It seems we’re living in a time of apologies—some meaningful, some irrelevant; some asked or demanded, others received or refused; some for current and others historical offenses. Everyone seems to want to get into the […]
No, this article is not about the injustice being heaped upon working people in many states in the U.S. Rather, it’s about the aches and agony—self-inflicted—that Turkey seems to relish. One has to wonder if […]
Last week, it was Georgia. This week, it’s Turkey. We might be onto something here with the “church building angle.” Of course I’m referring to the Georgian Parliament’s opening the door to establishing the legal […]
Well, it looks like the Georgian government has finally done something (almost) right. The legislature and president have enacted a law that creates a path to establishing legal status for the Armenian Church in that […]
I’ve recently recognized a problem we have in our communities that I’m naming “porosity” because of the “holes” and “leakiness” it involves. Because Armenian communities in the U.S. (and in the Western world in general) […]
It’s really heartening. Though it might sound hokey, there is something romantic and symbolically important about people taking to, and over, the streets of Athens, the birthplace of democracy. Two decades ago, the old “Eastern […]
The distinction between citizenship and nationality (or ethnicity at it is currently, and I think inappropriately and often pejoratively, referred to) is important for those who, like the Armenians, have been exiled. Questions and issues […]
It really hurt! My favorite song, “Zarteer Lao,” was briefly co-opted by a Turkish soccer team, Fenerbahçe! And it’s not the first time. Many other songs’ music has been stolen by the Turks (though, in […]
Much is being said about, and made of, the “Arab Spring,” and rightly so. It was, and is, quite breathtaking what happened in a matter of weeks earlier this year, though the bloodshed in Libya […]
Let’s start this set of blood-pressure-elevators with a brief Anti-Defamation League (ADL) encounter. You’ll remember the ADL won my “coveted” SpitRain Award for its shamelessness in denying the genocide. This outfit is truly debased. Now, […]
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