Genocidal Absurdity
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Two utterly absurd actions taken over the past two weeks may have paved the way to some minor positive results. One was completely Turkish, the other...
View ArticleIrritants XXII
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It has been ten months since I complained about OPS (other people’s stupidity), so please bear with me on this gripe session. I also ask your forbearance regarding...
View ArticleCelebrating Ataturk’s…
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN … hate. I thought it was the best way to “honor” him on the occasion of his May 19th birthday. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, how grandiose, how...
View ArticleTaking Independence to the Dump?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Typically, when writing about great events, articles are laudatory, extolling the virtues, significance, and grandness of dates such as May 28, 1918. There’s no...
View ArticleTYT Takes Belated Baby Step
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This is one of those good/bad news situations. The online talk show (formerly a radio program) named “The Young Turks” (henceforth TYT to save ink and pixels) hosted...
View ArticleHypocrisy, Thy Name Is Anti-ARFism
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It seems like the Soviet Era is reaching out from the grave and grabbing the Republic of Armenia. The level and style of ARF criticism is very reminiscent of those...
View ArticleArmenian Things Here and There
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN A recent conversation with a friend that rose out of a phone call to offer condolences drove home the essence of what inspired this article. My friend, who has...
View ArticleExtreme Snooping
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Reading an article in Foreign Policy titled “Big Brother Comes to Belgrade” got me thinking and worried about the future of citizen surveillance in the U.S. the...
View ArticleSustainability and the Flat Tax
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The idea for an article about sustainability in the Republic of Armenia has been brewing in my head for some time now. It was to take the form of recommending that a...
View ArticleChanging Attitude in Turkey?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Since the beginning of this century there has been turmoil in Turkey. You may be snickering, thinking when has there NOT been turmoil in Turkey. But this type of...
View ArticleCyprus & Migrants
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It seems the invaders who have occupied Cyprus for 45 years are not satisfied with the damage they have wrought and have (perhaps unintentionally) embarked on a path...
View ArticleCyprus + Gas + Turkey = BOOM?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN You may have encountered some reporting about the latest example of Turkey’s destabilizing, even warmongering, actions in the Mediterranean Sea. Ostensibly, the cause...
View ArticleP&P4P – 2
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The goofy-looking “acronym” of a title refers to a previous piece of mine “Preening and Primping for President” which seemed a bit long. As we are now in debate...
View ArticleIn the Courts
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This is great stuff! I’m referring to the lawsuit by Barkev and Garo Ghazarian reported just a few days ago. It is a new, incremental, portion of our struggle for...
View ArticleIrritants XXIII
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This round of irritants is all about food. The first and most obnoxious is mayonnaise. It is an utterly repulsive substance. I don’t know how I used to eat it as a...
View ArticleSecond Betrayal Brewing?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Roughly two months ago, the government of the Republic of Armenia enacted a flat tax whose regressive effects will hurt those least able to afford it. This betrayal...
View ArticlePointless Vilification
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Since we live, unfortunately, in the golden age of propaganda, it’s worth addressing one technique that practitioners of that black art use to support their efforts....
View ArticleGraceful Giving or Pathetic Pandering?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN You may have read Ara Khachatourian’s “Playground Gear at Center of Glendale City Council Race” last week. In this piece, we learned of a strange situation that arose...
View ArticleAmulsar Update
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN In the three weeks since I last addressed the Amulsar gold mine issue, it has remained heated and not yet resolved for the better. Prime Minister Pashinyan had held a...
View ArticleA Different Mater of Lands in Turkey
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I recently encountered a five-year-old article about the real estate business booming in Turkey. Most interesting was the fact that these sales are quite often to...
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