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NYT: New Stadiums: Prices, and Outrage, Escalate

Fans will be subsidizing billionaire boxes and millionaire martinis. Disgusting.
Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Album reaches #4 on Billboard in first week

Over 40 Olympic athletes in Beijing download Tibet solidarity album 'Songs for Tibet'
Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Wednesday, August 20, 2008

NYT (4): Environment/Energy

"Will global warming give Greenland its independence?"; "eco-friendly" economic stimuli; a "green" baseball stadium fights to prevent oil company ads; and in NYS, "a new law allowing more gas wells comes with a cautionary note."
Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, July 27, 2008

AlterNet: Reborn MLB Slugger Josh Hamilton Is One Lucky Former Drug Addict

Why cannot the terrible waste of mney caused by the failed 'War on Drugs' be turned to treatment and education.
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, July 20, 2008

NYT Op-Eds (5)

"The mental health toll of multiple combat tours" (Herbert); Godwin on Zimbabwe; "The president's leadership traits, for better and worse" (Brooks); "Linguistic change isn't the same as behavioral change" (Klinkenborg on 'carbon footprints'); and a paean to Carlin from Seinfeld.
Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, June 24, 2008

NYT Guest Op-Ed: Faster, Higher, Stronger, No Longer

"There's only one way to save the Olympics: get rid of them."
Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, April 13, 2008

This totally saddens ME~Tibet denied entry in Olympics by IOC under pressure from CHINA?

Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Monday, December 10, 2007

NYT Magazine: Political Games

"Will human rights advocates bring home any medals from the Beijing Olympics?"
Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, September 23, 2007

NYT: University Fences In a Berkeley Protest, and a New One Arises

Real live principled civil disobedience is apparently alive and well in one of the places of its "birth" in the U.S. Bravo!
Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, September 13, 2007

China Under Fire From All Sides A Year Ahead of Games ~ Reporters Detained

Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Thursday, August 9, 2007

Support Team Tibet Olympics

Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Saturday, August 4, 2007