MARIE YOVANOVITCH: CORRUPTION IS FLOURISHING IN ARMENIA BECAUSE IT IS ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY

Noyan Tapan
Dec 11, 2009

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN. Corruption is flourishing in Armenia
because it is accepted by society, the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia
Marie Yovanovitch said during a talk with reporters on December 9 -
International Anti-Corruption Day...

chemarina

Next President: A Republic Day Speech

My fellow Armenians!

Ninety-one years ago your nation has reestablished a long-cherished statehood in the territory of

“Sev Jandam”. The courage of the passionate visionaries who stood up for the patriotic “chmoyutyun” should live on in our hearts just as it lives on in the hearts of Armenians.

My dear fellows, many of you may think I have totally “qaqmej”-ed your expectations on April 24. Let me yell a “No” to those people. I have been in long consultation both with your Government and your opposition, who appeared to be rather “esh kerats esh metsatsats” professionals and must assure you that we are on the right track.

The people of America and the President will continue to “qtsel” the US nationals of Armenian origin. You have been devoted citizens to this country and unique patriots in building prosperous and proud United States. We should always remember your “tiroj maman” in building our foreign strategies. Yes, we can!

My friends… Today I stand with you and Armenians everywhere with a sense of solidarity, “tqats unem”ism and “paxaq stuts”ism.

God Bless America!

US cancels plan to send military ship to Poti

Moving in darkness before dawn Sunday, some 200 fighters surrounded the newly built base in a remote area near the Pakistan border without being spotted by the troops inside, said Gen. Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh, the provincial police chief.

He said people in the adjacent village of Wanat aided the assault. About 20 local families left their homes in anticipation of the raid, while other tribesmen stayed behind "and helped the insurgents during the fight," Jangalbagh said.

The result was the deadliest incident for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since June 2005, when 16 American soldiers were killed as a rocket-propelled grenade shot down their helicopter.

Violence has been increasing in Afghanistan, and many people are questioning whether the Taliban-led insurgency is gaining, not losing, momentum seven years after the hard-line Islamic regime was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion.

During World War I, governors of four western states proposed to the federal government that members of the Industrial Workers of the World be interned for the duration of the war.

In 1939, the Hohbs "Concentration Camp" Bill, which sought to detain aliens before or instead of deporting them, passed the House by an overwhelming majority but failed in the Senate. In 1950, the McCarran Act contained provisions allowing the establishment of concentration camps for "subversives."

And through the 1960s, the FBI kept secret lists of more than two hundred thousand Americans it proposed to detain immediately upon the declaration of a national emergency.

Jasper Gerard
Sunday October 14, 2007
The Observer

Remind me, what is the war on terror for?

The world is viewed through the prism of a war on terror. President
Bush dismisses the attempted slaughter of a people as a ticklish
detail. He rejects a historic Congressional decision to call Turkey's
murder of 1.5 million Armenians 'genocide'. And not because he denies
butchery took place; rather, Turkey is a key ally, so best let
sleeping Armenians lie. One sees his point, naturally. The friendship
of a Muslim nation provides cover. Plus nationalist Turks, successors
to the 'young Turks' who nearly snuffed out the Armenians, are
itching to invade northern Iraq. So best placate Turkey...

But what is the war on terror for? Isn't it a response to a war of
terror, whose first shot was fired in 1915, when Turkey's interior
minister ordered Armenians to be 'terminated'? Why does the death of
3,000 in New York weigh heavier than 1.5 million? And if the war on
terror possesses moral as well as military force, shouldn't it be
about principle as well as pragmatism?

Otherwise, aren't we just the other side's enemy combatant?
Guantanamo, rendition, detention: staring through the prism, we've
lost perspective.

ANCA WELCOMES WHITE HOUSE WITHDRAWAL OF HOAGLAND NOMINATION AS US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

Decision Follows Extensive ANCA Nationwide Campaign to Block Appointment of Genocide Denier as U.S. Envoy

WASHINGTON, DC – Following a year of Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) led Armenian American community opposition to the controversial appointment of an Armenian Genocide denier as U.S. envoy to Yerevan, the White House, today, announced the withdrawal of the nomination of Dick Hoagland as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia.