Is anyone else as upset as I am that the SYRIAN swimmer, Yusra Mardini, is being recognized as a refugee, not as a Syrian national, and that, if she wins a medal, the members of the Olympic Committee have decided they will raise a special flag they made for refugees, […]
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Olympic Executioners: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” – Ernesto Che Guevera I can’t claim the social conscience of a Che […]
The Olympics as a tool of the new Cold War
The 6th Fundamental Principle of Olympism (non-discrimination of any kind, including nationality and political opinion) seems to be forgotten long ago. In ancient Greece the competition of best athletes was able to halt a war and serve as a bridge of understanding between two recent foes. But in the twentieth […]
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Andrew KORYBKO 
Binoy KAMPMARK 
Vladislav SOTIROVIC 
Thierry MEYSSAN 
Eric MARGOLIS 
Fr. Stephen FREEMAN 
Nikolay STARIKOV 
Vladimir KOZIN 
Fr. Lawrence FARLEY 
Gulam ASGAR MITHA 
Leonid SAVIN 
Michael AVERKO 
Nafeez AHMED 
Rick STERLING 
Iqbal ALIMOHAMED 
Fr. Andrey TKACHEV 
Grey CARTER 
Zamir AWAN 
Sylvain LAFOREST 
Atul BHARDWAJ
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