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Bad News Beginning
Here we are in a brand new year and the bad news from the end of last year is hounding Armenians already. The Republic of Armenia (ROA) has decided to dissolve its Diaspora ministry as […]
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Shutdown Shenanigans
The impasse between the legislative and executive branches in Washington, DC has led to the “government shutdown” dominating U.S. news in recent days. Before addressing the issue itself and its connection to Armenian concerns, here’s […]
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US Screwing Kurds Again
On Wednesday, December 20, 2018 President Donald Trump issued an order as commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces to withdraw the 2000 U.S. troops in Syria, via a tweet. These forces have been fighting Daesh/ISIS […]
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Unsurprising Outcome
To no one’s astonishment, Nikol Pashinyan’s “My Step” alliance won big in the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) first ever snap elections held on December 9, 2018. And, as cautiously hoped, the election was largely clean […]
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Convulsions
The Armenian nation has had its share of convulsions. It’s too easy to cite the establishment and Sovietization of the first Armenian republic, Genocide, arrival of Turks in the Armenian Highlands, or conversion to Christianity. […]
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Armenian Snap
On December 9, the Republic of Armenia will hold its first “snap” parliamentary elections. The meaning of this may be known to some readers. But, most in the U.S. will not have as intimate of […]
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Elections 2018, A Follow-up
This was a very exciting U.S. election season, in its own way, even more so than the 2016 presidential cycle that brought to unchecked power the worst president in the country’s history. I’ve been asked […]
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Trump=Turkey #2?
It seems like every few years I get an irrepressible urge to toy with the coincidence of Turkey with turkey, right around the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. as opposed to Canada’s which is in […]
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Outrageous Inequity from its Den
Precious few governments act ethically and morally, and even those do so infrequently. But when an action, in addition to being a- or immoral and unethical, is also inappropriate, inconsistent, indecent, irrational, and shafts an […]
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The (Forgotten) Academic Front
Last week I had the chance to hear and chat with Ara Sarafian of the Gomidas Institute (GI). For full disclosure—I’ve been assisting in doing some fundraising for GI’s publications. Some of the points Ara […]