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• Olympic Games

  Hypocrisy, human rights and the Beijing games

  9 August 2008, by ILTIS Tony

  The Beijing Olympic games, which began on August 8, are shaping up to be a perfect reflection of our times — taking place against a backdrop of human rights abuses, terrorism scares and under a blanket of chemical smog.
  Sport, like religion, is a reflection of broader society. In a capitalist (...)

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  China: The Bitter Truth about the Olympics – Workers and peasants are the main victims

  5 August 2008, by HEARSE Phil

  So the Beijing games are nearly upon us. There is no public event, other than perhaps FIFA’s Football World Cup, that is so universally approved of as the Olympic Games. An orgy of TV time and newspaper columns will whip up passions about what are, after all, minority sports.
  How many of the (...)

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  China’s Olympic Trials

  4 August 2008, by ZIRIN Dave

  “Go Red for China!” was the slogan unveiled on the Chinese mainland by Pepsi-Cola, whose ubiquitous blue can will, “for a limited time,” be red. Pepsi is just one of many companies advertising at the Olympics, at a cost of up to $6 billion, in an attempt to tap a largely untouched market of more (...)

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  No Chaos in China for the Olympic Torch

  8 April 2008, by JIANG Catherine, LEI Feng

  China’s promise of unfettered media coverage for the Olympics is a shaky work in progress, at least as far as its own coverage of the Olympic torch’s 21-nation promotional “Journey of Harmony” is concerned. In its global hopscotch the flame’s journey has been mostly all good news as far as the (...)

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  Open letter to the Executive Board of the IOC

  25 March 2008, by FIDH

  International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
  China/Olympic Games
  Open letter to the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee
  Dear Members of the Executive Board,
  We are writing you in view of your forthcoming visit to Beijing next April. This represents an opportunity (...)

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  China’s Stand on Burma and Darfur Spurs Boycott Call

  27 February 2008, by Wai Moe

  As China prepares to host the Olympic Games in August, its foreign policy is coming under increasing scrutiny because of its stand on political events in Burma and human rights violations in the Darfur region of Sudan.
  A movement in favor of boycotting the Games is gathering pace, while (...)

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  Beijing and Taipei Drop the Torch

  7 May 2007, by O’NEILL Mark

  Politics may make it impossible for Taiwan’s athletes to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  The next victim of the delicate politics of nationalist sentiment in Taiwan may be the island’s participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  With Beijing in a constant lather over the resurgent (...)