Every year around this time in April a battle is waged in the White House and Congress; a unique battle because it is – at its heart – over one word, genocide. The roots of this struggle lie in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in the midst of World War I…

The L.A. Forum is a huge arena venue for sports and concerts in Inglewood, CA. Several years back, new owners of the venue hired powerful management corporation SMG to run the venue. SMG pushed deep, deep cuts in the salaries of the stagehands and janitors of the facility, and when these workers sought a new, fairer contract, they were fired. Over 120 workers continue to fight to get their jobs back, at a decent wage.

He yearned to bridge the understanding between Armenians and Turks to get over the pains of the past stemming from the Armenian Genocide by the Ottomans in 1915.

The brutal attacks/bombings this week in New York, and Washington D.C., along with threats of attacks there and elsewhere in the country have changed our times forever. While the mass media concentrates on the details of the destruction, and the blanketed words of politicians, I will attempt to understand and explain the events from the fence.