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	Tariq Ali
		Tariq Ali’s views on all of the above are shaped by his readings of Leon Trotsky’s and Isaac Deutscher’s accounts of the betrayal of the Russian Revolution and the Stalinization of Russia.
		Tariq Ali’s worldview is not as different from Tolstoi’s as might first appear; Ali is not, in general, an advocate of violence.
		Ali’s explanations and Tolstoi’s are not wrong, but they are also not a complete list of the explanations of the persistence and intensification of class divisions.
	www.global-economy.info /Tariq_Ali.htm (4846 words)

	PHF BELIEF \| Tariq Ali Lecture
		Tariq Ali, political writer as well as filmmaker and novelist, in opening his Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture, mused that he had hoped “never to write non-fiction again,” but that the events following September 11, 2001 had made it “impossible to remain aloof or removed” from the theater of world politics.
		It was against this religious belief, says Ali, that The Enlightenment invented and prioritized the challenge of "reason." In spite of the violence of the European world (which is, undeniably, at conceptual odds with its "rational" challenge to fanaticism), Enlightenment thinking had a profound and far-reaching influence—in China, India, and parts of the Islamic world.
		The expulsions were, in Ali's view, the "death knell" of critical, creative thought in Islamic culture, which had been the purveyor of philosophy and other learned traditions to the West (Europe came to know Aristotle, for example, through the 12th-century translations of the scholar Averroes).
	humanities.sas.upenn.edu /03-04/tariq_alisum.html (1176 words)

	Tariq Ali an interview by David Barsamian
		Tariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore, in what was then British-controlled India.
		Ali demanded to call the mayor of Munich, who had earlier interviewed him on the current crisis at a public event in the city.
		Ali: In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Sept_11_2001/Tariq_Ali.html (2533 words)

	Geophysicists - Tariq Ali Alkhalifah
		Most important, Tariq cut through the problem of determining which are the pertinent parameters and devised a practical inversion method for obtaining these parameters from conventional surface seismic data.
		Tariq was born in 1966 in Alrass, Saudi Arabia, a small village in the middle of the desert, far removed from modern life.
		The family is planning to return to Saudi Arabia where Tariq hopes to contribute to the education and training of a new generation of young Saudi geophysicists.
	www.mssu.edu /seg-vm/bio_tariq_ali_alkhalifah.html (769 words)

	Interview: Tariq Ali By Talat Ahmed
		Tariq's quest took him to Spain, to the great Islamic monuments of the Alhambra in Granada, and the palaces and forts of Muslim kings in Seville and Cordoba.
		Tariq's third novel, The Stone Woman, is set at the end of the 19th century during the twilight of the Ottoman Empire.
		Tariq's novels are an enjoyable history lesson as well as a challenge to the wave of bigotry that surrounds us at present but, more than that, they are great stories which are beautifully told.
	www.countercurrents.org /tariqali161106.htm (2397 words)

	PM - Tariq Ali defends 'Axis of Hope'
		TARIQ ALI: You talk about an Opposition television station, but if you look at the Western world, the United States, Australia, the whole of Western Europe and Eastern Europe, you name to me one television station which could be called an Opposition television station.
		TARIQ ALI: I wouldn't approve of it, but I think it's such a far-fetched thing since the bulk of the Western world today has a rather bland, more or less television networks, radio networks which are hardly critical.
		TARIQ ALI: Well, it may be military intelligence, but it's also aiding a guerilla warfare in a struggle against a military dictatorship which is what Bolivia was.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2007/s1957096.htm (1211 words)

	Bush in Babylon: Interview with Tariq Ali
		TARIQ ALI: Well, we don’t hear much of Afghanistan in the news these days because, you know, people have short memories, except on shows like this, where you carry on discussing the state of the world, regardless, but Afghanistan is a total mess.
		TARIQ ALI: Well, Vennell has played a role of training private armies, sometimes semi-official armies, sometimes official armies, in the Gulf-States, to try and create a security-force to defend these regimes, which, after all, are not democratic, so they need to be defended.
		Tariq Ali’s book is Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq, and you’ll be in New York at the Synod House at Saint John the Divine on Tuesday night from 7 to 9.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles8/DN_Tariq-Ali.htm (2553 words)

	Tariq Ali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tariq Ali (Urdu: طارق علی) (born October 21, 1943) is a British writer and filmmaker.
		As one of the "brown sahibs" left by the British Empire, Ali distinguished himself as a spokesman for anti-imperialism.
		Tariq Ali interviewed by Doug Henwood of Behind The News on WBAI, New York - Two-part interview recorded in October 2006, on Iraq, Israel's defeat in Lebanon, and Hugo Chavez.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tariq_Ali (1084 words)

