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We’ve been telling you about how the discovery of hundreds of First Nations children’s remains at a forced Canadian acculturation school in British Columbia has again […]

by Irvin Muchnick The discovery of the remains of more than 200 children of First Nations tribes (whom we in the U.S. call Native Americans or […]

PREVIOUSLY: Salon, May 11: “U.S. Olympic Committee’s controversial abuse investigator fails upward — to the federal courts,” https://www.salon.com/2021/05/11/us-olympic-committees-controversial-abuse-investigator-fails-upward–to-the-federal-courts/ Salon, May 22: “Is the federal courts’ new […]

The piece below was originally published at Salon on May 22, at https://www.salon.com/2021/05/22/is-the-federal-courts-judicial-integrity-officer-even-a-licensed-attorney/. Watch this space for another update scheduled for tomorrow. ***** by Irvin Muchnick […]

Sources say embattled sports investigator Michael Henry, now in a key federal court post, isn’t an actual lawyer   Earlier this month Salon reported some of […]

The piece below was originally published at Salon on May 11, at https://www.salon.com/2021/05/11/us-olympic-committees-controversial-abuse-investigator-fails-upward–to-the-federal-courts/. ***** by Irvin Muchnick The annals of foxes guarding chicken coops reached a […]

Yesterday Salon published “U.S. Olympic Committee’s controversial abuse investigator fails upward — to the federal courts,” https://www.salon.com/2021/05/11/us-olympic-committees-controversial-abuse-investigator-fails-upward–to-the-federal-courts/. Salon’s editors forwarded to me a message from Dan […]

The annals of foxes guarding chicken coops reached a new pinnacle of sorts with the January appointment of Michael Henry as chief of the federal courts’ […]

The piece below was originally published at Salon on April 25, at https://www.salon.com/2021/04/15/top-us-sports-anti-drug-official-was-involved-in-covering-up-swimming-sex-scandals/. ***** by Irvin Muchnick   On the afternoon of June 29, 2010, a […]

On January 8, we reported that the University of California Regents had agreed to pay $125,000 to reimburse our attorney fees and settle our California Public […]

Yesterday Salon published my article “Dead in the Water: The Tragic Human Cost of Swimming’s Abuse Scandals,” at https://www.salon.com/2021/04/25/dead-in-the-water-the-tragic-human-cost-of-swimmings-abuse-scandals/. The piece below was originally published at […]

On the afternoon of June 29, 2010, a pretty 16-year-old girl drove her car to the intersection of State Highways 116 and 117 in rural central […]

SEE ALSO: “Top U.S. sports official was involved in covering up swimming sex scandals,” April 15, https://www.salon.com/2021/04/15/top-us-sports-anti-drug-official-was-involved-in-covering-up-swimming-sex-scandals/ [originally published April 13 at https://beyondchron.org/sexual-abuse-cases-close-in-on-olympic-sports-organizations/] by Irvin Muchnick […]

The celebrated head of the U.S. Olympic Committee agency that polices performance-enhancing drugs began his career in the Olympic bureaucracy as a lawyer managing investigations of […]

Current headlines surrounding the Olympic movement involve its decision to press on with the reset Summer Games this year in Tokyo, despite a still untamed global […]