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Good News Pacifiers
I heard so much caterwauling about my recent “Bad News Beginning” piece that I went out of my way for a feel-good piece this week. I hope all sensitive readers will find their nerves soothed […]
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U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Should Call the Armenian Genocide, a Genocide
Everyone knows that ambassadors have to follow the foreign policy guidelines of their governments and cannot make their own decisions. Yet it is strange that successive U.S. ambassadors are not allowed to call the Armenian Genocide, […]
Garen Mouths Off
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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Newly-Elected House Democratic Majority Will Paralyze Trump’s Presidential Powers
The midterm elections held on November 6, 2018, will significantly restrain Pres. Trump’s rule of the United States as a dictatorship. In the first two years of his presidency, Trump often abused his powers by […]
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Trump Administration Cancels Two More International Treaties
I wrote an article in September criticizing the Trump administration’s dismissal of the International Criminal Court. I considered the U.S. action to be a lack of respect for justice and the rule of law. Last […]
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Trump Congratulates Armenia on 27 Years of Independence from USSR
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has received a congratulatory message from US President Donald Trump on Armenia’s Independence Day. A translation of the message is below. “Dear Mr. Prime Minister: On behalf of the American people, […]
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Trump and Bolton Undermine the International Criminal Court
Many Americans and others around the world have been following with great concern the irrational statements and destructive decisions made by President Trump ever since his election. Some of the President’s policies on national and […]
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Fox-TV’s Devastating Attack On Turkey and President Erdogan
As the conflict between Turkey and United States is heating up, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is too stupid to realize that by continuing to hold American Pastor Andrew Brunson on trumped-up charges, he is […]
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Trump Angered by American Pastor’s Continued Incarceration in Turkey
Andrew Brunson, a North Carolina pastor living for over 20 years in Turkey, has spent the past 18 months in Turkish prison, accused alternately of being a follower of Fethullah Gülen and aiding the Kurdistan Workers’ Party […]