Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

Let me see if I understand this. Here in Florida (and apparently a bunch of other states) there is a law referred to as Stand Your Ground. These laws are “outrageously dangerous laws”…
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A The New York Times editorial It would have been tragic enough if the shooting of an unarmed teenager by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain in Florida were the first to show…
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By Patricia Mazzei From The Miami Herald Miami-Dade should not enforce a new state law that prohibits the hiring of companies with business ties to Cuba because it conflicts with…
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Well, it’s done. Florida’s Jeb Bush endorsed Mitt Romney earlier today. In republican circles around the country that’s an important blessing, especially from someone who needs all the…
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By Eduardo Galeano In the Victorian age, it was inadmissible to mention men’s pants in the presence of a young lady. Today, it is not well considered to say certain things in…
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By Saul Landau Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) want war with Iran and refuse to learn lessons from the futile wars this country has perpetrated since U.S.…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada It wasn’t exactly unknown, but apparently what’s unacceptable is that someone “from the inside” revealed…
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By Bill Press American politicians have the attention span of a gnat. Consider the silence and inaction on global warming. In 2006, Al Gore stunned the nation with the release of the…
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By Aurelio Pedroso GUATEMALA CITY – Daniel Piñol is a Guatemalan boy who has just celebrated his seventh birthday. He can feel pride in the fact that his father is a descendant of one…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA –Although John Paul II characterized himself by an itinerant proselytism that took him to many countries in the world, and Cuba was one of the last,…
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