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Obama meets foreign policy test in Egypt
By Bill Press
"It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing. Something's happening in the world. Your vote will decide…
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A sugar policy that’s costing America jobs and money
A Washington Post editorial
Congress and the Obama administration are in the market for fresh ideas to create jobs. Or so we are told. So far, however, we haven't seen too many…
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Another visit to Gerardo in prison
Miami Herald allegations were “ridiculous,” he says
By Danny Glover and Saul Landau
On our third visit, the neo-fascist architecture of the U.S. Federal Penitentiary in Victorville…
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Obama challenges America to win the future
By Bill Press
On January 25, President Obama came, he spoke, and he conquered. We've seen lots of State of the Union addresses, but never one quite like this.
It wasn't a laundry list…
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At trial of Cuban exile, a rebuffed Venezuela sits quietly on the sidelines
By James C. McKinley Jr.
From The New York Times
EL PASO — Perhaps the most frustrated person in the courtroom the last two weeks at the perjury trial of Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban…
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Witness: Posada Carriles arrived in Miami aboard the Santrina
From Cubadebate
(Editor's Note: Progreso Weekly would like to remind our readers that in 2005 Manuel Alberto Ramy published in Progreso Weekly an interview with Mexican journalist…
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Obama’s relationship with American business
By Robert ReichFrom the Robert Reich blog
Whenever you hear a business executive or politician use the term “American competitiveness,” watch your wallet. Few terms in public…
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State of disunion
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
By the time this column is posted, President Barack Obama will have officially reported on the state of the nation to Congress and the American…
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Media loves massacres, not foreclosure stories
By Saul Landau
The Tucson massacre yielded the media and politicians weeks of fodder for their nattering mills. Yes, Americans hate violence and love guns, just as we stand for peace…
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Republicans play games with health care
By Bill Press
A funny thing happened on the way to repeal of President Obama's health care reform plan in the House: the vast majority of Americans decided they liked the new plan…
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