Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Saul Landau Look at the front page of the New York Times (Jan 17)… and you’d swear that chaos and violence are running rampant in Haiti, that everyone from journalists to relief…
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MLK economics (Final) To Washington by mule cart By Mark Engler The Poor People’s Campaign was conceived to create the political pressure required to enact the types of economic…
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By Antonio Díaz For many in Cuba, Friday has become the golden day of the press. It’s for a very simple reason: it is the day when Granma, the central information organ of Cuba’s…
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Haitian and Cuban doctors help to bring some sense of humanity to the Haitian tragedy. Instead of guns and soldiers they’re offering their medical expertise.  
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Steven Kastenbaum, of CNN, reports that La Paz Hospital, established by the Cubans, is one of the few places in Port au Prince currently where ordinary Haitians can go and be treated.…
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By Mark Weisbrot For at least a month now in Ecuador there has been a battle over regulation of the media. It has been in the front pages of the newspapers most of the time, and a…
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By Sarah Stephens From The Huffington Post After a sub-par performance in Latin America during 2009, the Obama administration has truly risen to this occasion with its forceful response…
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By Bill Press There's no such thing as an "off-the-record" comment. That's usually one of the first lessons any politician learns. But poor Harry Reid had to learn it the hard way.…
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Blackwater before drinking water By Greg Palast (Editor’s Note: Although not noted in this article by Palast, as far as a quick and efficient reaction to Haiti’s tragedy, just…
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By Leonardo Padura Fuentes From IPS Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America. The French colony of Saint Domingue, which occupied the western half of Hispaniola…
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