The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three… — 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
