Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Manuel Pérez-Rocha Workers in the Mexican Electricity Workers Union (Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas – SME) have begun a hunger strike for social justice, peace and dignified…
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Michael Moore is always witty. His insight is right on the money. And while doing his serious work, you always manage to laugh along the way. Last night he appeared on Larry King and…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Unlimited Imagine that the United States were spending an amount that exceeded 60% of its national income on the military and police. (For…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog Washington’s relationship with Wall Street is growing more schizophrenic by the day. On the one hand, Congress is trying to show how tough…
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By Bill Press Fifteen years after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, we saw two very different commemorations of that tragic event. In Oklahoma City, survivors and families of the 168…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com Here we go again on the immigration merry-go-round. Arizona’s Republican Governor Janice Brewer has signed into law one of the most draconian…
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By Saul Landau On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s. The white waitresses ignored them. They remained…
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By Lorenzo Gonzalo On a sunny afternoon, about 150 people, almost all of them Cuban, gathered in a Miami hotel to listen to a young professor from two French universities. Prof. Salim…
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By Norman Girvan From Trinidad and Tobago Express (Progreso Weekly Note: The following piece is further proof of the selective coverage that the mainstream media offer on the Cuba…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada Disenchantment with the government and politicians has recently grown to unprecedented levels, surveys say. There is an…
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