Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Bill Press Which of the following statements is true? (1) There is no such thing as global warming. (2) September 11 was an inside job, engineered by George Bush and Dick Cheney.…
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By Kyle Munzenrieder From Miami New Times The U.S. government spends millions of dollars every year transmitting news (or something like it) to Cuba through Radio y Televisión Martí's…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian The killing of Osama bin Laden is being celebrated by the US media and government officials who spin it as one of the most important events since 11…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican daily La Jornada “This is change?” asks a box of mints with the image of Barack Obama. They are called “dissappoint-mints” and are made by the…
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By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progreso-weekly.com “I’ve done my job and it’s time to move on. I’ve done a good job and most of the FTA concerns, I believe, have been satisfied.” This…
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By Max J. Castro My dictionary defines chump as a silly or stupid person, a blockhead. Donald Trump, the real estate magnate and star of the television series “The Apprentice,” has…
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By Aurelio Pedroso apedrosop@yahoo.es More than half a century after the sudden death of 6-year-old Orestes, the children of the village of Cayo Espino, Manzanillo, in the former…
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By Bill Press Among all the wicked tongues of Washington, D.C., there has never been a sharper one than that of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's first daughter. It was she who said…
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By Alan Farago (Gimleteye) From Eye on Miami There is no institutional memory at The Miami Herald. Sunday's puff piece on Herman Echevarria is breathless and vapid as the reality TV…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy An interview with the president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcón Just 48 hours ago, the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba came to and end,…
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