Reading an article in Foreign Policy titled “Big Brother Comes to Belgrade” got me thinking and worried about the future of citizen surveillance in the US, the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh, and even Turkey. […]
A recent conversation with a friend that rose out of a phone call to offer condolences drove home the essence of what inspired this article. My friend, who has traveled to Bolis (Constantinople) several times, […]
It seems like the Soviet Era is reaching out from the grave and grabbing the Republic of Armenia. The level and style of ARF criticism is very reminiscent of those sad times. It is pathetic […]
This is one of those good/bad news situations. The online talk show (formerly a radio program) named “The Young Turks” (henceforth TYT to save ink and pixels) hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian has […]
Typically, when writing about great events, articles are laudatory, extolling the virtues, significance and grandness of dates such as May 28, 1918. There’s no question as to the tremendous importance in the life of the […]
I thought this would be the best way to “honor” him on the occasion of his May 19th birthday. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, how grandiose, how pathetic, how sad, how destructive, […]
It’s been ten months since I complained about OPS (other people’s stupidity), so please bear with me on this gripe session. I also ask your forbearance regarding Wannabe-Sultan President Erdoğan’s prominence in my pieces of […]
Two utterly absurd actions over the past two weeks may have paved the way to some minor positive results—one was completely Turkish, the other American/internet. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as he is wont to […]
I’ve been remiss the last few years. Going to and ever-so-briefly chronicling as many Los Angeles-area Genocide commemorative events as possible is something I’ve always found important. Unfortunately, I haven’t done it, and now, it’s […]
In recent years, it has become somewhat fashionable to pooh-pooh, demean, argue against or perceive conspiracies in efforts to obtain recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the United States. I, too, may have contributed to […]
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