Under the US sanctions regime, banks and companies around the world sever ties or reject transactions with sanctioned countries far beyond what the law strictly requires, simply out of fear of losing their access to the international financial system in dollars, one of the weapons that strongly underpins US imperialism.
In this last episode of ‘The Dark Side of The World Cup’, Mehdi explains how FIFA’s decades of scandals, corruption, and dishonest leadership turned the beautiful game into a horrible mess.
“I see the federal agents walking. I had one of those ‘Kick ICE out’ buttons, and he looked at me, and he looked at it again. I said, would you like one? I have some extra buttons…He just looked at me and walked off.” Yolanda recounted that story to me on Tuesday. She has been […]
When the cryptocurrency exchange FTX imploded, customers around the world lost access to their money. Founder Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud and sent to prison. But the story didn’t stop there. For the past three and a half years, FTX has been in bankruptcy, a legal process that determines who will be paid back […]