Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of IS. Shouldn’t the public know about their links to Pentagon contractors?
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Kids as young as 12 report illness from working in tobacco fields. Why isn’t the government doing anything about it?
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Cuba is the first nation in the world to answer an urgent call for personnel to help stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa and will send 165 medical professionals to Sierra Leone.
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The American middle class especially has been slowly bleeding out for at least a generation. That process has been accelerating in recent decades, especially during Republican rule but…
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How's this for a juxtaposition on how nations respond to a global health catastrophe. Check out these two headlines from yesterday's news
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When the Cubans landed on U.S. shores, there were no protests in Michigan or California calling for the government to ship them back home, as we've seen in recent weeks in response to…
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Very soon, Miamians will also be able to see "Chorus of Silence." Like the book, the documentary bravely reveals the story behind Operation Pedro Pan...
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Rivera is under federal investigation for a slew of improprieties while he was in the state legislature and as a member of the U.S. Congress.
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According to data in the Social Media Week of Toronto, by 2015 the number of Latin American people living there will be 740,000.
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Cuba seems to bring out the worst in Florida politics – especially around election time.
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