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Jun 19, 2026
In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid. Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia. Almost nob...
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The 1984-1985 Ethiopian famine that sparked Live Aid and "We Are the World" was framed as a natural disaster, but was actually engineered by the Marxist-Leninist Derg regime through forced collectivization, grain seizures, and deliberate starvation of rebel regions—with aid money partly diverted to a deadly resettlement program that killed 50,000-100,000 people.
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