Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Last week actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, sent a letter to Congress and…
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The president is trying to please everyone, but he needs to take tough action to prevent the U.S. economy's second freefall By Joseph Stiglitz From The Guardian Defeat in the…
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By Bill Press "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered," asks Bill Murray, playing weatherman Phil…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com President Barack Obama has presented his vision for the nation in the form of the 2011 budget. It has many reasons to commend it. The top immediate…
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By Saul Landau “In a striking admission from the Obama Administration's top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times These days it’s hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a news program without encountering stern warnings about the federal budget deficit.…
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By Varela San Nicolás del Peladero was a Cuban television program which captivated me during my infancy. It simplified the republican era from the standpoint of a small fictitious…
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By Luis Sexto Emigration is sometimes scary, other times it’s a moving experience. Will we be able to evaluate the damage it has caused to the ethical integrity of the Cuban republic…
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By Aurelio Pedroso William Shakespeare expressed it through one of his characters: “Love does not age; it dies in infancy.” The line is extremely controversial. But this philosophical…
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Al’s Loupe Careful Miami, there are some who want to bend us over a barrel -- again! By Alvaro F. Fernandezalfernandez@the-beach.net Miamians beware! Cover your pockets. A fight…
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