Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Yadira Escobar MIAMI – U.S. senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte apparently wish to deprive the suspect in the Boston attack, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, of his civil…
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By William Saletan From Slate Mandatory background checks are a terrible idea. They burden law-abiding citizens and don’t catch criminals. The databases they rely on are riddled…
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U.S. seeks to get rid of left governments in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot From Brazil’s Fohla de Sao Paulo Recent events indicate that the Obama administration has stepped up…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson P Valdés In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbor, U.S. officials…
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By Peter Kornbluh From The Nation Magazine In early April of 1963, a New York lawyer named James Donovan traveled to Havana to negotiate the release of U.S. citizens being held in…
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By Coleen Rowley From Open Mike via Reader Supported News I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was…
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By Bill Press Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we…
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A New York Times editorial A dozen years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an independent, nonpartisan panel's examination of the interrogation and detention programs…
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By Alvaro F. Fernandez Sen. Marco Rubio finds himself between the proverbial rock and hard place these days – especially in his home state of Florida. The Senate is about to present…
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By Saul Landau President Obama has fueled Syria’s civil war flames and lied to Congress about his “modest” role in that conflict. Between 2002 and 2007, I visited Syria four times.…
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