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Arizona Centennial
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This year, April 24th found me in Arizona. I had the honor of speaking at the centennial gathering held in Phoenix’ Bolin Memorial Park, where that community’s...
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Harvesting the Hundredth
Garen Yegparian Euphoric, human flood, insanely well behaved, overwhelming, pride, second largest demonstration in Los Angeles history, thrilling, tremendous – these are all terms that I heard to...
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Wasn’t It Bad Enough?
Garen YegparianBY GAREN YEGPARIAN Wasn’t it bad enough when they took 1,500,000 lives? Wasn’t it bad enough that they left hundreds of thousands orphaned and homeless? Wasn’t it bad enough that more...
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Mahçup, Amot, Embarassment
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Etyen Mahçupyan’s “Compensation and territory” published May 12, 2015 in the Turkish Daily Sabah is a mass of drivel that constitutes an affront to human decency and...
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Dastardly Denny and Improving the System
Garen YegparianBY GAREN YEGPARIAN This is fun. We get to add dastardly Denny Hastert to our universe of aspersively alliterated appellations and rhyme-named former elected officials: Disgusting Dick...
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Turkey: What Next?
Garen YegparianBY GAREN YEGPARIAN Since April 24, we’ve had a lot of chatter about what’s next for us. But after last weekend’s momentous election in Turkey, that genocidal state confronts the same...
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Terrible Two’s Turkic Tantrums
Garen Yegparian The terrible two Turkic “republics” – Azerbaijan and Turkey – with their behavior remind even the most casual observer of nothing more than a child in its terrible twos. We are...
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Oversized Water Pistols, Undersized Brains
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The last week’s developments can almost be described as bizarre. Over something as simple and basic as electricity rates (or tariffs as they’re being referred to in...
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EYKA
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Electric Yerevan; Kamp Armen. These two recent Armenian mini-movements have gotten quite a bit of (well-deserved) attention. I suspect the movement to save Camp...
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Jason Katz’s Impeded Development
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Jason Katz’s “Impediments to regional development in the South Caucasus” , which Appeared in “Congress blog” on “The Hill” website, leaves the (informed) reader with...
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11 for 43 on 19
Garen Yegparian What do these numbers have to do with one another? Believe it or not they’re all about an election, just when you thought that all the elections – federal, state, local – were done....
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Delegate Delight II
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The election in the 43rd California State Assembly district for its delegates to the California Democratic Party’s convention yielded very positive results for the...
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Debt, Taxes, and Confusing Economics
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It all started with “Electric Yerevan” and its demonstrations opposing the third time utility rates were being jacked up in four years. Then there was the...
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Chronic Kurd Kicking Capers Come Back
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Was anyone surprised when, last week, Turkey bombed Kurdish targets in Iraq and Turkey itself to “fight ISIS”… in Syria? How about using, as a “reason” for the aerial...
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Egregiously Execrable Election
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Yes, it’s coming, an unnecessary election designed to serve the interests of one party (at best) and more realistically, one megalomaniac. This is not a diatribe...
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DIScontinuity
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Two weeks ago I had the honor of attending a friend’s daughter’s bat-mitzvah. That’s the coming of age ritual for Jewish girls. Aside from noticing similarities that...
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Are They Trying To Tell Us Something?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN For years and years, since the 1994 Artsakh-Azerbaijan ceasefire, the Azeris have been violating that very same cease fire. These violations come in the form of...
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Voter Suppression a la Turkey
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has embarked on a risky and very bloody gambit to arrange for his Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party)...
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Things that make you go ‘Hmmm’
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Perhaps the most ongoingly jaw-dropping, cognitive-dissonance-inducing, and just plain annoying head-scratcher is the continued seat Azerbaijan is given in dignified...
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More Things That Make You Go ‘Hmmm’
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Armenia’s Foreign Minister, Edward Nalbandian, seems to have developed a spine of late and has spoken out strongly about Azerbaijan’s incessant cease-fire violations,...
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