During his recent trip to the USA for the UN general assembly in NY, he was questioned by a journalist on press freedom in Ethiopia surrounding the blanket blockade of diaspora-based websites. His answer was quiet unsettling “do you think the US would allow Alqaeda’s blog in its soil?” was his answer. Upon hearing that, my optimism for free and democratic Ethiopia was ruined.

Again, in one of his parliamentary sessions, in which he addressed issues relating to political prisoners, he was heard as saying that “there are no political prisoners in Ethiopia” given these type of irrational unimaginative rhetorics, you would’ve come to a conclusion that this man is just there to carry on Meles Zenawi’s undemocratic agenda and if this could not repudiate all the optimism that you bestowed upon him, what would? Simply put, (to borrow your favorite phrase) this man is nothing but “mahal sefari”

Part of the paragraph in which you talked about forced exile was completely flawed. One of the detainees such as Eskendeer Nega who has spent part of his childhood in the United States for instance, is fiercely patriotic and more Ethiopian than the rest of us in the sense that he chose to stay put in his country given the constant threat and harassment that he undergone by Meles Zenawi’s “securatitates” and to suggest that the regime should banish those fine citizens in to a third party is nothing short of a medieval mindset. Why playing “queen Victoria” Tecola Hagos? but I’m not gonna judge you for I know that I know that you are incorruptible and genuine Ethiopian who can not trade the cause of Ethiopianity for anything this world has to offer.

“The death of Meles has not changed anything we know of”, disregarding your poor English, you seem to be one confused helpless bastard. I hope the head count does not include your backward and twisted little head. You need a check-up between your ears before it’s too late. Wow – what a useless bastard you are.

As to diaspora, what we need is allies who can give us many to do our revolution. We need allies like Sudan or Egypt that is what Wayane did before it turned against them.

He’s also right about ‘haste makes waste’, but it’s entirely theoretical. First, there is no movement in Ethiopia today that is capable of haste. As Ato Tecola says, the opposition, all the way from grassroots to the top, is weak. There’s little chance of it initiating a revolution. In fact, the previous ‘hastes’ – the collapse of the previous two regimes – were mostly the result of a regime collapse than a strong revolution! But if we in and outside Ethiopia were all to ‘light candles’, meaning if the grassroots becomes strong, then we will have a bottom-up revolution/evolution, which by definition will not be ‘haste’. A true grassroots initiated change will have few problems.

Finally, I’m glad to see Ato Tecola’s optimism on the new Prime Minister. Pessimism can be seen as a judgement of God, as only God knows the future! But as for the present, we see some good signs, but all the bad signs that were there before are still there. It’s still a dictatorship, after all. But we acknowledge the good, fight against the bad and hope for the best. What’s wrong with that. The passing of Meles has led to a devolution of power within the EPRDF and TPLF, and that’s a good thing. We’ll see what happens.

God Bless Ethiopia!!

If there is a revolution, we will be like Egypt, we will be like Kenya or Ghana. The fear of the unknown shall not be a cause for trying the bold. We waited for Meles, and now we are told another appointee of Meles will somehow give us our hope, I differ. If we believe the professor many of you will and that is the message of the Professor, then Ethiopia will remain in darkness where people will feel more insecure and Obamas promise will be broken. Time for bold action. The people of Ethiopia have found the problem, it is Wayane. They are more than ready to be better than Ghana.

We just need people like Professor to get out of the way. There are many people who think like Eskinder Nega or Andualem or Abu Bakir.

We will give Wayane to reform itself and be credible and stop laughing at us by preaching “baby steps”, we know how Wayane acts, and walks. It acts like a tortoise and will remain “tortoise”. Wayane is tried time and again, it is a chameleon, and it will remain a ‘chamelon’. Wayane acts like a wolf and it will remain a wolf. I am ready to hear any doubts about my assertions. Go back and read the survival skills of Wayane. It is just that simple. Do not be outsmarted by people who love their ethnicity so much they will sacrifice to make them look better in the eyes of Ethiopia and yet act the same way days later. It is a duck and will remain a duck. I am pessimistic of Wayane as credible force in Ethiopian politics. Adious. he choice is for your or ours. But I have mine, so the choice is yours.

“Clinical” diagnosis by who? Prof. Al :

Here is what a former World Bank Director said of the corrupt World Bank itself “The inmates are running the asylum,”

He is saying to your darling the World bank exactly what you’re telling us today about EPRDF:[..Imagine kleptocrats calling corruptocrats corrupt? Or the pot calling the kettle black?..]

“..Internal reports, reviewed by FORBES, show, .. after Zoellick implemented a budget freeze some officials operated an off-budget system that defies cost control, while others used revolving doors to game the system to make fortunes for themselves or enhance their positions within the bank. Why not track all the cash? Good luck: Bank sources cite up to $2 billion that may have gone unaccounted for recently amid computer glitches…”

“What is the best way to deal with horruption in Ethiopia?”

How about in the World Bank itself” – That is the 64million dollar question?

The answer by Prof. Al is “Simple. Line up the right social forces to fight corruption.”

A neo liberal solution to Africa’s problems is not an answer.

I understand where he is coming from. He hates dictatorship. I do not know if he also hates Essayas. Does he believe in the enemy of my enemy however dictator is my friend? I will leave that.

But there are some things he stood up for despite the unpopularity of many of the things he wrote. One such thing I am sure that kicked him out of Eritrean review aka Ethiopian Review is his sympathetic feelings toward Muslim cause despite hyper accusations by some for siding with Egypt and against the Dam. The Dam is a political game and most people need to not forget that.

The regime has to constantly invent some external forces to compensate for its lack of progress at home. Many of Wayanes economic projections are not real or data driven. As the Somali president admitted they were asked to lie in order to appease their constituencies.

So, in the whole I also think that the current “corruption” campaign is a fake one. I mean yes, it is serious but why now? Is this the number one problem we have right now? I do not think so. By the way, the campaign is dubbed Meles vision. Why? May be to vilify Meles? If Meles appointed the same people then if these people have been followed under Meles watch why did they take so much time? Why they need paper work and surveillance while we know no such thing is needed by Meles as he has done it to Prime Minster Tamrat Laine. Sugar or sikuare or corruption.

As to the capital flights, why not free journalists of VOA of Deutche ville not able to expose some of the foreign assests of the corruptofficials? To my knowledge Meles would not have waited two years if he knew about it unless he was part of it. By the same logic, how can we call Mr Clean the cleaner to be the cleanest appointee of Meles and yet he calls himself the vision follower of the corrupted Meles? Is he buying time?

Now, on another shot, can these victims be innocent? Who knows. Simply, Wayane has mastered how to play against public media hype and the people and plays smart too many times.

On the new word, I may add” horricorruption” as an adjective would be better.

“..Even if a developmental state was to be solely concerned about accelerating growth, it would have to build the high social capital that is vital for its endeavors. It would have to stamp out patronage and rent-seeking. These are the very same things that create the basis for democratic politics that is relatively free from patronage. A successful developmental state would thus be very well placed to be both developmental and democratic……..”
*African Development: Dead Ends and New Beginnings’* Zenawi.

I think the progress we see is a continuation of Meles’s vision. HD is well placed to do a major contribution in accelerating not only the economic growth but the developmental State’s Democratic side.

I hope the professor won’t forget HD was selected by Meles to continue the vision and that is what we are seeing today; so IMO,overplaying a “rejection” of the past to appease the hell bent detractors shall be considered same as undermining HD.

Mr. Tecola , the recent crack down on customs authority officials has nothing to do with fighting corruption nor supporting development in Ethiopia. If your government were serious about combating corruption, the operation would have started from Azeb Mesfin who is known as the first lady of corruption and EFFORT which is the official channel for stealing and amassing the country’s wealth in the name of Tigray. Tigrean generals have built commercial complexes worth millions of dollars in addis ababa and regional cities. We all know that TPLF is on adventurous manhunt against key Amhara nationalists who tried to challenge TPLF’s political and economic hegemony in the wake of Meles Zenawi’s death.

Mr. Tecola Hagos, living and working in a free country, you have every right and freedom to say whichever idea comes to your mind. But you should know that Ethiopians will never settle for anything less than the total destruction of the current politico-economic pyramid in which Tigreans sit comfortably at the top with the majority of Ethiopians being displaced as mere bystanders. No one would believe your ‘bed time stories’ about changes emerging in Ethiopia. In fact, if we have to judge from recent trend of events, Ethiopians are finally awaking from their long-time dormancy and the ‘real change’ is looming over the horizon. And that is what makes you sleepless and restive as real change would make your cousins overnight losers.

Obviously the Ethiopian state functioning has changed a lot to what we saw during the evil Meles. Now parliamentarians are asking ministers and challenging them where they do see fault line. This was never done in the past. I also challenge this rapid revolution mentality we have. If we go that line, we will go into unchartered territories. HD will fail if he takes revolutionary path. He has to do it in slow firm steps. For the change to happen he my even need another 5 years of premiership. I would not mind if a change comes from within EPRDF for the county’s integrity. Change by Opposition parties to PRDF is not necessarily the path for Ethiopia at this time in point.

I thank you for the mood you have put my writerly hands, to do the same.

These amharas who have been feasting with the hynea woyane are now discarded like toilet paper. they have no use, they have served their purpose for the woyane hyenas.

It is a similar story for the other ethnic groups which TPLF assembled in its own image to serve its purpose of divide and rule. The woyane are rooting them out, everyone is facing the same treatment. The woyane are enjoying their triumph over these groups.

The only pragmatic solution to save Ethiopia from disintegration is to tip the balance from the current negative forces of disintegration including supporters of ethnic federalism, secessionism and totaliarinism by rallying the opposition parties and their supporters to the national agenda for unity, territorial integrity, sovereignty of Ethiopia and Ethiopians, where the last item refers to individual freedom, liberty and equality have precedence over ethnic and secessionist rights.

For the last 22 years the TPLF/eprdf regime has to its credit and holding power by creating a constitution with the ideologies of ethnic federalism “(ethnic home-lands Killil)”, a divide and rule policy as in the colonialist style and/or the apartheid system of South Africa, in the absence of independent branches of government, and the capacity to draft laws derived from the constitution like anti-terrorist law as a pretense to round up politicians, who critique the government, and journalist the incidences on the ground and put them to prison on false charges and without grand jury, if there is one.

Any solution such as the one suggested by Prof. Tecola Hagos amounts to the saying in Amharic “Alebabsew biyarsu barem yemelesu”, yemibalewn yimeslal.

[[.. At least your toy replacement leader admitted and asked for the people to be relocated. Why are you talking about Libya?..]]

Yes – HD admitted the crime was committed and the perpetrators shall be brought to justice; the rest should be left to the court system is what I meant. I also heard Sebhat Nega on a radio saying such (ethnic cleansing) will never happen again. So there seems to be a will to stand against sectarians.

I mentioned Libya because in the past you were a chief proponent of that uprising and was trying to point out that your present wish on us can bring similar crises. We already have few uprisings in our life time. How about doing some thing different?

ይህ በእኔ ዕይታ ነው
ለምን ካላችሁኝ?

1.የቴክኖሎጂ ባለቤት ያልሆነ ሕዝብ የአገሩን ድንበር አይደለም የራሱንም በግለሰብነት የመኖር አቅም በልሎች እጅ ይወሳናል
2. የራሱን ጦር መሳሪያ የማያመርት አገርና ሕዝብ ራሱን መከላከል አይችልም
3. ትኩረታችሁ ቴክኖሎጂ ባለቤትነት ስላይደል ለሁሉ የሚሆን ምርት እንደማናመርት እንካን አልተረዳችሁም

[[..You see,you could be ‘intelligent’ but bad. You could be an ‘evil genius’ as Bertrand Russell once used the word against Lenin.
I don’t honestly believe Meles is even in the same league of Bolshevik giants as Lenin or Trotsky...]]

If you add “evil” to Meles’s genius I will respect your opinion but, as you pointed out you refrained to give even that “complement”. :)

You are just like many opposition that see politics as a zero sum game so I am not surprised of your refraining a “complement”.But what we need to get used to are games where both sides win in real life. IMO, that should be our operating principle.

I say he is in the league of Lenin, Mao, General Park, Castro and so on.

[[...arguably brighter than him, like Dr Tekeste Debessay and the charismatic Berhane Meskel Reda,to mention only two,who opted to struggle for the democratization of the whole of Ethiopia and therefore fought the Ethiopian cause...]]

He came after them. They didn’t succeed; Meles picked up the pieces and salvaged what can be salvaged from the rubble of the Ethiopian left where after the fall of Soviet Union in a different environment. He ended up contributing to the Developmental State theory as it applied in the African setting.

[[..What is more, the ‘genius’ Melese has left us a country where the disparity between the lives of the poor and the rich is incredibly huge and the degree of inequality we witness today is unprecedented in our history...]]

By what measure?? Many say the opposite.

In another thread I pointed out the following:

“.. 10 of these African trailblazers Bono during his recent TED talk. Let’s look at two of them:

– In absolute terms, Ethiopia lifted an estimated 10 million people out of extreme poverty in just over a decade (from 2000 to 2011). During that time, the Ethiopian government focused nearly half of its total budget on poverty fighting sectors like health, agriculture, and education. And donors like the U.S. and Europe provided significant support alongside it. If the current trend holds, extreme poverty can be virtually eliminated by 2030.

Former UK Prime Minister, H.E. Gordon Brown, ….saying that “no one did more to eradicate the evil of poverty than Prime Minister Meles”.

[[..A grief stricken and broken mother whose only son, gunned down in broad day light by Meles’s soldiers ...]]

Even he won’t deny of the “crimes” committed under his watch including making our country land locked.

You said, “That is what piqued my interest and I was forced to look around to figure out what exactly is happening both in Ethiopia and the Diaspora community to make the illegal regime work overtime.” Well, if you truly believe that to be the fact, what don’t you show us your guts and fight the US government for working with “illegal regime”? If you can start the fight in where you exist, your lecture and bravado about replacing the EPRDF government doesn’t hold much water. It’s time for you to come to your senses and fight the good fight of ideas instead of this blubbering. This is all hate mongering – nothing more nothing less. The current PM cannot pick his own security you said – in what kind of democracy are you fantasizing to have the government head to pick his own security? Your suggestion seems to imply that a “Tigre” PM needs to have Tigre guards whereas a “Kembata – by implication” PM needs Kembata guards. That backward thinking is – thanks to the brave Woyane/EPRDF fighters – buried and gone to no return. Yelling, shouting, hollering and demonstrating is just for your own ego’s satisfaction – not something the government gives a bad night sleep. They are busy building a nation and nationalities – something You and the likes of you failed for centuries to do.

[[..It is not the absence of idiots or sycophants that is lacking in their midst but they just seem to suffer from the mistrust the evil one has left them with...]]

Why is the above quote reminding of Susan Rice’s comment? That Meles had little patience for fools, or “idiots,” as he liked to call them. I am not sure. :)

Be that as it may, the following is what your similar demented wish brought to the Libyan people and country.

“.. Human Rights Watch last month produced a detailed report on the ethnic cleansing of the town of Tawergha where 40,000 people were forced out of their homes and subjected to “arbitrary detentions, torture, and killings”. The largely black population has been targeted as supporters of Gaddafi by militias from Misrata. HRW used satellite imagery to record the destruction of Tawergha, most of which has occurred since the end of the 2011 war when some 1,370 sites were damaged or destroyed. Fred Abrahams, a special adviser to HRW, said that the satellite images confirm that “the looting, burning and demolitions were organised and systematic destruction was intended to prevent residents from returning”.”

‘ethnic cleansing’ .”gallantry of our Moslem ..quest for…independence”, “Semayawi Party .. void of any clutter” is making your … ‘

HD dealt with ethnic cleansing squarely so it is a not an issue anymore.

You wrote a whole piece for Abuna Petros temporarily being stored in the museum for road upgrade (that one was a waste of your time); I didn’t know “our moslem”.. wanted independence? From who? Why are you unhappy Woyane is tackling corruption? or why not demand for more instead?

Why do you wish apocalypse to take place in our country? I don’t get it.

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“Sadly, we are at odds with each other and involved in fruitless exercises of never-ending nauseating insults and accusations without practical solutions to get us away from ethnic politics and predatory economic structures.”

