Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Matt Taibbi From Rolling Stone Magazine Just quickly: I just found out about the suspension of Keith Olbermann for making political contributions. NBC apparently has some policy…
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Dear friends and colleagues, I thought you would be interested in a op-ed published yesterday by AlterNet from Venezuela’s climate negotiator, Claudia Salerno. You can find it at the…
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 An editorial from the Mexican newspaper La Jornada  Yesterday's midterm elections in the United States show devastating results for the party of President Barack Obama.  Although the…
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By Anya Landau French From the Huffington Post Let's start with the obvious. With the Republican takeover of Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes the new Chairwoman of the House…
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 By Varela   Out of 11 million registered voters in Florida, only a few more than 5 million vote. An apathetic vote.  First of all, it is a mid-term election and the image of the party…
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Al’s Loupe You think Tuesday was bad… By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progresoweekly.com This weekend I ran into an old friend. Someone I see occasionally. We worked together in a small…
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 By Mark Weisbrot  From The Guardian  Like the rally led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets of…
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 Editorial from The New York Times  Shrill political attacks have saturated the airwaves for months, but behind them is the real problem of this demoralizing election: the dark flow of…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com It is Halloween night as I write this. Could there be a better time to reflect on the horrors that await this country should the widespread…
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By Saul Landau  Walking into a San Francisco bar, I saw Chico, a guy I knew in the 1960s. We had run into each other at anti-war marches, sit-ins for equal hiring practices and other…
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