The stage was set for the far right to hijack the Olympic Games. On the eve of Franceās legislative elections, it seemed…
WhenĀ Morocco defeated Spain in a penalty shootout, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Qatar 2022 menās World Cup, players celebrated byĀ posingĀ for their…
Community ownership of Portland, Ore.ās two professional soccer teams could soon be on the agenda. A yearlong investigation by former acting attorney…
The Tokyo Games should be a warning to potential Olympic hosts everywhere. The 2020 Olympics are unfolding like the nightmare scenario so many medical officials predicted
The Portland Timbers soccer fans defied Major League Soccer, team ownership, and fascism in one glorious night
The Rio Olympics are taking to the extreme the overblown promises and neoliberal development now typical of the games
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. Iām Amy Goodman, as we turn now to the 2016…
This essay was co-authored with Kristen Sheeran. When Bernard Madoff was caught orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that would have slackened Adam Smith’s…
In May 2008, Barack Obama gave a speech in Miami where he argued that President Bush’s flawed foreign policy in the Middle…
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