Tecola W. Hagos Said in His comment

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Predatory Economic Structures =ሙስና+ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት=የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኢኮኖሚያዊ ኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም

በተደጋጋሚ የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ፕሮጀከት ስል የሚከተሉትን ለማለት ነው፡፡ይህ ለአንተም ሆነ እውነታውን ለመረዳት ለሚፈልግ በግልፅ እንዲብራራ ስለሚያስፈልግ ሰፋ አድርጌ ላብራራ፡፡

1ኛ) ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ሲባል በአጭሩ አለም አቀፍ ባህሪ ያለው ካፒታሊዝም ማለት ሲሆን ይህም ድንበር ዘለል አለም አቀፍ ባህሪ ያለውን ገንዘብን (ለምሳሌ ዶላር ወይንም ዩሮ) እንደ ዋና አንቀሳቃሽ ሞተር የሚጠቀምና በነፃ-ገበያ የንግድ ልውውጥ ስም የሚሰራና የሚንቀሳቀስ ሆኖ አጠቃላይ ኢኮኖሚው ፖለቲካው ማህበራዊው ሚሊታሪው ሚዲያው አካዳሚው ቴክኖክራቲክ ቢሮክራሲው ኢንተርቴይንመንት ኢንደስትሪው አንዳንዴም ሃይማኖቱ ጭምር በዚህ አጠቃላይ ቅኝትና ማእቀፍ ውስጥ የሚሰራበትና የሚንቀሳቀስበት ስርዓተ-ማህበር(Global Social-Order) ማለት ነው፡፡
አለም አቀፍ ባህሪውን ደግሞ የምንረዳበት መንገዶች የሁለተኛውን የዓለም ጦርነት ማክተምን ተከትሎ በዋናነት በአሜሪካና በእንግሊዝ መሪነት በ Breton Woods የተመሰሩትትንና ዓለም አቀፍ ስም የተላበሱትን የ Breton Woods የገንዘብ ተቋማት ማለትም እነ World Bank ,IMF እንደዚሁም በቅርቡ የተመሰረተውን WTO እንደዚሁም የጥንቱን ሚሊታሪ NATO እና ምናልባትም እራሱን በተዘዋዋሪ እንደ መጠቀሚያ መሳሪያ እየሆነ ያለውን UN ጭምር ነው፡፡

2ኛ) ኒዎ-ሊበራል(Neo-Liberal) ሲባል Liberal(ነፃ ቁጥጥር የሌለበት) ከሚለው የመጣ ሲሆን ሊበራል ኢኮኖሚ ወይንም ነፃ-ገበያ የሚባለው የመንግስት ጥብቅ ቁጥጥርና ጣልቃ-ገብነት የሌለበት የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓት ለማለት ነው፡፡የዘመኑ አዲስ መጥ ወይንም ኒዎ (Neo) የሆነ ኒዎ-ሊበራል(Neo-Liberal) ሲሆን ደግሞ ይበልጥ ነፃ የሆነ የመንግስት ቁጥጥርና ጣልቃ-ገብነት የሌለበት ልቅ የሆነ የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓት(Deregulated) ለማለት ነው፡፡እዚህ ላይ ግን ቃላቶቹን እንደወረደ ከማየት ይልቅ ቅኔያቸው ምንድን ነው የሚለውን መረዳት ይገባል፡፡ምክንያቱም በአሁኑ ዘመን ከፍተኛ የቃላትና የፅንሰ-ሃሳብ ቁማር ስላለ ማለት ነው፡፡There is manipulation of concepts behind words.ለምሳሌ መንግስት የሚለውን ስናስብ ባብዛኛው ለብዙሃኑ ህዝብ ህልውና ፍላጎት ጥቅም የቆመ እንደሆነ ነው የምንረዳው፡፡ነገር ግን መንግስት በጥቂት ልሂቃን ቁጥጥር ስር ተጠልፎ ለብዙሃኑ ህዝብ ህልውና ፍላጎት ጥቅም የቆመ መሆኑ ቀርቶ ለጥቂት ልሂቃን ህልውና ፍላጎት ጥቅም ብቻ የሚያገለግል መሳሪያ ሆኖ በእነዚህ ጥቂት ለሂቃን ቁጥጥር ስር ሲወድቅና ሲዘወር ግን መንግስት የሚለው በራሱ አሳሳች ትርጉም የሚይዝ የሆናል ማለት ነው፡፡ሌላው ነፃ-ገበያ ወይንም ሊበራል-ኢኮኖሚ ሲባል የኢኮኖሚው ምህዳሩም ሆነ ይህንን የኢኮኖሚ ምህዳር የሚቆጣጠረው የፖለቲካው ምህዳር ለሁሉም የመሮጫ ሜዳው እኩል ነው ከሚል ቲዎሪ ወይንም ፅንሰ-ሃሳብ የመነጨ ነው፡፡ነገር ግን እሩቅ ሳንሄድ በሀገራችን ውስጥ በነፃ-ገበያ ሽፋን በዘመነ ወያኔ ያለውን የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓትና እንደ ኢፈርት ያለውን በዘረኝነት ላይ የተመሰረተ የወያኔ ትልቅ የኢኮኖሚ ኢምፓየርና በተያያዥ ያለውን ስር የሰደደና የተስፋፋ ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት ስናይ ነፃ-ገበያ እና(Demand-Vs-Supply Determines Price) የሚለው በትምህርት ቤት ስንማረው የኖርነው የኢኮኖሚ ቲዎሪ ከማርክ ማግኛነት ያለፈ ቁምነገር እንደሌለው እንረዳለን፡፡So in reality there is no Free-Market Economy but rather manipulated or Rigged Free-Market-Economy and perhaps virtually equivalent to Command-Economy.ስለዚህም እነ አዳም እስሚዝ የማይታዩ እጆች(Invisible-Hands or Economic Agents) ኢኮኖሚው ያለ መንግስት ጣልቃ-ገብነትና ቁጥጥር በነፃ እራሳቸውን በራሳቸው ያስተካክላሉ ይቆጣጠራሉ ይመራሉ የሚለው አባባል ከፍተኛ ጥያቄ ውስጥ የወደቀበት ዘመን ነው፡፡በመሰረቱ ነፃ-ገበያ የሚባለው ፅንሰ-ሃሳብም ሆነ በተቃራኒው ያለው ኮሙኒዝም የሚባለው በራሱ ጫፍና ጫፍ የረገጠ የሰውን ልጅ አስቸጋሪና ውስብስብ ባህሪ በቅጡ ግምት ውስጥ ያላስገባ አባባልና አካሄድ ነው፡፡ምናልባትም አዳም እስሚዝ እዚህ ላይ የማይታዩ እጆች(Invisible-Hands or Economic Agents) ሲል አዳም እስሚዝ የመደብ-ክፍል (Class) ዝንባሌው ወደ ካፒታሊስት ልሂቃኑ ያደላ ሆኖ የማይታዩ እጆች ያላቸው እራሳቸውን ሀብታም የካፒታሊስት ልሂቃኑን ለማለት እንደሆነ ነው የተሰማኝ፡፡በዚህ እይታ ደግሞ የካፒታሊስት ልሂቃኑ የፖለቲካ ቅጥረኞችንና ቴክኖክራቲክ ምሁራንን እየተጠቀሙ የመንግስት መኪናውን ከበስተጀርባ በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ እስከተቆጣጠሩት ድረስ “Rigged Free-Market-Economy is virtually equivalent to Command-Economy under their spell.” የሚለው አባባል ትክክል ይሆናል ማለት ነው፡፡So the reality is that the bottom line naïve and gullible majority mass does have not only the illusion and fantasy of Democracy but also it has been trapped under the same illusion and fantasy of Free-Market Economy. At the bottom line of day to day ordinary consumers trading things appear with a sense of Free-Market but at the apex of the commanding order of economic and political structure it is virtually a with a sense of command-economy wherein Supply-Vs-Demand-Vs-Price are easily manipulated for profit maximization of the very few rich capitalists at the apex of the pyramid.በመሰረቱ ስለ ነፃ-ገበያም ሆነ ስለ ዲሞክራሲ ስናወራ ነፃነትም(Freedom) ሆነ ስርዓት(Order) የአንድ ሳንቲም ሁለት ገፅታዎች ናቸው፡፡ምክንያቱም ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ነፃነት ከሌለ ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ስርዓት የለም እንደዚሁም ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ስርዓት ከሌለም ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ነፃነት የለም፡፡ስለዚህም ነፃ-ገበያ(Free-Market) ወይንም የእዝ-ኢኮኖሚ(Command-Economy) እንደ ክብ ነገር ዞረው የሚገጥሙ ናቸው የሚሆኑት ማለት ነው፡፡እዚህ ላይ አንድ መረዳት ያለብን ነገር የምድራችን የተፈጥሮ ሀብት በራሱ ውስንና አላቂ በመሆኑ ወደፊት ማንም የፈለገውን በፈለገው አይነትና መጠንና ማምረት የማይችልበት ደረጃ ላይ ስለሚደረስ ነፃ-ገበያ የሚባለው ነገር በራሱ ብዙም ዘለቄታ ያለው ነገር ስለማይሆን ለዘለቄታ የሚቀጥለው ነገር የእዝ-ኢኮኖሚ(Command-Economy or Ordered Economy) መሆኑ ሳይታለም የተፈታ ነገር ነው ማለት ነው፡፡ማለትም ሰዎች ከመኖር ህልውናችን(Survival) ጋር በተያያዘ ቅድሚያ በዋናነት ለመኖር የሚያስፈልገን መሰረታዊ ነገር እንጂ ማምረትና መጠቀም ያለብን እኛ እንደፈለግነው ያማረንን የቅንጦት ነገር ሁሉ ለመጠቀም የማንችልበት ደረጃ ይደረሳል ማለት ነው፡፡ስለዚህም የሀገራችን የኢኮኖሚ እድገት በዋናነት የሚለካው ወይንም መለካት ያለበት ምን ያህል ውድ አውቶሞቢሎች ወይንም ምን ያህል የቅንጦት እቃዎች ለጥቂቶች ሃብታሞች አሉን በሚለው ሳይሆን ምን ያህል የመኖሪያ ቤቶች ምን ያህል የመጠጥ ውሃ አቅርቦት ምን ያህል የምግብ አቅርቦት ምን ያህል ጤና ጣቢያ ምን ያህል ትምህርት ቤቶች ወዘተ ለብዙሃኑ አለ በሚለው ነው መሆን ያለበት፡፡እዚህ ላይ ነው እንግዲህ ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኢኮኖሚ የሚለውን ስናነሳ የሀገራት የተፈጥሮ ሀብትና ሌላም አጠቃላይ ሀብት(Resource) ምን ያህል በተገቢው ሁኔታ ጥቅም ላይ ዋለ እንደዚሁም ምን ያህል ፍትሃዊ የሀብት ክፍፍል አለ የሚለው ወሳኝ ጥያቄ እንዲነሳ የሚያደርገው፡፡የሀገሪቱ አጠቃላይ የበጀት አመዳደብና እና የገንዘብ ስርዓት (Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy) ለትክክለኛ እድገትና ስልጣኔ የሚጠቅምና ፍትሃዊ የሀብት ክፍፍልን ይፈጥራል ወይንስ ጥቂቶችን ሀብታም ሌላውን መናጢ ድሃ ያደርጋል?በብድርና እርዳታ ገንዘብ የሚገነቡ ትላልቅ በጀት የሚመደብላቸው ትላልቅ ፕሮጀክቶች የጥራት ደረጃቸው ምን ያህል ነው የጫራታ ኮንትራት አሰጣጣቸውስ ምን ያህል ፍትሃዊ ነው?እነዚህስ ፕሮጀክቶች መጪውን ትውልድ እዳ ገፍጋፊ የሚያደርጉ ለጥቂቶች ትርፍ ብቻ ተብለው በይድረስ ይድረስ የሚታቀዱና የሚገነቡ (hit and run business scheme) ናቸው ወይንስ ዘላቂና አስተማማኝ የህዝብና የሀገር ሀብትነት ባህሪ ያላቸው ናቸው?አጠቃላይ የእርዳታና ብድር ሂደቱ ጥቂቶችን ብቻ ለመጥቀም ተብሎ በተቃራኒው ሀገሪቱንና ህዝቦቿ እና መጪውን ትውልድ በእዳ ተብትቦ ሊወጡት የማይችሉት ዘመናዊ የእጅ አዙር ቅኝ ግዛት ውስጥ የሚከት ነው ወይንስ ወደ እውነተኛ ልማት እድገትና ስልጣኔ የሚወስድ?ወያኔ እድገት እያለ ዘወትር የሚዘምርልን እውን ባብዛኛው ከብድርና እርዳታ ውጪ የተገኘ ነው ወይነስ ብብድርና እርዳታ የተገኘ ነው?ወያኔና ተከታዮቹ በአቋራጭ በብርሃን ፍጥነት የሚከብሩበት ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት ያለው የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓት(Predatory Economic Structure) ተዘርግቶ በተቃራኒው ሀገሪቱንና ህዝቦቿን እና መጪውን ትውልድ በእዳ ተብትቦ ሊወጡት የማይችሉት ዘመናዊ የእጅ አዙር ቅኝ ግዛት ውስጥ የሚከት እድገት ከሆነ እውን ይህ እውነተኛ እድገት ነውን?መለስና ወያኔ ስልጣን ላይ እንደወጡ Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) የሚባለውን የኢኮኖሚ ፖሊሲ ተግባራዊ ለማድረግ ሲባል ምእራባውያን IMF እና World Bankን በመጠቀም ወዲያውኑ ያደረጉት ነገር የገንዘብ ምንዛሪን አሁን ወዳለበት ደረጃ የሚያደርስ መስመር ማስያዝ የመንግስት የልማት ድርጅቶችን ማፍረስና ወደ ግል በርካሽ ዋጋ ማዞር የተቀጣሪ ሰራተኛን አነስተኛ መነሻ ደመወዝ ለመኖር በማያስችል ሁኔታ ዝቅ ማድረግ ሰራተኛን መቀነስ ለትምህርት ለጤና ለማህበራዊ አግልግሎት ወዘተ የሚሆነውን በጀት በመቀነስ ወደ ሌሎች የግል አትራፊ ሴክተሮች ማዞር ወዘተ ነበር፡፡It was in general the process of the gradual destruction of previous Welfare-State and then replacing it with pure White Capitalist system. Actually this is what happens globally following the end of Cold war and the end of former USSR socialism. Here it is very important to remember that the cold war is not only as such a mere pure ideological war only but also mainly an economic war and also class struggle between Socialism for the mass and Capitalism for the very few.
Cod war serves as a check and balance between Capitalism and Socialism so that there even existed good Welfare-State in the West it self that benefited the majority mass in order to counter the expansion of Socialism to Western Europe and USA itself. So when cold war ended then Capitalism emerged victorious over socialism and then becomes more global with the ensuing Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) rampant in Africa and other 3rd world nations that has resulted in abject poverty for the majority mass and complacent life for thevery few affluent class.The war between TPLF/EPLF on one side and Derg on the other side was also part of the greater cold war manifested in Hot War. Then after the end of cold war what has followed is economic Neo-Liberalism and hence Capitalism manifested its true insidious nature.ስለዚህም አቶ መለስ አንድ ወቅት ለጋዜጠኛ ሲመልሱ የአፍሪካ መሪዎች በሙስና እንዲጨማለቁ የሚያደርጉት አለም አቀፍ ኢንቨስተሮች ናቸው ቢሉም ሆነ እነደነ አላሙዲን አይነት አለም አቀፍ ኢንቨስተሮች እኛ ኢንቨስተሮች ስንባል አጭበርባሪዎች ስለሆንን ይህ ስራችን እንዳይታይና እንዳይታወቅ መንግስት አይኑን ይጨፍንልን አይነት የስላቅ አባባል ዞሮ ዘሮ በተዘዋዋሪ መረዳት ያለብን ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት አይቀሬ መለያ ባህሪውና አሰራሩ እየሆነ መምጣቱን ነው፡፡ስለዚህም በዘመነ ኒዎ-ሊበራል ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት በመፈክር ወይንም በማስታወቂያ ሳይሆን የሚገታውና የሚጠፋው እራሱን ስርዓቱን በመቀየር ብቻ ነው፡፡የሰው ልጅ መረን የለቀቀ ግለሰባዊ ስግብግብ ፍላጎትና ለከት ያጣ ቁሳቁስ አግበስባሽነት በመንፈስ የበላይነት ካለተገራ በስተቀር ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት ዝም ብሎ ሊጠፋ አይችልም፡፡ለዚህም ነው በማህበራዊ በሃይማኖታዊ በፖለቲካው በኢኮኖሚው በዲሞክራሲውም ሆነ ስለ ነፃ-ገበያው በሚመለከት ስናወራ የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፍናችን ምን እንደሆነ አስቀድመን መጠየቅ መመርመርና መረዳት ግድ የሚለን፡፡ስለ ምእራቡ አለም ነፃ-ገበያ እና ዲሞክራሲ ስናወራም የምእራቡ አለም ነፃ-ገበያ እና ዲሞክራሲ በምን የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፍና ነው የሚመራው የሚለውን ብዙዎቻችን በቅጡ አስቀድመን መጠየቅ መመርመርና መረዳት ግድ እንደሚለን የተረዳን አይመስለኝም፡፡ከውጪ የሚታየውን የተለመደውን ፖለቲካውንና ኢኮኖሚውን ለጊዜው ወደጎን ትተነው ዛሬ የቆየውን ታሪካዊውን መልካሙን ኢትዮጵዊነትና ማንነታችንን ጭምር በከፍተኛ ሁኔታ እየተፈታተነ ያለው በሀገራችን እየተፈጠረ ያለው ስር የሰደደና የተስፋፋ አዲስ መጥ አጠቃላይ ማህበራዊ ቀውስና አጠቃላይ የትውልድ ዝቅጠት ይህንን የምእራቡን አለም ነፃ-ገበያ እና ዲሞክራሲ በቅጡ ሳንረዳ በላያችን ላይ ስለተጫነብን ነው፡፡ኢትዮጵያና ኢትዮጵያዊነት የተሰራበት የቆመበትና የተመሰረተበት መሰረትና ምሰሶ በጋራ ማህበራዊ ህይወታችን(Social Values and Virtues) መስተጋብር ላይ እንጂ ያን ያህል በግለሰባዊ ማንነታችን ላይ እንዳልሆነ ማመን አለብን፡፡ለዚህም ነው ግለሰባዊ ማንነትንና ነፃነትን የሚያጎላው ኒዎ-ሊበራል ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኢትዮጵያና ኢትዮጵያዊነት እጅግ ፈተናና አደጋ የሆነው፡፡መለስና ወያኔ ከኤርትራ ጋር ሲዋጉ ለጦርነት የጋፈጡትና ፈንጅ አምካኝ አድርገው ያስጨረሱት ድሃ የሆነውን የህበረተሰብ ክፍል እና ኋላ ላይ አደገኛ ቦዘኔ ያሉትን የድሃውን የህብረተሰብ ወጣት ትውልድ ነበር፡፡ሀገር በሀራጅ በጥቂቶች ለጥቂቶች ጥቅም ሲቸበቸብ ግን የዚህ የድሃ ህብረተሰብ ክፍል ድርሻው ምንም ነበር፡፡ድሃ ሀገር እንጂ ቤት የለውም የተባለው አባባል በእርግጥ ዛሬ ድሃ ቤትም ሀገርም የሌለው እንዲሆን ነው ያደረገው፡፡ታዲያ ዳቦ በቅጡ ያልበላና በቂ መጠለያና የዜግነት ክብር ያልተሰጠው ድሃ ወጣት ትውልድ እንዴት ብሎ ነው የሀገር በሄራዊ ፍቅር የሚኖረውና የሀገር ሉአላዊነት ሲደፈር ወታር ሆኖ መከታ ሊሆን የሚችለው?የሀብታም ልጅ ወደ ቦሌ የድሃ ልጅ ወደባሌ እየተባለ እንዴት ነው ኢትዮጵያና ኢትዮጵያዊነት ህልውናቸውና ደህንነታቸው ተጠብቆ ሊቀጥሉ የሚችሉት?በዘረኝነት በዘራፊነትና በቅጥረኝነት ላይ የተመሰረተው የፖለቲካ ስርዓቱን ተከትሎ የአንድን በሄር የበላይነት ለማስጠበቅ ተብሎ የሰፈነው ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነትና ሙስና የሰፈነበት ኒዎ-ሊበራል የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓቱ የፈጠረው ኢኮኖሚያዊና ማህበራዊ ቀውስ በራሱ ለኢትዮጵያና ለኢትዮጵያዊነት ህልውናና ደህነነት ከፍተኛ አደጋ እየሆነ ነው የመጣው፡፡ብዙዎች ወያኔ ዘረኛ ነው ሲሉ ዘረኝነቱ የሚመነጨው በራሱ ለግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒሊዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ፕሮጀክት ካለው ቅጥረኝነቱ የመነጨ እንደሆነ የተረዱ አልሆነም፡፡ወያኔ ዘረኛ የሆነው ዘረኝነቱ በሌሎች ባእዳን ሃይሎች ዘንድ ለራሳቸው አላማና ፍላጎት የሚፈለግ ስለሆነ ጭምር ነው፡፡ዘረኝነት በአንድ በኩል የጥቂቶች ኢኮኖሚያዊና ፖለቲካዊ የበላይነት በሌላ በኩል ተደጋጋፊና ተመጋጋቢ ነገሮች ናቸው፡፡ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም በራሱ ከቅኝ ግዛት ጋርና ከከፋፍለህ ግዛው ጋር በተያያዘ ከዘረኝነት ጋር ጭምር የተያያዘ ውስጣዊ አሰራር እንዳለው መረዳት አለብን፡፡በአፍሪካና በተቀረው ታዳጊው ዓለም ውስጥ የሚፈጠሩ የእርስ በርስ የውስጥ መናከሶች ግጭቶችና ጦርነቶች ሁሉ በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ ከበስተጀርባ በግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም የሚቀሰቀሱ ናቸው፡፡የታዳጊውን ዓለም ህዝብ የተፈጥሮ ሀብት ለመመዝበር የግድ የታዳጊውን ዓለም ድሃ ህዝብ አርተፊሻል ልዩነትና ግጭት በመፍጠር በዘር በሃይማኖት በፆታ ወዘተ እየከፋፈሉ እርስ በርስ ማናከስ ማጋጨትና ማዳከምና መበታተን ግድ ይላል፡፡ ወያኔም እያደረገ ያለው ይህንኑ ነው፡፡የታዳጊውን ዓለም ህዝብ እርስ በርስ ለማናከስ ለማጋጨትና ለማዳከምና ለመበታተን አይነተኛ መሳሪያ ሆኖ እያገለገለ ያለው ደግሞ ዲሞክራሲ የሚባለው ነገር ነው፡፡ቢያንስ በምርጨ ካርድ ቆጠራ የማይተማመን የፖለቲካ ስርዓት ባለበት ሀገር ውስጥ ዲሞክራሲ ለመገንባት በከንቱ መፍገምገም ከፍተኛ አደጋ ያዘለ ነገር ነው፡፡ብቻ ነፃ-ገበያ ከሚለው ቀጥሎ የምርጫ ዲሞክራሲ ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም በታዲው ዓለም ውስጥ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ምዝበራውን በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ ለማፈፀም የሚጠቀምበት ዋነኛ መሳሪያ ነው፡፡በኢትዮጵያችን ውስጥ ስለዲሞክራሲም ሆነ ስለ ነፃ-ገበያ በጥራዝ-ነጠቅ ምሁራንና በብዙሃኑ ህዝብ ዘንድ ያለው አስተሳሰብ እጅግ የተዛባ ነው የሆነው፡፡በዚህ የተነሳም ላለፉት 22 ዓመታትና በቀጣይነትም በኢትዮጵያችን ውስጥ በነፃ-ገበያ ሽፋንና በዲሞክራሲ ሽፋን ከፍተኛ ቁማርና ውዥንብር ነው የተካሄደው፡፡Democracy is being viewed like a charity or Free-Lunch for all. However in my view if Democracy is one side of the coin then commitment, accountability, responsibility and order are on the other side of the coin.እዚህ ላይ ዲሞክራሲም ሆነ ነፃ-ገበያ ከተፈጥሮ ህግና ከማህበራዊ ህግ ውጪ ሊሆን አይችልም፡፡ወደ ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኢኮኖሚው ስመጣ ዲሞክራሲው በወሬ ደረጃ ካልሆነ በስተቀር ለሁሉም ዲሞክራሲው ቤት እያንኳኳ እንዳልደረሰው ሁሉ ነፃ-ገበያውም በነፃነት ለሁሉም የሚያለግል የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓትና ምህዳር ሊሆን አልቻለም፡፡በዚህ የተነሳም ካፒታሊዝም በተፈጥሮው ግለኛ(First-I) ተስፋፊና ጦረኛ በመሆኑ ወያኔ በምርጫ ዲሞክራሲ ሽፋን ስልጣኑን በየ5 ዓመት በውሸት ምርጫ እያሳደሰ እንዳስቀጠለው ሁሉ ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝምም በነፃ-ገበያ እና በዲሞክራሲ በሰብዓዊ-መብት ሽፋን የጥቂቶችን አለም አቀፍ ሃብታም ልሂቃንና የተከታዮቻቸውን ህልውና ደህንነት ፍላጎት ጥቅም ከማስጠበቅ ውጪ ለብዙሃኑ የ3ኛው ድሃ የዓለም ህዝብ የተረፈው ነገር ቢኖር ባብዛኛው ስደት ድህነት ጦርነት ስራ-አጥነት በሽታ እርዛት ማህበራዊ ቀውስ ወዘተ ነው የሆነው፡፡በዚህ አለም አቀፍ ስርዓት የተፈጠረው ነገር ለጥቂቶች የምድር-ገነት በተቃራኒው ደግሞ ለብዙሃኑ የምድር ገሀነም እየሆነ ነው የመጣው፡፡መንግስታት በራሳቸው ቆመንለታል የሚሉትን የህዝባቸውን አጠቃላይ ህልውና ደህንነት ፍላጎትና ጥቅም ለማስጠበቅ ያልቻሉትም ለዚህ ነው፡፡ባጭሩ ኢኮኖሚክ ኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም ወይንም የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራልዝም ማለት ጥቂቶችን የሚያበለፅግና የምድር ገነት ህይወት የሚያኖር የረቀቀና የተቀነባበረ መዋቅራዊ ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት የሰፈነበት ስርዓት ሲሆን በተቃራኒው ደግሞ ብዙሃኑን የምድር ገሃነም የሆነ ወደ ባሰ ድህነትና የስቃይ ህይወት የሚከት ነው፡፡
3ኛ)ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ሲባል ደግሞ እንደ ድሮው የጣሊያን ወረራ አይነት ባለው በጦርነት ወረራ ቀጥተኛ የሆነ ቅኝ-ግዛት ሳይሆን እንደ ወያኔ እና ሻእብያ አይነት ዘረኛና ቅጥረኛ ሃይሎችን በጦርነትም ሆነ በሰላማዊ መንገድ በምርጫ ዲሞክራሲ ወይንም በመፈንቅለ መንግስት ወይንም በሌላ መንገድ ስልጣን ላይ በማውጣትና አሻንጉሊት አገዛዝ(Stooge Client-Regime) በማስቀመጥ ያንን ታዳጊ ሀገር በራሱ ሀገር በወጡ ሃላፊነት የማይሰማቸው ለህዝባቸውና ለሀገራቸው ተገቢው ፍቅር ክብርና ታማኝነት በሌላቸው ከሃዲና ባንዳ የሆኑ ቅጥረኛ ኤሊቶች እያስተዳደሩ የዚያችን ሀገር ሀብት(resource) በተዘዋዋሪ በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ መመዝበር ማለት ነው፡፡ይህንን ለማድረግ እነዚህ ከሃዲና ባንዳ የሆኑ ቅጥረኛ ኤሊቶችና የሚመሰርቱት አገዛዝ ከፍተኛ የሆነ ፖለቲካዊ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ወታደራዊ ድጋፍ ይደረግላቸዋል፡፡ወያኔ ብድርና እርዳታ እንደዚሁም የሚሊታሪ ድጋፍ ከባእዳን ሃይሎች የሚጎርፍለትም ለዚህ ነው፡፡ ወያኔ ዶላር እየተሰጠው ሲጠሩት አቤት ሲልኩት ወዴት እያለ ሶማሊያ ወይንም ሱዳን ወይንም ሌላ አፍሪካ ሀገር ጦርና ወታደር አዝምት ሲባል ይህንን የሚያደርገውም ለዚህ ነው፡፡ከጥንቱ ኮሎኒያሊዝም ይልቅ ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም የበለጠ አዋጭ(Politically, Economically, Militarily Efficient) እየሆነ የመጣ ይመስላል፡፡ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም በራሱ የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ዋና መገለጫ ባህሪ ነው፡፡

