by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published November 10, 2020
After months of acrimonious debate and nasty disputes, the election is finally over. Trump supporters were 100% sure that he will be reelected. I advised everyone not to be so cocky about their predictions...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published October 19, 2020
Along with the rest of the world and tens of millions of Americans I am hoping that the nightmare called Trump will be over on November 3. Fortunately, Trump just announced that if he...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published December 26, 2019 · Last modified January 8, 2020
After both Houses of Congress, one overwhelmingly and the other unanimously, adopted two Resolutions in recent weeks recognizing the Armenian Genocide, many were hoping that this would lead President Donald Trump to also recognize...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published November 6, 2019
On October 29, 2019, Armenian Americans scored a major victory in the halls of US Congress. For the first time in 35 years, the US House of Representatives adopted Resolution 296 affirming the facts...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published August 20, 2019
A unique lawsuit, not based on the Armenian Genocide, was filed on May 29, 2019, by two Armenian-Americans against the Turkish government in the United States Federal Court, Central District of California. The lawsuit...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published August 13, 2019
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made a decision on August 8, 2019 to deny the appeal of two lawsuits brought by several Armenian-Americans demanding compensation from the Republic of...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published April 30, 2019
Pres. Donald Trump issued last week his third April 24 statement “on Armenian Remembrance Day.” And for three years in a row he did not muster the courage to use the correct term—genocide—to describe...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published February 13, 2018
In recent years, scores of ‘hired pens’ have written derogatory commentaries about Armenia and Armenian-Americans. Many of these anti-Armenians commentators are paid by the governments of Azerbaijan or Turkey. It is sad that some...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published October 10, 2017
Not a week passes without another propagandist for Azerbaijan writing anti-Armenian disinformation against either Armenia or the Diaspora. The latest such article was written by Andrew Korybko, an unknown individual described as an “American...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published August 15, 2017
Armenian-Americans knew that they had scored a major victory for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide when Texas became the 46th State to recognize it. What Armenian-Americans did not realize is that the recognition...
