The dissidents' guide to the Olympics: `War minus the shooting'

The dissidents' guide to the Olympics: `War minus the shooting'
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/ has assembled a
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/ archives, as well as other
progressive sources, reveals.

http://links.org.au/node/566