4ኛ) ሌላው የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ዋና መገለጫ የሆነው ኢምፔሪያሊዝም ነው፡፡ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ካለ የግድ የአንድ ሳንቲም ሌላው ገፅታ የሆነው ኢምፔሪያሊዝም(Empire) የግድ ይኖራል፡፡የሚሊታሪ የፖለቲካና የኢኮኖሚ ትእዛዝ ከላይ ከዋና መቀመጫ ማእከል (Seat of Central-Empire) ወደ ታች ያለ አሻንጉሊት አገዛዝ(Stooge Client-Regime) ያለበት ታዳጊ ሀገር ሲፈስ ሀብትና የገንዘብ ትርፍ ደግሞ ከታች ወደላይ እንዲፈስ ይደረጋል ማለት ነው፡፡የሰለጠነውና ያደገው አለምና በተለይም የምእራቡ አለም የየራሱን Empire መስርቷል፡፡ቻይና Feminine ባህሪ ያለውን ዲፕሎማሲያዊና በመከባበር ላይ የተመሰረተ የኢኮኖሚ ትብብርን መሰረት ያደረገ ኢምፓየር (Soft Neo-Colonialism) ስትዘረጋ አሜሪካና የምእራቡ አለም ደግሞ Masculine ባህሪ ያለው Gunboat Diplomacy ወይንም ሚሊታሪን ጭምር መሰረት ያደረገ ኢምፓየር ዘርግታለች፡፡ዞሮ ዞሮ ግን በስተመጨረሻ ሁሉም ግባቸው በታዳጊው አለም ኢኮኖሚያዊ ምዝበራ ማካሄድ ነው፡፡ዝሆኖቹ ሲጣሉ የሚጎዳው መሬቱ ላይ ያለው ሳር ነው አይነት ኢምፔሪያሊስት ሀገሮችም እርስ በርስ ሲጣሉም ብዙውን ጊዜ የሚጎዱት የታዳጊው ሀገራት ህዝቦች ናቸው፡፡ለምሳሌ በሊቢያ በሶርያ ወዘተ ያለው ጦርነትና ቀውስ በተዘዋዋሪ የእነዚሁ ኢምፔሪያሊስት ሀገሮች ጦርነት(Proxy War) ጭምር ነው፡፡ሌላው ኢምፔሪያሊስት ሀገሮች የዓለምን የሃይል ሚዛን(Global Power Relations) እያዩ እርስ በርስ እየተከፋፈሉና አንጃ እየፈጠሩ ህብረት የሚፈጥሩበት ብዙ አጋጣሚ አለ፡፡በሊቢያና በሶርያ ያለውን ስናይ ራሽያና ቻይና በአንድ በኩል ሲወግኑ አሜሪካና ምእራባውያን ደግሞ በሌላ ወገን ወግነዋል፡፡የጣሊያን ወረራና በአድዋ ድል መመታት በ1888 በበርሊን ኮንፈረንስ የነበረውን Scramble For Africa የተሰኘውን የአውሮፓውያን ተስፋፊዎች የቅኝ-ግዛት ኮንፈረንስ ተከትሎ የተከሰተ ታሪካዊ ሁነት ነው፡፡

ስለዚህም አሁን በዘመናችን ያለውን ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝምን ተጨባጭና ታሪካዊ ሁኔታ ስናስብ ይህንን አለም አቀፍ ስርዓት ከኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም ከኮሎኒያሊዝም ከኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝምና ከኢምፔሪያሊዝም ለይተን ማየት አንችልም፡፡እንደዚሁም ሙስና+ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት=የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኢኮኖሚያዊ ኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም ዋና አይቀሬ መገለጫ ባህሪና አሰራር ነው፡፡በነፃ-ገበያ ሽፋን የሚንቀሳቀሰው የግሉ ዘርፍ ባብዛኛው ለጥቂቶች ሀብት በአቋራጭ የሚያከማች በመሆኑ ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት አይቀሬ አሰራሩ ነው፡፡ይህንን ሁሉ ስል ግን ካፒታሊዝም ኋላ ቀር የነበረውን የጥንቱን ፊውዳሊዝምን በማዳከምና በማጥፋት ወደ ስልጣኔ ጎዳና በማምጣት የተጫወተውን ታሪካዊ ሚና ማስታወስና ማመን ግድ ይላል፡፡ነገር ግን አሁን ካፒታሊዝም የደረሰበት የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያለዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ደረጃ ካፒታሊዝም በሰው ልጅ ታሪክ ውስጥ ያለውን መልካም የታሪክ ድርሻ( የአንደኛውንና የሁለተኛውን የዓለም ጦርነት ጥፋቱን ለጊዜው ትተነው ማለት ነው) በሂደት ያከተመበት የታሪክ ምእራፍ ይመስላል፡፡ስለዚህም መጪው ዘመን ለአጠቃላዩ የሰው ዘር መልካምነትና ህልውና ሲባል ቀውስ እየፈጠረ ካለው ከግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ፋንታ ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም እንደ አንድ አለም አቀፍ ስርዓት ተገቢ ቦታውን ሊረከብ ይገባል የሚል እምነት አለኝ፡፡ከዚህ በኋላም ካፒታሊዝም በራሱ እንደ አንድ አሰራር ወይንም አካል በሶሻሊዝም መሰረት ላይ ነው መንቀሳቀስ የሚገባው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል ደግሞ በአጭሩ ቅድሚያ እኔና እኔ(First I) የሚለው ቅድሚያ እኛና እኛ(First We) በሚለው መተካት አለበት፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል በአጭሩ ቅድሚያ ገንዘብ ሳይሆን ቅድሚያ አጠቃላዩ ሰብዓዊነት(Humanity) ይሁን ማለት ነው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል ሰው ለገንዘብ ማከማቻነት የሚውል ተራ ሸቀጥ ሳይሆን ገንዘብ የሰውን ልጅ የሚያገለግል መሳሪያ ይሁን ማለት ነው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል የግሉም ዘርፍ ተባለ የህዝብና የመንግስት ዘርፍ ዞሮ ዞሮ ግን ለአጠቃላዩ የሰው ልጅ ህልውና ደህንነት ጥቅም ፍላጎት ይስራ ማለት ነው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል እኔ የሚለው የሚኖረው እኛ የሚለው ሲኖር እንደዚሁም እኛ የሚለው የሚኖረው እኔ የሚለው ሲኖር ስለሆነ ጤናማና ተገቢ የሆነ ሊሰራ የሚችል ግለሰባዊና ማህበራዊ ሚዛን ያለው(Viable and Equilibrium) ስርዓተ ማህበር ይፈጠር ማለት ነው፡፡ከዚያ ውጪ ግን ካፒታሊዝም እና ሶሻሊዝም የሚለውን ነገር ጫፍና ጫፍ በረገጠ በነጭና በጥቁር መሳል ተገቢ አይደለም፡፡ምክንያቱም በካፒታሊዝም ውስጥ ሶሻሊዝም አለ እንደዚሁም በሶሻሊዝም ውስጥ ካፒታሊዝም አለ፡፡ነገር ግን አሁንም ደግሜ የምናገረው ዲሞክራሲ ነፃ-ገበያ የግለሰብ ነፃነት የጋራ የወል ነፃነት ወዘተ ከማለታችን በፊት ይህ አሰራር የሚመራበት ግልፅ የሆነ የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፋና ያስፈልገናል፡፡ይህ የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፍና የሌለው የፖለቲካ ፓርቲም እምነት የሌለው ምግባር እውር እንደሆነው ሁሉ አይነት ነው፡፡

ይህ አስተያየት ለ21ኛው ክፍለ-ዘመን የሶሻሊዝም ዋና አራማጅ ለሆነው ለቬንዝዋላው ለሁጎ ሻቬዝ ማስታወሻ ይሁንልኝ፡፡ምክንያቱም ሁጎ ሻቬዝ የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ፕሮጀከት በቆራጥነት የታገለ ብቻም ሳይሆን እውነተኛ ዲሞክራሲን ከእውነተኛ የዜግነት ክብርና ከኢኮኖሚያዊ ብልፅግና ጋር ለሀገሩ ህዝብ ያጎናፀፈ ታላቅ የዘመናችን መሪ ስለሆነ ነው፡፡

እግዚአብሄር ኢትዮጵያንና አለምን ይባርክ !!!

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“Sadly, we are at odds with each other and involved in fruitless exercises of never-ending nauseating insults and accusations without practical solutions to get us away from ethnic politics and predatory economic structures.”

