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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...
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...
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...
Ali: Letter to a Young Muslim
Znet Article, May, 13 2002
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: The New Empire Loyalists
Znet Article, March, 17 2002
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: No Room At The Inn For Mr Biswas
Commentary, November, 29 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: BLAIR AND BERLOSCUNI
Commentary, May, 27 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: CRISIS ON ANIMAL FARM
Commentary, April, 11 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
'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.'
Ali: Porto Alegre
Commentary, March, 17 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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.
Ali: New Labour, New Bombs
Commentary, February, 19 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: Porto Alegre
Commentary, February, 10 2001
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: NUCLEAR PERILS IN SOUTH ASIA
Commentary, July, 01 2000
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
Ali: London Defeats Tony Blair: The Consequences of Citizen Ken
Commentary, May, 17 2000
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
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...
