians — whatever their background, whatever their politics — for getting fed up with how their nation and region are depicted? It’s been five days since that story was posted, and Al Jazeera still hasn’t corrected it, even though it’s been the source of jokes on social media (Note: they finally ran a correction on November 27). Imagine if you screwed up the date of the French Revolution or the year the American Civil War ended? We’d be talking hours, not days for the repair.

For instance, news operations in the West still park the background to this conflict in cover-your-ass language: Abiy claims that the TPLF attacked first or has been “accusing it of attacking two federal military camps in the northern region.” Except we now know for a fact — even if all the details can’t yet be confirmed — that the TPLF attacked first because one of its spokespersons openly bragged about it during a television broadcast.

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Then as now, the government in Addis Ababa didn’t want the horror or embarrassment of a foreign correspondent getting killed at the front, so it kept reporters bottled up in the capital. But while the concern for safety is admirable, in the absence of facts, reporters and “analysts” will let their imaginations roam. They’ll often perform alchemy on rumors and turn them into substance, and they’ll speculate their way into doomsday and all of Africa on fire.

And today, just like in 1935, there seems to be a hell of a difference between the reality on the ground and what is circulating in the mainstream Western media. I am not suggesting there are Waughs still waddling about, causing trouble, but if you check the air, you can pick up the scent of a post-colonial condescension.

Groan. The battle of Adwa was in 1896. Hey, it’s only celebrated every year in the nation and in Ethiopian disaspora communities around the world. And the story carried the byline of a correspondent in the capital.

By now it’s clear that the fast-foodization of the restaurant industry is more than just a fleeting pandemic response. In fact, it can be taken as an informal economic indicator of its own — a wager on hard times remaining hard, even after the virus becomes more manageable. While the Commerce Department’s latest GDP number will be spun as signaling a V-shaped recovery, unemployment numbers remain bleak, spending has slowed, and consumer confidence is slipping.

I’m passionate about saving the planet, and Bill Gates’ efforts towards building a better future have always inspired me. Climate change is a major issue in today’s times and Gate’s relentless pursuit towards easing its impact will be a big help for us.

But now it’s Chipotle and Shake Shack that are scrambling, or rather, fast-tracking the least farm-to-table flex yet: the drive-thru. Shake Shack will open its first drive-thru in 2021 along with at least eight new walk-up windows, and Chipotle, which opened its 100th drive-thru in July, plans on opening another 80 to 100 “Chipotlanes” a year from now. Starbucks, struggling with the disappearance of crucial office-worker customers, is also pivoting to drive-thrus as its more fast-foody rival Dunkin’, after an early-pandemic dip in sales, has seen its market value soar.

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Evelyn Waugh would have a field day with what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. The talented author of Brideshead Revisited and Scoop was a racist little creep sent out by a rightwing, pro-Fascist newspaper in 1935 to cover Mussolini’s invasion. Just to give you an idea of the man, he wrote home to a friend, “I have got to hate the ethiopians more each day goodness they are lousy