This election article is a bit atypical for me in that it will contain EVERYTHING, rather than being broken up into three parts: local/state/federal elections, since it’s very late in the election cycle.
A Fantastic Development
By now you’ve seen the news about Mercury Public Affairs terminating its registration as a foreign agent of the Republic of Turkey, and how this came about.
It Was Great!
It was great! I was in a sea of Armenians! (Somehow, using “ocean” doesn’t seem right given that Armenia borders on seas, not oceans).
No Surprise
It’s no surprise that Turks are killing Armenians again. And, for clarity and the purposes of this observation, there’s no point in making a distinction between Erdoğan’s murderous minions and the pup-Turk Azeri
Solastalgia
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.