Tariq Ali Quotes

• If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.

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  Simple, Rights, Government

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• We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

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  World, Sacred, Illusion

  "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem". www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2005.

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• The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

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  Democracy, Oppression, Function

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• This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

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  Lying, Heart, Order

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.75, Verso Books

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• People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

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  People, Democracy, Phases

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

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  Meaningful, Fighting, Justice

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

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  World, Should, Lumps

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

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  Gente, Mundo, Hoy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish state, like its NATO bosses, has helped to create a monster that it now claims to oppose.

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  Past, Boss, Killing

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.

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  War, Government, Worry

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq, it's been more or less continuous. The appalling war in Libya, which has wrecked that country and wrecked that part of the world, and which isn't over by any means. The indirect Western intervention in Syria, which has created new monsters. These are policies, which if carried out by any individual government, would be considered extremist. Now, they're being carried out collectively by the United States, backed by some of the countries of the European Union.

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  País, Guerra, Media

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

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  Running, Flirting, World

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

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  Expression, Political, States

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

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  Twilight, Democracy

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagonizes, not caring about the effects on neighboring regions.

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  War, Caring, Twenties

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. January 2002.

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• 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 to do this, but we're doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other.

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  War, Hands, People

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. January 2002.

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• Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

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  Rejects, Knows, Ifs

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.16, Verso

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• There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

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  Real, Names, Islam

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• 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, it's better. We know where we kneel.

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  Names, Way, Imperialism

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• La economía y la política están tan entrelazadas e interrelacionadas que la política actual, la política dominante, la política de centro extremo, son poco más que una versión de la economía concentrada. Y esto significa que cualquier alternativa -capitalismo alternativo, keynesianismo de izquierdas, intervención del Estado para ayudar a los pobres, retroceso de las privatizaciones- se convierte en un gran problema. Todo el peso del centro extremo y de sus medios de comunicación se vuelve en su contra, lo que en realidad ahora empieza a perjudicar a la democracia.

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  Mean, Reality, Media

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.

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  Islamic, Self Confidence, World

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• The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.

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  Oil, Principles, United States

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America.

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  País, América, Latina

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.

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  Tragedy, Events, Void

  "The Clash of Fundamentalisms". Book by Tariq Ali, 2002.

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• El verdadero problema es la capitulación total de la socialdemocracia alemana ante el capitalismo, reflejada y simbolizada por los actuales gobiernos de coalición de centro extremo en Alemania, que han estado en el poder durante mucho tiempo y siguen estándolo incluso mientras hablamos. Ese es el verdadero problema: que no hay oposición seria en Alemania en absoluto. Y el partido de Izquierda está dividido.

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  Real, Party, Government

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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