Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Bill Press Tribune Media Services Stop! Don't touch that dial. There's nothing wrong with your radio. That piercing, high-pitched sound you hear is not a mechanical…
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By Matthew Miller Tribune Media Services It's one thing for rival Democrats to slam Howard Dean's domestic agenda as some “left-wing abandonment” of President Clinton's centrist…
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By Saul Landau Happy New Year! 2004 may become known as the year that the newly created Department of Faith-Based Homeland Anxiety helped George W. Bush slip back into the White…
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Never underestimate the ability of The Miami Herald to be irrelevant. Case in point: its coverage of “the strange-looking photo” on Page One of the Cuban daily Granma of Dec. 4. “Is…
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Al’s Loupe By Alvaro F. Fernandez The Homeland Security agent signaled to me curling his index finger. I walked over to him. “Yes?” I looked at him quizzically. “When was the last…
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Pablo Alfonso does it again. The man who brought you Fidel Castro's private physician now brings you Fidel Castro's private jet plane. And, if we're to believe El Nuevo Herald's…
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By Alvaro F. Fernandez End of the year is upon us. I would like my last column of 2003 to be of high spirits and of all the good things we can expect in 2004. Even with a glass of…
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By María de la Soledad soledad@progresosemanal.com A new born child changes everyone’s life. On the preceding days to the birth, the waiting of the advent – a family Advent…
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By Matthew Miller Tribune Media Services My wife has a foolproof test for assessing a politician's true nature. Try this at home. Turn off the volume on the TV when the…
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By Bill Press Tribune Media Services Hallelujah! After eight months of bad news in Iraq, we needed something to cheer about. And we got it. We finally found one weapon of mass…
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