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Okhtuh Khach
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN In the local, Artsakh dialect “okhtuh” means seven. Of course khach is a cross. Okhtuh Khach is the name of a peak in the Hadrout district of Artsakh, if memory...
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Trashing Trump
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Since the election, I have bided my time and bitten my tongue about the ridiculous things president-elect Donald Trump has been saying and doing. It’s time to start...
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EJ and Artvin
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN A few days ago, I read a 15-month old article describing Turkish environmental misbehavior in the province of Artvin, one of 81 such administrative divisions in...
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To the West
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN For years now, I have been mocked, or drawn smirks, or pooh-poohed, or patronized, or ignored, whenever I mention restoration of western Armenian territories to their...
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Turkeys Have Come Home to Roost
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Given the size of Turkey’s President Erdoğan’s ego, chickens, the bird usually referred to in the saying that is this article’s title, seemed like too small of a...
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Deciphering Trump and Trumpism
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN If you read the NY Times piece titled “Why Rural America Voted for Trump” and a response to it with the header “Fuck You, Rural Elitists,” you’ll come away with the...
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Battlefields of the Mind
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN While we’ve done well on our actual, physical, battlefields on both the eastern (Azerbaijani, Artsakh along with its surrounding lowlands) and western (Turkish,...
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SpitRain VIII: The Lawyer Edition
Garen Yegparian Lawyers in Genocide Survivor Benefit Case Accused of Embezzlement BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The “committee” that “grants” this award has been somewhat dormant lately. The last time anyone was...
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Irritants XX
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s ridiculous how much Soviet–era nonsense still persists in the Republic of Armenia a quarter-century of the collapse of the USSR. The expectation that...
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Black History Month Has Me Thinking
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN February focuses attention on Black history since it is designated for that celebration. As a result, the soaring rhetoric of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. gets...
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February 28 & March 7
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN These are the dates of the local elections that are fast approaching, Burbank on the 28th and other cities on the 7th, with another very Armenian-wise important one...
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Understanding the New System
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN March 5 is the official campaign starting date for the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) April 2nd election, its first held under the new rules embodied in the...
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Azerbaijan = Media Black Hole
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Think about it. Black holes have an event horizon beyond which we cannot observe reality. Azerbaijan has its border beyond which reality is also twisted to fit...
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Elections, Elections, Everywhere!
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN From Hollywood’s Little Armenia to the republic whose capital is Yerevan, elections have been rife the past six weeks, with more to come. Undoubtedly, much ink will...
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Tremulous Truculent Turbulent Turkey
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This Sunday, April 16, 2017 (7 Rajab, 1438 on the Islamic calendar), Easter, Turkish voters, in and out of Turkey, will go to the polls to vote on a referendum to...
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Pardon My Genocide
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I write these words as someone who: 1- was long dissatisfied with our almost exclusive pursuit of Genocide recognition on the external political front; 2- was...
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Time to Mature
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s funny that just as in last week’s article, I feel compelled to explain the roots, the basis, of what I am about to assert, colloquially – “where I’m coming...
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Ankara, Azerbaijan, and Abashment
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Actually, it’s the opposite. The egos in power in the lands of Turks and pup-Turks seem to have absolutely no shame. They are UN-abashedly pushing forward with...
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Turn, Turn, Turn
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s not often I turn to musical references to make my arguments. In this case, it’s a biblically based song, which is an even more improbable reference. You probably...
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The Arrogance of Power
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This piece’s title may sound trite since you’ve probably heard the phrase before, so I apologize for that, but recent days’ events have delivered powerful examples of...
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