When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Dear old al-Maarri was a great skeptic poet. He wrote a parody of the Koran, and his friends would tease him and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't… — 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
The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
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 Image
I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it. — 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 Counterpunch. In… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image