By Harut Sassounian The Washington-based International Republican Institute’s public opinion poll, conducted November 22-December 5, 2021, measured the Armenian population’s views on political, economic, and security issues. The survey was funded by the...

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.thecaliforniacourier.com It is simply amazing that every time Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan opens his mouth, he makes a new and bigger blunder. To be convinced of this, all one...

I woke up Sunday morning to the shocking, yet not unexpected, newsthat the President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian, announced hisresignation while abroad, most probably London, after nearly fouryears in office. The President is someone...

            By Harut Sassounian             Publisher, The California Courier             www.thecaliforniacourier.com The Los Angeles Times published on January 11, 2022, an opinion column by Jonah Goldberg, titled: “Just meeting with Putin is a concession—the...

By Harut SassounianI will attempt to provide a comprehensive analysis of the upcoming“Armenia-Turkey normalization talks” on January 14, 2022 in Moscow.Armenia may be bungling these negotiations once again!— To begin with, Armenia does not...

By Harut Sassounian In October 2021, the Patriarch of Istanbul, Sahag Mashalian, delivered at the Holy Hovhannes Church in the Kumkape district of Istanbul a very strange sermon full of conspiracies and fear-mongering statements....

By Harut Sassounian Turkish political analyst Burak Bekdil acknowledged in his article published by BESA Center Perspectives: “The Turkish-Islamist psyche is susceptible to…the pitfalls of honor, fatalism, conspiracism, bombast, publicity, and confusion.” Over the...

           By Harut Sassounian A lot has been written about larger than life Sen. Bob Dole since hispassing on December 5 at the ripe old age of 98. He was a soldier,Kansas State Representative...

                        By Harut Sassounian            Publisher, The California Courier            www.thecaliforniacourier.com TV Celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz announced on Nov. 30 his Republican candidacy for one of the two U.S....

            By Harut Sassounian Israeli journalist Yossi Melman wrote a lengthy critical article inthe Haaretz newspaper about Israel’s sale of banned deadly clusterbombs to Azerbaijan to kill and maim innocent Armenian civilians inArtsakh. The...