The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying… — 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
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
I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical… — 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
In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. — 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
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
Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be… — 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
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
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
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had… — 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
