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Znet Article Ali: Canada, Hizballah and Terrorism: An interview with Tariq Ali

Znet Article, November, 30 2007 Tariq Ali
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In 2002 Canada unveiled an official list of "terrorist" organizations, strikingly similar to that of the the US government. Today the Lebanese political movement Hizballah -- both the military and political wing -- is officially considered a "terr...

Znet Article Ali: Pakistan at Sixty

Znet Article, November, 28 2007 Tariq Ali
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October 4, 2007 -- Pakistan is best avoided in August, when the rains come and transform the plains into a huge steam bath. When I lived there we fled to the mountains, but this year I stayed put. The real killer is the humidity. Relief arrives in...

Znet Article Ali: Afghanistan today:

Znet Article, October, 25 2007 Tariq Ali
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THE U.S. launched its first assault in the

Znet Article Ali: A Massacre Foretold

Znet Article, October, 22 2007 Tariq Ali
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The massacre in Karachi had been widely predicted. Benazir Bhutto herself has stated that she was aware of the dangers. The government pleaded with her to delay her return. Jihadi leaders, angered by her slavish support of US foreign policy,...

Znet Article Ali: Why the U.S. is a self-serving empire

Znet Article, October, 13 2007 Tariq Ali
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Why the U.S. is a self-serving empire

Znet Article Ali: Bush's Zombie Shuffles Off

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Tariq Ali
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Tony Blair's success was limited to winning three general elections in a row. A second-rate acto...

Znet Article Ali: Single State?

Znet Article, April, 24 2007 Tariq Ali
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Milan, April - Editor of the New Left Review, well-known essayist, author of a series of suggestive historic novels about Islam, Tariq Ali visited recently Italy to participate at the presentation of the Italian translation of his "Shadows of th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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