http://www.allmediany.com/articles.php?article_id=12 Editorials Thursday 17 May 2012 02:32:41 +0000 http://allmediany.com/images/allmediany-logo_new.jpg http://www.allmediany.com en http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=1563 Thursday 24 November 2011 04:27:11 +0000 -by Vania Andre, Staff Writer; Image: Black Friday late-night line (Image Source: Stumble Upon) Black Friday signals the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. Its popularity is aligned with... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=1560 Wednesday 23 November 2011 04:16:55 +0000 -by Drew Kolar, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Bieber and Yeater (Image Source: Pobnews) Nothing gets under my skin more in the entertainment world than people shamelessly looking for attentionmdash;whether... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=1473 Sunday 13 November 2011 07:40:49 +0000 -by Drew Kolar, Editor-in-Chief; Image: U.S. Healthcare is still in a crisis. (Image Source: TopNews.net.nz) In just under one week, I will turn 26, thus losing the health insurance that currently covers... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=1430 Monday 07 November 2011 04:36:16 +0000 -by Barry Samedi, Contributing Writer amp; Political Analyst As a citizen, I truly adore the United States of America and am appreciative and grateful for the opportunity my native country has given... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=547 Thursday 31 March 2011 05:26:25 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief There is something insidious in Europe these days. There is something that rages from Denmark, wherein marriage to a foreigner requires dramatic special permission,... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=542 Saturday 26 March 2011 03:21:45 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief Created by the Sydney Morning Herald and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Earth Hour was thought up in 2007, though it reached global popularity in 2008. Last year's... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=511 Friday 04 March 2011 10:17:12 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: College basketball star Brandon Davies will not be returning to Brigham Young University after admitting to having pre-marital sex with his girlfriend (Image:... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=502 Wednesday 02 March 2011 08:15:26 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief My colleagues in the press are having a field day with Charlie Sheen, his debacle, and his apparent megalomania, to say nothing of his problems with drugs. Sheen, as you all know,... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=489 Sunday 20 February 2011 10:14:26 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Palestinian youth stands before an Israeli tank during the intifada The term "Israeli settlements" has a romantic ring to it. Someone says ldquo;settlementsrdquo;... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=479 Wednesday 16 February 2011 09:10:32 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Lara Logan is one of the field#39;s most widely recognized war correspondentsLara Logan was sexually assaulted by a mobwhile she was covering Hosni Mubarak#39;s... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=467 Saturday 12 February 2011 03:09:13 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Alberto Fujimori (right) is currently serving time for crimes committed during his 1990-2000 presidency while his daughter Keiko (left) is running for officeThere... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=459 Thursday 10 February 2011 08:45:06 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Leader of the right-wing DPP party Ria Kjaersgaard says she founded the party because of her opposition to immigrants (Image source: BBC)There is something rotten... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=434 Thursday 27 January 2011 11:01:01 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Sarah Palin mocked President Obama#39;s Winning the Future-themed State of the Union address by referring to it by the acronym of quot;WTFquot; (Image Source:... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=407 Saturday 01 January 2011 08:16:44 +0000 - by Vania Andre, Staff Writer Once again,Fox has managed to stir up controversy with questionable comments made by a string of their political commentators. Tucker Carlson, founder of The Daily... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=360 Friday 26 November 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-ChiefI should warn you, before you begin to read, that I will end by making of you a personal request. Dignity prompts me to warn you in advance, and courtesy requires... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=356 Tuesday 23 November 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jasmine Enberg, Staff Writer In Latin America, abortion is a taboo subject. Most of the region's countries have highly restrictive abortion laws, similar to those of Africa and Asia. In countries... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=328 Saturday 13 November 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Chloeuml; Hill, Staff Writer; Image: This proposed FDA ad, to appear on cigarette packs, is one of several proposed images that the FDA plans on using in an effort to decrease smoking rates After... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=326 Friday 12 November 2010 12:00:00 +0000 -by Drew Kolar, Staff Writer Is it just me, or is Christmas coming earlier every year? Weeks before Halloween, most department stores had Christmas sections and some of their displays already up and running;... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=305 Monday 25 October 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Trade with China has been a contentious issue in the United States for several years If you did watch the New York State Senate debate last night between incumbent... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=304 Sunday 24 October 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by JorgeVargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Shanghai's sky-line is one of many signs that China is experiencing its best economic moment ever Truly knowing the history of the United States, from its early... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=286 Wednesday 13 October 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: 33 men were trapped in a mine in Copiapo, Chile since August 5, 2010 and were finally rescued on October 13, 2010 33 men were saved today. They emerged... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=225 Saturday 11 September 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: The absence of the World Trade Center from downtown Manhattan continues to bring painful memories to New Yorkers On September 11, 2001, a strong wind ran through... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=216 Wednesday 08 September 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: The power of the drug cartels comes from weapons purchased by the cartels using money attained from the trade of drugs in, amongst other places, major U.S. cities Apparently,... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=208 Thursday 02 September 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Stephen Hawking asserts that the universe was created without need of Creationism On the one hand, the educational masterminds who insist on teaching Creationism... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=207 Thursday 02 September 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Rachel Allen, Staff Writer; Image: The intense heat in the New York area has driven manyplayers into exhaustion during this year's U.S. Open tournament Inhumane is a strong word - especially... