Armenia

Chris Hedges: Organized Oblivion

November 20, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Armenia, colonization, Genocide, History

New York - I am in the The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center next to the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan. I am holding a bound, hand-written memoir, which includes poetry, drawings, and scrapbooked images, by Zaven Seraidarian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The front cover of the book, one of six volumes, reads “Bloody Journal.” The other volumes have titles such as “Drops of Springtime,” “Tears” and “The Wooden Spoon.” “My name will remain immortal on the earth,” the author writes. “I will speak about myself and tell more.”

US, Turkey And Israel Fuel Forgotten War Between Armenia And Azerbaijan

October 29, 2020 Danny Sjursen, The Real News. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Türkiye, United States, Wars and Militarism

Since Sept. 27, fighting in the disputed south Caucasus Mountain region of Nagorno-Karabakh has killed over 1,000 people, both civilians and combatants, while uprooting the lives of thousands. This includes new 11 casualties on Sunday, Oct. 25, noted in a Deutsche Welle report citing numbers released by the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry. Leading up to the 2020 election, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, its disputed history between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and its geopolitical implications, along with many other critical foreign policy issues, have been largely ignored by the American media...

Guess Who Arms Both Azerbaijan And Armenia

October 23, 2020 David Swanson, Let's Try Democracy. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Wars and Militarism, Weapons Sales

This war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is, quite typically, a U.S. war even if the U.S. public doesn’t think so, even if the news is that the United States is trying to negotiate peace — news that includes zero mention of cutting off the weapons flow or even threatening to cut off the weapons flow. The Washington Post would like to send in the U.S. military — which it thinks is a simple and obvious solution. That claim is dependent on nobody even thinking of the idea of cutting off the weapons. This is not a Trump war or an Obama war.

Nagorno-Karabakh Talks Again Fail

October 22, 2020 Moon of Alabama. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Wars and Militarism

As we had expected the ceasefire in the war on Nagarno-Karabakh did not hold. Armenian troops have left the hard to defend lower grounds and retreated towards the mountains. For Azerbaijahn to proceed onto higher ground will be much harder than the previous fighting. The low ground also offered little protection for the Armenians from the massive aerial attacks by the Turkish and Israeli drones that Azerbaijahn is using. Armenian units had big losses of tanks and other equipment to aerial attacks.

How Can People In The US Support Peace In Nagorno-Karabakh?

October 18, 2020 Nicolas J. S. Davies, Intrepid Report. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Wars and Militarism

Americans are dealing with an upcoming general election, a pandemic that has killed over 200,000 of us, and corporate news media whose business model has degenerated to selling different versions of “The Trump Show” to their advertisers. So who has time to pay attention to a new war half way round the world? But with so much of the world afflicted by 20 years of U.S.-led wars and the resulting political, humanitarian and refugee crises, we can’t afford not to pay attention to the dangerous new outbreak of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Nagorno-Karabakh’s Conflict Isn’t About Us (Or Russia)

October 2, 2020 Maj. Danny Sjursen, US (ret.), AntiWar.com. Educate! Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Wars and Militarism

Journalists and geo-strategists call it a "frozen conflict” – one of several such deadlocked disputes under tenuous ceasefire in the post-Soviet states. Only now, the long-standing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) is anything but. For the third time since the Russian-brokered 22-year armed-truce – ending a bloody 1988-94 war that claimed some 30,000 lives – broke down in 2016, the antagonists are at it again. Yet this outbreak feels different, far bigger, with an ambitious Azerbaijan seemingly intent on cracking the whole stalemate wide open.

What’s Washington Really Doing in Armenia? Color Revolution Against Moscow?

May 9, 2018 By F. William Engdahl, Resist! Armenia, Electoral Politics, US Regime Change

Ironically, what nominally sparked the protests was the action of Sargysan to in effect do what Turkey’s Erdogan has done, only in reverse. He and his parliamentary majority party managed to strip the office of President of almost all but ceremonial roles, while giving actual decision powers to the office of Prime Minister. That he managed just before he himself became Prime Minister. Reaction from Moscow to the ongoing protests until now has evidently been muted following a statement that it won’t get involved in Armenian internal affairs. At this point, despite the fact that Sargysan resigned as Prime Minister and did not submit himself as candidate to oppose Pashinyan in the May 1 parliament vote, Pashinyan fell short of the majority needed to be named Prime Minister.

Protest Leader Nikol Pashinian Elected Prime Minister Of Armenia

May 9, 2018 Margarita Antidze and Hasmik Mkrtchyan, Huffingtonpost.com Resist! Armenia, Electoral Politics, Nationalism, Protests

YEREVAN (Reuters) - Opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was elected as Armenia’s new prime minister on Tuesday, capping a peaceful revolution driven by weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism in the ex-Soviet republic. Moscow, which has a military base in Armenia, is wary of an uncontrolled change of power which would pull the country out of its orbit, but Pashinyan has offered assurances that he will not break with the Kremlin. The election of Pashinyan, a former newspaper editor who spent time in prison for fomenting unrest, marks a rupture with the cadre of rulers who have run Armenia since the late 1990s. He spearheaded a protest movement that first forced veteran leader Serzh Sarksyan to step down as prime minister and then pressured the ruling party to abandon attempts to block his election as prime minister, the country’s most powerful post.

Armenia Opposition Leader Demands Snap Election After PM Resigns

April 24, 2018 Staff, Aljazeera.com Resist! Armenia, Electoral Politics, Europe

Armenia's opposition leader has demanded a snap parliamentary election in the wake of former Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan's resignation over widespread anti-government demonstrations. Nikol Pashinyan told a rally on Monday in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, he is "ready to discuss conditions of Sargsyan's resignation and transfer of power". "The National Assembly shall be entitled to nominate candidates for prime minister within a week. Until then, an interim government will be formed, after that snap extraordinary parliamentary elections are needed," Pashinyan said, according to Armenian website NEWS.am. Sargsyan resigned earlier on Monday following days of protests in Yerevan against his government, which critics accuse of corruption and authoritarian rule.

New Armenia Protests, Same US-Backed Mobs

May 3, 2016 Tony Cartalucci, www.journal-neo.org Educate! Armenia, Protests

By Tony Cartalucci of NEO - Another day, another protest in Armenia. And if we were to simply believe the Western media regarding this ‘other protest,’ we might get the impression that the Armenian people are upset with Russian policy and “Putinism.” In reality, the protests are led by the same verified US-proxies exposed at the height of the “Electric Yerevan” protests mid-2015 which sought to undermine and overthrow the current government of Armenia in favor of a pro-Western political front more to Wall Street, London, and Brussels’ liking.

Armenia Suspends Power Hike In A Bid To End Protests

June 29, 2015 Agencies, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Armenia, Austerity

By Agencies in Al Jazeera - Armenia's president has suspended an increase in household electricity rates in an effort to end the protests that have blocked the capital Yerevan's main avenue for six straight days. President Serzh Sargsyan told a meeting of senior officials on Saturday that the tariff rise would go into force, but the government would cover the extra "burden" instead of the public until an independent audit of the decision was completed. Sargsyan said that the 17-percent electricity hike was necessary to support the power grid and therefore he was ordering the government to cover the cost. The protesters refused to go home and said they would not respond to the offer until 6pm (1400 GMT) on Sunday.

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