Trump’s World Cup intervention has ruined the game | Robert Reich

Dave Zirin: Trump Is Trying to Rig the World Cup FIFA has a long history of corruption, and now soccer’s governing body is again bending to the will of an autocrat. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Uefa has strongly criticised Fifa's shock decision not to uphold Folarin Balogun's automatic ban at this World Cup, calling it "unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable". www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Not really news, but FIFA has zero integrity. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

Ditch VAR.

Argentina: Supreme Court upholds ruling mandating university funding law be implemented The ruling comes two weeks after the human capital ministry and university authorities reached an agreement over wages buenosairesherald.com/politics/jud...

New Colombian president ‘unlikely to follow Trump’s HE playbook’ Populist right-winger latest to take power in Latin America but experts say universities should expect a more nuanced approach than seen in US and Argentina www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-col...

Nature: Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany With the far-right Alternative for Germany leading in polls for national and state elections, institutions are facing up to proposed restrictions on academic freedom. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Southeast Asian academics unite vs acad freedom attacks www.bulatlat.com/2026/06/30/s...

TURKIYE's reversed university closure edict: cock-up or conspiracy? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/turkey...

USA is, among other things, a kakistocracy.

Vancouver has 4,300 empty condos AND a housing shortage. Housing need and housing demand are not the same thing. Investors are driving the market. The market does not respond to housing need –– this a problem of capitalism, which only responds to purchasing power. tinyurl.com/24ahk9sd

USA Kleptocracy Trump Pulled in at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family’s holdings, particularly the president’s crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

By warning corporate security outfits of danger posed by average Americans who blame their problems on corporate executives, the report effectively dedicates public resources to securing a private system that made the few extremely wealthy at the expense of the many theintercept.com/2026/06/25/p...

So what exactly did these protesters do wrong, according to the government? They went to a Democratic Socialists of America meeting. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

And like clockwork… markets close, back to bombing Iran

Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

Reading, thinking and expressing anarchistic principles have been criminalized in the USA. Based on NSPM-7 to be against fascism is be a terrorist. www.the guardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

University of Sydney bans collaboration with "rogue states" www.theage.com.au/national/uni...

Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

Brilliant take down of Fox Sports' World Cup resident USA! USA!! USA!!! cheerleader, Alexi Lalas ... hilariously funny and sharp critique of "red-meat Americana of Fox’s World Cup coverage" #worldcup #ThierryHenry #AlexiLalas www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Solidarity Call from the Private Sector Teachers' Union (Türkiye) #basesalarylaw #hungerstrike blogs.ubc.ca/ross/2026/06...

According to the Academic Freedom Index, 50 of 179 countries or territories experienced a significant drop between 2015 and 2025. Only nine improved. #academicfreedom www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Violent attacks on schools, pupils and staff around the world up by 40%, says study Cases reported in 83 countries, with at least 10,600 students and staff killed, injured, abducted or arrested www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Who was Ted Cruz referring to when he said, “History teaches that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Harvard and Bard face fresh questions from lawmakers over ties to Epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Shuttering and re-opening of Istanbul’s liberal-leaning private Bilgi University 72 hours later, on the orders of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, expose vulnerabilities in academic freedom and institutional autonomy Türkiye’s higher education. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Peru - Student Federation confirms strike in 16 regions and warns of new protests against cuts to public universities www.infobae.com/peru/2026/06...

Protesters clash with police in Chile’s capital over President Kast’s education cuts apnews.com/article/chil...

Canada-U.S. Trade Visit Starts With Another Trump ‘51st State’ Post www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...

A majority of Yale University faculty members say their academic freedom has decreased in recent years, and half fear losing their jobs for teaching about controversial topics aaupyale.org/report/

No cops in schools #ACAB www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk The Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home. theintercept.com/2026/05/15/t...

2026 JumpStart Virtual Conference. AI Literacies and Practices in Schools, Universities and Coummunities, July 28, 2026

Event: The Responsibility of Intellectuals & the Question of Palestine, Dr. Nimer Sultany, Reader in Public Law, SOAS, University of London at SFU www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-respon...

Critical Education (v17 n2) includes translation of Paulo Freire lecture delivered in 1967 + articles on pedagogies of resistance, Gen-AI, justice-involved youth, anti-wokeness, student experiences in Sudbury model schools, white privilege in teaching hiring & book reviews tinyurl.com/3ecnm9jv

Israelis chanted “death to the Arabs”, “may your villages burn” and “Gaza is a graveyard” in a state-sponsored march through Jerusalem to mark the anniversary of the city’s capture and annexation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Beyond Apartheid – Brenna Bhandar #UBC #UBCSenate #humanrights dpcollective.org/2026/05/09/b...

Who’s Behind the Residential School Denialism Movement? A network of retired academics and think tanks is chipping away at established truths. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

Nature: NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists -- A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As Classroom Pressures Grow, VSB’s Increase in Management Staff Sparks Criticism -- Highly paid school board staff and salaries have ballooned. #BCEd thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

White Supremacist Ideas Are Entering Canadian Media and Politics An expert looks at a BC MLA’s use of a Nazi phrase and the National Post’s praise for a book favoured by white nationalists. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Up until a few days ago, Curtis Stone - an off-grid farming influencer -was a moderator for a B.C. separatist group's Facebook page. He's openly talked about his enthusiasm for listening to Hitler speeches, "love" of antisemitism, and says he's a white nationalist. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Jonathan Pollard, who served 30 years for selling US military secrets, calls for Gaza ethnic cleansing as he seeks Knesset seat www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Here Are the Books Banned from Alberta School Libraries Most school districts pulled books after the UCP government’s order, FOI reveals. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

The alarming rise of far-right movements in Canada. universityaffairs.ca/features/nor...

How Street Dr. Jill Became BC’s Favourite Influencer thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

The juggler looks impressive—right up until the moment the balls start to fall. steadystate1.substack.com/p/juggling-t...