Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Radio Progreso Alternativa HAVANA – A statement from the Cuban company Cubapetróleo (CUPET), published on Aug. 6, says that while the prospection operations conducted by PC Gulf of…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera Although hardly mentioned in the news related to the event, one of the most relevant issues of the recent meeting of the Cuban National Assembly of Popular…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – The young Spanish politician Ángel Francisco Carromero Barrios will remember to his dying day the moment he chose to drive that Hyundai Accent, license…
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From Cabbages to Fireflies* The Carromero-Modig case By La Saeta (The Arrow) HAVANA – The second definition of “conspiracy” in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada WASHINGTON – The super-rich in the United States and their counterparts in other parts of the world have committed what could…
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By Saul Landau As a child I played war games (cowboys killing Indians). My friends and I routinely shot each other with toy guns of course. In my south Bronx neighborhood, older gang…
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By Mark Weisbrot President Obama is currently confronting mostly Republican opponents over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts to the richest 1 percent of taxpayers. Between…
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By Bill Press For me, the first sentence of a New York Times article, the Monday after the Aurora, Colo., shooting, says it all: "Unhindered by federal background checks or…
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By staff of Progreso Weekly/Radio Progreso HAVANA – A political organization in Miami “paid, trained and instructed” a group of eight Mexican youths to carry out various activities…
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By Alan Farago From Eye on Miami MIAMI - The startling reversal of one of the climate change deniers heavily funded by the Koch Brothers, made the news over the weekend. Climate…
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