Regrettably, the only things that matter in this world are money and power. All the other issues that naïve people put a value on, such as truth, justice and human rights, are self-defeating delusions. Rich […]
Last month, I wrote an article about the 8,000 letters that the Armenian survivors of the (Ottoman) Hamidian massacres of the 1890s had written to Catholicos Khrimian Hayrig, describing their tragic experiences and seeking his […]
For many years, up until the Syrian civil war of 2011, Syria and Turkey enjoyed very close relations. In a series of reciprocal visits, Pres. Bashar al-Assad made a historic trip to Ankara in 2004, […]
Something is terribly wrong when Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is making continuous concessions to Azerbaijan, while the French ambassador to Armenia, Olivier Decottignies, is defending Armenia’s interests. Ironically, a foreign ambassador is more pro-Armenian […]
Every time Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan makes a public statement, he ends up damaging Armenia’s interests. The latest example of Pashinyan’s detrimental words is the 90-minute interview he gave to Armenia’s Public Television on […]
I just received the first volume of a valuable book published in Yerevan in 2021 that makes public for the first time some of the 8,000 handwritten letters by survivors of the 1894-96 Turkish massacres […]
In last week’s column, I criticized the government of Jordan for buckling under Azerbaijan’s pressure to withdraw its nomination of a documentary about Artsakh as an Oscars entry. While it is bad enough that a […]
As if Armenians did not have enough problems to deal with, they must now insist that Jordan reverse the dropping of its Artsakh-themed Oscar entry under pressure from Azerbaijan. Jordan’s Royal Film Commission had selected […]
Over the years, there have been several reports exposing the billions of dollars that Azerbaijan’s ruling Aliyev family has embezzled from state coffers and the large amount of bribes the government has given to various […]
In the heated atmosphere of the U.S. presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris have issued statements to Armenian-American voters seeking their support. On his “Truth Social” media platform last […]
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