Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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Pashinyan again makes anti-Armenia and anti-Diaspora statements

The biggest tragedy for Armenians worldwide is that Armenia is ruled by a prime minister who is not only incompetent…

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Lobbyist for genocide denialist Turkey should donate earnings to Armenians

Former Congressman Robert Livingston published a commentary in the Wall Street Journal last week asking outgoing U.S. Attorney General Merrick…

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Aliyev the wolf vs. Pashinyan the lamb: It is clear who will devour whom

There seems to be no end to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s concessions to Azerbaijan’s demands. The only end will be…

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Lladro produces ‘Karabakh horse’ porcelain figurines as propaganda for Azerbaijan

Regrettably, the only things that matter in this world are money and power. All the other issues that naïve people…

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Letters by Armenian Genocide eyewitnesses should be published in several languages

Last month, I wrote an article about the 8,000 letters that the Armenian survivors of the (Ottoman) Hamidian massacres of…

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Assad naively trusted Erdogan until he got stabbed in the back

For many years, up until the Syrian civil war of 2011, Syria and Turkey enjoyed very close relations. In a…

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French ambassador, not Pashinyan, is defending Armenia’s interests

Something is terribly wrong when Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is making continuous concessions to Azerbaijan, while the French ambassador…

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My Turn

Every time Pashinyan opens his mouth, he harms Armenia’s interests

Every time Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan makes a public statement, he ends up damaging Armenia’s interests. The latest example…

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Book reveals 8,000 letters by Armenian survivors of 1890s Turkish massacres

I just received the first volume of a valuable book published in Yerevan in 2021 that makes public for the…

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Armenia blocks Artsakh movie from nomination for Oscars

In last week’s column, I criticized the government of Jordan for buckling under Azerbaijan’s pressure to withdraw its nomination of…

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