Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Saul Landau “The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009…
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By Gimleteye From the Eye on Miami blog Over the weekend, I received an email copy of a letter by Michael Lorion to Miami Herald political columnist, Beth Reinhard. With his…
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By Fernando Ravsberg From BBC Mundo, January 27, 2010 HAVANA -- Francisco González Aruca escaped from La Cabaña prison disguised as a teenager. He had been sentenced to 30 years by…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Unlimited of January 20 (The Wall Street Journal reported last week that according to Partners in Health, 20,000 people a day are dying because of…
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By Varela This new visit by the Van Van orchestra to Miami has introduced an interesting ingredient: the billboard that announces the concert. It symbolizes our evolution as a…
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By Bill Press Voters of Massachusetts have made big mistakes before. After all, they once elected Mitt Romney governor. But sending Scott Brown to Washington is their biggest mistake…
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By Aurelio Pedroso Maybe because the word Woolworth’s is hard for Hispanics to pronounce, or perhaps for reasons of marketing, the fact is that the great American chain of stores,…
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By Greg Palast From AlterNet In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations should be treated the same as "natural persons", i.e.…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com In 1755, a huge earthquake struck Lisbon, destroying the city and killing between 10,000 and 100,000 people. The era's theologians and philosophers…
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By Antonio Martinez From the United States Cuba Policy & Business Blog The U.S. Cuba Policy & Business blog has reported that the terror designation on Cuba has many…
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