STILL GRATEFUL BUT NOT TO THE HATEFUL

 Playing music with AK-47 and People's War fills me with gratitude and happiness . But it's still all about connection and doing it for something bigger than just yourself . In this case it's for the wonderful people who come to our shows. If I fail to give everyone 100% then I should not be doing it anymore . Hopefully the day I stop is a ways off .

I'm also grateful for the soccer I've been watching , but I've hammered at the point of greedy fucking fifa being parasites and will continue to do so . Find alternate ways so the fucks don't get your money .

Here's an excellent article about the land of the free and how fifuck look the other way .

Pathetic money grubbing shits .

 

FIFA reinforces ICE repression while targeting Iran, Haiti and Africa

By Sara Flounders posted on June 17, 2026

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights holds news conference, June 9, 2026, Chicago.

The stated role of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), as the World Cup tournament organizer, is to ensure that football (soccer) is accessible to everyone and that global tournaments will be “safe, welcoming and inclusive.”

That is not the reality of the 2026 World Cup. The anger at FIFA’s multimillionaire directors is wholly justified and righteous. The call to “Boycott FIFA” and a demand for accountability for abusive behavior need immediate support. 

Every FIFA-sponsored game reinforces U.S. repression and racist exclusion. Resistance from below by those refusing to let the world’s most popular sport become a tool in the hands of those who wage war has — and will — take many forms, including protests, boycotts and collective actions. 

FIFA is the multibillion dollar governing body that organizes football tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup, representing teams of 211 countries. Football is the most widely played and watched participation sport in the world, with an estimated 250 million to 270 million active players globally. 

This year’s World Cup is labeled as the largest sporting event in history, featuring 48 teams and 104 matches across North America — Mexico, the United States and Canada. 

FIFA is a major institution, with an enthusiastic following of hundreds of millions of people and with tens of millions of dollars in U.S. corporate media contracts. It was in the strongest position in the world to insist that the U.S., as a host country, follow FIFA’s own guidelines on accessible and inclusive games.

Instead, FIFA’s wealthy officials have done nothing to protect the players, staff or supporters coming to the U.S. for the events. Their silence and acquiescence to the U.S. government reinforces racist U.S. immigration and entry policies in determining who can participate. FIFA has left everything in the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and The Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Racist visa denials

The calculated denial of the right to travel to people from African countries and Haiti has created months of uncertainty about which few administrators, medical staff, translators and other personnel will receive visas. Fans from more than a quarter of the 48 countries taking part in the World Cup are facing travel bans, tighter restrictions or high visa rejection rates.

Four countries who are competing in the World Cup — Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast and Senegal  — are facing the heaviest restrictions on any forms of visas. Fans from 52 African, Caribbean and South Asian countries, including teams in the World Cup such as Algeria and Cape Verde, must deposit $5,000 to $15,000 in bond payments to be granted a tourist visa. 

No European country faces this kind of restriction. Instead, 42 countries benefit from a U.S. visa waiver program, where applications are made online through the U.S.’s Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). This costs about $40 (34.49 euros). There are no African countries on this elite list, which includes 32 European countries, Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Qatar and South Korea.

Along with enabling these racist restrictions on participation of African teams, FIFA has not bothered to demand, nor have U.S. officials provided any assurances, that local communities or fans attending the events would be safe from racial profiling, indiscriminate raids or unlawful detention.

Iran – heaviest restrictions

Despite FIFA guidelines that sporting events must be free from political exclusion, Iran has faced unprecedented logistical and political restrictions at the 2026 tournament.

FIFA regulations explicitly mandate that all competing teams must arrive at the match venue the day before a game to conduct mandatory stadium training and pre-match press conferences. Yet the Iranian team and its immediate support staff were prohibited from staying even one night in the U.S. This meant that Iran was forced to abandon its original U.S. training base in Tucson, Arizona, and set up camp in Tijuana, Mexico. 

The Iranian team members have to fly across the border and back for each match. Most of their support staff cannot go with them. FIFA actually revoked Iran’s official ticket allocation for group stage matches. So even those who had made plans from other countries or from here in the U.S. are blocked from attending. Even internationally accredited Iranian sports journalists are denied entry visas, severely limiting media coverage of the team. 

These outrageous prohibitions are in violation of FIFA’s own charter, which states that “discrimination of any kind … is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion.” (The Nation, Oct. 7, 2024)

No ban on Israeli genocide

FIFA is a pliant instrument of U.S. power. In 2022, FIFA officials immediately banned Russia indefinitely from all official FIFA and UEFA Nations League international and club competitions, including the World Cup and European qualifiers, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. 

