President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday slammed his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev who on Wednesday continued his racially motivated anti-Armenian slurs by saying that “something is missing” in the brains of the Armenian people.

The Sevres Treaty is a legal document signed by the state of Armenia and, as such, it is up to the state to pursue any action on the matter, hence, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation will not take part in an ad-hoc conference organized by various individuals, the ARF Political Affairs Director Giro Manoyan told RFE/RL’s Armenian service in an interview.

In an article in the Thursday edition of Jerusalem Post titled, “Erdogan wants another apology, this time from Armenia,” author Herb Keinon quotes an Israeli diplomatic source as saying that Turkey’s recent demands for apologies is turning into a pattern. The same source ponders: “Who is going to ask Erdogan to apologize for Turkey’s occupation of northern Cyprus?”

As part of his official visit to Armenia, Polish Prsident Bronislaw Komorowski visited the Dzidzernagapert Memorial Complex and placed a wreath at the Memorial for the Armenian Genocide victims.

Let me start off with a bit about the USGLC. It is a broad-based influential network of 400 businesses and NGOs, national security and foreign policy experts, businesses, faith-based, academic and community leaders from the 50 states who “support a smart power approach of elevating diplomacy and development alongside defense in order to build a better, safer world.”

No, this article is not about the injustice being heaped upon working people in many states of the U.S. Rather it’s about the aches and agony, self-inflicted, that Turkey seems to relish. One has to wonder if that’s not the reason that country’s chauvinistic “republican” government has “renamed” Armenia’s stolen mountain “Ağrı Dağı.”

Too often we become complacent, and allow ourselves to fall into a state of indifference, finding it easier not to to care so much, not to get involved.

“Rich in contemporary world history, Kill the Messenger is exactly the book the world needs to read in our perilous times.”
— Robert W. McChesney, coauthor of The Life and Death of American Journalism
LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Press Club and Los Angeles’ Pacifica radio station KPFK 90.7 FM present the official launch of public official, political [...]

On Friday, August 12, Arpa Foundation for Film, Music & Art presents Midsummer Night Social – Images, Hors D’Oeuvres, Melodies, and Cocktails showcasing photographic works by Eric Nazarian and Don Q. Hannah.

GLENDALE—The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region welcomed the Armenian Bar Association’s inclusion of current ANCA-WR Board Member Raffi Kassabian and former ANCA-WR Board Member Armen Martin in its “20 Rising Stars Under 40″ honorees. Martin and Kassabian will join the other honorees, selected from throughout the United States and Canada, for a special event [...]

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that President Serzh Sarkisian must apologize for what the Turkish daily Today’s Zaman characterized as “calling on school children to occupy eastern Turkey.”

A key U.S. House panel responsible for foreign aid spending voted today to approve $40 million in economic aid to Armenia, honoring Pres. Obama’s budget request for the 2012 fiscal year, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.

The ANC-PN’s 7th Annual Harout Barahantes is back and better than ever. Join your fellow Armenians at the San Fernando Valley’s Ararat Home in Mission Hills for some great eating, drinking and dancing featuring the World Famous Harout Pamboukjian!

Armenia has drawn up a new five-year plan of defense reforms stemming from its growing cooperation with NATO, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said during a visit to Brussels on Wednesday.