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=203 Tuesday 31 August 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Vivekananda Nemana, Staff Writer Not enough is being said about marginal incentives in discussions on greenhouse gases.In economics, a marginal incentive is what motivates you or me to consume... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=200 Saturday 28 August 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Glenn Beck and his supporters in a Washington rally One sign that a country isn't doing so well is if a talk-show host is organizing demonstrations in the capital... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=192 Wednesday 25 August 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: The CIA has been discovered, yet again, manipulating and coercing other nations to accept the questionable practice of granting immunity to U.S. citizens overseas Wikileaks,... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=187 Friday 20 August 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Billboards, like tihs one put up by the Christian Action Network in South Carolina, and other public advertisements throughout the United States point to a growing... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=185 Thursday 19 August 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: The MRTA take-over of the Japanese Embassy in 1997 was one of the group's most high-profile terrorist acts The Movimiento Revolucionario de Tupac Amaru (MRTA)... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=172 Friday 13 August 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by David Guzman, Staff Writer The New York Daily News gets well over half a million readers a day, a great deal of which probably felt itrsquo;d cheated them out of a legitimate story this past Wednesday.... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=163 Sunday 08 August 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image:The mass media has conjured an illusion of climate change as being a sudden phenomena with short-term effects Climate change is, believe it or not, real.... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=149 Wednesday 28 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Lima, Peru's capital, is among the largest cities in the world and boasts not only a trove of historical treasures but also the fact that it has been at the center... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=144 Tuesday 27 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Simon Boacute;livar has become an obsession for President Hugo Chaacute;vez of Venezuela and Boacute;livar's legacy is being continuously altered by Chaacute;vez's... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=129 Friday 16 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: The billboard is compares Hitler and Lenin to Obama in Madison City, Iowa The Tea Party went too far in the past few days when one of their Iowa wings paid for an advertisement... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=125 Thursday 15 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 -by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image: Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires Progress for the mere sake of progress is not a good thing. That is the attitude being taken by many opponents... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=117 Monday 12 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief; Image:MTA 6 train during morning rush hour The MTA hit a new low with me last week. Or, rather, the subway system of New York City hit a new low with me last... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=108 Wednesday 07 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Vivekananda Nemana, Staff Writer On a late Friday evening in late June, an Indian-American college professor named Divyendu Sinha went on a stroll with his wife and their two teenage sons through... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=106 Tuesday 06 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief Citizenship is not an easy thing to attain. Although, for some, it is easier than for others: Engineers andscientists from East Asia and India, the wealthy,... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=103 Sunday 04 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief Today, July 4th, is the United States' Independence Day. It marks, as every U.S. schoolchild knows, the declaration of independence by U.S. patriots from the British... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=98 Friday 02 July 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief FIFA has many opponents these days. The English and the Mexicans are paired up with ESPN in calling for instant video replay during matches in order to assist... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=73 Tuesday 15 June 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief You ever wonder what would happen if the world was inhabited by nations regarding themselves equals? You ever wonder how great it would be if there was no such... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=62 Monday 07 June 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Vivekananda Nemana, Staff Writer Earlier this year, President Obama proposed a list of budget cuts to tackle a dangerously high budget deficit. There were more than 120 cuts on that list, a collection... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=59 Friday 04 June 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Rachel Allen, Staff WriterIt seems, amidst the barrage of hate raining down on the Sex and the City 2 movie, that people have forgotten what Sex and the City is ndash; or was. After years of dedication... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=52 Thursday 27 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by David Guzman, Staff Writer If the immigration bill that Arizona just passed puts the future of minorities in jeopardy, then the new rules on textbooks that the Texas State Board of Education just... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=45 Monday 17 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief On May 17, 1980, the terrorist organization named Shining Path unleashed a campaign of terror and hatred against the Peruvian nation and its government. The civil... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=43 Wednesday 12 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Janice Vanos, Contributing Writer Call me crazy but I knew this would happen. I knew that there would be an off-shore disaster when I heard President Obama goingon about how the U.S.... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=38 Friday 30 April 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief Former French President Charles DeGaulle once used to say that "Brazil is the country of the future," and he would then add, "and it always will be." The meaning of that... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=36 Friday 23 April 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief The State of Arizona, in its wisdom, has passed a bill requiring that all individuals carry national identification papers. This is the same state that is passing... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=32 Tuesday 20 April 2010 12:00:00 +0000 - by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief It's time to ask ourselves one quick question regarding Iran: Are we being fair? Yes, the U.S. and Israeli governments purport to have evidence that Iran is seeking... http://www.allmediany.com/detail-article.php?article_id=12&art_id=27 Friday 05 March 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Op-ed by Jorge Vargas, Editor-in-Chief What is greed? Today, the image of greedis that of a rich, white, Republican, banker in the U.S. who favors less government, less regulation, less taxation...