Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Robert ReichFrom the RobertReich blog Why isn’t Washington responding? The world’s third largest economy suffers a giant earthquake, tsunami, and radiation dangers. A civil war in…
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Reflections by Comrade Fidel Yesterday was a long day. I was paying attention to the ups and downs of Obama in Chile since noon, as I had done the day before with his adventures in the…
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By Paul Haven From Channel 3 News Fidel Castro's surprise announcement that he stepped down as head of the Communist Party five years ago - despite widespread belief he remained in…
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By Tracey Eaton From The Cuba Money Project The Maryland company that hired American development worker Alan Gross won more than $2.7 billion in USAID contracts from 2000 to the third…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Count me among those who were glad to see the documentary “Inside Job” win an Oscar. The film reminded us that the financial crisis of 2008,…
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By Keith Olbermann From the Fok News Channel This is not to minimize the horror or the suffering of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but for our purposes here the headline is a…
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By Max J. Castro Workers in the United States -- indeed in most of the world -- are the objects of a major new assault on their rights, their standard of living, and their security.…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes U.S. foreign assistance empowers those in Cuba who are working towards positive change to advocate for fundamental freedoms and free market-oriented…
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By Bill Press After FDR disgracefully rounded up Japanese-Americans during World War II and locked them up in relocation camps, Americans promised: we'll never do that again. After…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera I don't know if you readers agree with me, but I have the impression that the most puzzling aspect of the trial of Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso, Texas, is…
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