I heard so much caterwauling about my “Bad News Beginning” piece a couple of weeks ago that I went out of my way for a feel-good piece this week.
Shutdown Shenanigans
The impasse between the legislative and executive branches in Washington, DC has led to the “government shutdown” dominating U.S. news in recent days.
Et Tu GCC?
It might be hard to believe that in this day and age prejudice and abuse can still persist, particularly in a public institution, and at that, one of higher education.
Bad News Beginning
Here we are in a brand new year and the bad news from the end of last year is hounding Armenians already.
What’s A World Congress To Do?
We’re at the onset of a new year, a (cautiously-optimistically) “new Armenia”, and a new (33rd) Armenian Revolutionary Federation World Congress.
U.S. Screwing Kurds Again
On Wednesday, December 20, 2018 President Donald Trump issued an order as commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces to withdraw the 2000 U.S. troops in Syria, via a Tweet!
Unsurprising Outcome
To no one’s astonishment, Nigol Pashinyan’s “My Step” alliance won big in the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) first ever snap elections held on December 9, 2018.
Convulsions
The Armenian nation has had its share of convulsions. It’s too easy to cite the establishment and Sovietization of the first Armenian republic, Genocide, arrival of Turks in the Armenian highlands, or conversion to Christianity
Armenian Snap
On December 9, the Republic of Armenia will go hold its first “snap” parliamentary elections. The meaning of this may be known to some readers.
Trump=Turkey # Two?
It seems like every few years I get an irrepressible urge to toy with the coincidence of Turkey with turkey, right around the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.