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An uncle of mine, a quite extraordinary individual, used to say that he was privileged to have a ‘ringside seat’ when viewing the rampages of capitalism. To which I must add that the ticket to gain admission has been extremely costly, for the planet, but
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I APPRECIATE a thoughtful article, ‘A hard country’ (Feb 16), by F. S. Aijazuddin. I specially admire the paragraph: “Similarly, there have been all too many cynics who have regarded Pakistan as a terminal case, closer to death than to self-fulfilment. J
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An uncle of mine, a quite extraordinary individual, used to say that he was privileged to have a ringside seat when viewing the rampages of capitalism. To which I must add that the ticket to gain admission has been extremely costly, for the planet, but n
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In July 2007, during their visit to Iran, iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara’s son and daughter were invited to Tehran University by an Iranian Islamic organisation. The organisation described itself as an Islamic revolutionary internationalist out
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Today, I see that the well known 'revolutionary' Tariq Ali is telling that, "He [Assad] has to be pushed out," Tariq Ali insists, for which "the Syrian people are doing their best". Given that all reports indicate that the country is seriously divided ov
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Syrian tanks are seen in Bab Amro near the city of Homs February 12, 2012. (Reuters / Mulham Alnader/Handout) Syrian President Bashar Assad should resign if he doesn’t want to repeat the fate of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, while Ru
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In addition to his books, Fraser was instrumental in the founding of the New Left Review and Verso Books and also served as a member of its New Left Trust. According to a statement by Tariq Ali, “Ronnie played a huge part in helping to establish, first N
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NEW DELHI: The Indian Mujahideen drew first blood way back in 2001 even before it burst onto the terror scene with multiple bombings in 2006. The abduction of Khadim boss Partha Roy Burman and the American Centre attacks a year later were test cases for
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A Barrie doctor has been found by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to have committed two acts of professional misconduct. Dr. Tariq Ali Farooq was before the college’s discipline committee Friday morning. According to a statement release
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A Barrie doctor has been found by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to have committed two acts of professional misconduct. Tariq Ali Farooq was before the college’s discipline committee Friday morning. According to a statement released by
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The letter came via a local Communist known as Rahim ‘Koreawallah’, secretary of the Pak-Korea Friendship Society. Short, paunchy, loquacious and full of beer, he was out of breath as he handed me the letter from Pyongyang. I had to leave straightaway, h
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The writer Tariq Ali interviews the director Oliver Stone. (New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. at 42nd St. 212-930-0855. Jan. 19 at 7.) Kenneth Slawenski, the author of “J. D. Salinger: A Life,” talks about the reclusive writer. (200 Hudson St. 212-601-
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Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ali used to be friends. “We fell out over the Iraq war,” says Ali, the British Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and activist who inspired John Lennon’s 1971 hit “Power to the People.” Interviewed after Hitchens’ Dec. 15 deat
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Published by the government of Zimbabwe After Israel and its Western backers defeated Arab nationalism in 1967, a solicitous Nizar Qabbani emotionally called for the rekindling of the Arab fighting spirit. He wrote in a poem: Corn ears of the future, You
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“Mohamed Bouazizi was the man who set himself and Tunisia on fire,” according to TIME magazine (Jan. 21, 2011). His self-immolation was the beginning of what we speak of today as the Arab Spring. The Arab world has been experiencing an inevitable chain o
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Tariq, 11, who is disabled by polio, lies in bed at the Qaid-e-Awam relief camp in Sindh Province, Pakistan. He lost his father during the floods. BENAZIRABAD DISTRICT, Pakistan – 29 December 2011 – In the Quaid-e-Awam relief camp, 11-year-old Tariq Ali’
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Even in death he stands tall and apart from the parochial, bien-peasant, trilling, beard-stroking mediocrities – face-timers and time-servers of the writing life, men and women who have never written a good line of prose or provided a single insight into
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So the author and journalist, Christopher Hitchens, has died aged 62. All day the mainstream media have been broadcasting glowing tributes to Hitchens. One reporter on Britain’s Channel 4 News even claimed that Hitchens had consistently taken a “stand ag
About Tariq Ali
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Tariq Ali (Arabic: طارق علی) (born October 21, 1943) is a British-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, Counterpunch, and the London Review of Books. Full Article