Tecola W. Hagos Said in His comment

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Predatory Economic Structures =ሙስና+ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት=የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኢኮኖሚያዊ ኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም

በተደጋጋሚ የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ፕሮጀከት ስል የሚከተሉትን ለማለት ነው፡፡ይህ ለአንተም ሆነ እውነታውን ለመረዳት ለሚፈልግ በግልፅ እንዲብራራ ስለሚያስፈልግ ሰፋ አድርጌ ላብራራ፡፡

1ኛ) ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ሲባል በአጭሩ አለም አቀፍ ባህሪ ያለው ካፒታሊዝም ማለት ሲሆን ይህም ድንበር ዘለል አለም አቀፍ ባህሪ ያለውን ገንዘብን (ለምሳሌ ዶላር ወይንም ዩሮ) እንደ ዋና አንቀሳቃሽ ሞተር የሚጠቀምና በነፃ-ገበያ የንግድ ልውውጥ ስም የሚሰራና የሚንቀሳቀስ ሆኖ አጠቃላይ ኢኮኖሚው ፖለቲካው ማህበራዊው ሚሊታሪው ሚዲያው አካዳሚው ቴክኖክራቲክ ቢሮክራሲው ኢንተርቴይንመንት ኢንደስትሪው አንዳንዴም ሃይማኖቱ ጭምር በዚህ አጠቃላይ ቅኝትና ማእቀፍ ውስጥ የሚሰራበትና የሚንቀሳቀስበት ስርዓተ-ማህበር(Global Social-Order) ማለት ነው፡፡
አለም አቀፍ ባህሪውን ደግሞ የምንረዳበት መንገዶች የሁለተኛውን የዓለም ጦርነት ማክተምን ተከትሎ በዋናነት በአሜሪካና በእንግሊዝ መሪነት በ Breton Woods የተመሰሩትትንና ዓለም አቀፍ ስም የተላበሱትን የ Breton Woods የገንዘብ ተቋማት ማለትም እነ World Bank ,IMF እንደዚሁም በቅርቡ የተመሰረተውን WTO እንደዚሁም የጥንቱን ሚሊታሪ NATO እና ምናልባትም እራሱን በተዘዋዋሪ እንደ መጠቀሚያ መሳሪያ እየሆነ ያለውን UN ጭምር ነው፡፡

2ኛ) ኒዎ-ሊበራል(Neo-Liberal) ሲባል Liberal(ነፃ ቁጥጥር የሌለበት) ከሚለው የመጣ ሲሆን ሊበራል ኢኮኖሚ ወይንም ነፃ-ገበያ የሚባለው የመንግስት ጥብቅ ቁጥጥርና ጣልቃ-ገብነት የሌለበት የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓት ለማለት ነው፡፡የዘመኑ አዲስ መጥ ወይንም ኒዎ (Neo) የሆነ ኒዎ-ሊበራል(Neo-Liberal) ሲሆን ደግሞ ይበልጥ ነፃ የሆነ የመንግስት ቁጥጥርና ጣልቃ-ገብነት የሌለበት ልቅ የሆነ የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓት(Deregulated) ለማለት ነው፡፡እዚህ ላይ ግን ቃላቶቹን እንደወረደ ከማየት ይልቅ ቅኔያቸው ምንድን ነው የሚለውን መረዳት ይገባል፡፡ምክንያቱም በአሁኑ ዘመን ከፍተኛ የቃላትና የፅንሰ-ሃሳብ ቁማር ስላለ ማለት ነው፡፡There is manipulation of concepts behind words.ለምሳሌ መንግስት የሚለውን ስናስብ ባብዛኛው ለብዙሃኑ ህዝብ ህልውና ፍላጎት ጥቅም የቆመ እንደሆነ ነው የምንረዳው፡፡ነገር ግን መንግስት በጥቂት ልሂቃን ቁጥጥር ስር ተጠልፎ ለብዙሃኑ ህዝብ ህልውና ፍላጎት ጥቅም የቆመ መሆኑ ቀርቶ ለጥቂት ልሂቃን ህልውና ፍላጎት ጥቅም ብቻ የሚያገለግል መሳሪያ ሆኖ በእነዚህ ጥቂት ለሂቃን ቁጥጥር ስር ሲወድቅና ሲዘወር ግን መንግስት የሚለው በራሱ አሳሳች ትርጉም የሚይዝ የሆናል ማለት ነው፡፡ሌላው ነፃ-ገበያ ወይንም ሊበራል-ኢኮኖሚ ሲባል የኢኮኖሚው ምህዳሩም ሆነ ይህንን የኢኮኖሚ ምህዳር የሚቆጣጠረው የፖለቲካው ምህዳር ለሁሉም የመሮጫ ሜዳው እኩል ነው ከሚል ቲዎሪ ወይንም ፅንሰ-ሃሳብ የመነጨ ነው፡፡ነገር ግን እሩቅ ሳንሄድ በሀገራችን ውስጥ በነፃ-ገበያ ሽፋን በዘመነ ወያኔ ያለውን የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓትና እንደ ኢፈርት ያለውን በዘረኝነት ላይ የተመሰረተ የወያኔ ትልቅ የኢኮኖሚ ኢምፓየርና በተያያዥ ያለውን ስር የሰደደና የተስፋፋ ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት ስናይ ነፃ-ገበያ እና(Demand-Vs-Supply Determines Price) የሚለው በትምህርት ቤት ስንማረው የኖርነው የኢኮኖሚ ቲዎሪ ከማርክ ማግኛነት ያለፈ ቁምነገር እንደሌለው እንረዳለን፡፡So in reality there is no Free-Market Economy but rather manipulated or Rigged Free-Market-Economy and perhaps virtually equivalent to Command-Economy.ስለዚህም እነ አዳም እስሚዝ የማይታዩ እጆች(Invisible-Hands or Economic Agents) ኢኮኖሚው ያለ መንግስት ጣልቃ-ገብነትና ቁጥጥር በነፃ እራሳቸውን በራሳቸው ያስተካክላሉ ይቆጣጠራሉ ይመራሉ የሚለው አባባል ከፍተኛ ጥያቄ ውስጥ የወደቀበት ዘመን ነው፡፡በመሰረቱ ነፃ-ገበያ የሚባለው ፅንሰ-ሃሳብም ሆነ በተቃራኒው ያለው ኮሙኒዝም የሚባለው በራሱ ጫፍና ጫፍ የረገጠ የሰውን ልጅ አስቸጋሪና ውስብስብ ባህሪ በቅጡ ግምት ውስጥ ያላስገባ አባባልና አካሄድ ነው፡፡ምናልባትም አዳም እስሚዝ እዚህ ላይ የማይታዩ እጆች(Invisible-Hands or Economic Agents) ሲል አዳም እስሚዝ የመደብ-ክፍል (Class) ዝንባሌው ወደ ካፒታሊስት ልሂቃኑ ያደላ ሆኖ የማይታዩ እጆች ያላቸው እራሳቸውን ሀብታም የካፒታሊስት ልሂቃኑን ለማለት እንደሆነ ነው የተሰማኝ፡፡በዚህ እይታ ደግሞ የካፒታሊስት ልሂቃኑ የፖለቲካ ቅጥረኞችንና ቴክኖክራቲክ ምሁራንን እየተጠቀሙ የመንግስት መኪናውን ከበስተጀርባ በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ እስከተቆጣጠሩት ድረስ “Rigged Free-Market-Economy is virtually equivalent to Command-Economy under their spell.” የሚለው አባባል ትክክል ይሆናል ማለት ነው፡፡So the reality is that the bottom line naïve and gullible majority mass does have not only the illusion and fantasy of Democracy but also it has been trapped under the same illusion and fantasy of Free-Market Economy. At the bottom line of day to day ordinary consumers trading things appear with a sense of Free-Market but at the apex of the commanding order of economic and political structure it is virtually a with a sense of command-economy wherein Supply-Vs-Demand-Vs-Price are easily manipulated for profit maximization of the very few rich capitalists at the apex of the pyramid.በመሰረቱ ስለ ነፃ-ገበያም ሆነ ስለ ዲሞክራሲ ስናወራ ነፃነትም(Freedom) ሆነ ስርዓት(Order) የአንድ ሳንቲም ሁለት ገፅታዎች ናቸው፡፡ምክንያቱም ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ነፃነት ከሌለ ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ስርዓት የለም እንደዚሁም ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ስርዓት ከሌለም ትክክለኛ ትርጉም ያለው ነፃነት የለም፡፡ስለዚህም ነፃ-ገበያ(Free-Market) ወይንም የእዝ-ኢኮኖሚ(Command-Economy) እንደ ክብ ነገር ዞረው የሚገጥሙ ናቸው የሚሆኑት ማለት ነው፡፡እዚህ ላይ አንድ መረዳት ያለብን ነገር የምድራችን የተፈጥሮ ሀብት በራሱ ውስንና አላቂ በመሆኑ ወደፊት ማንም የፈለገውን በፈለገው አይነትና መጠንና ማምረት የማይችልበት ደረጃ ላይ ስለሚደረስ ነፃ-ገበያ የሚባለው ነገር በራሱ ብዙም ዘለቄታ ያለው ነገር ስለማይሆን ለዘለቄታ የሚቀጥለው ነገር የእዝ-ኢኮኖሚ(Command-Economy or Ordered Economy) መሆኑ ሳይታለም የተፈታ ነገር ነው ማለት ነው፡፡ማለትም ሰዎች ከመኖር ህልውናችን(Survival) ጋር በተያያዘ ቅድሚያ በዋናነት ለመኖር የሚያስፈልገን መሰረታዊ ነገር እንጂ ማምረትና መጠቀም ያለብን እኛ እንደፈለግነው ያማረንን የቅንጦት ነገር ሁሉ ለመጠቀም የማንችልበት ደረጃ ይደረሳል ማለት ነው፡፡ስለዚህም የሀገራችን የኢኮኖሚ እድገት በዋናነት የሚለካው ወይንም መለካት ያለበት ምን ያህል ውድ አውቶሞቢሎች ወይንም ምን ያህል የቅንጦት እቃዎች ለጥቂቶች ሃብታሞች አሉን በሚለው ሳይሆን ምን ያህል የመኖሪያ ቤቶች ምን ያህል የመጠጥ ውሃ አቅርቦት ምን ያህል የምግብ አቅርቦት ምን ያህል ጤና ጣቢያ ምን ያህል ትምህርት ቤቶች ወዘተ ለብዙሃኑ አለ በሚለው ነው መሆን ያለበት፡፡እዚህ ላይ ነው እንግዲህ ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኢኮኖሚ የሚለውን ስናነሳ የሀገራት የተፈጥሮ ሀብትና ሌላም አጠቃላይ ሀብት(Resource) ምን ያህል በተገቢው ሁኔታ ጥቅም ላይ ዋለ እንደዚሁም ምን ያህል ፍትሃዊ የሀብት ክፍፍል አለ የሚለው ወሳኝ ጥያቄ እንዲነሳ የሚያደርገው፡፡የሀገሪቱ አጠቃላይ የበጀት አመዳደብና እና የገንዘብ ስርዓት (Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy) ለትክክለኛ እድገትና ስልጣኔ የሚጠቅምና ፍትሃዊ የሀብት ክፍፍልን ይፈጥራል ወይንስ ጥቂቶችን ሀብታም ሌላውን መናጢ ድሃ ያደርጋል?በብድርና እርዳታ ገንዘብ የሚገነቡ ትላልቅ በጀት የሚመደብላቸው ትላልቅ ፕሮጀክቶች የጥራት ደረጃቸው ምን ያህል ነው የጫራታ ኮንትራት አሰጣጣቸውስ ምን ያህል ፍትሃዊ ነው?እነዚህስ ፕሮጀክቶች መጪውን ትውልድ እዳ ገፍጋፊ የሚያደርጉ ለጥቂቶች ትርፍ ብቻ ተብለው በይድረስ ይድረስ የሚታቀዱና የሚገነቡ (hit and run business scheme) ናቸው ወይንስ ዘላቂና አስተማማኝ የህዝብና የሀገር ሀብትነት ባህሪ ያላቸው ናቸው?አጠቃላይ የእርዳታና ብድር ሂደቱ ጥቂቶችን ብቻ ለመጥቀም ተብሎ በተቃራኒው ሀገሪቱንና ህዝቦቿ እና መጪውን ትውልድ በእዳ ተብትቦ ሊወጡት የማይችሉት ዘመናዊ የእጅ አዙር ቅኝ ግዛት ውስጥ የሚከት ነው ወይንስ ወደ እውነተኛ ልማት እድገትና ስልጣኔ የሚወስድ?ወያኔ እድገት እያለ ዘወትር የሚዘምርልን እውን ባብዛኛው ከብድርና እርዳታ ውጪ የተገኘ ነው ወይነስ ብብድርና እርዳታ የተገኘ ነው?ወያኔና ተከታዮቹ በአቋራጭ በብርሃን ፍጥነት የሚከብሩበት ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት ያለው የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓት(Predatory Economic Structure) ተዘርግቶ በተቃራኒው ሀገሪቱንና ህዝቦቿን እና መጪውን ትውልድ በእዳ ተብትቦ ሊወጡት የማይችሉት ዘመናዊ የእጅ አዙር ቅኝ ግዛት ውስጥ የሚከት እድገት ከሆነ እውን ይህ እውነተኛ እድገት ነውን?መለስና ወያኔ ስልጣን ላይ እንደወጡ Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) የሚባለውን የኢኮኖሚ ፖሊሲ ተግባራዊ ለማድረግ ሲባል ምእራባውያን IMF እና World Bankን በመጠቀም ወዲያውኑ ያደረጉት ነገር የገንዘብ ምንዛሪን አሁን ወዳለበት ደረጃ የሚያደርስ መስመር ማስያዝ የመንግስት የልማት ድርጅቶችን ማፍረስና ወደ ግል በርካሽ ዋጋ ማዞር የተቀጣሪ ሰራተኛን አነስተኛ መነሻ ደመወዝ ለመኖር በማያስችል ሁኔታ ዝቅ ማድረግ ሰራተኛን መቀነስ ለትምህርት ለጤና ለማህበራዊ አግልግሎት ወዘተ የሚሆነውን በጀት በመቀነስ ወደ ሌሎች የግል አትራፊ ሴክተሮች ማዞር ወዘተ ነበር፡፡It was in general the process of the gradual destruction of previous Welfare-State and then replacing it with pure White Capitalist system. Actually this is what happens globally following the end of Cold war and the end of former USSR socialism. Here it is very important to remember that the cold war is not only as such a mere pure ideological war only but also mainly an economic war and also class struggle between Socialism for the mass and Capitalism for the very few.
Cod war serves as a check and balance between Capitalism and Socialism so that there even existed good Welfare-State in the West it self that benefited the majority mass in order to counter the expansion of Socialism to Western Europe and USA itself. So when cold war ended then Capitalism emerged victorious over socialism and then becomes more global with the ensuing Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) rampant in Africa and other 3rd world nations that has resulted in abject poverty for the majority mass and complacent life for thevery few affluent class.The war between TPLF/EPLF on one side and Derg on the other side was also part of the greater cold war manifested in Hot War. Then after the end of cold war what has followed is economic Neo-Liberalism and hence Capitalism manifested its true insidious nature.ስለዚህም አቶ መለስ አንድ ወቅት ለጋዜጠኛ ሲመልሱ የአፍሪካ መሪዎች በሙስና እንዲጨማለቁ የሚያደርጉት አለም አቀፍ ኢንቨስተሮች ናቸው ቢሉም ሆነ እነደነ አላሙዲን አይነት አለም አቀፍ ኢንቨስተሮች እኛ ኢንቨስተሮች ስንባል አጭበርባሪዎች ስለሆንን ይህ ስራችን እንዳይታይና እንዳይታወቅ መንግስት አይኑን ይጨፍንልን አይነት የስላቅ አባባል ዞሮ ዘሮ በተዘዋዋሪ መረዳት ያለብን ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት አይቀሬ መለያ ባህሪውና አሰራሩ እየሆነ መምጣቱን ነው፡፡ስለዚህም በዘመነ ኒዎ-ሊበራል ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት በመፈክር ወይንም በማስታወቂያ ሳይሆን የሚገታውና የሚጠፋው እራሱን ስርዓቱን በመቀየር ብቻ ነው፡፡የሰው ልጅ መረን የለቀቀ ግለሰባዊ ስግብግብ ፍላጎትና ለከት ያጣ ቁሳቁስ አግበስባሽነት በመንፈስ የበላይነት ካለተገራ በስተቀር ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት ዝም ብሎ ሊጠፋ አይችልም፡፡ለዚህም ነው በማህበራዊ በሃይማኖታዊ በፖለቲካው በኢኮኖሚው በዲሞክራሲውም ሆነ ስለ ነፃ-ገበያው በሚመለከት ስናወራ የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፍናችን ምን እንደሆነ አስቀድመን መጠየቅ መመርመርና መረዳት ግድ የሚለን፡፡ስለ ምእራቡ አለም ነፃ-ገበያ እና ዲሞክራሲ ስናወራም የምእራቡ አለም ነፃ-ገበያ እና ዲሞክራሲ በምን የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፍና ነው የሚመራው የሚለውን ብዙዎቻችን በቅጡ አስቀድመን መጠየቅ መመርመርና መረዳት ግድ እንደሚለን የተረዳን አይመስለኝም፡፡ከውጪ የሚታየውን የተለመደውን ፖለቲካውንና ኢኮኖሚውን ለጊዜው ወደጎን ትተነው ዛሬ የቆየውን ታሪካዊውን መልካሙን ኢትዮጵዊነትና ማንነታችንን ጭምር በከፍተኛ ሁኔታ እየተፈታተነ ያለው በሀገራችን እየተፈጠረ ያለው ስር የሰደደና የተስፋፋ አዲስ መጥ አጠቃላይ ማህበራዊ ቀውስና አጠቃላይ የትውልድ ዝቅጠት ይህንን የምእራቡን አለም ነፃ-ገበያ እና ዲሞክራሲ በቅጡ ሳንረዳ በላያችን ላይ ስለተጫነብን ነው፡፡ኢትዮጵያና ኢትዮጵያዊነት የተሰራበት የቆመበትና የተመሰረተበት መሰረትና ምሰሶ በጋራ ማህበራዊ ህይወታችን(Social Values and Virtues) መስተጋብር ላይ እንጂ ያን ያህል በግለሰባዊ ማንነታችን ላይ እንዳልሆነ ማመን አለብን፡፡ለዚህም ነው ግለሰባዊ ማንነትንና ነፃነትን የሚያጎላው ኒዎ-ሊበራል ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኢትዮጵያና ኢትዮጵያዊነት እጅግ ፈተናና አደጋ የሆነው፡፡መለስና ወያኔ ከኤርትራ ጋር ሲዋጉ ለጦርነት የጋፈጡትና ፈንጅ አምካኝ አድርገው ያስጨረሱት ድሃ የሆነውን የህበረተሰብ ክፍል እና ኋላ ላይ አደገኛ ቦዘኔ ያሉትን የድሃውን የህብረተሰብ ወጣት ትውልድ ነበር፡፡ሀገር በሀራጅ በጥቂቶች ለጥቂቶች ጥቅም ሲቸበቸብ ግን የዚህ የድሃ ህብረተሰብ ክፍል ድርሻው ምንም ነበር፡፡ድሃ ሀገር እንጂ ቤት የለውም የተባለው አባባል በእርግጥ ዛሬ ድሃ ቤትም ሀገርም የሌለው እንዲሆን ነው ያደረገው፡፡ታዲያ ዳቦ በቅጡ ያልበላና በቂ መጠለያና የዜግነት ክብር ያልተሰጠው ድሃ ወጣት ትውልድ እንዴት ብሎ ነው የሀገር በሄራዊ ፍቅር የሚኖረውና የሀገር ሉአላዊነት ሲደፈር ወታር ሆኖ መከታ ሊሆን የሚችለው?የሀብታም ልጅ ወደ ቦሌ የድሃ ልጅ ወደባሌ እየተባለ እንዴት ነው ኢትዮጵያና ኢትዮጵያዊነት ህልውናቸውና ደህንነታቸው ተጠብቆ ሊቀጥሉ የሚችሉት?በዘረኝነት በዘራፊነትና በቅጥረኝነት ላይ የተመሰረተው የፖለቲካ ስርዓቱን ተከትሎ የአንድን በሄር የበላይነት ለማስጠበቅ ተብሎ የሰፈነው ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነትና ሙስና የሰፈነበት ኒዎ-ሊበራል የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓቱ የፈጠረው ኢኮኖሚያዊና ማህበራዊ ቀውስ በራሱ ለኢትዮጵያና ለኢትዮጵያዊነት ህልውናና ደህነነት ከፍተኛ አደጋ እየሆነ ነው የመጣው፡፡ብዙዎች ወያኔ ዘረኛ ነው ሲሉ ዘረኝነቱ የሚመነጨው በራሱ ለግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒሊዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ፕሮጀክት ካለው ቅጥረኝነቱ የመነጨ እንደሆነ የተረዱ አልሆነም፡፡ወያኔ ዘረኛ የሆነው ዘረኝነቱ በሌሎች ባእዳን ሃይሎች ዘንድ ለራሳቸው አላማና ፍላጎት የሚፈለግ ስለሆነ ጭምር ነው፡፡ዘረኝነት በአንድ በኩል የጥቂቶች ኢኮኖሚያዊና ፖለቲካዊ የበላይነት በሌላ በኩል ተደጋጋፊና ተመጋጋቢ ነገሮች ናቸው፡፡ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም በራሱ ከቅኝ ግዛት ጋርና ከከፋፍለህ ግዛው ጋር በተያያዘ ከዘረኝነት ጋር ጭምር የተያያዘ ውስጣዊ አሰራር እንዳለው መረዳት አለብን፡፡በአፍሪካና በተቀረው ታዳጊው ዓለም ውስጥ የሚፈጠሩ የእርስ በርስ የውስጥ መናከሶች ግጭቶችና ጦርነቶች ሁሉ በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ ከበስተጀርባ በግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም የሚቀሰቀሱ ናቸው፡፡የታዳጊውን ዓለም ህዝብ የተፈጥሮ ሀብት ለመመዝበር የግድ የታዳጊውን ዓለም ድሃ ህዝብ አርተፊሻል ልዩነትና ግጭት በመፍጠር በዘር በሃይማኖት በፆታ ወዘተ እየከፋፈሉ እርስ በርስ ማናከስ ማጋጨትና ማዳከምና መበታተን ግድ ይላል፡፡ ወያኔም እያደረገ ያለው ይህንኑ ነው፡፡የታዳጊውን ዓለም ህዝብ እርስ በርስ ለማናከስ ለማጋጨትና ለማዳከምና ለመበታተን አይነተኛ መሳሪያ ሆኖ እያገለገለ ያለው ደግሞ ዲሞክራሲ የሚባለው ነገር ነው፡፡ቢያንስ በምርጨ ካርድ ቆጠራ የማይተማመን የፖለቲካ ስርዓት ባለበት ሀገር ውስጥ ዲሞክራሲ ለመገንባት በከንቱ መፍገምገም ከፍተኛ አደጋ ያዘለ ነገር ነው፡፡ብቻ ነፃ-ገበያ ከሚለው ቀጥሎ የምርጫ ዲሞክራሲ ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም በታዲው ዓለም ውስጥ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ምዝበራውን በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ ለማፈፀም የሚጠቀምበት ዋነኛ መሳሪያ ነው፡፡በኢትዮጵያችን ውስጥ ስለዲሞክራሲም ሆነ ስለ ነፃ-ገበያ በጥራዝ-ነጠቅ ምሁራንና በብዙሃኑ ህዝብ ዘንድ ያለው አስተሳሰብ እጅግ የተዛባ ነው የሆነው፡፡በዚህ የተነሳም ላለፉት 22 ዓመታትና በቀጣይነትም በኢትዮጵያችን ውስጥ በነፃ-ገበያ ሽፋንና በዲሞክራሲ ሽፋን ከፍተኛ ቁማርና ውዥንብር ነው የተካሄደው፡፡Democracy is being viewed like a charity or Free-Lunch for all. However in my view if Democracy is one side of the coin then commitment, accountability, responsibility and order are on the other side of the coin.እዚህ ላይ ዲሞክራሲም ሆነ ነፃ-ገበያ ከተፈጥሮ ህግና ከማህበራዊ ህግ ውጪ ሊሆን አይችልም፡፡ወደ ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኢኮኖሚው ስመጣ ዲሞክራሲው በወሬ ደረጃ ካልሆነ በስተቀር ለሁሉም ዲሞክራሲው ቤት እያንኳኳ እንዳልደረሰው ሁሉ ነፃ-ገበያውም በነፃነት ለሁሉም የሚያለግል የኢኮኖሚ ስርዓትና ምህዳር ሊሆን አልቻለም፡፡በዚህ የተነሳም ካፒታሊዝም በተፈጥሮው ግለኛ(First-I) ተስፋፊና ጦረኛ በመሆኑ ወያኔ በምርጫ ዲሞክራሲ ሽፋን ስልጣኑን በየ5 ዓመት በውሸት ምርጫ እያሳደሰ እንዳስቀጠለው ሁሉ ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝምም በነፃ-ገበያ እና በዲሞክራሲ በሰብዓዊ-መብት ሽፋን የጥቂቶችን አለም አቀፍ ሃብታም ልሂቃንና የተከታዮቻቸውን ህልውና ደህንነት ፍላጎት ጥቅም ከማስጠበቅ ውጪ ለብዙሃኑ የ3ኛው ድሃ የዓለም ህዝብ የተረፈው ነገር ቢኖር ባብዛኛው ስደት ድህነት ጦርነት ስራ-አጥነት በሽታ እርዛት ማህበራዊ ቀውስ ወዘተ ነው የሆነው፡፡በዚህ አለም አቀፍ ስርዓት የተፈጠረው ነገር ለጥቂቶች የምድር-ገነት በተቃራኒው ደግሞ ለብዙሃኑ የምድር ገሀነም እየሆነ ነው የመጣው፡፡መንግስታት በራሳቸው ቆመንለታል የሚሉትን የህዝባቸውን አጠቃላይ ህልውና ደህንነት ፍላጎትና ጥቅም ለማስጠበቅ ያልቻሉትም ለዚህ ነው፡፡ባጭሩ ኢኮኖሚክ ኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም ወይንም የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራልዝም ማለት ጥቂቶችን የሚያበለፅግና የምድር ገነት ህይወት የሚያኖር የረቀቀና የተቀነባበረ መዋቅራዊ ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት የሰፈነበት ስርዓት ሲሆን በተቃራኒው ደግሞ ብዙሃኑን የምድር ገሃነም የሆነ ወደ ባሰ ድህነትና የስቃይ ህይወት የሚከት ነው፡፡
3ኛ)ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ሲባል ደግሞ እንደ ድሮው የጣሊያን ወረራ አይነት ባለው በጦርነት ወረራ ቀጥተኛ የሆነ ቅኝ-ግዛት ሳይሆን እንደ ወያኔ እና ሻእብያ አይነት ዘረኛና ቅጥረኛ ሃይሎችን በጦርነትም ሆነ በሰላማዊ መንገድ በምርጫ ዲሞክራሲ ወይንም በመፈንቅለ መንግስት ወይንም በሌላ መንገድ ስልጣን ላይ በማውጣትና አሻንጉሊት አገዛዝ(Stooge Client-Regime) በማስቀመጥ ያንን ታዳጊ ሀገር በራሱ ሀገር በወጡ ሃላፊነት የማይሰማቸው ለህዝባቸውና ለሀገራቸው ተገቢው ፍቅር ክብርና ታማኝነት በሌላቸው ከሃዲና ባንዳ የሆኑ ቅጥረኛ ኤሊቶች እያስተዳደሩ የዚያችን ሀገር ሀብት(resource) በተዘዋዋሪ በረቀቀና በተቀነባበረ መንገድ መመዝበር ማለት ነው፡፡ይህንን ለማድረግ እነዚህ ከሃዲና ባንዳ የሆኑ ቅጥረኛ ኤሊቶችና የሚመሰርቱት አገዛዝ ከፍተኛ የሆነ ፖለቲካዊ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ወታደራዊ ድጋፍ ይደረግላቸዋል፡፡ወያኔ ብድርና እርዳታ እንደዚሁም የሚሊታሪ ድጋፍ ከባእዳን ሃይሎች የሚጎርፍለትም ለዚህ ነው፡፡ ወያኔ ዶላር እየተሰጠው ሲጠሩት አቤት ሲልኩት ወዴት እያለ ሶማሊያ ወይንም ሱዳን ወይንም ሌላ አፍሪካ ሀገር ጦርና ወታደር አዝምት ሲባል ይህንን የሚያደርገውም ለዚህ ነው፡፡ከጥንቱ ኮሎኒያሊዝም ይልቅ ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም የበለጠ አዋጭ(Politically, Economically, Militarily Efficient) እየሆነ የመጣ ይመስላል፡፡ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም በራሱ የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ዋና መገለጫ ባህሪ ነው፡፡

