Four items worthy of some attention have hit the Armenian scene since the start of the new year. Let’s start with a positive topic. Catholicos Aram’s declaration of 2020 as “Year of Armenians with Special […]
Reading Armenian publications this week brought me to the realization that this time in January seems to be one worthy of some note for our nation, though not entirely in a good way. Three dates […]
The matter of how many people live on Armenian controlled land has been something I’ve wanted to address for quite some time. Yerevan’s recently enacted increase in benefits to families having more children provides just […]
Let’s start the year off with some good news in an all-important aspect of daily life, energy. But you’ll have to read through the important buildup to appreciate the importance of the actual news. Recently, […]
The year is ending, so why not end it laughing? A friend sent an article, “Must Turkey always stand alone in the world?” from a leading Turkish newspaper, “Hurriet” (which, with Turkey’s treatment of journalists, […]
With apologies to Abraham Lincoln, I am going to plagiarize, permute and adjust his Gettysburg Address to convey the depth of the breach President Donald Trump has created in the proper, legal, constitutional functioning of […]
Unprecedented, exciting, unexpected, encouraging, positive, beneficial, hope-inspiring, satisfying, legitimating, wonderful, great and countless other adjectives and participles are probably going through people’s minds regarding the UNANIMOUS passage on Thursday, December 12 of S. Res. 150, […]
Ever since the previous (84th) Armenian Patriarch of Bolis, Mesrob Mutafyan died on March 8, 2019, conspiracy, gossip, intrigue, natural/normal competition, speculation and Turkish government interference with and intrusion upon the process of electing a […]
Once again I am overcome with the irrepressible urge to toy with the coincidence of Turkey with turkey right around the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. as opposed to Canada’s which is in October. Who, […]
Since H. Res. 296 passed, we’ve had quite the deluge of (mostly) positive publicity. Other than for the Genocide’s centennial, the last time we had this (though it wasn’t positive) was in 2007, when a […]
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