Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Bill Press In the history of modern politics, we've never seen a worse case of media overkill. On Tuesday evening, Nov. 3, there they were: the entire panoply of political pundits,…
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Loved a recent entry in the Miami Herald’s Cuban Colada blog where reporter Renato Perez Pizarro writes that “A Republican Party consultant who works in Washington, Blakeman stopped…
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By John McAuliff The Havana Note The House Committee on International Affairs has announced a hearing on travel to Cuba will be held on November 18th. I took a look at the record of…
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After brokering Manuel Zelaya's return to power in Honduras, the U.S. must force the coup government to honor the agreement By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Last Friday an agreement…
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A date and a reflection By Luis Sexto With its early sunsets, November reminds us of the Russian Revolution, also known as the October Revolution because of the Julian calendar, which…
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By Bill Press Is it too much to ask for a little sanity in politics today? Apparently so. The Right has been particularly insane in the attacks they've leveled against President Obama.…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com It is a measure of the difficulty of the task that over the last few weeks, President Barack Obama has spent countless hours with his war council…
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Two versions of the freedom to dream By Enrique Ubieta Gómez From Cubarte I don't know how to begin these reflections. I have just seen the premiere of “Nevertheless, it moves…
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Ecuador and Bolivia are achieving remarkable growth because they reject conventional economic wisdom By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Among the conventional wisdom that we hear…
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By Manuel E. Yepe A CubaNews translation Journalist Mark Danner offers President Barack Obama very good advice in his new book, Stripping Bare the Body, and in an interview with…
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