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Znet Article Ali: The Ignoble Nobel

Znet Article, December, 07 2002 Tariq Ali
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On Tuesday, former US president Jimmy Carter will fly to Oslo and receive the Nobel Peace Prize from the unassuming bicycling monarch of Norway. Why him? Why now? And what is the real aim of the peace prize? When it was first established in 1900...

Znet Article Ali: London Report

Znet Article, September, 29 2002 Tariq Ali
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London: Saturday 28th September. It was a beautiful clear blue sky. No mists but a great deal of mellow fruitfulness. The Stop the War Coalition--- a united front that includes socialists of most stripes, liberals and radicals, pacifists and the...

Znet Article Ali: War and Rumours of War

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Tariq Ali
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[A major rally was organised by the South Asian Alliance in Birmingham on Sunday 15th September 2002.The aim of the rally was to look at the world one year on from September the 11th.The speakers at the rally were Tariq Ali, Shaukat Butt, Asma Jha...

Znet Article Ali: Doing As The Romans Did

Znet Article, September, 12 2002 Tariq Ali
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The consequences of 11 September remain visible on several fronts. Psychologically, the American empire has constructed a new enemy: Islamic terrorism. Its practitioners were evil, the threat was global and, for that reason, bombs had to be droppe...

Znet Article Ali: Midnight's Bastards

Znet Article, July, 07 2002 Tariq Ali
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The military response of the American Empire to September 11 has made the world more dangerous and insecure. Its political strategy has led to the promotion of Ariel Sharon and Vladimir Putin as key allies in the 'war against terror' and 'Islamo-f...

Znet Article Ali: Letter to a Young Muslim

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Tariq Ali
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  Remember when you approached me after the big antiwar meeting in November 2001 (I think it was Glasgow) and asked whether I was a believer? I have not forgotten the shock you registered when I replied "no", or the comment of your friend ("o...

Znet Article Ali: The New Empire Loyalists

Znet Article, March, 17 2002 Tariq Ali
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Exactly one year before the hijackers hit the Pentagon, Chalmers Johnson, a distinguished American academic, staunch supporter of the US during the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and one-time senior analyst for the CIA, tried to alert his fellow-citiz...

Commentary Ali: No Room At The Inn For Mr Biswas

Commentary, November, 29 2001 Tariq Ali
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This is the story of why V.S. NaipaulÕs comic masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas, which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature a few weeks ago, was turned down in 1998 by an over-hyped inert mediocrity named Michael Jackson who had just usurped th...

Commentary Ali: BLAIR AND BERLOSCUNI

Commentary, May, 27 2001 Tariq Ali
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I was in Turin at the Book Fair recently participating in a round-table to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the left-wing daily paper Il Manifesto, when I read that while the French and German governments were maintaining a certain cool, Tony Bla...

Commentary Ali: CRISIS ON ANIMAL FARM

Commentary, April, 11 2001 Tariq Ali
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'Don't worry,' New Farmer Blair told a visiting delegation of over a hundred sheep when news of the plague first reached him. 'Everything is safe and under control. We will be tough on the plague and tough on the causes of the plague.'

Commentary Ali: Porto Alegre

Commentary, March, 17 2001 Tariq Ali
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The social summit held recently in Porte Allegre Brazil seems to have inspired everyone who attended that, in the slogan of the conference, a better world is possible.

Commentary Ali: New Labour, New Bombs

Commentary, February, 19 2001 Tariq Ali
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the present. American leaders have long been used to treating the cracked British vase as a pisspot, but Attlee and Wilson, while dutifully kissing ass in the White House, did, at least, attemp...

Commentary Ali: Porto Alegre

Commentary, February, 10 2001 Tariq Ali
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The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, in the deep South of Brazil was more than a symbolic counter to Davos. The aim behind it was serious: to unite the Seattle generation with the Old Left and to think seriously about alternatives to neo-libera...

Commentary Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA

Commentary, July, 01 2000 Tariq Ali
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The nuclear games being played by India and Pakistan are both dangerous and obscene. They are dangerous because there are Taliban-type elements within the Pakistan Army (and I'm sure their equivalents in India), who could, in extremis, press the d...

Commentary Ali: London Defeats Tony Blair: The Consequences of Citizen Ken

Commentary, May, 17 2000 Tariq Ali
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In these times of political adversity for the left, Ken Livingstone's spectacular triumph against the culture and politics of New Labour marks an important turning point in English politics. Blair refused to accept Livingstone as the Labour candid...

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