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World Corrupt Episode 1: A Toxic Love Affair between Politics and Sports

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Why Qatar and Russia Shouldn't Host the World Cups

Even Qatari citizens have very few civil liberties or political rights. The media is censored. Citizens have basically no say in government decisions, but they do live a pretty comfortable life because of the state's oil and gas revenue. Being a foreign worker in Qatar, your employer calls all the shots. And it's these foreign workers who are building the infrastructure that is required to put on a World Cup under horrifyingly dangerous conditions.

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