Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Al’s Loupe Are you ready for some dirt? It’s Rivera vs. Garcia in November By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com “Joe Garcia is the single-most corrupt…
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1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future)…
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By Saul Landau I first visited Syria in 2002, returned in 2003 to make a film there and followed with subsequent visits in 2004 and 2006. Since the conflict started in that country…
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By Peter Kornbluh From The Nation (Note: On July 25, WikiLeaks issued a statement announcing that Julian Assange has hired a renowned international human rights jurist, the Spanish…
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By Mark Engler NEW YORK - International progress in recovering from the economic downturn of recent years has been sluggish. But there is growth in at least one sector: The…
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By Bill Press I don't have to tell you. Politics has sunk lower than ever before. All we see from the Obama campaign are negative ads. And this, despite the fact that, back in April…
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By Saul Landau Gore Vidal died July 31. In 2005, I interviewed him for my weekly TV-radio show Hot Talk. We had first met years before at a dinner party at Marc Raskin’s house…
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By Esteban Morales Domínguez From his blog HAVANA – In April 2010, I wrote that corruption was the most difficult and dangerous challenge we had to face. A problem of national…
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Water in a basket (a blog under construction) Raw sugar, refined lies By Dalia Céspedes ‘Órbita,’ by Manuel Moreno Fraginals. Unión Publishers, Havana, 2009. 477 pgs.…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Bad ideas never die. They just get repackaged and resold as new. Like the Aztec gods, the bad idea that rules our times, the Market deity,…
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