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Altar or Alter
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN “Lav, pav, tzav” (OK, enough, pain) is our saying, perhaps somehow equivalent to “jamais deux sans trois” (there’s no two without three) in French. I like ours...
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Following Up
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPAIRIAN There are a few things I’d like to bring up with those who take the trouble to read my articles. Thanks, for reading, of course. I do wish more people would take the...
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Milling About
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YAGPAIRIAN This is about Mills, Ambassador Richard M. Mills, Jr., the ninth U.S. “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary” to Armenia after Harry J. Gilmore, Peter Tomsen,...
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Silenced Press, Scapegoated Minorities, Civil War
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN No, the title is not some veiled reference to the political climate of the U.S. in these presidential primary days. It refers to another place that somehow eludes,...
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The Woman
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPAIRIAN Last weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Anahid Aramouni Keshishian’s “Geenuh” (The Woman) in which she and Lilit Arakelyan play the parts of older and younger...
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2016 Elections
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN There is so much going on, especially in Turkey, that it was difficult to choose an issue to address. But the chaotic, not-yet-assessable, turn of events in, around,...
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The Usual Suspects, and… Not
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Almost one hundred Armenian dead in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (rendered still with the disgusting Soviet era, Russian influenced spelling), at least five hundred...
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Dzeenashark – and Family Reunions?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I’m really intrigued and excited by the ArmGenia project. This project has been in the mill since 2014. Initiated in Armenia, UCLA came on board, and it was formally...
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Book Review: Tidings from the Taurus
The cover of the Asadour Chalian memoir BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I was honored and excited a few weeks ago when Asbarez editor Ara Khatchatourian asked me to review “Proud son of Hadjin. A Memoir of an...
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101
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN My annual recounting, missing the last two years, of various Genocide related events was a bit harder than usual to prepare for this year, but this critique and other...
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The Ballots Are Coming, The Ballots Are Coming
Garen Yegparian Within a few days, maximum a week, of when you read this, Californians who are registered voters will be receiving their Tuesday, June 7, Presidential Primary Election ballots (if they...
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Book Review: Ambassadorial Airs
“Truth Held Hostage” BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Written in three parts, “Truth Held Hostage” by John Evans, the “martyred” U.S. Ambassador to Armenia who became a hero to Armenians all over the world, presents...
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Hum-Drum One-Oh-One
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Bluntly said, we blew it. We did not succeed in harnessing, perpetuating, and building on/with the enthusiasm and energy that had coalesced on the occasion of the...
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Malevolently Mendacious MealyMouthed Murinson
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN A hack by the name of Alexander Murinson has finally gone far enough (a la Donald Trump) to elicit a response, hopefully so scathing as to cause him to disappear from...
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The Ambassador’s Ten Points
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Ambassador John Evans’ book “Truth Held Hostage” was recently published and ends with ten suggestions which are a great starting point for discussion. I will address...
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An Armenian Wishlist for Anonymous
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN As you probably know, “Anonymous” is an ultra-secretive, underground, very loosely “organized” group of hackers whose targets serve some societal utility. These...
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Past Decades, Into Centuries
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said “I congratulate the people of Chad whose dogged, decades-long pursuit of justice made this day possible.”...
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How to Get Trump Elected
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Just keep doing what you’ve been doing, everyone, that’s how Donald Trump will become president of the U.S. Then, Armenian headaches, heartaches, and possibly...
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If You’re Not at the Table, You’re On the Menu
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The title above is what Harvey Milk – the first openly gay elected official and was assassinated in 1978 – used to say, according to his nephew, Stuart Milk. I heard...
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Shame on KPFK
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Just over ten years ago, in April of 2006 Cenk Uygur (along with one of his co-hosts) was to moderate a panel discussion of every candidate for statewide office in...
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