YouTube video by sz9 Nike Brazil aeropuerto 98

For me, favorite promotional vid around that World Cup was John Woo's joga bonito Nike ad youtu.be/pwXVl7xlfQU?...

YouTube video by Alejandro Rodriguez - acringen - "È stata la mano di Dio" (2021) - Escena del gol con la mano de Diego a los ingleses.

The most eloquent and concise answer to the question I posed about the anti-imperialist meaning of Maradona's "Hand of God" goal comes in Mario Sorrenti's eponymous movie -- in the explanation of the Malvinas connection offered by the communist grandfather character... youtu.be/nRkgQp4NFW0?...

Well, if you looked at what Trump's designated viceroy said about resuming the expansion of Western colonialism, I think we have a pretty good idea...

The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. When institutions abandon critical thinking, we build our own classrooms.

The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. @karenattiah.bsky.social to the rescue! open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Even AOC now echoes a quaint Cold War fiction of a world divided between authoritarianism and democracy. The "free world", built on a foundation of colonial violence, welcomed dozens of dictatorships. The only criteria for membership was alignment with U.S. geostrategic goals

This Samuel Huntington quote helps make sense of Rubio's call to arms: "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."

Futbol Is a Country We want to present a more global, postcolonial (for want for a better word) take on world football.

The course on Global Football and World Politics would run for six weeks, and would be taught by @tonykaron.bsky.social and@seanjacobs.bsky.social, the engine behind the legendary blog, Fútbol is A Country:

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Bangladesh election: BNP sweeps to victory in first vote since Gen Z uprising Voters are hoping for a return to democracy after 15 years of authoritarian rule under Sheikh Hasina.

I'd really love to hear @vincentbevins.bsky.social 's take on today's Bangladesh election restoring an establishment center-right party in light of his previous writing about Bangladesh and about that these days are called Gen Z rebellions www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Offended some" is such a classic racist evasion, nod-and-wink to the white supremacists he knows will agree with his original statement

Like Davos and the Epstein circle, Trump's Board of Peace is built on the principle of elites evading accountability...

The "Return" of the Golden Sword My grandfather guarded it. The British stole it. I'm named after it—and I'm going to fight for it.

NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me.

I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874.

If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why.

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Sir Jim Ractliffe says UK has been "colonised" by immigrants. He's the billionaire co owner of a Manchester Utd team that depends almost entirely on players who are migrants or children of. “Colonized” is the violence your lot did to the rest of the world, Mr. Ractliffe. It's how UK got rich

Did South Africa show Canada how to resist U.S. belligerence? Trump's tweets may sound like he's the Emperor of Everything, but you only run things when people think you run things — and the limits on U.S. power are becoming clearer by the day

Did South Africa show Canada how to resist U.S. belligerence?
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Every day reminder that the USA keeps a criminal blockade in Cuba because the local population fought against the local and american Elites who were making Cuba the Epstein’s Island from the 50’s.

Hey Mark, sorry, don't use this platform much, but I've written about the sham "peace plan" here
tonykaron.substack.com/p/in-act-1-i...
and here
tonykaron.substack.com/p/trumps-gaz...
more to come, as ever...