Street Game
Month: October 2010
Photo of the Week: Waiting
Waiting
Salungguhit: All Too Familiar
All Too Familiar
Benjie Oliveros | At What Price?
By signing the $434 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Aquino administration is committing to the same policies of deregulation, liberalization, and privatization that were vigorously pursued by the previous Arroyo administration. By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Malacañang has been trumpeting the success of the US trip of President Benigno Aquino III and…
One Nation Progressive Coalition Organizes Huge Rally to Push for ‘Jobs, Justice and Education’
By ALEX KANE AlterNet Posted by Bulatlat.com When Barack Obama defeated John McCain to become president and Democrats retained solid control of Congress in the 2008 elections, progressives rejoiced at the prospect of having their agenda implemented. Two years later, it hasn’t quite worked out that way. Progressives have found themselves locked out of the…
US Admits it Infected Guatemalans with Syphilis in 1940s
By TIM JOHNSON | McClatchy Newspapers Truthout Posted by Bulatlat.com MEXICO CITY — Exposing a dark page in its history, the U.S. government acknowledged Friday that government scientists had infected some 1,500 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments from 1946 to 1948 in “appalling violations” of medical ethics. U.S. scientists infected prostitutes with syphilis…