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Irritants XX
Let’s start the year off by venting so the irritation doesn’t affect productivity for the rest of 2018. First off, I’ll vent at myself for my own imprecision. It seems I “skipped” in my count […]
Articles by Garen Yegparian
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Auspicious Eights
2018 is a big year for Armenians. It marks the centennial of the establishment of the first Armenian Republic, on May 28, 1918, after a 543-year period of statelessness and subjugation to foreign empires (Persian, […]
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Busy Bolis
It’s almost as if our compatriots in Bolis are working mightily to restore their home city to its status of a century-plus ago when, along with Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, the two cities served as Armenia’s […]
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Move Over Marie Antoinette
Everyone’s heard the attribution of “let them eat cake” to Marie Antoinette. It turns out she probably never said it. The same, or a similar, line appears in a French source at a time when […]
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SpitRain IX: The Multicontinental Edition
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, United Nations Correspondents Gold Medal, the National Magazine Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and two from the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA Eastern […]
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Hacking Armenia, Iran, Russia, U.S.
It looks like we may have a brand new squealer joining the passel of swine inhabiting Azerbaijan’s sty of hackneyed howlers. Let’s see whether he’ll play well with the old timers: Alexander Murinson, Brenda Schaffer, […]
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Not So Gratifying
It may seem like a bad topic to write about in this season of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and the annual Armenia Fund Telethon (this year dedicated to developing Artsakh’s tremendous agricultural potential), but a […]
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Treacherous Ts
What do tobacco (the industry), Turkey (the genocidal state), and Trump (the Conman-in-Chief) have in common besides the first letter? It is their expert use of doubt-seeding techniques. Since the tobacco harvest ends in October, […]
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It’s Pitchforks-and-Torches Time: Speaking Out Against the Invasion of Our Homeland by Monsanto
The father of “Frankenfoods”* is feeling out the farms of Armenia! The pitchforks and torches, at least figuratively, must be prepared. As in the old black-and-white horror movie scenes in which the Frankenstein monster is […]