4ኛ) ሌላው የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ዋና መገለጫ የሆነው ኢምፔሪያሊዝም ነው፡፡ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ካለ የግድ የአንድ ሳንቲም ሌላው ገፅታ የሆነው ኢምፔሪያሊዝም(Empire) የግድ ይኖራል፡፡የሚሊታሪ የፖለቲካና የኢኮኖሚ ትእዛዝ ከላይ ከዋና መቀመጫ ማእከል (Seat of Central-Empire) ወደ ታች ያለ አሻንጉሊት አገዛዝ(Stooge Client-Regime) ያለበት ታዳጊ ሀገር ሲፈስ ሀብትና የገንዘብ ትርፍ ደግሞ ከታች ወደላይ እንዲፈስ ይደረጋል ማለት ነው፡፡የሰለጠነውና ያደገው አለምና በተለይም የምእራቡ አለም የየራሱን Empire መስርቷል፡፡ቻይና Feminine ባህሪ ያለውን ዲፕሎማሲያዊና በመከባበር ላይ የተመሰረተ የኢኮኖሚ ትብብርን መሰረት ያደረገ ኢምፓየር (Soft Neo-Colonialism) ስትዘረጋ አሜሪካና የምእራቡ አለም ደግሞ Masculine ባህሪ ያለው Gunboat Diplomacy ወይንም ሚሊታሪን ጭምር መሰረት ያደረገ ኢምፓየር ዘርግታለች፡፡ዞሮ ዞሮ ግን በስተመጨረሻ ሁሉም ግባቸው በታዳጊው አለም ኢኮኖሚያዊ ምዝበራ ማካሄድ ነው፡፡ዝሆኖቹ ሲጣሉ የሚጎዳው መሬቱ ላይ ያለው ሳር ነው አይነት ኢምፔሪያሊስት ሀገሮችም እርስ በርስ ሲጣሉም ብዙውን ጊዜ የሚጎዱት የታዳጊው ሀገራት ህዝቦች ናቸው፡፡ለምሳሌ በሊቢያ በሶርያ ወዘተ ያለው ጦርነትና ቀውስ በተዘዋዋሪ የእነዚሁ ኢምፔሪያሊስት ሀገሮች ጦርነት(Proxy War) ጭምር ነው፡፡ሌላው ኢምፔሪያሊስት ሀገሮች የዓለምን የሃይል ሚዛን(Global Power Relations) እያዩ እርስ በርስ እየተከፋፈሉና አንጃ እየፈጠሩ ህብረት የሚፈጥሩበት ብዙ አጋጣሚ አለ፡፡በሊቢያና በሶርያ ያለውን ስናይ ራሽያና ቻይና በአንድ በኩል ሲወግኑ አሜሪካና ምእራባውያን ደግሞ በሌላ ወገን ወግነዋል፡፡የጣሊያን ወረራና በአድዋ ድል መመታት በ1888 በበርሊን ኮንፈረንስ የነበረውን Scramble For Africa የተሰኘውን የአውሮፓውያን ተስፋፊዎች የቅኝ-ግዛት ኮንፈረንስ ተከትሎ የተከሰተ ታሪካዊ ሁነት ነው፡፡

ስለዚህም አሁን በዘመናችን ያለውን ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝምን ተጨባጭና ታሪካዊ ሁኔታ ስናስብ ይህንን አለም አቀፍ ስርዓት ከኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም ከኮሎኒያሊዝም ከኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝምና ከኢምፔሪያሊዝም ለይተን ማየት አንችልም፡፡እንደዚሁም ሙስና+ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት=የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኢኮኖሚያዊ ኒዎ-ሊበራሊዝም ዋና አይቀሬ መገለጫ ባህሪና አሰራር ነው፡፡በነፃ-ገበያ ሽፋን የሚንቀሳቀሰው የግሉ ዘርፍ ባብዛኛው ለጥቂቶች ሀብት በአቋራጭ የሚያከማች በመሆኑ ሙስናና ኪራይ ሰብሳቢነት አይቀሬ አሰራሩ ነው፡፡ይህንን ሁሉ ስል ግን ካፒታሊዝም ኋላ ቀር የነበረውን የጥንቱን ፊውዳሊዝምን በማዳከምና በማጥፋት ወደ ስልጣኔ ጎዳና በማምጣት የተጫወተውን ታሪካዊ ሚና ማስታወስና ማመን ግድ ይላል፡፡ነገር ግን አሁን ካፒታሊዝም የደረሰበት የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያለዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ደረጃ ካፒታሊዝም በሰው ልጅ ታሪክ ውስጥ ያለውን መልካም የታሪክ ድርሻ( የአንደኛውንና የሁለተኛውን የዓለም ጦርነት ጥፋቱን ለጊዜው ትተነው ማለት ነው) በሂደት ያከተመበት የታሪክ ምእራፍ ይመስላል፡፡ስለዚህም መጪው ዘመን ለአጠቃላዩ የሰው ዘር መልካምነትና ህልውና ሲባል ቀውስ እየፈጠረ ካለው ከግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ፋንታ ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም እንደ አንድ አለም አቀፍ ስርዓት ተገቢ ቦታውን ሊረከብ ይገባል የሚል እምነት አለኝ፡፡ከዚህ በኋላም ካፒታሊዝም በራሱ እንደ አንድ አሰራር ወይንም አካል በሶሻሊዝም መሰረት ላይ ነው መንቀሳቀስ የሚገባው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል ደግሞ በአጭሩ ቅድሚያ እኔና እኔ(First I) የሚለው ቅድሚያ እኛና እኛ(First We) በሚለው መተካት አለበት፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል በአጭሩ ቅድሚያ ገንዘብ ሳይሆን ቅድሚያ አጠቃላዩ ሰብዓዊነት(Humanity) ይሁን ማለት ነው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል ሰው ለገንዘብ ማከማቻነት የሚውል ተራ ሸቀጥ ሳይሆን ገንዘብ የሰውን ልጅ የሚያገለግል መሳሪያ ይሁን ማለት ነው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል የግሉም ዘርፍ ተባለ የህዝብና የመንግስት ዘርፍ ዞሮ ዞሮ ግን ለአጠቃላዩ የሰው ልጅ ህልውና ደህንነት ጥቅም ፍላጎት ይስራ ማለት ነው፡፡ግሎባል ሶሻሊዝም ሲባል እኔ የሚለው የሚኖረው እኛ የሚለው ሲኖር እንደዚሁም እኛ የሚለው የሚኖረው እኔ የሚለው ሲኖር ስለሆነ ጤናማና ተገቢ የሆነ ሊሰራ የሚችል ግለሰባዊና ማህበራዊ ሚዛን ያለው(Viable and Equilibrium) ስርዓተ ማህበር ይፈጠር ማለት ነው፡፡ከዚያ ውጪ ግን ካፒታሊዝም እና ሶሻሊዝም የሚለውን ነገር ጫፍና ጫፍ በረገጠ በነጭና በጥቁር መሳል ተገቢ አይደለም፡፡ምክንያቱም በካፒታሊዝም ውስጥ ሶሻሊዝም አለ እንደዚሁም በሶሻሊዝም ውስጥ ካፒታሊዝም አለ፡፡ነገር ግን አሁንም ደግሜ የምናገረው ዲሞክራሲ ነፃ-ገበያ የግለሰብ ነፃነት የጋራ የወል ነፃነት ወዘተ ከማለታችን በፊት ይህ አሰራር የሚመራበት ግልፅ የሆነ የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፋና ያስፈልገናል፡፡ይህ የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፍና የሌለው የፖለቲካ ፓርቲም እምነት የሌለው ምግባር እውር እንደሆነው ሁሉ አይነት ነው፡፡

ይህ አስተያየት ለ21ኛው ክፍለ-ዘመን የሶሻሊዝም ዋና አራማጅ ለሆነው ለቬንዝዋላው ለሁጎ ሻቬዝ ማስታወሻ ይሁንልኝ፡፡ምክንያቱም ሁጎ ሻቬዝ የግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም ኒዎ-ሊበራል ኒዎ-ኮሎኒያሊዝም ኢምፔሪያሊስታዊ ፕሮጀከት በቆራጥነት የታገለ ብቻም ሳይሆን እውነተኛ ዲሞክራሲን ከእውነተኛ የዜግነት ክብርና ከኢኮኖሚያዊ ብልፅግና ጋር ለሀገሩ ህዝብ ያጎናፀፈ ታላቅ የዘመናችን መሪ ስለሆነ ነው፡፡

እግዚአብሄር ኢትዮጵያንና አለምን ይባርክ !!!

I reiterate, the ideas you presented with respect to the current Prime Minister does not hold water in the light of the above scenarios or argumentative positions.

[[..Think about these questions and Diaspora should either join the highway or leave the high way for rapid change...]]

I think “leave the high way” is a respectable choice to make than going against it.

Forget Kenya! and look at the latest CNN World and be the judge man -

“Bono mentioned 10 of these African trailblazers during his recent TED talk. Let’s look at two of them:

– In absolute terms, Ethiopia lifted an estimated 10 million people out of extreme poverty in just over a decade (from 2000 to 2011). During that time, the Ethiopian government focused nearly half of its total budget on poverty fighting sectors like health, agriculture, and education. And donors like the U.S. and Europe provided significant support alongside it. If the current trend holds, extreme poverty can be virtually eliminated by 2030.

– Uganda lifted nearly 3 million people out of poverty in four short years (between 2006 and 2009). Overall, the percentage of Ugandans living on less than $1.25 a day has fallen by nearly half since the early 1990s. It, too, could virtually eliminate it by 2030.”

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/13/more-to-the-poverty-discussion-than-china/#comments

Don’t be fooled by the crooked Tecola Hagos.

All “official propagandas” are not created equal. Some are based on facts. Meles’s genius is a fact.

If Meles was only looking for money to “live to enjoy” as you said, he would have chosen a different profession.

It may be a challenge for some of us to make a living however, I assure you his types can make “millions” with less than half of the amount effort played out.

1 My question to the Professor is, what is this Hailemariam doing to take us to a new path say if we give him 100 yeMy question to the Professor is, what is this Hailemariam doing to take us to a new path say if we give him 100 years?

