Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Keith Bolender In the political chasm that separates the two sides of the Florida straits, no issue creates greater passion than the categorization of a small group of…
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By Jon Lee Anderson From The New Yorker There are some uncanny analogies between the story of Osama bin Laden’s life and death and that of a another charismatic political outlaw,…
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By Bill Press From the Navy SEALs' daring raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, we learned a lot about the world's most wanted man. We learned he wasn't such a macho guy, after all.…
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The death of Osama bin Laden An Editorial taken from The New York Times The killing of Osama bin Laden provoked a host of reactions from Americans: celebration, triumph, relief, closure…
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By Robert Fisk From The Independent A middle-aged nonentity, a political failure outstripped by history – by the millions of Arabs demanding freedom and democracy in the Middle East –…
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Al’s Loupe Never been much into rap, but if the election were held today… By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progreso-weekly.com Voters in Miami-Dade get to elect a new mayor on Tuesday,…
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By Saul Landau In April, the Army transferred Private Bradley Manning from a Quantico, Virginia, solitary confinement cell to the federal prison at Leavenworth Kansas. At Quantico,…
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By Ralph Nader From Bloomberg.net The stars are aligned for Barack Obama’s re-election in November 2012. He won’t join Jimmy Carter to be the second Democrat in 120 years to lose a…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com From the 1920s to the 1980s, Florida was notorious for unplanned, environmentally destructive, socially pernicious, and even fraudulent land use…
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By David Swanson From WarIsACrime.org The plane I was on landed in Washington, D.C., Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had…
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