	Socialism Today - The Clash of Fundamentalisms By Tariq Ali
		Tariq’s style is lucid and vigorous, dealing proficiently with a range of issues vital to an understanding of the world today.
		Tariq correctly argues that all three of the major monotheistic religions can be understood only in their historical, social and political context, with religion politically exploited by those with vested interests.
		Tariq is scathing towards all establishment religions, rightly taking to task Islamic leaders who pursue neo-liberal economic policies while adopting the most reactionary interpretation of Islam to defend their own power and wealth.
	www.socialismtoday.org /77/tariqali.html (1472 words)

	On Tariq Ali's Support for John Kerry
		Ali was one of a group of intellectuals who joined the British section of the Fourth International in the late 1960s.
		Although the entire interview with Ali can be listened to in streaming audio at http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#041028, the most relevant passage is available in text, courtesy of Doug Henwood who posted it to his mailing list as part of an ongoing effort to drum up support for John Kerry.
		Ali seems to have forgotten that Nader received 2,882,955 votes in 2000, which was 2.74% of the total vote.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/TariqAli.htm (1503 words)

	Tariq Ali
		Tariq Ali quit the IMG as the burgeoning consumer society swallowed 60s radicalism and the highly factionalized radical left imploded under the weight of a host of trivial internecine arguments.
		Tariq Ali, one of the most famous radical leaders of his time, re-creates and evokes through personal experience a story that runs through the great focal points of the '60s mood: Vietnam, Che Guevara's murder in Bolivia, and 1968 Paris.
		Tariq Ali and Phil Evans give us an irreverent but sympathetic look at the enigma of Trotsky, in a fascinating and timely reminder of a major figure, and a hugely important body of theory, of 20th century politics.
	www.venusproject.com /books_authors/tariq_ali.html (1736 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Tariq Ali
		Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943.
		Tariq came to believe that a more systematic political approach was required to further his revolutionary aims.
		Tariq Ali quit the IMG as the burgeoning consumer society swallowed 60s radicalism and the highly-factionalised radical left imploded under the weight of a host of trivial internecine arguments.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_tariqali.shtml (604 words)

	Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq Occupation
		TARIQ ALI: I think most journalists, even those sort of supporting the war must be aware that in terms of what the United States hoped to achieved, it's a total mess.
		TARIQ ALI: Well, I'm really delighted to hear that Christopher is not going back on his support for the Algerian resistance in Vietnam, because this was my worry: that he would go down the whole David Horowitz route.
		TARIQ ALI: They shut pull out before more American lives and Iraqi lives are lost and let the Iraqi people determine their own future.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles9/DN_Ali-Hitchens.htm (4814 words)

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		Tariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore, which was then part of British-ruled India and is now located in Pakistan.
		In recent decades, Ali has focused his energies on writing books and newspaper articles about the social and political issues of the day.
		Ali is a supporter of the "resisitance" in post-war Iraq and has called for the killing of U.S. troops and anti-Saddam Iraqis.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=898 (380 words)

	Tariq Ali - War, Empire, and Resistance - May 8, 2003 - UC Berkeley
		"Tariq Ali's life as a writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker has been that of a dissenter." Born in Pakistan in 1943, Ali left in the early 1960s to study at Oxford University in England and while there he became a central figure in the anti-Vietnam war movement.
		Ali urged people to read 'War is a Racket' by Major General Smedley Butler, of the US Marine Corps.
		Ali then turned to the emergence of resistance within Iraq itself, which he sees as an inevitable result of this new colonisation of the region.
	www.flashpoints.net /tariqalibio.html (1010 words)

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		Tariq Ali was born in October 1943 in Lahore, which was then part of British-ruled India and is now located in Pakistan.
		As the 1970s began, Ali openly embraced Leninism and became a leader of the International Marxist Group as well as a member of the International Executive Committee of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, a leadership body that sought to unify all existing Communist parties around the globe.
		In 2003, Ali was a signatory to a letter entitled “To the Conscience of the World,” which alleged not only that the “international order has been violated” by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but also that America was working to undermine Cuba’s “self-determination” as a pretext to launching an invasion there.
	www.discoverthenetworks.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=898 (747 words)

	Howard Richards, Professor of Peace and Global Studies - Gandhi-Chapter IV: Tariq Ali
		Tariq Ali is a firm advocate of the first of the two ways here mentioned to think about achieving a classless society.
		Ali’s explanation is that by making Nehru the President of the Congress, Gandhi could better keep some control over him, and thus prevent him from leading revolutionary mass action.
		In Ali’s vision of a democratic socialist society freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other liberal freedoms are preserved and deepened, without the tyranny of money over the media, politics, and the academy which currently makes a mockery of liberal values.
	howardrichards.org /peace/content/view/20/41 (5725 words)