2. Simply state = Simply stated

3. too little = too little

The professor inappropriately used the word “ones”. He meant one’s.

ones is plural form of one. one’s is possessive form of one.

Here is what the Professor wrote:
I see the issue of building dams in ones (sic)own rivers as an attribute of sovereign power and issue of national security no different in having coastal territories with ports and naval establishments.

The professor as usual is a cunning debator who can easily shift the focus away from the main issue and lead us into deep trench for a while.

I have no personal hate or admiration for the Professor. But from what I have noticed he is bent on supporting the regime at any cost minus Meles.

We all know that Meles did not die without living his entrustees. We know that Wayane structurally is a very unique party in all of Africa. It is nothing like any other we know even in the world except the Chinese system. Instead of going to India we go to China for obvious reasons but for Wayane it is more than that. It is now the new political governance symbol of Wayane. One party and one ethnic dominance. While China may have some ethnic problems, it is nothing like ours where we are now as fragmented as we were in any time in our history. There is simply no hope for freedom of expression or any sort of freedom or election that is close to fair to happen in that country like our neighbor Kenya. We are as miserable as Sudan or Somalia is. We are a people who are feeding our bellies but not our mind. Our people constantly worry about their lives, worry about tax evaders, corrupt officials, rude police and most importantly the freedom to express their feelings or anger against their government. Their mind is tortured, they are coward and timid and are dependent on government for every thing they do. Our education is flat, the gap of wealth is infinite. Just simply state, there is misery in Ethiopia mostly a politically manufactured one. But there is a real economic misery too when EFFORT owns 90 % of the national economy.

My question to the Professor is, what is this Hailemariam doing to take us to a new path say if we give him 100 years. My answer is Wayane will remain the same Wayane given the current pace of reform 100 years from now. Do not feed us imaginary or fake dreams. Wayane is by its very nature unreformable or it will disappear.

So, do we have an alternative to set the pace maker of Wayane even a bit faster? None. I leave this to careful readers of this website, to ask themselves what is that we are expecting from the new HD??? What is it that we want him to do? Are we in the endless game play of the cunning Wayanes? Is too little too late what we want? Is the Ethiopia what it needs to be at this century? Do you really believe what Wayane supporters are saying that too littel even if too late is too good for Ethiopians. Can we not aspire to become great models? Can we not aspire to become better models than Kenya? Who is detracting us from becoming great and higher even with much modest pace? Who is holding Ethiopia back? The Daispora? Wayane? Think about these questions and Diaspora should either join the highway or leave the high way for rapid change. When I say rapid, I mean rapid in a sense of good reform. Do not buy into those liars who say too much of a change is too much to ask. Tell them, yes we can. We are the people with big dreams. Do not listen to Tecola Hagos who always is happy to tell Ethiopia to dream to little too late.

ጉረኞች:

[[..If you open your eyes to look at the suffering.. by the people .. you would not have missed at least this one!...May be it will touch your soft heart...]]

What they forget is the commercial farm in the video is owned by a person of Ethiopian origin. His “soft heart” is with his people even though he needs to take care of business. I have recently read that local youth farmers are benefiting from the spill over of such modern investments in the region.

Don’t let a video made by bleeding heart “neo-liberals” fool you. It is their appetite for voyeurism and exploitation that drives them to do that if you ask me.

Change and development is painful to folks that is what the video showed nothing else but, the alternative is not to stay a heaven for voyeurism. Is it?

I read you piece with great interest and calm. I think you need to be congratulated on this watershed piece that put our current predicament into its proper context. I call it “tebta mar”.

I recommend you expand this writing of yours into a book, so we the current generation and the future ones have something concrete to refer to.

Thank you sir!
Aman

As to what Prime Minister HD stated at the Parliament, change begins with ideology expressed in spoken, heard, written, and read words. These spoken, heard, written, and read words are converted into actions. We cannot diminish the value of spoken words. They are the beginnings of tangible actions as far as we make them accountable to their sources given that the circumstances are conducive to implementation. Rome was not built in one day. Let us give the new Head of state the time and space to act on what he said and says. Politics is not a pancake that you mix it, bake it, and immediately eat it. You let it cool down for a moment. If you try to eat it immediately out of the pan, you will definitely burn the parts in your mouth. Let us appreciate the Prime Minister HD for having the ball to say what he said. Twenty two years of deep rooted Killization (Bantustanization) or tribalism takes more than a speech to eradicate it. Talking about this anti-unity political poison is the first step to alienate its demagogic propagators. Let us hold the Prime Minister accountable to his words. Time will tell us if he is demagoguing or a man of action.

I sympathize with you for the ongoing slaughter and atrocity of my Ethiopian brethren in four corners of our land. I wish that it would not have happened. It is pitiful and heart wrenching. But it is impossible to avoid it until our people and our neighbors are well educated and developed in the full sense economical, social, and political development.

Treaty, I hold no grudge or animosity towards you. No steam or anger. But I do not hold back in expressing my views. I participate in this forum once a while when I see an opinion or commentary that attracts me to say something. I am mostly a reader of the articles presented or written on this forum. Stay in peace not in pieces.

I didn’t mean to offend anyone in my comment. You are right language is mainly a mode of communication however, Prof. Al Mariam has mastered the English language; he creates at least a word or two every time he writes. I won’t miss reading his write up even though I don’t agree with his politics.

Those Ethio-TV reporters are OK but, some of them shouldn’t be given a position in interviewing in English. May be they got the job because they are EPRDF cadres. I understand that is a major criteria to be a WALTA or ETV reporter and their English skills is secondary. Too bad!

You see, Ethiopians must know that, the enemy that we know settled in our country is, it is what it is; it can never be changed into friendly to our people and country. The pit in EPRDF is the venomous Hiwahat; Hiwahat is an organization that had been formed by criminal elements who are descendants of askaris who died in battle and buried at the bottom of dark burial ground several feet below the graves of Fascist Italians, their dear Masters.

Take a look at what these askaris have done to our people and country. Do you trust them with our people and country?. Moreover, today, everything and anything that is available below and above the lands that they occupied and refused to leave is owned, run, and controlled buy banda and banda admirers.

All Ethiopians, keep the faith! Keep the fight!

Nowhere, I used any derogatory remarks against Mr. Tecola. You are the one who is making ado over nothing, I believe, if need be, the writer is able to defend himself and may not need your help.

Coming to the issue dis agree with the idea advocated by the writer. For instance, in the first paragraph he said,

“What Hailemariam stated was a direct repudiation of Meles Zenawi’s core policy and work of twenty years of ethnic cleansing and Killilization (bantustanization) of Ethiopia”.

Just because Hailmariam hold press conference about the expulsion of those citizens and gave statements to members of the parliament stating that every citizen has constitutional right to live and work across the country does not mean this is a policy change on the part of EPRDF. If anything it was public relation speech that comes as a result of diplomatic and domestic pressure. Infact,had there been any real meaningful guaranty behind Hailmariams’s words, three days after the speech who could not have herd another group being expelled from the south. If indeed P/M Hailmariam has an independent political space he can breathe we could have not heard clashes between residents of Somalia and Oromos in Harare that resulted in the death of 37 people and the expulsion of the later from the district. Is the developing these events just few days after the P/M’s speech makes me to believe his statement “such act will not be repeated ” is credible.
Not to mention the fact the farmers of Western Gondar are constantly being attacked by armed Sudanese militias and Weyane solders around the border. So much for your so called civil discourse.

As far as I am concerned I have a litmus test. “It is never late to remedy an injustice. In the case of Eskinder, Andualem et cetera the injustice of their continued imprisonment would only hurt the reputation and image of the current Ethiopian leaders and undermine all development effort in Ethiopia. The immediate release of all political prisoners especially Eskinder, Andualem et cetera is most urgent.” you eloquently stated. WELL, HMD has been the prime minister for quiet sometime. He is the PRIME MINISTER. Therefore his failure to release prisoners, may tell be an indication that the post Meles era may be worse that the Meles Era, contrary to what you think. Also keep note of the 99.9999% election victory under HMD.

I think while it OK to hope and expect change from within the regime, which I also do, it is also important to think of the current HMD regime as no better than Meles and act accordingly.

Regards
GK

As far as I am concerned I have a litmus test. “It is never late to remedy an injustice. In the case of Eskinder, Andualem et cetera the injustice of their continued imprisonment would only hurt the reputation and image of the current Ethiopian leaders and undermine all development effort in Ethiopia. The immediate release of all political prisoners especially Eskinder, Andualem et cetera is most urgent.” you eloquently stated. WELL, HMD has been the prime minister for quiet sometime. He is the PRIME MINISTER. Therefore his failure to release prisoners, may tell be an indication that the post Meles era may be worse that the Meles Era, contrary to what you think. Also keep note of the 99.9999% election victory under HMD.

I think while it OK to hope and expect change from within the regime, which I also do, it is also important to think of the current HMD regime as no better than Meles and act accordingly.

Regards
GK

Regards
GK

It is never late to remedy an injustice. In the case of Eskinder, Andualem et cetera the injustice of their continued imprisonment would only hurt the reputation and image of the current Ethiopian leaders and undermine all development effort in Ethiopia. The immediate release of all political prisoners especially Eskinder, Andualem et cetera is most urgent.

If you open your eyes to look at the suffering of the poor people instead of parties flattering speech by the people who do not care for poor people you would not have missed at least this one! You have missed all evidences released by SMNE over the years, please do not miss them in the future. May be it will touch your soft heart.
http://www.ethiomedia.com/abc_text/4104.html

[..፡፡እነዚህ ምስኪን ገበሬዎችና ሌሎችም ተመሳሳይ ከነባር መሬታቸው እየተባረሩ ያሉት ጋምቤላዎች ወዘተ በመለስና በወያኔ ዲሞክራሲ የተነፈጉት ከመሬታቸው እንዲፈናቀሉና ጭሰኛ እንዲሆኑ ለማድረግ መሆኑን ነው ልታስረዳን የምትሞክረውን?ልክ እንደ ደርግ ዘመን ባለው መሬት የሌላቸውን ወይንም በጠባብ መሬት ላይ ይኖሩ የነበሩትን በሰሜኑ የሀገራችን ክፍል የነበሩትን ገበሬዎችን ያለፈቃዳቸው አስገድዶ በደቡቡ ሰፋፊ መሬት ላይ በሰፈራ ሰፋፊና ለም መሬት እንዲያገኙ ማድረግ ለዘለቄታዊ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ጥቅም ሲባል ጊዚያዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ መብትን መጋፋት ሊባል ይችላል ነገር ግን አሁን ወያኔ እያደረገ ያለውን እያስገደደ ከነባር መሬት የማፈናቀልና በምትኩ ለባእዳን መሬት እየቸበቸቡ ገበሬውን የውጪ ባእዳን ጭሰኛ የማድረግ አሳፋሪና አሳዛኝ ድርጊት ግን እነዴት ነው የምታብራራልኝ?..]]

“According to Meles the state should not follow the market rather the state must lead the market. Since free market forces will not drive economic transformation on their own, the developmental state must play a central role in resource allocation and in efficient coordination of crucial economic activities. This is particularly relevant to developing infrastructure, human capital, and the financial market and setting up production facilities in the agricultural and industrial sectors. Issues of market failure abound in this area, requiring the state’s positive intervention.”

The population of Gambela is around 300,000 and the density is the lowest in the nation. So what displacement are we talking about? Can you tell us what existing farm was leased away? There were None. So It is all a “hype” if you ask me.

As I mentioned it in the past, leasing a huge land with give away prices and bringing FDI from such as Karatauri, Saudi Star etc. shall make the country a net exporter of food after fulfilling domestic demands soon. Contrary to some of your assertion, the leases have teeth for the government to protect national interest. If one reads the Karatauri lease the Gov. can cancel the lease if they choose to do so. So the state intervention is a positive one instead of waiting forever for some market force to come and farm the land in Gambela.

I say to Mr. Tecola W. Hagos that please continue emotion provoking opinions and commentaries. Controversial opinions are needed on various Ethiopian forums so that we can witness the ugliness of political discussions and test the intolerance of disagreeable opinions in our discourse as shown here by Mr. Treaty (the name does not match to Mr. Treaty’s Comment) and others. Let God save Ethiopia from the abuse of her own uncompromising and resentful children.

My interest in writing ”Breaking Political Barriers and Political Taboos” is to get us moving from the current Diaspora’s political doldrums where our sail has lost it creative wind and is flapping around tattered. Sadly, we are at odds with each other and involved in fruitless exercises of never-ending nauseating insults and accusations without practical solutions to get us away from ethnic politics and predatory economic structures. It will not advance our goal one inch if we just simply condemn past deeds of Meles Zenawi or that of the EPRDF. Ethiopians in the Diaspora are as diverse as people back home. No one single Diaspora person represents anyone else except himself or herself. Let us learn some humility, and let us know that in the scheme of things our individual views are just that “views.” The people who are of paramount significance are the Ethiopian people along with their political leaders back in Ethiopia. Please, focus on possible solutions to the issues that are most pressing that we may become something of value to our people and their leaders. Thank you.
Tecola W. Hagos

[[..your conviction to Meles is quiet similar to that of the homeless person..]]

May be but, check what renowned politicians say when paying tribute to Meles:

Lord Malloch-Brown, Former Minister of State for Africa at the FCO, spoke of Meles longing to retire and return to his studies. The amount of academic work Meles produced was so colossal that “it was difficult to believe sometimes that he was also running a country” he said.

LSE professor Lord Stern of Brentford, said “ … Meles was a key player at the climate change conference in Copenhagen in 2009. They worked together on the UN Advisory Group on Climate Financing in 2010, which Meles co-chaired and drove forward. Their last collaboration was on the BRICS-led development bank which was in large measure Meles’ conception and which he knew, before he died, was likely to go forward – the decision to do so was taken last month. ..]]

Former Secretary of State for International Development, the Rt. Hon Clare Short, spoke of her admiration for “the most intelligent politician I’ve ever met in my life”.

Lord Malloch-Brown, Former Minister of State for Africa at the FCO, spoke of Meles longing to retire and return to his studies. The amount of academic work Meles produced was so colossal that “it was difficult to believe sometimes that he was also running a country” he said.

Former UK Prime Minister, H.E. Gordon Brown, began with an electrifying speech saying that “no one did more to eradicate the evil of poverty than Prime Minister Meles”

BRICS-led development bank is Meles’s conception.

What can I say , He is the man!

ህሊና የለሽ ሆዳም ሁሏም ያኔ ነው ባለስልጣን የሆነው:: ሆዳም እኔ ልጥገብ እንጂ ስለሌላው ምን አገባኝ ሲል፣ ማሌሊት ደግሞ ብቻ የጭምልቅ ስርዓቴ አገልጋይ ይሁን እንጂ የፈለገውን ያህል ይዝረፍ ምን ቸገረኝ ስትል፣ ሁለቱም ተዋህደው ኢትዮጵያን መቦጥቦጥ ተያይዘው ይሄው 20 ዓመታት አልፈዋል:: ሆዳም ግን አንዳንዴ ሆዱ ሲጠግብ ህሊናውም ይረበሻል:: ከእንቅልፍ ባኖ እንደተነሳም ይሆንና የሆነ ነገር ማሌሊት የማትወደውን ያለፋልፈዋል:: ያኔ ማሌሊት እንደ ደርግ አድሃሪ ሆነ ምንትሴ ብላና የፍየል ወጠጤን አስዘፍና በፖለቲካ ጉዳይ አትወነጅለውም:: በኮራፕሽን ብቻ ነው የምትወነጅለው:: ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥም ሆነ በሌላው ዓለም ዘንዳ በማሌሊት ስር የተስተዳደረ ፍጡር ደግሞ የኮራፕሽን ነጥብ ሊሳነው ስለማይችል፣ የማረጋገጫ ነጥብ ለማግኘት አያዳግትም:: የኮራፕሽን ነጥብ ካላስያዘ ድሮውንም ለተጠቅሚነት አይበቃም ነበርና:: ነገሩ በስነስርዓቱ ከታየ፣ አንድ አያቶላ ከስሩ ያለውን ሙላ ለምን የሺኢት እምነት ተከታይ ሆንክ ብሎ አሳሰረው እንደ ማለት ነውና፣ ይሄ ስለማይታመን አያቶላው ተፈልጎ ይመርመር:: ከዋኖቹ ዋናው የሙስና አያቶላው (ከአንድ ብእር በስተቀር አንድም ንብረት የሌው፣ ቢሸጥ ግን ሚልዮኖች ሊያወጣ ይችል የነበረውና፣ አሁን ደግሞ አንዷ ብእሩ ተሽጣ ፋውንደችን እየተቋቋመለት ያለው – በየአይጥ ምስክሩ ድንቢጥ ሚስቱ ምስክርነት አባባል፣ Ki..Ki…….!)በቅርቡ ሞተ:: ከዚያን በኋላ ኮራፕሽንን ጉንፋን ይዛት ይሆን ወይ ብለን ጠብቀን ነበር፣ ግን አይመስልም……!

የሚገርመው ግን ተቃዋሚ ነን ባዮችም በዚሁ ጉንፋን እንኳን በማይደፍረው ማሌሊታው ሜላ እየተበከሉ መምጣታቸውና፣ ጠቅላላ ኢትዮጵያዊ የተባለ ሁሉ የባንዳዋ የማሌሊት “እምነት” ተከታይ ሆኖ መገኘቱ ነው……..!

መሃረነ ክርስቶስ፣ ነገሩን በይበልጥ ጠለቅ ብለው ከተገነዘቡት አሳብዶ ጨርቅ ስለሚያስጥል፣ አዲስ ስርነቀል አብዮትን ብቻ ነው የሚያስመኘው…!

Any body ready for that……………!?

Prof. Al, Ethiopians have a saying – “silence is golden!!” in this instance I think the virtue is correct. A “Melesistas” would also say, it is not enough to just oppose.

What have we done ourselves lately that gives us the audacity to insult Meles who sacrificed himself working towards solving our poor folk’s monumental problems?

Contrary to your opinion of the government there are those who give it constructive criticisms. Why don’t you do the same?

“The Ethiopian government has been courageous in taking forward its higher education expansion programme in the face of some vociferous criticism by donors and others. It will need to show equal leadership and determination in the next phase, where its policies must be fully implemented.” Professor Kate Ashcroft is emeritus professor of education at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK.

Be that as it may, I love your prolific writings and I have to admit this one is one of those master pieces; truly marvelous!! I wish the Ethiopian government publishes your pieces regularly in national publications as a recommended reading for all and a required one for those in English language department and related areas of field.

