38 | 2022 Qatar World Cup Part 1

Miguel welcomed back Chuy from The Heatwave Podcast to talk about the 2022 Qatar World Cup (Recorded 11.4.22), which began earlier this morning on November 20, 2022.
 
The Heatwave Podcast is a podcast centered around the political environment of the State of Arizona from a revolutionary socialist perspective, made by the people, for the people! You can listen to Chuy and his comrades on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast! 
 
To start the podcast, Miguel and Chuy get into what they are looking forward to the most during the World Cup and what team they are most looking forward to watching (hint: El Tri). Additionally, Miguel and Chuy discuss the issues with Qatar as the host of the World Cup, such as the abuse Migrant Labors faced in building the stadiums for the World Cup. 
 
Miguel and Chuy also discuss the entanglement between the FIFA World Cup (Mega Events), Capitalism-Imperialism and Neo-Colonialism, the collaboration of the West with Qatar hosting the World Cup, and the overt Orientalism in Western sports media coverage. 

To end the podcast, they make some World Cup predictions, Which Group they think is the "Group of Death," and if anything unusual will happen.

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World Cup 2022: What's behind the sustained condemnation of Qatar? (Middle East Eye)

World Cup 2022: Migrant worker abuse shames whole world, not just Qatar (Middle East Eye)

‘Racism’: Qataris decry French cartoon of national football team (Aljazeera)

Qatar: what the media isn’t reporting (Morning Star)

 Qatar hosting the World Cup highlights Western double standards (MSNBC)

World Cup deaths: How and why do inaccurate figures spread? (DW News) 

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