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Lisa Derrick

Rob Port

James Joiner

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Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Halfway To Concord

Halfway To Concord

Jon Newton

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Liberally Conservative

Liberally Conservative

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Pakistani Makes History as Nations First Winter Olympian

Pakistan’s first Winter Olympian

Vancouver, Canada- On Tuesday February 23, 2010, Pakistan will field its very first entry into its very first Winter Olympics. While the nation has won three gold, three silver and four bronze medals in its history at the Olympics since becoming a nation (...)

23 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Manzer Munir

Mayor of Rio de Janeiro welcomed by the Mayor in London

Mayor of Rio de Janeiro welcomed by the Mayor in London

Mayor welcomes Olympic winning Mayor of Rio to London. Olympic winning city Rio received some top tips on staging the Games from London’s Mayor Boris Johnson, during a visit to City Hall by Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes. Boris Johnson (...)

23 oct. 2009 | | Boris Johnson

Free Tibet 2008 Television online

A new online video channel broadcasting from London to promote Freedom for Tibet during the Beijing Olympics has been launched by Students for a Free Tibet, posts Tenzin in a p2pnet Reader’s Write, going on » » » With all the Olympic actions for (...)

14 aoû. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Vladimir Putin and Michael Phelps: Accidental accomplices?

Vladimir Putin and Michael Phelps: Accidental accomplices?

U.S. athlete’s historic olympic wins offer convenient media diversion

14 Aug. 2008 | 1 comment | Chris Hugo

China to lift online Olympics censorship

Only days before the 2008 Beijing Olympics are scheduled to begin, and following months of strong criticism about continuing censorship, Chinese president Hu Jintao says his country will finally stand by pledges made when it was awarded the games. Now, (...)

4 aoû. 2008 | 1 comment | Jon Newton

Chinese authorities order all Olympic hotels to install internet spy gear

Chinese authorities order all Olympic hotels to install internet spy gear

In Beijing police’s cubicles, monitoring of V.I.P. hotel activities likely to spark frustrations.

30 Jul. 2008 | 1 comment | Chris Hugo

Nepal : the human-rights test, Meenakshi Ganguly

Nepal : the human-rights test, Meenakshi Ganguly

The counting is done in Nepal’s constituent-assembly elections of 10 April 2008. The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is poised to lead the country ; the final results released by Nepal’s election commission on 25 April confirmed the (...)

29 avr. 2008 | | openDemocracy

Flaming China

In the early days of the Internet, sending nasty or abusive messages was called "flaming". That’s why I titled this cartoon "Flaming China". Does anyone use the term "Flaming" any more (...)

14 avr. 2008 | | Yaakov Kirschen

A Chinese perspective

A Chinese perspective

So yesterday the SF torch run protest was thwarted by the SF officials by changing the route of the run. I know I was all set with my fire extinguisher. I wanted that FLAME GONE ! So protesters on both sides had to miss the stupid burning torch go by and (...)

11 avr. 2008 | | W.C. Varones

China’s Olympics Problem (1976)

Today’s Golden Oldie is from the run-up to the 1976 Olympics. With all the furore over Tibet, I haven’t heard anything about the Nationalist Chinese team this time. * * * The purpose of the modern Olympic Games is to focus the world’s (...)

10 avr. 2008 | 1 comment | Yaakov Kirschen

In San Francisco, no riots for the torch relay

Chinese Olympic officials calmed down angry crowd by adapting parade to local subculture

10 Apr. 2008 | | Chris Hugo

Olympic Boycott

Olympic Boycott

Hillary Clinton says George W. Bush should boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Steve Clemons says she’s wrong. In the real world, can anyone imagine this making a difference either way, either to US-China relations or to the PRC’s (...)

9 avr. 2008 | | Matthew Yglesias

Olympic torch extinguished in Paris

Protesters in Paris forced police to extinguish the Olympic torch as it set off across the city. The flame started out at the Eiffel Tower, "amid tight security and was being carried down a road next to the Seine near demonstrators carrying Tibetan (...)

8 avr. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Mr. Sarkozy, please don’t boycott the Olympics!

Mr. Sarkozy, please don't boycott the Olympics!

French athletes are usually so impressive in their performance, we’d miss them...

8 Apr. 2008 | | Chris Hugo

Do We Need To Boycott Beijing ?

Do We Need To Boycott Beijing ?

Ever since the riot in Lasha early last month after the arrest of some 60 monks dominated the headlines of newspapers across the globe, there is a mounting pressure from different quarters to boycott the upcoming Olympics to be held in Beijing in October. (...)

3 avr. 2008 | | Ahmad Qisa’i

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