Claims Quote by Tariq Ali

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

— Tariq Ali

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

— Tariq Ali

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

— Tariq Ali

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a…

— Tariq Ali

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

— Tariq Ali

Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

— Tariq Ali

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