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
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There are huge political problems in Germany, but German economic power is something which was bound to happen. The way out of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version… — 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
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
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of… — 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
