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Znet Article Ali: The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Znet Article, February, 27 2007 Tariq Ali
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It is Year 6 of the UN-backed NATO occupation of Afghanistan, a joint US/EU mission. On 26 Febr...

Znet Article Ali: Italian soap-opera

Znet Article, February, 23 2007 Tariq Ali
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The states of western Europe continue to resist harmonisation. On the same day that the chicaneries of every antiquated careerist vying for the New Labour deputy leadership were made public, each justifying his/her grotesque decision to support...

Znet Article Ali: Axis of Hope

Znet Article, December, 04 2006 Tariq Ali
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In the Muslim world religious groups that are militarily effective, but politically limited dominate resistance to the American Empire. Asia is infatuated with capital. Europe lies buried deep in neo-liberal torpor,...

Znet Article Ali: The challenge to the empire

Znet Article, October, 19 2006 Tariq Ali
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TARIQ ALI is a veteran opponent of war and imperialism who rose to prominence as a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement in Britain in the 1960s. Since then, he has written numerous books, including the just published Pirates of the Caribbean: A...

Commentary Ali: A Protracted Colonial War

Commentary, July, 22 2006 Tariq Ali
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In his last interview - after the 1967 six-day war - the historian Isaac Deutscher, whose next-of-kin had died in the Nazi camps and whose surviving relations lived in Israel, said: "To justify or condone Israel's wars against the Arabs is to rend...

Znet Article Ali: Islam and the Left

Znet Article, April, 02 2006 Tariq Ali
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The following interview with Tariq Ali was conducted by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen of the SAP (Dutch section of the Fourth International) at the Ernest Mandel symposium held in Brussels in November 2005. It was published in the March-April 200...

Znet Article Ali: WSF in Pakistan

Znet Article, April, 01 2006 Tariq Ali
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While we were opening the World Social Forum in Karachi last weekend with virtuoso performances of sufi music and speeches, the country's rulers were marking the centenary of the Muslim League [the party that created Pakistan and has ever since be...

Znet Article Ali: This Is The Real Outrage

Znet Article, February, 16 2006 Tariq Ali
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The latest round of culture wars does neither side any good. The western civilisational fundamentalists insist on seeing Muslims as the other - different, alien and morally evil. Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons in bad faith. Their aim was n...

Znet Article Ali: The Logic Of Colonial Rule

Znet Article, September, 25 2005 Tariq Ali
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There is now near-universal agreement that the western occupation of Iraq has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster; first for the people of Iraq, second for the soldiers sent by scoundrel politicians to die in a foreign land. The grammar of de...

Znet Article Ali: The Price Of Occupation

Znet Article, July, 09 2005 Tariq Ali
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During the last phase of the Troubles, the IRA targeted mainland Britain: it came close to blowing up Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in Brighton. Some years later a missile was fired at No 10. London's financial quarter was also targeted. There...

Znet Article Ali: A Conversation With Tariq Ali (part 1)

Znet Article, May, 05 2005 Tariq Ali
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As anti-imperialists the world over celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Vietnamese victory over American force of arms, Charles Demers of Seven Oaks spoke with essayist, novelist, film-maker, author, playwright and anti-war activist Tariq Ali. U...

Znet Article Ali: Tariq Ali on Iraqi Resistance

Znet Article, March, 17 2005 Tariq Ali
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Two years after the invasion of Iraq, writer and activist Tariq Ali spoke to Socialist Worker about US strategy in the Middle East and the growth of the Iraqi resistance to the occupation Socialist Worker: The Iraqi resistance is demonised by Bu...

Znet Article Ali: Out With the Old, In With the New

Znet Article, February, 08 2005 Tariq Ali
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Out With the Old, In With the New

Znet Article Ali: Chavez Will Win In Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 11 2004 Tariq Ali
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Claudia Jardim and Jonah Gindin spoke to veteran political activist and author Tariq Ali, during his recent trip to Caracas, about Venezuela and Latin American resistance to US neoliberalism.   How do you explain the explosion in social movemen...

Commentary Ali: This Is Not Sovereignty

Commentary, July, 03 2004 Tariq Ali
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Nothing will change in Iraq after June 30 - except in the make-believe world of George Bush, writes Tariq Ali.

Znet Article Ali: Bloody Price Of Occupation

Znet Article, February, 28 2004 Tariq Ali
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The whole world knows that Bush and Blair lied to justify the war, but do they know the price being paid on the ground in Iraq? First, the blood price - paid by civilians and others this week as every week. More than 50 people died on Tuesday when...

Znet Article Ali: Saddam on Parade

Znet Article, December, 17 2003 Tariq Ali
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My first reaction to the capture of Saddam Hussein was both anger and disgust. Anger with the old dictator who could not even die honourably. He preferred to be captured by his old friends than to go down fighting, the one decent thing he could ha...

Znet Article Ali: Resistance Is The First Step Towards Iraqi Independence

Znet Article, November, 04 2003 Tariq Ali
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Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo's anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France. One assumes the purpose of the screening was purely ed...

Znet Article Ali: Occupation Fuels Resistance

Znet Article, October, 20 2003 Tariq Ali
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Arnove: YOUR NEW book Bush in Babylon makes the case that the war on Iraq was based on deception. If the invasion wasn't about weapons of mass destruction or Iraq's ties to terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, what was it about? Ali: IF THE weapo...

Znet Article Ali: The UN Has Capitulated

Znet Article, May, 24 2003 Tariq Ali
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Unsurprisingly, the UN security council has capitulated completely, recognised the occupation of Iraq and approved its re-colonisation by the US and its bloodshot British adjutant. The timing of the mea culpa by the "international community" was p...

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