According to the Palestinian Football Association, Israeli military operations in Gaza have killed over 1,000 members of the Palestinian sports community, including athletes, coaches and referees, between October 2023 and early 2026. Palestinian martyrs include Hani Al-Masdar, coach of the Palestinian Olympic football team, and Suleiman al-Obeid, a prominent national team footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé.”

However, despite international campaigns to ban Israel for its horrific and continuing genocide of the Palestinian people, FIFA has not imposed even the mildest reprimand. Instead FIFA maintains that the Israel Football Association is in “good standing.”

Considering such FIFA rulings, it is hardly surprising that despite the U.S. waging numerous wars, maintaining 800 military bases around the world and unleashing an unprovoked war on Iran, the FIFA board has not challenged the U.S. as a host.

Multibillion-dollar gravy train

As the global governing body of football, FIFA manages everything from the tournament’s bidding process and qualification phases to global broadcasting rights, sponsorships and onsite event operations. Its broadcasting deals make it the most lucrative competition in sporting history. None of this is in the interests of the tens of millions of fans. The corruption, favoritism, insider deals and siphoned money is a continuing FIFA scandal.

As a not-for-profit federation, FIFA takes the funds from ticket sales, hospitality, broadcasting and sponsorship income, which runs into billions of dollars. This is all tax-exempt. But the 11 U.S. cities where the games are held bear the cost of infrastructure, facilities and safety and security for huge crowds. This is money grabbed from city budgets that have already been shrunk. 

FIFA’s revenue streams and profit figures are unparalleled in international sports. Powered by the expanded 48-team 2026 World Cup hosted across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, FIFA’s revenues have surpassed initial projections to hit an unprecedented $13 billion.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino earns $6 million a year in salary and bonuses. This means his pay, 365 days per year, is over $16,000 a day. No wonder he thinks “dynamic pricing” with prohibitive ticket prices reaching $5,000 for a seat is reasonable. 

An alliance with multibillion-dollar commercial partners and sponsors making profits is all that counts. Capitalism requires the constant generation of profit, regardless of the human cost. Infantino defends the staging of games in the U.S. by focusing on the tournament’s profits to FIFA and to corporate media and mega hotel chains rather than on the discriminatory barriers faced by teams and the threats to fans.

Rather than representing FIFA’s teams and fans, FIFA’s multimillionaire board members are running to appease President Donald Trump. They created a new, annual award, the “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” and awarded it to Trump in December 2025 for his supposed tireless effort to promote peace. FIFA rushed to partner with Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza. 

To Marxists, even if they are football enthusiasts, this complete alignment of FIFA with racist U.S. policies is hardly surprising, even if it is outrageous. Every institution in class society — including in education, culture, law, media, religion and sports — serves to legitimize and maintain the power of the ruling class. The role of these institutions, including multibillion-dollar FIFA, is to ensure the economic and political status quo remains unchallenged. These institutions loyally defend the legal system, police and military, including the ICE agents, who directly enforce ruling-class corporate interests and suppress dissent.

Challenging FIFA’s corporate directors is an important front in the class struggle.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 As soon as I started hearing liberal motherfuckers talking about " decolonizing " and starting every meeting with their fakeass " land acknowledgement " , I knew it was bullshit . Reconciliation is a lie . These are all just empty words . Thanking the Indigenous people for allowing us to live work and play on their land is the ultimate bad joke and insult . What if they said , " Yeah , well we're fucking sick of you . Get out " . Would the land be given back ? No fucking way . When the court gave Native people the land in Richmond , these fine kkkanadian people said it would hurt reconciliation ? Why ? Because now that it's real you don't like it , that's fucking why . You really want to " decolonize " ? Get the fuck out . Get your ass back to england . But before you do , read this fine article : 

Canada took our land and our 

lives. We deserve to have at 

least our names back

By

RT.com

-

June 15, 2026

Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr., center, joins other indigenous chiefs and elders in leading thousands of people in a march during a protest against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby, British Columbia, Saturday, March 10, 2018. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

COMMENTARY

by Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. – RT.com

The current debate in Canada over Indigenous rights, language revitalization, and the restoration of original place names, especially in British Columbia, is deeply rooted in historical truth, constitutional reality, and the lived experience of Indigenous peoples who have survived centuries of systemic efforts to erase our presence.

