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Ali: Who Will Reshape the Arab World: Its people, or the US?
Commentary, May, 01 2011
Tariq Ali
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Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two – the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular has begun
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.'
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.
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...
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
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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...
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...
