I’ll be (Internet connection down south allowing) on a livestream with Adnan Husain, Abubaker Abed (recently out of Gaza), and Alex Avina on the World Cup. Should be available via Adnan’s link or @indications, which should be unbanned by then.

Tuesday, June 9th at 19:00 Dublin (GMT+1) / 14:00 PM EDT / 11:00 PT / 21:00 PM Kazan / 23:30 PM Sri Lanka.

This is shaping up to be the worst World Cup in history because the worst people in history are hosting it. Ze ‘Americans’.

The entire (re: all) Iranian team has been denied stays in ‘America’ and has to ‘commute’ from Mexico. Their physical safety is not assured. Switzerland striker Breel Embolo has had his visa withdrawn, hours before he was due to travel. South Africa’s entire team had to delay travel until their visa issues were resolved. Moroccan Zakaria El Ouahdi was unable to join the team until his visa was finally approved. None of this is their fault. This is racist ‘American’ policy gone to the races.

As Mother Jones reports, “The Trump administration has a record of denying international athletes visas, including members of an Ethiopian delegation to the World Athletics Cross Country Championships, whose 44-year medal streak was broken by a mass visa denial in January. Multiple Cuban sports delegations have also been locked out of sports competitions since 2025 by the US’ refusal to grant them visas—including Olympic qualification events.” 

This hostile policy extends to fans, with the US (until so recently that it was too late) requiring people from 50 ‘developing’ (re: colonized/colored) countries to post $5,000–15,000 bonds for a visa. The countries include Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Tunisia. Haitian and Iranian fans are effectively banned from the competition. Meanwhile everyone else has to submit their social media records to a nation committing genocide, to see if they’re too vocal about it.

Other World Cups have not been like this. For Russia (2018), your spectator card (obtained via a ticket) was your visa. Qatar had visa-on-arrival for 95 countries, and fans got a Hayya card that gave them free public transportation. In ‘America’ they’re charging $150 to get to the stadium (which you cannot walk to because dangerous) and you’re not even allowed to bring water bottles, you have to pay for that also. That isn’t even getting into accommodation and travel between cities and all the other price gouging. It is wild how vile this World Cup is.

This is in many ways worse than the 1936 Nazi Olympics where Blacks and Jews that Hitler obviously hated were able to compete and overt displays of racism were toned down in front of visitors. The Nazis suppressed Jews and Roma within the German team, but did not ban visas for athletes from other countries, like America is doing. Nor were they, at the time, actively invading or besieging other countries. The ‘Americans’ are, of course, worse than the Nazis because the Nazis at least fizzled out after 12 years. ‘America’ has been at this for centuries.

The corruption of already corrupt football extends to FIFA. ‘Israel’ has killed over 1,000 Palestinian athletes and staff and murdered dozens of footballers, including Suleiman Obeid (the Palestinian Pele). As I write, ‘Israel’ has just arrested Natalie Abu Dayyeh and Rand Al Halawini of the Palestinian women’s national team. This is obscene, yet ‘Israel’ is still allowed in FIFA competitions. Even after Jews rioted in the streets of the Netherlands, the ‘Israeli’ ghetto (where Europeans deported their Jews to) is still allowed in these competitions. If we’re being honest, all the false flags of the White Empire should be banned, ‘Israel’ is just the most egregious example.

Yet that’s not how the bans work because every international organization, including FIFA, is under the Empire’s thumb. Daring to be independent Russia is still banned despite that country fighting ‘American’ proxies in a relatively restrained fashion. Even the Federation of International Football Associations—which ‘Americans’ do not even acknowledge the proper name of, calling it soccer—is an ‘American’ proxy for some reason. The ‘Americans’ have no real interest in the game and are literally just playing spoiler.