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.
COVID Frontline 3+ Months In
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 later) to stem the tide of the COVID-19 virus.
Trouble-Making Turkish Television
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 not just through its multi-level interference
No Justice, No Peace
No Justice, No Peace. Isn’t that what we, Armenians, have been saying, in one way or another for over a century?
Reclaiming Nationalism, Rejecting Chauvinism, Building Socialism
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”
COVID RoA
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.
Irritants XXIV
Unbelievable, well, maybe not given its leader’s questionable relationship with legality, and disgusting, and politicized, and erosive of the law, and unprecedented according to experts in the field.
Bland 24th , But…
April 24th, 2020 came and went. It was the most uninspiring Genocide commemoration season I have experienced (other than 1993 when, on the 24th, I was driving cross-country)
0424 Action During COVID
There’s been a frightening dearth of activity this April’s “Genocide Season” with commemorative activities formally “suspended”. This is understandable… up to a point.
Gems, Genocide, Germs
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 killing tens of thousands of people