Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Manuel E. Yepe Despite relatively scant publicity in the major media, a great stir was caused by the new movie by U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore, “Capitalism: A love story,” which…
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By Truthout.org America's private health care industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last several months in an attempt to stop President Obama's health care…
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Yet, it exists… A humane view of the blockade By Luis Sexto “The embargo? What embargo?” Juan Clark told El Nuevo Herald, and then added: “U.S. companies already are sending Cuba…
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From the Robert Reich Blog This morning's job numbers are bad enough -- 263,000 more jobs lost in September, and unemployment now at 9.8 percent -- but look behind them and the news is…
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By Ignacio Ramonet Le Monde Diplomatique The disaster is huge. Dozens of newspapers are bankrupt. In the United States, no less than 120 papers have shut down. And the tsunami is now…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Among the issues of particular concern to the Mission in Zeytoun are the killings of the Samouni family, the mass destruction in the area,…
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A late September morning with Fidel (Part 1) From guerrilla warrior to statesman -- now comfortably retired By Saul Landau The driver weaved through the maze of two lane roads just…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Stocks are up. Ben Bernanke says that the recession is over. And I sense a growing willingness among movers and shakers to declare “Mission…
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Toward the Party Conference (Part 7) An outworn experience? By Jorge Gómez Barata While the Bolshevik Revolution and the advances of the people of the old Czarist empire in the…
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By Bill Press The same day: Wednesday, Sept. 30. The same topic: Afghanistan. The same city: Washington, D.C. But two very different settings. At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue,…
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