Posted by: "glparramatta" glparramatta@greenleft.org.au glparramatta
Date: Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:15 pm ((PDT))
As the world corporate media goes Olympics mad, /Links International
Journal of Socialist Renewal/
range of alternative viewpoints on what modern Olympic Games really
represent. While -- when it suits their interests -- establishment media
commentators and capitalist governments loudly proclaim that ``sport and
politics don't mix'', it soon becomes apparent that the Olympics
spectacle is drenched in politics and the promotion of the worst aspects
of dog-eat-dog capitalism. But sometimes it is also a site of struggle,
as this selection of articles, drawn from the /Links/ and /Green Left
Weekly/
progressive sources, reveals.
http://links.org.au/node/566
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