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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada CANCÚN, March 29 – Cubans are “bursting” the capacity of flights from the U.S. to Cuba, taking advantage of Barack Obama's…
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By David Sirota From Truthout.org Ever since Thomas Frank published his book "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Democrats have sought a political strategy to match the GOP's. The health…
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By Bill Press It's embarrassing, how gullible we are. We've been surrounded by Christians all these years. We might have even become one ourselves. We were impressed by the good…
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By Max J. Castromaxjcastro@gmail.com The last key conservative Democratic holdouts against comprehensive health reform—Bart Stupak and his band of anti-abortion Democrats—having…
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By Saul Landau The State Department echoed by the European Union has once again raised the human rights issue to beat up Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro declared his independence from the…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of…
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By Bill Press Poor John Roberts. His feelings are hurt. And he wants big bully Barack Obama to stop picking on him. Poor John Roberts. Apparently, he's been nursing a grudge ever…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Could a Dennis Kucinich become the Ralph Nader of health care reform? (Editor’s Note: Before closing this edition of Progreso Weekly, Rep. Dennis…
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By Saul Landau I waited in line at the Phoenix airport thinking how a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, evaded security. Meanwhile, an informed TSA woman wanded me with a small…
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By Gimleteye From the Eye on Miami blog A recent campaign finance report shows that U.S. Senate hopeful, Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek has already gathered contributions of at…
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