The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring the European… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or Counterpunch. In… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses. — Tariq Ali Copy Share
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share