	Tariq Ali's Middle East canards - theage.com.au
		But the most bizarre claim by Ali is the casting of the Iraqi dead-enders as a heroic and doughty "resistance" - as if by the mere invocation of the word "resistance", the murderers of UN workers morph into their moral opposites.
		Ali attacks Makiya, a Kurd, as a "quisling, fraudster and mountebank".
		Ali was also the champion of Milosevic and the opponent of "imperialist" NATO aggression, which he described as "anti-Serbian racism".
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/29/1062050663344.html (828 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Tariq Ali on Hugo Chavez, the Axis Of Hope and His New Book "Pirates of the Caribbean"
		TARIQ ALI: Well, I was there a year later, Amy, when they were celebrating the victory and the defeat of the coup, and I saw the first viewing of this film in Caracas with 10,000 citizens of that city, and they were going absolutely wild.
		TARIQ ALI: But, you know, this is a very interesting development, that a foreign head of state comes to the United Nations, denounces the American government, advises U.S. citizens to read Noam Chomsky, and they flock out and buy his book.
		TARIQ ALI: Well, I think he is ill. I think, you know, of course, Fidel, being a total atheist, has no illusions about where he’s going to end up after he dies.
	www.democracynow.org /2006/10/17/tariq_ali_on_hugo_chavez_the (2977 words)

	Tariq Ali speaking in Dublin
		Tariq Ali began by talking about the "F15" demonstrations 3 years ago, which were unprecendented.
		Ali then moved on to the question of Palestine, and new problems arising from the recent election.
		Ali then moved on to where the US is also feeling anger and resentment in another continent - South America.
	www.pana.ie /idn/tariqali.html (1277 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Pakistan in Turmoil after Benazir Bhutto's Assassination
		Tariq Ali, you begin an extended piece that you wrote over this twenty-four hours by talking about who in Washington, people like John Negroponte, who were instrumental in her return.
		TARIQ ALI: Well, I think, you know, the significance of this is that the United States refuses to understand that there is a big political problem which cannot be dealt with militarily.
		And so, a lot of, you know, discussions, such as Tariq Ali, the history that he sort of described about Bhutto’s machinations in power and her turmoil in her family life, goes to the fact that Pakistan was not allowed or did not have an adequate political sort of social structure—political structure throughout its history.
	www.democracynow.org /2007/12/28/pakistan_in_turmoil_after_benazir_bhuttos (6370 words)

	Tariq Ali on Zia and Bhutto (BBC Urdu) « The Fanonite
		Tariq Ali then describes how the Indian publisher visited his home recently, saw the script for the play, and agreed to publish it.
		Tariq also says that some generals in Zia’s military regime offered Bhutto a chance to leave the country safely, instead of being tried in a rigged court and hanged.
		According to Tariq, ZAB refused this offer and insisted that his place was in his country, with his people, to the very end.
	fanonite.org /2007/12/29/tariq-ali-on-zia-and-bhutto-bbc-urdu (987 words)

	Tariq Ali
		Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943.
		Ali's political activism is inspired by the revolutionary years of the 1960s and he returns to this decade in several of his volumes.
		Of course Ali's explosion of the myth of '1968' as a singularly Western discourse is at least partly informed by his own post-colonial background as a Pakistani migrant living in London.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth164 (1467 words)

	Tariq Ali: Back in San Francisco : Indybay
		Tariq Ali went on to describe how Washington was mortified by Chávez's political reforms and plotted with accomplices in Venezuela to engineer a coup d'état.
		Tariq Ali then described how he learned from conversing with Hugo Chávez that the leader was more troubled by the strikes his opponents had fomented among the middle classes against him than by the election his opponents had foisted on him.
		Tariq Ali noted that Venezuela has seven consulates in the U.S. where probably about half are filled with people who do not eagerly support him.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/10/28/18324014.php (2200 words)

	Tariq Ali: Toward A New Radical Politics
		Tariq Ali's books garner wildly emphatic reviews on Amazon.com, alternately adoring and scathing depending on the politics of the reviewer--the kind of polarzied reactions you'd expect for the editor of The New Left Review.
		Born and raised in pre-partition Pakistan, Ali studied at Oxford, where he became a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War; later, he broadened his critique to condemn what he saw as American imperialism in much of the world, especially the Middle East and Latin America.
		As well as an editor of the NLR Ali is editorial director of the leftist publishing house Verso, and he's a frequent contributor to The Guardian, Counterpunch, and The London Review of Books.
	www.motherjones.com /interview/2006/08/tariq_ali.html (2864 words)

	Interview by David Barsamian with Tariq Ali
		Tariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore, in what was then British-controlled India.
		Ali demanded to call the mayor of Munich, who had earlier interviewed him on the current crisis at a public event in the city.
		Ali: In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.
	www.robert-fisk.com /progressive_tariqali_int_jan2002.htm (2553 words)

	Green Left - Tariq Ali: 'Punish the politicians with blood on their hands!'
		Ali explained that while the US today is politically and militarily strong, it is economically “not so strong” and in debt to Japan and China.
		Ali stated that Washington's real “intelligence failure” in Iraq was to believe that Iraqis would “love to be occupied” and there would be no resistance.
		Ali described the idea that al Qaeda — “a pathetic organisation of 2000-3000 people” — is a genuine threat to “Western civilisation and the American empire” as “a joke”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2004/576/32777 (988 words)

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