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      To 'Honor the Victims' of 20th Century Atrocity, Biden Recognizes Armenian Genocide

      To 'Honor the Victims' of 20th Century Atrocity, Biden Recognizes Armenian Genocide

      "This principled stand represents a powerful setback to Turkey's century-long obstruction of justice for this crime, and its ongoing hostility and aggression against the Armenian people."

      Jon Queally
      Apr 24, 2021

      U.S. President Joe Biden cracked many decades of U.S. government silence on Saturday by publicly and officially recognizing that the systematic killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottomans during the First World War was--as historians, survivors, and their descendants have long known--a "genocide."

      In an official White House statement, Biden said, "Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring."

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      How Can Americans Support Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?

      How Can Americans Support Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?

      The U.S. should support a ceasefire and a lasting and stable negotiated peace that respects the human rights and self-determination of all the people of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

      Nicolas J.S. Davies
      Oct 10, 2020

      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 halfway around 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.

      Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody war over Nagorno-Karabakh from 1988 to 1994, by the end of which at least 30,000 people had been killed and a million or more had fled or been driven out of their homes. By 1994, Armenian forces had occupied Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts, all internationally recognized as parts of Azerbaijan. But now the war has flared up again, hundreds of people have been killed, and both sides are shelling civilian targets and terrorizing each other's civilian populations.

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      Battle for Amulsar: UK Mining Giant Using Corporate Courts to Attack Community Opposed to Massive Gold Mine

      Battle for Amulsar: UK Mining Giant Using Corporate Courts to Attack Community Opposed to Massive Gold Mine

      This is the sinister mechanism known as ISDS in action—holding a sovereign government to ransom until it betrays the desires and rights of its own people

      Tj Chuah
      Aug 30, 2019

      Early last week--despite popular resistance and grave environmental concerns--the Armenian government green-lit a gold mine on Amulsar Mountain in Southern Armenia.

      The new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who steered the movement that brought about Armenia's 'Velvet Revolution,' appears to have bowed to pressure from mining firm Lydian International, including the threat of a $2 billion lawsuit in a 'corporate court.' But the grassroots resistance is determined to hold strong and continue blocking construction. Will the government remove protestors and clear the path for Lydian? The answer will show the strength of Armenia's new democracy.

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