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Kurdish Crunch
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Looks like the Kurds are about to get screwed again, once again affirming their own adage, “The Kurds have no friends.” Two major developments, and likely lots of...
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Atomic Armenia, Gassy Glendale
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Interestingly, two places with heavy Armenian populations, Yerevan and Glendale are the loci and foci of rising power generation debates. Glendale’s timeline is one...
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New Countries
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Self-determination, one of the founding principles of the United Nations, and I would argue a fundamental human right, is more often honored by NOT being implemented...
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It’s Pitchforks and Torches Time
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The father of “Frankenfoods”* is feeling out the farms of Armenia! The pitchforks and torches, at least figuratively, must be prepared. Much like in the old...
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Treacherous Ts
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN What do tobacco (the industry), Turkey (the genocidal state), and Trump (the ConMan-in-Chief) have in common besides the first letter? It is their expert use of...
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Not So Gratifying
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It may seem like a bad topic to write about in this season of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and the annual Armenia Fund Telethon (this year dedicated to developing...
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Beauty
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YAGPARIAN Yes, indeed, I am going to discuss appearance, specifically, people’s, and more specifically Armenians’, since we seem so fixated on denying ourselves. There are...
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Hacking Armenia, Iran, Russia, U.S.
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It looks like we may have a brand new squealer joining the passel of swine inhabiting Azerbaijan’s sty of hackneyed howlers. Let’s see if he’ll play well with the old...
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SpitRain IX: The Multicontinental Edition
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal, the National Magazine Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and two...
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Move Over Marie Antoinette
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Everyone’s heard the attribution of “let them eat cake” to Marie Antoinette. It turns out she probably never said it. The same, or a similar, line appears in a French...
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Busy Bolis
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s almost as if our compatriots in Bolis are working mightily to restore their home city to it status of a century-plus ago when, along with Tiflis (Tbilisi),...
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Auspicious Eights
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN 2018 is a big year for Armenians. It marks the centennial of the establishment of the first Armenian Republic on May 28th of 1918 after a 543-year period of...
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Irritants XX
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Let’s start the year off by venting so the irritation doesn’t impact productivity in 2018. First off, I’ll vent at myself for my own imprecision. It seems I “skipped”...
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Greece and Turkey Playing Nice?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN So, a Turk walks into a bar… Oh wait, I’m not telling a joke. Rather, I’m writing an article. But that’s difficult to remember when the Turk in question is Erdoğan...
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Turkey in Syria… and More
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN With the battles to eradicate the irremediable vermin known as Daesh/ISIS winding down in Iraq and Syria, other conflicts, subsumed and overshadowed by that effort...
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Teghood Tailings Travesty; Glendale Gas Grift; More Mining Mania
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Surprise, surprise, surprise… not! I was shocked, shocked, to learn from a very brief news item a few days ago of a breach in the Teghood (Teghout/Teghut) copper and...
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Don’t Regret, Do
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN How does one avoid regret? If the person is a psychopath, it’s easy, regret may not even arise no matter how vile the behavior. But for most human beings, the path to...
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Corruption: A Handy-Dandy How-To
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Since corruption seems to be all the rage and totally accepted in our homeland, and since many in the west are unaccustomed to the sky-high levels and endless...
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Rebellious Bookends
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It seems February is a good time of year for Armenians to express their disgust and dismay with overlords who have gotten far too overbearing. Thirty years ago, the...
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Paylan for President
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Unfortunately, we can’t have Garo Paylan as president of the Republic of Armenia, he would be just the kind of decency the doctor ordered for the grossly afflicted...
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