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Turkey’s Currency Crisis
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN You might think this piece has an exaggerated title. But, take a look at the accompanying graph. What would you call an 11-year-long decline in the value of...
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Crashing the Constitution to Crush a Court
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN For many months, there has been chatter in the Republic of Armenia (RoA) regarding amending its constitution. And, come to think of it, that chatter extended all the...
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Thoughts & Observations
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN A number of items in recent weeks have made me go “Hmmmm”, so I thought I’d share them. Let’s start with the news about former President Serzh Sarkisian’s trial...
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Shifty Shaffer… Smithsonian, too?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Let’s discuss propaganda today through two examples. One is modern, somewhat subtle, but practiced by a known lackey. The other is a rehash, much cruder in its form,...
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Azeri Oil and Warmongering
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s not as though “President” Ilham Aliyev, safely ensconced in Baku, needs an excuse to use his army’s soldiers as murderers, taking the lives of young Armenians...
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Tac/Tag/Թագ/Corona
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN What else could I possibly write about this week but the contagion that has engulfed all mankind – intentional use of this arguably sexist word to evoke ancient dread...
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Fix It. Fess Up.
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN A few months ago, Asbarez reported this tidbit of laughter, or more accurately, guffaw-inducing Ankara inanity. It seems Turkey’s High Advisory Board is worried that...
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Permanent, Perpetual Reparations
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s April, the time of year when the Armenian mind turns, even in these COVID-19 pandemic times, ineluctably, inescapably, irrepressibly, irresistibly, unavoidably,...
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Gems, Genocide, Germs
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The gems being discussed today are not stones, but the conspiracy theories that are flying about regarding the germ-of-the-day, the coronavirus sickening millions and...
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0424 Action During COVID
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN There’s been a frightening dearth of activity this April’s “Genocide Season” with commemorative activities formally “suspended.” This is understandable… up to a...
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Bland 24th , But…
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN With apologies to readers for the week I took off from writing, I’m back with the COVID-instigated doldrums behind me. It has served as something of an unexpected...
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Irritants XXIV
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Unbelievable, well, maybe not given its leader’s questionable relationship with legality, and disgusting, and politicized, and erosive of the law, and unprecedented...
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COVID RoA
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I’ve wanted to wrap my head around how the Republic of Armenia (RoA) is doing in the COVID pandemic context, but it has been a bit difficult. There’s a dearth of news...
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Reclaiming Nationalism, Rejecting Chauvinism, Building Socialism
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN On May 28th, Independence day (the OG one, of course, not the September 21 re-independence of 1991), I finished Houri Berberian’s latest book “Roving Revolutionaries”...
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No Justice, No Peace
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN No Justice, No Peace. Isn’t that what we, Armenians, have been saying, in one way or another for over a century? Isn’t that what we “say” every year, at least once,...
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Trouble-Making Turkish Television
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The Los Angeles Times had a very interesting article titled “In Mideast, TV becomes battleground” on December 9, 2019. It turns out Ankara has been wreaking mischief...
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COVID Frontline 3+ Months In
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Here we are, a little over three months since counter-disease-spreading measures were implemented in the U.S. (of course some countries started sooner and others...
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Solastalgia
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Back in April when I read that month’s issue of National Geographic, I learned a new word, solastalgia, which described phenomenon that resonated within me. According...
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No Surprise
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s no surprise that Turks are killing Armenians again. And, for clarity and the purposes of this observation, there’s no point in making a distinction between...
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It Was Great!
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It was great! I was in a sea of Armenians! (Somehow, using “ocean” doesn’t seem right given that Armenia borders on seas, not oceans). But how did I get there? Sadly,...
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