Brian Carty

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Norway is leading the push to suspend Israel from FIFA. The campaign is being led by the Norwegian Football Federation and its president, Lise Klaveness, a former national team player, lawyer, and UEFA executive committee member.

Instead of calling for boycotts, Klaveness is pushing football's governing bodies to act. She says the rules should be applied equally: if Russia was suspended after invading Ukraine, Israel should face the same consequences.

Norway has backed efforts to suspend Israel from FIFA over the genocide in the Gaza Strip, discrimination against Palestinian athletes, and Israeli football clubs playing in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

[European Free Alliance @EFAparty]

✊ The CJEU confirms the Amnesty Law complies with EU law.

Today, the EU takes a step forward in defending democratic values. The Spanish state must implement the amnesty and ensure everyone prosecuted for defending democracy receives it.

🔎 Read more: https://t.co/u5fXOGrAen

[Chris Hazzard MP @ChrisHazzardSF]

England fans: Spend 60 years chanting about German bombers and the IRA

Also England fans: Have a total meltdown because someone wrote ‘Malvinas’ on a bedsheet with a Sharpie

[L'Humanité @humanite_fr]

Irlande du Nord : « Un référendum sur la réunification est une priorité », entretien avec Pat Sheehan, député du Sinn Fein 

➡️ https://t.co/IyMNJ7KeOW

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Royal Belgian Football Association has released a statement in regard to Folarin Balogun being able to play against them.

"The Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) is astonished by FIFA's decision to declare suspended United States player Folarin Balogun eligible to play in the USA–Belgium match on Monday, 6 July at 5:00 p.m. (Seattle time)."

"FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction."

"However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team's next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup."

"Furthermore, and irrespective of the above, the decision is in direct contradiction with the provisions of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Competition Regulations, as set out in Article 10.5:

"If a player or team official is sent off as a result of a direct or indirect red card (second caution), they will automatically be suspended from their team's subsequent match. In addition, further sanctions may be imposed."

"The automatic nature of such a suspension was also explicitly reaffirmed in FIFA World Cup 2026 Circular No. 16, which was distributed to all participating member associations on 12 May 2026."

"The same rule is reiterated at every FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Coordination Meeting prior to each match and is included in all FIFA World Cup 2026 workshop presentations.

"In order to safeguard the legitimate rights of all participating teams and to protect the fundamental principles of fair play in our sport, both at this FIFA World Cup and at future editions of the tournament, the RBFA is investigating all potential options."

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“I beg you to open up the coherent report and understand the enormity of what is recorded, including torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, including sexual and gender-based violence, against Palestinian children”
~Andrée Murphy

@ATownNews

☕️🥐

[Socialist Action @SocialistAct]

Starmer does not pretend that Britain is in imminent danger of Russia starting a war.
But also says that Britain will be ready to fight Russia by 2030.
The clear implication is that Britain and NATO are preparing to launch the war.

https://t.co/8EUQlil2WT

[IP VOICES @IPvoice1]

Shamrock Rovers player Roberto López called for the suspension of Ireland’s match against Israel, saying: “We have to stop the game. As players and fans, our natural instinct is always to get out there and compete, but this is a moment where we need to look at the bigger picture. Please, stop the game.”

[Declan Kearney @DeclanKearneySF]

“Research has confirmed that very well funded far-right sources are systematically targeting Irish society through social media platforms.”

Read more at https://t.co/yshoP8LVs6

[Tehran Times @TehranTimes79]

The United States is currently conducting the largest logistical operation in its history - a statistical analysis.

This 30-second video shows the American logistical air activity in West Asia over the past seven days only (accelerated by 20,000 times). At the same time, this activity continues around the clock for 76 days.

We are talking about the largest aerial supply operation in American military history, which exceeds the scale of the 2003 Iraq War. This level of cargo transport far surpasses routine supply replenishment.

All American strategic warehouses in the region are almost fully stocked and continue to reach their maximum capacity.

The US military is not spending billions of dollars on empty threats or show-off maneuvers. All of this indicates readiness for a preemptive strike and possibly the start of a ground operation.

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

The US has seized $5.49 billion of Venezuela’s oil revenue in 2026, then offers just $150 million in earthquake aid while the UN estimates $6.7 billion in losses. It’s not relief, it’s extortion. At the same time, US has $30 billion of frozen assets while people are under rubble.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

There are many shocking provisions in the scandalous “agreement” signed by Lebanon and the Israeli regime, but none more shocking than point 13 whereby Lebanon purports to give up its international legal claims against the Israeli occupation. But a news flash for the US-Israel Axis: Article 47 of the 4th Geneva Convention explicitly states that protected persons in occupied territories cannot be deprived of the benefits of the Convention“by any agreement concluded between the authorities of the occupied territories and the Occupying Power." The rights and protections guaranteed under IHL
cannot legally be signed away or contractually waived, not by Lebanese officials, not by the occupying Israeli regime, and not by its complicit US ally. Point 13 is null and void as a matter of law, and the other provisions of this absurd surrender deal will eventually follow it into the trash bin of history.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If there ever was any smoking gun evidence that the Israeli-Lebanese agreement is nothing but a cover for Israel to sabotage the US-Iran MOU and subjugate Lebanon under Israeli dominion, it is von der Leyen's endorsement of the agreement.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Unluckiest” is a weird way to say deliberately targeted and mistreated by the host country with FIFA’s consent.

[Brian Carty @cartybrianw]

@TheArenaCNN @kasie @SenatorWarnock So genocide and apartheid are OK?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Trees. Trees. Trees. They matter. Plant them. Protect them.

[Brian Carty @cartybrianw]

@mepassistants Are opposition to genocide and illegal wars considered to be "views against EU values"?

[Brian Carty @cartybrianw]

20 or so years too late?

[Irish Examiner @irishexaminer]

Micheál Martin should step down this year, say Fianna Fáil TDs, MEPs, and senators https://t.co/7mqtlWeplE