Garen Yegparian

Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.
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The War, The Drones and The Money

We’ve been dealing with Turkish invasions, marauding, murder, war-making, cruelty, destructiveness and overall inhumanity for more than a millennium. Azerbaijan’s…

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The Most Consequential Election of a US Citizen’s Life

This election article is a bit atypical for me in that it will contain EVERYTHING, rather than being broken up…

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A Fantastic Development

By now you’ve seen the news about Mercury Public Affairs terminating its registration as a foreign agent of the Republic…

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It was great!

It was great! I was in a sea of Armenians! (Somehow, using “ocean” doesn’t seem right given that Armenia borders…

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No Surprise

It’s no surprise that Turks are killing Armenians again. And, for clarity and the purposes of this observation, there’s no…

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Solastalgia

Back in April when I read that month’s issue of National Geographic, I learned a new word—solastalgia—which described a phenomenon…

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COVID Frontline 3+ Months In

Here we are, a little over three months since counter-disease-spreading measures were implemented in the US (of course some countries…

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Trouble-making Turkish Television

The Los Angeles Times had a very interesting article titled “In Mideast, TV becomes battleground” on December 9, 2019. It…

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No Justice, No Peace

No Justice, No Peace. Isn’t that what we, Armenians, have been saying, in one way or another for over a…

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Reclaiming Nationalism, Rejecting Chauvinism, Building Socialism

On May 28th, Independence Day (the OG one, of course, not the September 21 re-independence of 1991), I finished Houri…

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