[[..If ignorance is strength, then knowledge is power. When “ignorant” youth gain knowledge, they become an unstoppable force…]]

At least if your write up becomes a required reading, it shall help some of those embarrassing “ignorant” English language “reporters” we see on Ethiopian Television regularly.

Cheers!

The economic model EPRDF is following requires such loyal actors as EFFORT to do what it needs to do therefore, members particularly higher up ones know that very well. Melaku (the ladies man per Temesgen :-)included.

As is in China where the key positions in the five industrial sectors—finance, foreign trade, land development, large-scale engineering, and securities—85 percent to 90 percent are held by party members and family. CPC as EPRDF controls all the strategic sectors of the economy; these include utilities, transportation, telecommunications, finance, and the media. All strong Developmental States do same.

Can EFFORT evolve to a national corporation where stocks are sold to all Ethiopians? That is a different question to ask.

HD and others can propose such a move. In practice however, it is a national company but owned by one region of the country.

Let me recapitulate the development of events that Tecola is not willing to touch. Sometime in the mid of April ESAT and other media outlets have reported about the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Benshangul Gumuz area. As this act was barbaric in its nature, it angered Ethiopians of all wakes of life Christians & Moslems as well as all the differing linguistic groups. On the ground Ethiopian nationalists traveled to the area and provided first hand information of live interview of the victims. Over sees all our people came out and protested against the barbaric TPLF rulers.
Such large scale public reaction across the world was drawing attention of the diplomatic community. Among whom, The U.N and TPLF bank rollers World Bank is aware of the sensitivity of the issue. It was at this time that P/M Hailemariam Desalegn made his first trip to Europe. In Brussels this is what, José Manuel Durão Barroso; President of European Commission has to say to P/M Hailemariam.”

“Today we had a very open and friendly discussion on a number of issues related to our bilateral relations…….But Ethiopia still has potential do more and better. I have heard the Prime-Minister’s plans for the next stages of development of the country. I had the opportunity to recall that this ambitious agenda also requires the widest possible participation and support throughout society.

Ultimately economic growth can only be sustained if it is achieved in an open society respectful of fundamental rights and also freedom, from freedom of expression to freedom of the press.”

On the other hand, the TPLF owned media for two weeks make no mention of the issue until Hilemariam gave prepared official statement concerning this issue. Therefore, It become apparent Hailemariam was pressed to give the response because of diplomatic pressure and domestic public outrage. I am not here arguing Hailemariam and Melese are the same in the way they view Ethiopia. The issue here is who is in control? Tecola says TPLF is losing grip which is why you are here in the first place. I completely disagree with your assessment.

“The main reason for that type of open challenge within the hitherto regimented party organizational leadership is the fact that the overwhelming presence of Meles Zenawi is no longer the millstone that crushed.”

Far from your bogus statement the fact remains, with or with out Melese, TPLF is still in firm control. Currently, there are three stools of TPLF team leadership in force. 1, the foreign affairs led By Teodros Adhanom,and Brehane Gebrekiristos.Domestic affairs by Bereket Simon,Abay Woldu ,and Abay Tsehay monitoring the Ethiopian Orthodox church. 2, Debresion Gebremikael,and Getachew Assefa spying on Ethiopians.3,Weyane generals Mohamed Yosuf,Tsadkan Gebretensae,and Seare Mekonnen in control of the army.Real power rests in the hands of the three spear headed TPLF team leadership. Now, Hailemariam is put as a front man to advance TPLF agenda.Mr.I have news for you many Ethiopians don’t believe any more in peaceful struggle and your spin concerning the above issue is a waste of time.

Minnesota Man, I am sorry to find you in this state. If you have to apologize to Mr.Tola, please use personal pronoun to do so. You certainly cannot speak on my behalf; nor can you speak on behalf of Ethiopian community.

“Corruption in Ethiopia, thus, is not unique to that country although from this premise it should not follow that the Ethiopian corruption should be justified under any circumstance. On the contrary, the corrupt officials should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Instead of simply employing the law against corrupt citizens, however, the Ethiopian Government should first educate (informally via the media outlets) the people by focusing on the defining characteristics of corruption and furthermore by exploring and exposing the larger picture of corruption or debilitating disease behind the facade … The late Prime Minster Meles Zenawi had addressed the problem of rent seeking in his major thesis in 2007 that I have reviewed and critiqued. I have also addressed the same issue in my new book, in which I have argued, �Incidentally, Meles Zenawi has been emphatic on the problem of ethnic-based political patronage through much of the body of the text of his work. However, like most African nations Ethiopia suffers from political patronage and unmistakably from ethnic-based politics. It is for this apparent reason, therefore, that I suggested � the PM of Ethiopia need to clean up his mess before he ventures on the grand agenda of the developmental state…
In modern Ethiopian history, the Ethiopian people encountered the worst of all corruptions during the Derg military regime where military officers became managers of nationalized enterprises and companies and squandered the finances of these companies without any accountability whatsoever. The Derg officials committed the highest form of grand theft in Ethiopian history and there was no system in place to bring them before justice, because they acted as the government and the state at the same time and the Ethiopian people knew very well of the scale of corruption of the Derg officials in spite of their attempt to cover it up with socialist sloganeering. It would have been completely impossible to sue the Derg officials in the absence of judicial proceedings and the only solution was to do away with the entire system of the Derg as has been done in 1991.”

PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN africanidea.org; OBSERVE HIS ILLUSTRATIONS COME FROM PIASSA, HAWASSA, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, DERG, EPRDF – NEVER FROM TIGRAY OR TPLF OR EFFORT!

“Corruption in Ethiopia, thus, is not unique to that country although from this premise it should not follow that the Ethiopian corruption should be justified under any circumstance. On the contrary, the corrupt officials should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Instead of simply employing the law against corrupt citizens, however, the Ethiopian Government should first educate (informally via the media outlets) the people by focusing on the defining characteristics of corruption and furthermore by exploring and exposing the larger picture of corruption or debilitating disease behind the facade … The late Prime Minster Meles Zenawi had addressed the problem of rent seeking in his major thesis in 2007 that I have reviewed and critiqued. I have also addressed the same issue in my new book, in which I have argued, �Incidentally, Meles Zenawi has been emphatic on the problem of ethnic-based political patronage through much of the body of the text of his work. However, like most African nations Ethiopia suffers from political patronage and unmistakably from ethnic-based politics. It is for this apparent reason, therefore, that I suggested � the PM of Ethiopia need to clean up his mess before he ventures on the grand agenda of the developmental state…
In modern Ethiopian history, the Ethiopian people encountered the worst of all corruptions during the Derg military regime where military officers became managers of nationalized enterprises and companies and squandered the finances of these companies without any accountability whatsoever. The Derg officials committed the highest form of grand theft in Ethiopian history and there was no system in place to bring them before justice, because they acted as the government and the state at the same time and the Ethiopian people knew very well of the scale of corruption of the Derg officials in spite of their attempt to cover it up with socialist sloganeering. It would have been completely impossible to sue the Derg officials in the absence of judicial proceedings and the only solution was to do away with the entire system of the Derg as has been done in 1991.”

PLEASE READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN africanidea.org; OBSERVE HIS ILLUSTRATIONS COME FROM PIASSA, HAWASSA, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, DERG, EPRDF – NEVER FROM TIGRAY OR TPLF OR EFFORT!

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The model in general is economic freedom with political repression. The repression is applied unfortunately, on those who detract the masses from the grand vision of Meles’s economic development plan.
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“Actually, the majority of Ethiopians feel colonized more than oppressed. Of course, other than the colonizers.” Quoted from ጉረኞች
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The unprecedented and pervasive ethnically driven political suppression during the era of TPLF is with the motive in order to eventually implement Economic subjugation and Economic Exploitation not as you claim so. So your assertion that we are politically oppressed so that we become economically free is totally absurd. I understand the very reason why you confidently assert or pose such reasoning. You may seem a bit right because so many naïve and gullible Ethiopian intellectuals has been naively and gullibly hyping the issue of bogus democracy for so long time till the blatant advent of EFFORT while becoming so indifferent and ignorant of the economic aspect. But for those guys who have awakened and enlightened regarding the currently pervasive global social order of Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects then hyping the issues of bogus democracy without emphasizing the associated economic freedom has become such an absurdity and naivety.
እዚህ ላይ ነፃ-ፕሬስ ዲሞክራሲ ሰብዓዊ መብት አምባገነን ወዘተ እያሉ የሚያራግቡ ብዙ የዋህ ኢትዮጵያውያን ያልተረዱት አንድ ወሳኝ ነገር የፖለቲካ ጭቆናው በዋናነት የኢኮኖሚ ጭቆናውንና ምዝበራውን ለማስኬድ የታለመ እንደሆነ ነው፡፡የሰውን ልጅ ሰብዓዊ ባህሪና ታሪካዊ አካሄድ(Human Dynamism, Hierarchy of Needs and Evolutionary Needs) በቅጡ ለተረዳ ሰው የሰው ልጅ ከመኖር ህልውናው ጋር በተያያዘ ዲሞክራሲ ነፃ-ፕሬስ ወዘተ አይነት የተራቀቁ መንፈሳዊና ስሜታዊ ፍላጎቶቹ ቅድሚያ ዋና አንገብጋቢው ነገር እንደ ምግብ መጠለያ ውሃ አየር ሰላማዊ አካባቢ ቤተሰባዊ ፍቅር ወሲባዊ ፍላጎቶች ወዘተ መሆናቸው ሳይታለም የተፈታ ነው፡፡በዚህ የተነሳም ዛሬ በዘመነ ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝምና ዘመነ ወያኔ ሰዎች እንደ ሞባይል ወዘተ አይነት ዘመነኛ ቴክኖሎጂ እየተጠቀሙ ነገር ግን በተቃራኒው እነዚህን መሰረታዊ ቁሳዊ ፍላጎቶች በቅጡ ለማግኘት እየተቸገሩ ያለቡት ግራ የሚያጋባ ዘመን ውስጥ ነው ያለነው፡፡ዛሬ በአሸባሪነት በዲሞክራሲ በሰብዓዊ መብት ወዘተ በተለያየ ሽፋን በዓለም ላይ እየተደረጉ ያሉ ጦርነቶችና ወረራዎች ጣልቃ-ገብነቶች ሁሉ በዋናነት ከዚህ መሰረታዊ ፍላጎቶች ጋር በተያያዘ የሚደረግ የኢኮኖሚ ጦርነት ነው፡፡የወያኔም በነፃ-አውጪነት ሽፋን ከደርግ ጋርና አሁን በቀጣይነት እየተደረገ ያለው ጦርነትና ትግል በዋናነት ከዚህ ጋር የተያያዘ ነው፡፡ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም በራሱ የጦርነት ዋና ምንጭ ብቻም ሳይሆን ከጦርነትም ጭምር የሚያተርፍ ስርዓት ነው፡፡በእርግጥ ከእነዚህ መሰረታዊ ፍላጎቶች ጋር በተያያዘ የሚካሄደው ትግልና ጦርነት የመጨረሻው መፍትሄው በራሱ ፖለቲካዊ ጭምር ነው፡፡ማለትም ጥቂቶች ውስኪ ለመጠጣት ዘመናዊና ውድ አውቶሞቢል ለመንዳት ምርጥ ቪላ ውስጥ ለመኖርና ወዘተ አይነት የተለየ ምድረ-ገነት የቅንጦት ህይወት ለመኖር የግድ የሌሎችን የብዙሃኖችን ሽሮ የመብላትና ውሃ የመጠጣት ወይንም በደሳሳ ጎጆ የመኖር መሰረታዊ ፍላጎት የሚፃረርና ሌሎችን ብዙሃኖችን የምድር ገሀነም ውስጥ የመክተት የጥሎ ማለፍ መረን የለቀቀ ግለሰባዊ ስግብግብነትና ቁሳቁስ አግበስባሽነት በመንፈስ ልእልና ካልተገራ በስተቀር ዓለም ሁል ጊዜ የጦርነት አውድማ ውስጥ እንደሆነች ትቀጥላለች፡፡ለዚህም ነው በተደጋጋሚ ዲሞክራሲ አምባገነን ወዘተ ከማለታችን በፊት የህይወትና የፖለቲካ ፍልስፍናችን ምንድን ነው የሚለው ወሳኝ ነገር ሊነሳ የሚገባው፡፡እርስ በርሳችን በቅጡ ለመደማመጥም ያልቻልነው ለዚህ ይመስለኛል፡፡ውስጣዊ እምነታችን በውጫዊው ምግባራችን እንደሚገለፀው ሁሉ እናምንበታለን እናራምደዋለን የምንለው ፖለቲካዊ አስተሳሰባችንም ከውጪ በሚታየው ኢኮኖሚው የሚገለፅ ነው የሚሆነው፡፡መለስ ጥቂቶችን በዘራቸው ብቻ እየመረጠ ደን አቃጠላችሁ እያለ ሰበብ በመፍጠር ከመሬታቸው እያፈናቀለ ያንኑ መሬት ለባእዳን በርካሽ እየቸበቸበ እንዴት ነው ይህንን የኢኮኖሚ ልማት ሊባል የሚችለው?ዛሬ በዘመነ ወያኔ ኢትዮጵያውያን እኮ ዲሞክራሲ የሚባለውን አይደለም ያጡት እያጡት ያለው ነገር ከዚህ በፊት የነበራቸውን ሰብዓዊና የዜግነት ከብራቸውንና ነፃነታቸውን ጭምር ነው ከዚህም በላይ ደግሞ የእለት ዳቦ ጭምር ነው እያጡ ያሉት፡፡በዘራቸው ብቻ እየተመረጡ ከመሬታቸው የተፈናቀሉትን ገበሬዎች ይህ እንዲፈረድባቸው የሆነው በየትኛው የኢኮኖሚና የፖለቲካ አስተሳሰብ ሆኖ ነው? ይህንን እንዴት ነው ልታስረዳኝ የምትችለው ?እነዚህ ሰዎች እኮ እኔ አንተና መሰሎቻችን ዲሞክራሲ እያልን የምንቀባጥረው ዘመነኛ ዘይቤ ምን እንደሆነ ብዙም አይገባቸውም ነገር ግን በግልፅ የሚገባቸው ነገር እያት ቅድመ አያቶቻቸው የህይወት መስዋእትነት የከፈሉላት ከዚህ በኋላ ኢትዮጵያ የእነሱ እንዳልሆነች እነሱም ኢትዮያጵዊ እንዳለሆኑ ነው እየተሰማቸውና በተግባር እያዪ ያሉት፡፡እነዚህ ምስኪን ገበሬዎችና ሌሎችም ተመሳሳይ ከነባር መሬታቸው እየተባረሩ ያሉት ጋምቤላዎች ወዘተ በመለስና በወያኔ ዲሞክራሲ የተነፈጉት ከመሬታቸው እንዲፈናቀሉና ጭሰኛ እንዲሆኑ ለማድረግ መሆኑን ነው ልታስረዳን የምትሞክረውን?ልክ እንደ ደርግ ዘመን ባለው መሬት የሌላቸውን ወይንም በጠባብ መሬት ላይ ይኖሩ የነበሩትን በሰሜኑ የሀገራችን ክፍል የነበሩትን ገበሬዎችን ያለፈቃዳቸው አስገድዶ በደቡቡ ሰፋፊ መሬት ላይ በሰፈራ ሰፋፊና ለም መሬት እንዲያገኙ ማድረግ ለዘለቄታዊ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ጥቅም ሲባል ጊዚያዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ መብትን መጋፋት ሊባል ይችላል ነገር ግን አሁን ወያኔ እያደረገ ያለውን እያስገደደ ከነባር መሬት የማፈናቀልና በምትኩ ለባእዳን መሬት እየቸበቸቡ ገበሬውን የውጪ ባእዳን ጭሰኛ የማድረግ አሳፋሪና አሳዛኝ ድርጊት ግን እነዴት ነው የምታብራራልኝ?ያንተ አካሄድ የተወሰነ አሳማኝ የሚሆነው ምናልባት ዲሞክራሲ እያሉ ሲቀባጥሩ ለነበሩት ጥራዝ-ነጠቅ ኢትዮጵያውያን ምሁራን ብቻ ነው፡፡ነገር ግን አሁን አሁን እነዚህም ምሁራን ቢሆኑ ወያኔ የሚሰራውን እኩይ የኢኮኖሚ ምዝበራና ሻጥርና እንደዚሁም ኢፈርት የተባለውን በዘረኝነት ላይ የተመሰረተ ትልቅ የኢኮኖሚ ኢምፓየር በአይናቸው ማየት ሲጀምሩ ከተኙበት ዲሞክራሲ የሚባል ዘመነኛ የቅዠት አለም ውስጥ እየባነኑ በተግባር ያለውን የኢኮኖሚውን ጉዳይ አትኩሮት መስጠት እየጀመሩ ነው፡፡ይህ የአመለካከት ለውጥ ደግሞ የትግላችን ውጤት ነው፡፡ቀድሞውንም እኮ ጥራዝ-ነጠቅ ኢትዮጵየውያን ምሁራን ናቸው ዲሞክራሲ ገለመሌ እያሉ ያለአካሄዱ ከፈረሱ ጋሪውን አስቀድመው ሲቀባጥሩ የኖሩት እንጂ የኢትዮጰያ ህዝብ ከሚወራው የምእራቡ አለም አይነት ዲሞክራሲ ይልቅ ቅድሚያ የሚያስፈልገው ምን እንደሆነ በተወሰነ ይረዳል፡፡ቅድሚያ የኢትዮጵያና የኢትዮጵያዊነት ህልውናና ደህንነት ቀጥሎ ደግሞ ከመኖር ህልውናና ጋር የተያያዘው ኢኮኖሚያዊ ነፃነት መረጋገጥ አለበት፡፡ይህ ከሆነ ዲሞክራሲ የሚባለው ነገር በሂደት የሚመጣ ነገር ነው፡፡ልማታዊ መንግስት በሚል እየተካሄደ ያለው የወያኔ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ምዝበራ ነው፡፡ይህ ደግሞ ለብዙሃኑ የኢኮኖሚ ነፃነትን ሳይሆን የባሰ የኢኮኖሚ ባርነትን ነው ያመጣው፡፡የደርግ ፖለቲካዊ አምባገነንነት ለተሻለ የብዙሃኑ የኢኮኖሚ ነፃነት ነበር ነገር ግን ያሁኑ የመለስና ወያኔ ፖለቲካዊ አምባገነንነት ለባሰ የብዙሃኑ የኢኮኖሚ ባርነት ነው፡፡ይህ ዛሬ ብዙ ተራ ኢትዮጵያውያን ጭምር ደመ-ነፍሳቸውን የሚሰማቸው ነገር ነው፡፡ስለዚህም ኢትዮጵያውያን ዛሬ ያሉበት ሁኔታ ዘመናዊ የውክልና ቅኝ-ግዛት ውስጥ ነው፡፡ትግሉም ግሎባል ካፒታሊዝም በላያችን ላይ ከጫነብን በቅጥረኝነት በዘራፊነትና በዘረኝነት ላይ የተመሰረተ የኢኮኖሚና የፖለቲካ ጭቆና ነፃ ለመውጣት የሚደረግ የሞት የሽረት ትግል የሆነ የነፃነት ትግል እንጂ ያን ያህል የቅንጦት የዲሞክራሲ ትግል አይደለም፡፡

“Actually, the majority of Ethiopians feel colonized more than oppressed. Of course, other than the colonizers.” Quoted from ጉረኞች.
And now what is remaining next is to bring the mere feelings to the proper light of consciousness and realization.

