Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
Weather and international politics.
Worthy and unworthy Ethiopians
Persistent bias and selectivity of mainstream media coverage of the recently concluded conflict in northern Ethiopia is grounds…
July 10, 2023
An essential truth about TPLF’s insurgency
Continued gains by Ethiopia’s army diminish rebel’s chances The public relation launch of the well-coordinated #TigrayGenocide online campaign…
October 29, 2022
Peace in Ethiopia not possible with TPLF in the picture
If peace and stability is a genuine interest in Ethiopia, preventing a continued insurgency by the Tigray People’s…
October 24, 2022
TPLF’s Child Soldiers
Recent Twitter commentaries by Alastair Thompson are revealing. They highlight the multilayered deceits by the “international community”, particularly…
August 31, 2022