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Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar’s World Cup

Counter Currents - 2022-06-21 - Original post - Cached copy

A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless.  But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest casualty rates amongst workers in its history, marked by corruption and stained by a pharisee quality.  The sportswashers, cleaning agent at the ready, will be out in force, and the hypocrites dressed to the nines.[Read More...]

Gulf rivalries spill onto the soccer pitch

Counter Currents - 2018-12-17 - Original post - Cached copy

With the 2018 World Cup in Russia behind it, the soccer world’s focus shifts to the 2022 tournament in Qatar. Politics and the Gulf’s internecine political and legal battles have already shaped debate about FIFA’s controversial awarding of World Cup hosting rights to Qatar. The battles highlight not only the sport’s dominance in the Middle East by autocratic leaders but[Read More...]

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