"A handy guide for anyone trying to make sense of just how the World Cup got to be such a mess...RED CARD is a snappy, engaging history of sports’ knotty entanglement with politics" review in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
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Other recent World Cup hosts used sports to prettify their image. But Donald Trump isn’t so much “sportswashing” as using the World Cup to show off the United States’ ability to discriminate against o...
Join the livestream for the launch of THE COMPLICIT LENS with Rashid Khalidi, Robin Andersen, and Hilary Rantisi @palestinestudies.bsky.social
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"Because of Trump's policies, it's become a World Cup of exclusion rather than inclusion" author of RED CARD @julesboykoff.bsky.social on @npr.org
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Join us this Wednesday to celebrate the launch of THE COMPLICIT LENS: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
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"The 'Most Politically Combustible' World Cup Yet?"
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The World Cup is here, but what function does a worldwide tournament play in an increasingly belligerent police state, with Donald Trump at the helm?
A media scholar critically examines how US establishment media ran interference for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with reporting that called the Flour Massacre “aid-related deaths,” and the Tent Massacre...
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As the World Cup begins later this week, match officials and team members have faced enhanced immigration scrutiny when trying to enter the United States. A FIFA referee from Somalia was turned away.
❗It's publication day for my new book "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social. You can get the book straight from @orbooks.bsky.social. Hope you'll check it out!
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The World Cup is here, but what function does a worldwide tournament play in an increasingly belligerent police state, with Donald Trump at the helm?
❗Excited to announce my new book "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social. Hope you'll consider pre-ordering (with 15% discount) via @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...
