Fires Of Illusion: Guarding The Olympic Flame In Rio
“The investment is not for us, it’s for the foreigners.” Felipe Paiva, Rio favela resident, CBC, Aug 3, 2016 The hideous mess that is the Olympic spectacle is about to…
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Olympic Chaos: The Rio Games In World Of Global Sporting Corruption
Wounds have opened; recriminations are all around. The Rio Olympic Games, even before the first act, has already shown how it will be one of the more interesting ones for…
A Week Before Rio Games, Protesters Extinguish Olympic Flame
Protesting workers and youth in Angra dos Reis, a coastal town about 100 miles south of Rio de Janeiro, blocked an Olympic procession Wednesday night, seizing and extinguishing the…
Cults Of Security And Terror: Fear Ahead Of The Rio Olympic Games
The Olympics remains a black hole of needless expenditure, sucking services into it with impending and merciless doom. Unused stadia, tracks left to moulder, services supposedly linked to urban renewal…
The Futility Of Collective Punishment: Russia, Doping And WADA
The idea of excluding a country wholesale brings with it dangers that decision makers may well not see. It eliminates specific, untainted talents who also deserve to be protected in…
Supreme Court Cleans The BCCI: A Historical Step In Modern India
Hon’ble Supreme Court (Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Judge Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla) has accepted major recommendations of R M Lodha Panel’s report on BCCI, thus lays the major…
Euro Cup Final: A Neutral Point Of Happiness.
" I go about the world, hand out-stretched, and in the stadium I plead : ' A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I…
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