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Jules Boykoff on Sportswashing and the 2026 FIFA World Cup

book cover of "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine" by Jules Boykoff featuring a photo of a hand holding a red card, plus "TFSR 5-31-26 | Jules Boykoff on Sportswashing and the 2026 FIFA World Cup"
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This week, as the 2026 FIFA World Cup looms across Turtle Island, we’re pre-sharing an interview with Jules Boykoff about one of his latest books about international sports spectacles, the upward money flow and authoritarian political power they facilitate but also a bit about the folks that are fighting back entitled Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine (O/R Books, 2026).

This conversation falls into the same series as the recent interview with Kristian Williams and Sam Schmidt as regards evacuation of public spaces and attacks on community by the state and capital in the aid of police state capitalism.

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Christian Nationalism, Apocalyptic Visions + Child Welfare (with Talia Lavin)

“TFSR 6-29-25 | Christian Nationalism, Apocalyptic Visions + Child Welfare (with Talia Lavin)” featuring the book cover of “Wild Faith: How The Christian Right Is Taking Over America” with a winding, red snake whose tongue is a cross
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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. In this chat, we speak about her more recent book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America. There’s a lot in the book, most of it pretty disturbing (especially, I’m sure, for anyone who is ex-vangelical) and there is discussion of hateful ideology and child abuse and corporal punishment, though not in lurid detail, so listener discretion is advised. We hope to cover related topics in the future.

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  • Voice Of God Is Government by Bad Religion from How Could Hell Be Any Worse

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