Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Despite an ever-receding threats to the actual physical security of Americans we seem to be in a state of permanent warfare and government spying and surveillance of our own citizens
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The Associated Press is reporting that Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he’d been holed up since June.
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"It's hard to believe we are still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jammed TV signal – that fewer than 1 percent of Cubans can see..." says Sen. Jeff Flake.
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Effective August 1, the Department of State is changing the validity of tourist visas from six months, single entry to five-years, multiple entries for qualified Cuban nationals.
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The number of Cubans leaving their country has increased steadily in recent years, the government reported on Wednesday, reaching levels not seen since 1994.
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The Supreme Court decision did not legalize gay marriage in the United States. It declared unconstitutional for the feds to intrude into the right of a state to define the marriage…
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Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, the Cuban comic who reduced a common expletive used often by Cubans to a simple ño!!, died in Miami at the age of 86.
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In today's Miami, the chairman of the City Commission, Marc Sarnoff, proposes jailing homeless people so they won't disturb "the public order." Local officials want to eliminate any…
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A military judge has found Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, not guilty of aiding the enemy.
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When a storm is approaching, “we call the National Prognostic Center or they call us, whoever gets to the phone first,” said Lixion Avila, of the U.S. government’s National Hurricane…
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