Olympic Games now and then: Remembering the Summer Olympiad 1980 in Moscow
Submitted by Olivia Kroth…
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Continued Western Mass Media Creativity (Misinformation) on Russia Knows No Bounds
Relative to the claims of Trump-Russia collusion, or lone Russian government meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the debunked Russiagate hoax hasn’t stopped new efforts to demonize Russia with faulty innuendo.
The Politics Behind Banning Russia From the Olympics
There’ve been ongoing propaganda pieces that skirt over some inconvenient realities, for those seeking to unfairly admonish Russia in the Olympic movement.
Dysfunction in the Olympic Movement
Alan Dershowitz, the acclaimed US legal academic, is fond of noting the proverbial if the shoe is on other foot test – to see who is and isn’t sincere in their convictions. This matter relates to the call to have Russia formally banned from the next Summer and Winter Olympics. The same is even more applicable to those who don’t favor any Russians competing under the Olympic flag as authorized neutral athletes.
BREAKING: Kim Jong-Un sends hand-delivered invitation to South Korean president to meet in Pyongyang
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continues to make headlines with his efforts to talk with the South Korean leadership, independently of the United States’ influence. In a new development on Saturday, February 10th, Jong-un invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to a meeting in Pyongyang, this being done via a personal letter hand-delivered by Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, to President Moon.
Here’s How Much Michael Phelps Might Have to Pay the IRS for Winning Olympic Medals
(ANTIMEDIA) ‘You didn’t win that‘ might as well be the U.S. government’s official congratulatory platitude to American Olympians who succeed in Rio this summer.
This year, the IRS will impose a nearly 40% “victory” tax on athletes who take home gold, silver, and bronze medals for the United States.
5 Things the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Olympics
(ANTIMEDIA) This year’s Olympics have a particularly romantic setting: Rio de Janeiro.
Make it happen on purpose, UK private security as terrorism vector
RT | July 18, 2013
The widening of the spiral of fear and increasing demand for ‘protection’ creates an international protection racket cartel indistinguishable, only in that they call themselves ‘legal’, from organized criminal gangs.