Garen Mouths Off
No Breaks after 100
It’s April, that time of the year again. As if we needed one, the Kessab fiasco is running full steam as a reminder of the genocide. It even helped Erdogan’s party pull off a comeback […]
Columns
Tom Vartabedian
Elderly Keeping Fit with Vitality
There’s no reason why anyone should crumble with age in your community. Just take a quick look around and you’ll see the opportunities that give geriatrics a bad name. My mother, God bless her soul, […]
Garen Mouths Off
Reality Check: Talking to Turkey
A friend posted an article on Facebook that included one of the leaked audio recordings (with an English translation appearing on the screen) of Turkish ministerial level discussions of, not to mince words, invading Syria. […]
My Turn
Sassounian: Erdogan Waves Finger at Obama During Heated White House Talk
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh, in a sensational article “The Red Line and the Rat Line,” published in the London Review of Books, discloses that the Turkish government secretly orchestrated the Aug. 21, 2013 […]
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Tacky, Tiresome, Truculent, Turks
There’s an April 24th Special Issue coming up and I’ve been wondering if anything relevant would inspire me with an appropriate topic. When in doubt, count on the Turks. This time, I didn’t even have […]
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A Harbinger?
Did you see the LATimes’ Sunday March 16 hard-copy edition? The front page of the main section of the newspaper was half covered (vertically) with what I understand is called an “ad wrap” which then […]
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What a Week!
Well, maybe it’s more than a week’s worth of craziness, but it’s still heartening, maddening, and plain old time-energy-attention consuming, all in one. The Azeris’ attempt to pass deceitful measures in various state houses took […]
My Turn
Sassounian: Why Turks Were Capable of Exterminating Armenians, but not Jews
Endless comparisons are made between the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. However, there is yet another comparison that is rarely made: the Turkish ability to carry out the Armenian Genocide and inability to eliminate […]
Tom Vartabedian
Vartabedian: Hey, Buddy! Can You Spare a Dime?
Growing up, I used to think a dime was a big coin, despite its diminutive size. For a dime, I could get into a movie and see two feature films. I could buy a pocketful […]
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Civic Musings
There’s a lot going on in the Republic of Armenia (RoA), the U.S., and across the world that impacts us as citizens. We are buffeted by social, political, and economic winds that impact not just […]