Category: Editorial
All Power and No Integrity
By Edmond Y. Azadian When Samantha Power published her award-winning book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Armenians — along with human rights activists globally — believed that she had been sent from heaven to defend the underdogs — victims of genocides and human rights abuses. She was so factual, legalistic [...]
Defining Our Demands and Course of Action at Threshold of Centennial
By Edmond Y. Azadian The Armenian Genocide centennial is around the corner and we are still unprepared as to how to organize or commemorate it worldwide and, more importantly, realize what impact we can expect or anticipate. The fact that Armenians are scattered around the world and consequently cannot join together and present a unified [...]
An Urgent Problem Whose Urgency Is Fading
By Edmond Y. Azadian An ARF political thinker named E. Agnouni has encapsulated the Armenian people’s propensity to emigrate away from their native land by a perfectly rhyming sentence in Armenian: “Hayeh Amen tegh eh penderoom apastan, batsi ayn teghits voreh kochvoom eh Hayastan” (The Armenian is seeking a haven in all places but the [...]
A Tale of Two Operas
By Edmond Y. Azadian With the spectacular and complete disappearance of the iron curtain, millions of people who had been trapped behind it, suddenly were exposed to the rest of the world. There was a deluge of Western cultural trends inundating the former Soviet republics. Armenia, being one of them, proved to be defenseless against [...]
Turkish Prime Minister’s Triumphant Visit to Washington
By Edmond Y. Azadian It is well said by English historian and writer Lord Acton that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. There can be no better example to demonstrated the veracity of the above adage then citing the names of a political duo at the top of the power pyramid in [...]
The Mystery Deepens
By Edmond Y. Azadian While Armenians around the country were grieving the loss of four victims and 200 wounded as a result of the Boston Marathon bombings — a story which ended in the Armenian neck of the woods of Watertown, Mass. — suddenly a bomb was also hurled in the news media calling Armenians [...]
Outrage and Fury
By Edmond Y. Azadian The US once again witnessed events reminiscent of 9/11, although fortunately on a more limited scale but of equal sensationalism. The suspected Boston Marathon bombers, brothers Tsarnaev, terrorized Boston and its suburbs for almost three days. Watertown, the hub of many Armenian organizations, suffered the brunt of the massive manhunt which [...]
Are We Ready?
By Edmond Y. Azadian The centennial of the Armenian Genocide is around the corner. Only two years are left to prepare a commemoration commensurate with the magnitude of that colossal tragedy, which not only cost 1.5 million lives, but also a 3000-year-old homeland. Assimilated generations of Armenians, or masses alienated from their roots must be [...]
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