Over 95% of British Columbia remains unceded territory, land that was never surrendered through treaty. When British Columbia joined Canada in 1871, the provincial government refused to recognize Aboriginal Title or negotiate treaties across most of the province. This is a historical and constitutional fact.

After devastating epidemics of smallpox and other European diseases swept through our communities, colonial governments concluded that Indigenous peoples had been so weakened that we could no longer mount effective resistance.

They believed we were a vanishing race. It was this assumption that led them to seize vast territories by force of arms, without treaties or consent. This was not a lawful process. It was an illegal occupation of sovereign Indigenous lands, enforced by police and military power.

The recent formal recognition of Haida Aboriginal Title across all of Haida Gwaii, 10,180 square kilometers, by British Columbia and Canada stands as powerful confirmation of what Indigenous peoples have always maintained: Our Indigenous titles were never lawfully extinguished, and where we made treaties, they have been broken.

Indigenous oral traditions speak of well over one million of our peoples living in what is now British Columbia before European contact. Smallpox and other introduced diseases decimated entire communities, reducing the Indigenous population from more than one million to around 40,000.

For instance, the Nuxalk Nation on British Columbia’s central coast saw its population collapse from over 30,000 to around 300. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation near Vancouver was reduced from over 10,000 to fewer than 20 people.

In the Arctic, the Canadian government slaughtered the sled dogs of the Inuit, forcibly relocated families from their traditional territories, and confined them to permanent settlements.

This deliberate destruction of their self-sufficient way of life continues to echo today. The Inuit of Nunavut suffer the second-highest suicide rates in the world, surpassed only by the Inuit of Greenland, with rates approximately ten times the Canadian national average, accompanied by devastating levels of alcohol and drug abuse.

Before colonization, our societies had no alcohol, no drugs, no locked doors, and no prisons. We lived in relative peace and harmony, especially compared to the endless wars raging across much of the rest of the world at the time.

The arrival of colonization introduced cultural genocide, a systematic attempt to destroy our languages, spiritual practices, governance systems, and ways of life.

The church-operated, Canada-funded residential school system formed a central part of this assault. For over a century, more than 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and communities.

They were punished for speaking their own languages, forbidden from practicing their spiritual traditions, and subjected to widespread physical and sexual abuse. Justice and Senator Murray Sinclair, chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, estimates that 25,000, and even more, children never made it home.

The discovery of over 200 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021, followed by almost 3,000 suspected unmarked graves yet to be excavated at other former school sites across Canada, has forced Canada, as well as the Catholic, Anglican, and United Church of Christ, to confront the true horror of what took place at their hands.

The intergenerational trauma created by these continues to devastate our communities to this day. Indigenous women and girls are vastly overrepresented among Canada’s missing and murdered women. Indigenous people make up around 5% of Canada’s population, yet account for one-third of all adults incarcerated in Canadian prisons.

This is the predictable result of generations of deliberate cultural annihilation.

The return of some original sacred place names has sparked discomfort among some Canadians. Yet, it is rarely mentioned that the vast majority of place names in British Columbia were imposed by the colonial authorities to honor British royalty and colonial officials.

British Columbia itself, Vancouver Island, the former Queen Charlotte Islands, the provincial capital of Victoria, and countless cities, rivers, and mountains across the province all bear names given by colonial power.

For Indigenous peoples, restoring sacred, original Indigenous place names is not an attack on Canada. It is a modest but meaningful step toward correcting a long history of cultural erasure and genocide.

The implementation of DRIPA, British Columbia’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, has created significant uncertainty and debate. Many citizens worry that it gives Indigenous peoples excessive influence over land and resource decisions.

For Indigenous peoples, however, DRIPA represents a long-overdue commitment by the province to align its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Canada has endorsed UNDRIP, as have nearly all 193 United Nations member states.

Canada signed 70 historic treaties with Indigenous nations. Like its southern neighbor, which signed and subsequently broke over 370 treaties, Canada has repeatedly failed to honor its own treaty commitments and obligations.

Despite this painful history, Indigenous peoples across Canada and the Americas are rising. We are reclaiming our languages, revitalizing our cultures, reasserting our laws, and stepping forward once again as the rightful caretakers of these lands and waters. This resurgence is not about domination or revenge. It is about healing, justice, reconciliation, and restoring balance.

Reconciliation cannot be built on contempt, sarcasm, or denial of history. It must be grounded in truth, humility, and mutual respect. Indigenous rights are not privileges handed down by the state. Indigenous rights flow from our original, unsurrendered sovereignty and our sacred responsibilities to these lands and waters that have sustained us since time immemorial.