God Bless Ethiopia!!!

Bringing compromise and harmony in Ethiopian politics requires sanity, honesty and audacity to profess our political sins. With such rampant political prostitution and dishonesty, becoming a prevailing cultural taboo, then we shall not bring any compromise and harmony in the foreseeable future. When I say rampant political prostitution and dishonesty, I mean it not only in TPLF domain only but also I mean it outside of TPLF domain who even demonize and oppose TPLF itself. And as long as Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects that is globally pervasive is brought to the light of consciousness for proper critical scrutiny then time and again hyping only the issue of Meles/TPLF who are also stooges of same global social order, is then worthless. As Albert Einstein once said it that we can not solve a certain problem my the same mechanisms or methodologies that has caused the same problem already then as long as the status quo of the same global social order is prevailing then HD or Redwan are just like a droplet in to an ocean to bring about change. As there is a saying that “the change is rather not to CHANGE”, then there is nothing new with HD or Redwan except they are to preserve in the status quo.
Global Capitalism is not as such naïve and gullible but rather so crafty and so does it stooge Meles/TPLF however it is rather the so called the rest domain the so called opposition knowingly or unknowingly who is so naïve and gullible. So dear Ethiopian please focus on the pervasive system rather than mere individuals.
In my previous comments I want to remember what I said that I prefer the system becomes dead and Meles becomes alive rather than Meles is dead and the system is still alive. Here I want to assert that in Ethiopian case there is such a mixed up tragically and knowingly insidious intellectual opportunism and betrayal on one part and also unknowingly perpetrated intellectual ignorance on the pother part concerning the issues of Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects that is globally pervasive Vs the issues of Democracy and human rights. No one dares to to raise the issues of Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects except time and again hyping the issues of Democracy and human rights or that of the issues of the incumbent TPLF governance.
But in my view Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects is the very behind cause in the background for such Anti-Ethiopian and Anti-Ethiopiawinet ethnically driven TPLF/EPLF forces to come in to such existence and power. Unless we want to become the next prospective stooge client-regimes and forces to maintain the status quo then there is no convincing reason to cover-up the issue of Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects that has been creating this all havoc and misery globally especially in poor 3rd world nations.
So there is no real “CHANGE” but superficial “change” in order to maintain the status quo and beware that the superficial “change” in order to deliberately thwart the real “CHANGE”. And in my view real and long lasting meaningful “CHANGE” and emancipation of Ethiopians comes not only by mere overthrow of TPLF but also when the issue of Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects is also brought to the light of consciousness and proper scrutiny.
Why the West is still loyally supportive of TPLF regime except some misleading crocodile tears based on the hypes of Democracy and human-right abuses? Does even Democracy and Human-rights go hand in hand with Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects? Not al all. It is rather our illusion and fantasy the we expect from such system. May be some like Tecola and others may refer what is in the USA or UK as is in the West when it comes to the issue of Democracy and human-right. But dear fellow Ethiopian just look at what has happened to OWL “OCCUPY WALL STREET” protestors when those Americans directly target the Capitalist System itself for the economic and social crisis it has caused for Americans and others globally. There is no real democracy in currently globally pervasive social order of Global Capitalism but only its Hollywood version of its illusion and fantasy about it.
Why we are trapped in same illusion and fantasy with regard to HD and Redwan as long as we are in the same status quo? The very political motive of TPLF from the very incentive is neither MLLT nor Revolutionary Democracy but rather mainly Economical and also based on this motive establishing mutual symbiosis with Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects. That is why the West pours so much aid and loan for TPLF and enables TPLF to achieve ethnically driven economic advantage and also the establishment of the great economic empire like EFFORT and may be then tomorrow realization of secessionist Greater-Tigray and then further weakening, destabilization and then eventual Balkanization of Greater Ethiopia in to small pieces. The very motive of ethnic cleansing of Amhras or others is for such objective and end-game. And based on this great project then there is nothing what HD or Redwan can do about it except to maintain the status quo.
Finally I advise honest and audacious fellow Ethiopian to be so alert and wise rather than becoming so naïve and gullible based on the misleading lulling of Tecola W.Hagos he is hyping as is there is promising change. And our struggle is first for our freedom from TPLF surrogate Neo-Colonialism in order to save Ethiopia and Ethiopiawinet and then for a genuine viable Social-Order that can bring about a real CHANGE.I my self struggle not for the sake of the fashionable bogus democracy but rather first to save the historical Ethiopia and Ethiopiawinet and then for a genuine viable Social-Order that can bring about a real CHANGE. And to Bring about real change the very hype about Democracy and Human rights has to be along side the Economic Sphere as well that can address the Economic Exploitation perpetrated by Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects that is globally pervasive. It is only the downtrodden and impoverished poor peoples who always talk about human rights or Democracy but not rather the Big Brothers like Alamudin because Big Brother does not need to worry about human rights or Democracy because it is already protected by the system from such human rights abuses. Who can unravel to me this type of mystery? So as long as the Economic System of the current Global Social-Order is not scrutinized properly then hyping about Democracy or human rights is worthless. Even our forefathers like Emperor Haileselasie had already became so enlightened about the then Global Social order and its related Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects are very much about Economic Exploitation and not as such other disguises when he made the speech at the establishment of OAU in 1963 about 50 years ago. Then it is a shame and disgrace that we Ethiopian intellectuals who claim better than those old forefathers are so naïve and gullible about Democracy and Human rights that is simply hyped by the current global social order, while we can not figure out this reality of Economic Exploitation already acknowledged by our forefathers. Forget about our naïve and gullible understanding about the very hype of Revolutionary Democracy political ideology as is claimed By TPLF, but when it comes to the real tangible economic aspect who can unravel me the mystery behind TPLF’s EFFORT? Who can reconcile the contradiction between Revolutionary Democracy and that of ethnically driven Economic Empire like EFFORT?
EFFORT has such an unfair ample economic advantage behind the so called The Abay (Blue Nile) Dam Project or any other minor projects in the nation. And unless Ethiopian intellectuals address the very core issues of Economic aspect and the associated Economic Exploitation then please stop simply hyping about your “የሞኝ ለቅሶ” democracy or Human rights. Today Ethiopian are not as such in very need of Western Style bogus Democracy but rather we are in very need of Freedom and Economic Security free of abjectly impoverishing Economic Exploitation.
And in my view there is no real change as long as the status quo of Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects that is globally pervasive are so intact without proper scrutiny. So toppling TPLF by any means morally and legally acceptable is so necessary but not sufficient by itself. To make it some how sufficient then the status quo of Global Capitalism and its Neo-Liberal and Neo-Colonialism Imperialistic Projects that is globally pervasive has to be brought to light of consciousness for proper scrutiny. And that is when we achieve our real emancipation and human dignity. And dear Tecola please do not confuse or mislead us as if there is promising change due to HD or Redwan. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

God Bless Ethiopia !!!

ከአንድ ወዳጄ ጋር ሃያ ሁለት አካባቢ ምሳ በልተን ስናበቃ እንደሌላው ቀን ሹፌሬ ስላልነበር በኮንትራት ታክሲ ወደቤቴ (አሲምባ) አመራሁ፡፡ ታክሲው በውለታችን መሰረት የቀበናን አደባባይ ዞሮ ሲቆም፣ እኔም ሂሳቤን አወራርጄ ወረድኩ፡፡ ሆኖም ጥቂት እርምጃ እንደተራመድኩ ያላስተዋልኳቸው ሁለት ሰዎች አጠገቤ ደርሰዋል፡፡ በዕድሜ እኩዮቼ ይመስላሉ፡፡ አንዱ ቀጭንና ቀውላላ ነገር ነው፤ ሌላኛው ደግሞ ቁመቱ መካከለኛ ሆኖ፣ ደልደል ያለ ሰውነት አለው፤ ሁለቱም ‹‹ጠይም›› የሚባሉ ናቸው፡፡ ቀውላላው፡-
‹‹ሰላም ተመስገን!›› አለኝ፣
‹‹ሰላም!›› መለስኩኝ፡፡
‹‹ልናናግርህ ፈልግን ነበር?››
‹‹ይቅርታ አላወኳችሁም፡፡››
‹‹አንተ አታውቀንም! እኛ ነን የምናውቅህ››
‹‹የት ነው የምታውቁኝ? ማለቴ በምን መልኩ…››
‹‹እሱን ተወው! የእኛ ማንነትንም እንድንነግርህ አትጠብቅ፣ ይገባሃል ብለን እናስባለን!›› አለ እስከአሁን ዝም ብሎ የነበረው ደልዳላው ሰው፡፡ ሆኖም ቀውላላው ጓደኛው አቋርጦት ቀጠለ፡-
‹‹ ምን መሰለህ? ሰሞኑን እነ መላኩ ፈንታ እንደታሰሩ ታውቃለህ፤ እናም የእነርሱ ጉዳይ የእኛ ብቻ ነው፤ አንተን አይመለከትህም፡፡››
‹‹አልገባኝም! ይህ ምን ማለት ነው?››
‹‹በቃ! በዚህ ጉዳይ ላይ ትንተና፣ ማብራሪያ እፅፋለሁ ምናምን እያልክ አትድከም ለማለት ነው!›› ቆጣ ባለ መልኩ መለሰልኝ-ደልዳላው ሰው፡፡
ከትከት ብሎ መሳቅ አማረኝ፤ በጣም መሳቅ! ሆኖም ለምን እንደሆነ አልውቅም-አልሳቅኩም፡፡ በግልባጩ ድንገተኛ ንዴት በመላ ሰውነቴ ሲሰርፅ ታወቀኝ፡፡ ከሰከንዶች በኋላም እስከአሁን ሲናገር ትህትና ያልተለየው ቀውላላው ሰው እንዲህ ሲል አግባባኝ፡-
‹‹እየውልህ፣ መንግስት ሰዎቹን ያሰረው በወንጀል ላይ በመሰማራታቸው ከመሆኑ በተጨማሪ ለህዝብና ለሀገር ጥቅም ነው፤ ስለዚህም ገና ፍርድቤት ስለሚቀርቡ፣ ምርመራውም ስላላለቀ አንተ በፅሁፍህ ተሳስተህ፣ ለሌሎችም የተሳሳተ መረጃ እንዳታስተላልፍ ለመምከር ነው፡፡››
‹‹ስለምክራችሁ በጣም አመሰግናለሁ! ነገር ግን እኔ የምሰራውን አውቃለሁና ለስራዬ መካሪ አያስፈልገኝም›› ስል ባለመካከለኛ ሰውነቱ አቋረጠኝና፤ ከቅድሙ በባሰ የቁጣ ቃል መናገሩን ቀጠለ፡-
‹‹ስማ! ልንመክርህ ወይም ልናባብልህ አይደለም የመጣናው፤ በቃ በማያገባህ ጉዳይ መግባት እንደሌለብህ ልንነግርህ ነው!››
ይህን ጊዜም አነጋገሩ በስሱ አስቆጣኝና፡-
‹‹እየወልህ! እናንተ ማንም ብትሆኑ ግድ አይሰጠኝም፤ ኋላ ኪሳችሁ ያለው መታወቂያም አያሳስበኝም፡፡ እስከዛሬ ድረስ የማደርጋትን እያንዳንዷ ነገር አስቤበትና አምኜበት ነው፤ ማስፈራሪያችሁ እኔ ጋ ቦታ የለውም፡፡ ምናልባት ‹ይህንን ጻፍ፤ ይህንን አትጻፍ› ስትሏቸው ትዕዛዛችሁን በመፈፀም ያስለመዷችሁ ጋዜጠኞች ካሉ ወደእነርሱ ልትሄዱ ትችላላችሁ›› ብዬ መንገዴን ልቀጥል ስል፣ ትሁቱና ቀውላላው ሰው፡-
‹‹ተመስገን ብታስብበት መልካም ነው!›› አለ፣
‹‹ምንም የማስብበት ነገር የለም፤ ይልቅ አለቃችሁን ንገሩት፣ ሰሞኑን እንደናንተ አይነት ፀጉረ ልውጦች በቤቴ አካባቢ በዝተዋልና ሰብስብልኝ፣ ይሄ አንድም ስራ መፍታት ነው፤ ሁለትም የሀገር ሃብት ማባከን ነውና! ብሎሀል በሉት››
…ከዚህ በኋላ ቤቴ ገብቼ ስለገጠመኜ ማሰብ ስጀምር መልስ የሚያስፈልጋቸው ጥያቄዎች በአእምሮዬ ተመላለሱ፡- በዚህች ሀገር ላይ ምን እየተደረገ ነው? እነማን፣ በእነማን ላይ እያሴሩ ነው? መላኩ ፈንታ የታሰረው እውነት በሙስና ብቻ ነውን? ኢህአዴግስ ዕውን ሙስናን ለመከላከል ቆረጦ ተነስቷል?አሁን ማ ይሙት በሙስና መጠየቅ ከተጀመረ መላኩ ነው የመጀመሪያ የሚሆነው? ወይስ…

(የሆነ ሆኖ ይህችን የሞነጫጨርኩት ‹‹አይመለከትህም!›› ያሉኝ ሰዎች እንደሚመለከተኝ ይረዱ ዘንድ ነውና፣ በቅርቡ በስፋት የምመለስባቸውን የመነሻ ሃሳቦች አስቀምጬ ልሰናበት)

1. መላኩ ፈንታ በባህርዳሩ ስብሰባ ላይ ‹‹የህወሓት ስውር እጆች›› እንደሚደግፋቸው የሚነገርላቸውን ሁለት መቶ ነጋዴዎች በስም ጠቅሶ ‹‹አላሰራ አሉኝ፤ አስቸገሩኝ!›› ብሎ ሪፖርት ማቅረቡ ያስቆጣው አካል በእስሩ ላይ መኖር አለመኖሩን፤ አዜብ መስፍን በዛው ጉባኤ ላይ ‹‹መለስ ብቻ ነው በደሞዝ የኖረው›› የሚል ጥቆማ ከማቅረቧ ጋር ተያያዥነት አለው ወይስ የለውም?

(ስለሰውየው ብቃትና ከሙስና የፀዳ ስለመሆኑ በስፋት ይነገር እንደነበር አውቃለሁ፤ በአናቱም የኢህአዴግ አመራር ሆኖ ከሙስና የራቀ ይኖራል ብሎ ማሰብ በእጅጉ ይከብዳል፡፡ በእርግጥ ‹‹የመላኩ ችግር›› ተብሎ ሲነገር እስማ የነበረው ከመልከ መልካምነቱ ጋር ተያይዛ የምትነሳ ጉዳይ ነች-ቶሎ በፍቅር መሸነፍ፡፡ በነገራችን ላይ መላኩ ከሆኑ ጊዜያት በፊት ዱባይ ውስጥ የመኪና አደጋ ደርሶበት እንደነበረ ይታወሳል፡፡ ለስራ ጉዳይ ሄዶ ግን አልመሰለኝም)

2. መቼም የማይካደው ሀቅ መላኩ ፈንታ ለፓርቲው ባለውለታ መሆኑ ነው፡፡ ይኸውም በተለይ ከምርጫ 97 በኋላ ኢህአዴግ ‹‹አይደግፉኝም›› ያላቸውን ነጋዴዎች የተለያየ ምክንያት እየለጠፈ እንደአኮሰመናቸው ይታወሳል፡፡ ይህንን የስራ ሂደት ካሳኩት ‹‹ዋነኞቹ አስፈፃሚዎች›› መካከል ደግሞ እርሱ ይመራው የነበረው መስሪያ ቤት ግንባር ቀደሙ ነው፡፡ እናም እዚህ ጋር የሚነሳው ጥያቄ ዛሬ መላኩ ፊቱን ከጠላት ወደወዳጅ (የስርዓቱ አውራ ጣት ወደሆኑ ነጋዴዎች) ማዞሩ የመዘዘው ጦስ በድርጅቱ ውስጥ ለተፈጠረው ልዩነት ‹‹መያዣ›› (የአብርሃም በግ) አድርጎት ይሆናል ብሎ መከራከር ይቻል ይሆን? መላኩስ ይህንን ጥያቄ ያቀረበው በራሱ ተነሳሽነት ነው? ወይስ ‹‹አይዞህ›› ብሎ አደፋፍሮት ሲያበቃ የከዳው ቡድን አለ?

3. በኢህአዴግ ውስጥ የእስክንድር ነጋ ጉዳይ ልዩነት ፈጥሯል፡፡ እነ ኃ/ማሪያም ደሳለኝ እንዲፈታ ይፈልጋሉ፡፡ ብአዴንም ሙሉ በሙሉ ሊባል በሚችል መልኩ ይህንን ሃሳብ ይደግፋል፡፡ እናም እነዚህ ልዩነቶች መስፋታቸው ይሆናል ሁለት የብአዴን አመራር አባል የሆኑ ሚንስትሮችን በአንድ ሳምንት ውስጥ ‹‹የነቀላ››ው ሰላባ አድርጓቸው ይሆን?
4. እንዲህ አይነቱ እስር እና ድንገት ከሃላፊነት መባረር በመላኩና በብርሃን ብቻ ይቆማል? ወይስ ይቀጥላል? ከቀጠለስ ወደ እነማን ያመራል?

ሃሳብን በነፃነት የመግለፅ መብትን ለማስከበር ማንኛውንም መስዋዕትነት መክፈል የሁላችንም ግዴታ ነው!

My take: Obviously Melaku is a small man and should not be the first person to be accused of corruption. Could it be that he became bottleneck for TPLF businesses? Did he refuse to gave a pass for EFFERT commercials?

Your comments on HD appear simplistic. I think HD cannot bring the kind of reform you want overnight. Even if we put you in his place you won’t bring that change. If you try you will be eliminated before going anywhere.