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
I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the… — 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
