Right speech comes out of silence,
and right silence comes out of speech.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims
beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive
a spoke into the wheel itself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Continue reading “Let us widen our horizons without compromising our basic human rights”
Do we have to go to neural science to understand the politics of the Abyssinian elites? I never underestimate, as is usually the case in the Oromo paltalk rooms, the capacity of these elites to surprise and busy their supporters as well as their victims everywhere with ever new self marketing coups and propaganda turnabouts- to cajole, to mislead, to divide and to confuse their critics and admirers ad nauseam. Continue reading “Puppets can make only moves dictated to them by their manipulators and apologists.”
Many of us must have heard of a Janus head, a sculpture typically found at at the gate of a house. In the Greek mythology, the god, Janus, is two headed, with each face looking in the opposite directions. Today the phrase “ Janus faced” means deceitful. However, the original meaning tells us a different story. According to Evan’s Dictionary of Mythology, “ It was a peculiarity of the god that the doors of his temple were kept open in time of war and closed in time of universal peace. They were rarely closed”. Continue reading “Briefly how OPDO is playing double and dangerous games”
The present Oromo mass protests led by Oromo students is sending a clear message to the world: the Oromo people are saying no to their Abyssinian overlords, conquerors, and tormentors. They are saying it loudly and unanimously, in unison. They have spoken the truth. But they have no other power than speaking the truth. And they are paying in blood for just speaking the truth. Whether the world hears them is another matter. Continue reading “The painful irony of the Oromo predicament”