Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Mark Weisbrot From Fohla de São Paulo Over the last decade an epoch-making political change has taken place in the Western Hemisphere: Latin America, a region that was once…
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By Bill Press In June 2002, George W. Bush went to West Point to announce what became known as "The Bush Doctrine:" a new policy of pre-emptive war, of which Iraq became the first…
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By Aurelio Pedroso The fact that in Havana, a port city with one of the three of the world's most beautiful boulevards – I refer to the seawall Malecón, seven-plus kilometers long – it…
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A book review by Max J. Castro Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos By Louis A. Pérez Jr. “The Americans viewed developments in Cuba with a mixture of…
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By Saul Landau Marysville: population: 12,268 (71% white; 18% Latino). Median household income: $28,494; 19% live below the poverty line. My wife and I, lost, stopped the car. The…
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By Eduardo Galeano “We all are guilty of the planet's ruination” The world's health is a mess. “We all are responsible,” claim the voices of universal alarm, and the generalization…
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From the start I said that former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre would have a tough time raising money in his Quixotic attempt to win the nomination on the Democratic Party side for the…
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From Havana Is it farewell to the ration book? By Manuel Alberto Ramy Throughout the island, the rumors are running faster than a Formula One racer. The disappearance of the ration…
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By Saul Ortega and Nelson Gassett “t is critical to listen to as many diverse voices as possible. When it comes to Cuba, we do exactly that.” --President Barack Obama, responding to…
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    (Editor’s Note: We now know the results of the speech. As he has been doing for months now, Obama caved in. In fact, last night, the president reminded us of a guy named George W.…
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