We can and should have honest disagreements about policy and implementation. But we cannot build a shared and truthful future by minimizing or mocking the suffering of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Americas.

Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr., is a citizen of the Chickasaw and Ihanktonwan Nations, Canada, and the U.S. A respected Elder, activist, academic, and international speaker, Chief Lane has dedicated his life to preserving Indigenous languages, traditions, and sovereignty across the Americas and beyond.

YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

 I just started reading The Tao Of Wu , by The RZA of world famous hip hop group Wu Tang Clan .

Sure you can be quick to judge and dismiss , which is always easier through the internet . It seems that many people just love to hate without offering any alternatives . Or at least the shit trolls do behind the safety of their electronic devices .

This book drew me in from the first words . I love learning and gaining different perspectives , especially from backgrounds that are so different than anything I've ever been through .

I will read this and pass it on .

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

 Watching Egypt play in the World Cup today prompted me to find my CD by Mohammed Abdel Wahab .

Listen to this song . It is a thing of beauty .

THE PROTESTS ARE JUSTIFIED

 I've said it before . I love the game but hate greedy fifa . Any protest against it is justified !

FeaturedThe Americas

Mexico: AIL Flags at the CNTE National Strike and the Protests Against the 2026 FIFA World Cup

T.I.

June 14, 2026

We hereby share an unofficial translation of a report published by Sol Rojo Mexico on the 12th of June.

---

On the 1st of In June, the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) initiated a National Strike demanding the federal government repeal the disastrous The ISSSTE Law of 2007, the repeal of the so-called “educational reform” of EPN-AMLO, emergency salary increase of 100% and the solution to the demands for justice, among others.  

The first day of the teachers’ strike, the opportunistic governments of Claudia Sheinbaum and Clara The brigade showed their reactionary side by attacking the democratic teachers’ union, leaving several teachers injured, two of whom received rubber bullet impacts directly to the face; one of them lost an eye and the other lost both.

Despite the campaign of criminalization, denigration, demonization, provocations and repression, the CNTE continues its National Strike with actions in Mexico City and at least 12 states of the republic permanently, in addition to intermittent actions in other states where teachers face harsh administrative repression or are under the terror imposed by the criminal groups who govern several states in the country.

The National Strike of the CNTE develops within the framework of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and has asserted that this is, in essence and form, a fight against capitalism and imperialism, since the interests of the oligarchy are behind the exceptional laws imposed against democratic teachers. The governments of the self-proclaimed “fourth transformation” perpetuates these exceptional laws, protecting the interests of the bankers, who speculate with the money of the workers.

Amid these protests, the flags of the International Anti-imperialist League (AIL) strongly advocates for the expulsion of these reactionary laws and to hit hard against the enemies of the workers and the peoples.

The Front of the People-Red Sun and the AIL (Mexico) Promoting Committee, we continue to advocate for the preparation of the General Strike of National Resistance against the old State and imperialism.

Down the Reactionary laws!

Down the interests of FIFA and the banks!

Anti-imperialists of the world, unite!

FIFA SUCKS , BUT I LOVE THE GAME

 Everything that fifa does is to try and make as much money as possible off of the game , no matter what injustice this perpetuates , from displacement of the poor right up to genocide .

They banned russia from all competitions , but not the fascist state of israel ?

This is the hypocritical logic they use :

FIFA swiftly suspended Russia in 2022 to safeguard the integrity of its competitions, as European nations refused to play them. Conversely, FIFA has refused to ban Israel, citing that it cannot resolve geopolitical conflicts. Furthermore, both the Israeli and Palestinian associations comply with FIFA regulations, preventing a sporting collapse. [1, 2, 3]

What a copout pile of shit .

So , as much as I despise the organization , I will watch the competition , but I will seek out alternative methods of doing so , and have also purchased cheaper shirts from alternate sources .

It's all possible in this day and age ! Enjoy .

JUST SO YA KNOW

 I went to Vancouver ( aka PTSD City ) to see my main leukemia doc . Nothing scary , he wanted to see me personally as it has been over 5 months . Apparently everything is going well , but of course I didn't tell him I just played a show and hugged most of the people there . Sure it may have been a stupid move on my part , but it was good for my mental health , and that has to count for something , don't it ? Yes it does . It was one of the best nights of my life . Imagine thinking you'd never do the thing you most love doing ever again , and then you get to ? Indescribable . I will never take that for granted .