Hrag Vartanian

Mt. Davidson cross is a historic landmark in San Francisco and earlier this week (the police report says the 23rd), the plaque at the base of the sculpture commemorating the Armenian Genocide’s 1.5 million dead was stolen in what police are not ruling out as a possible hate crime.The official history of the landmark [...]

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Sometimes I feel guilty for going on with my daily life when a genocide rages in the middle of Africa. I think what it must have been like for people in New York in 1915 when my ancestors were being killed, raped, beaten or forced into exile during the Armenian Genocide in a corner of [...]

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The world’s 30 most active blogging cities, according to BusinessWeek and FeedBurner:

Most active: NY, LA, London, Chicago, Rome, Madrid, Toronto, Houston, Washington, Atlanta
11-20: Paris, Seattle, San Diego, Austin, Minneapolis, Denver, SF, Portland, Dallas, Singapore
21-30: St Louis, Jakarta, Brooklyn (NY), Philadelphia, Mexico City, Montreal, Beijing, Moscow, Mumbai, Columbus

{Hat tip to Lunch Over IP}
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Occasionally I fumble upon a blog that I quickly become addicted to…well, my latest fix is Joshua Kocera’s blog “Istanbul-Beijing,” which does a beautiful job of documenting his travels from…wait for it…Istanbul to Beijing.
I first found Josh when he was wandering Georgia, poised to enter Armenia. His take on Armenia–which I’ve been to three times–pointed [...]

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Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media.
Here are the Top 25 [...]

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