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The peaceful protest movements that swept away dictators in Tunisia and Egypt were broadly peaceful. The despots in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria Continue reading “Popular youth led revoltions can be misused and derailed”

 

 

I have come recently by chance upon two CDs recorded in German by Ryszard Kapuscinski, ISBN 978-34922522379, ( King of kings ). The contents Continue reading “Let us commit certain facts to memory”

 

I remember when I was a boy the furthest I moved for the first time away from our village, Shaboo, near Goba/Bale in Oromoland was when I went Continue reading “What I remember”

 

 

Thanks to the free media, especially internet communication, we can draw certain conclusions from events of the popular revolts and protests in Continue reading “Let us be aware of misleading propaganda”

 

In a way the last days of Hosni Mubarak reminded me of the last days of Emperor Haile Sellassie in 1974. He had also tried to identify with, no, even Continue reading “Caution in the wake of the dictator’s exit”

 

Because life keeps changing it is not possible to freeze it in statements on paper that are valid for all times. To avoid theoretical mental  pitfalls, we Continue reading “Why political manifestos and moral laws are often unable to mitigate greed.”