It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Tariq Ali

Tags: politics activism united-states protest civil-rights civil-rights-movement racism civil-disobedience 20th-century 2010



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Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

Tariq Ali

Tags: politics united-states cliches 2010 hegemony american-imperialism 21st-century



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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.

Tariq Ali

Tags: democracy capitalism economics leftism deregulation neoliberalism anti-democratic-thought financial-regulation late-2000s-financial-crisis late-2000s-recession



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Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Tariq Ali

Tags: politics power united-states bravery cowardice barack-obama health-care 2010 united-states-elections-2008 affordable-care-act health-care-reform



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That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Tariq Ali

Tags: politics united-states new-orleans hurricane-katrina natural-disasters 2005 politics-of-the-united-states 21st-century 2010-in-literature



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How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

Tariq Ali


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و البشر منقسمون إلى فئتين لا ثالث لهما. أوغاد مستنيرون، أو حمقى متدينون

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في كل أربع وعشرون ساعة هناك دائماً ساعة يملؤها الغم و الرثاء للنفس، و الارتباك و الرغبة في رؤية وجوه أخرى، و لكنها مجرد ساعة لا تلبث أن تمر

Tariq Ali


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في أزمنة الجهالة، على المرء ان يتعلم فن الجهالة

Tariq Ali


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الخيارات بسيطة وواضحة. أن نتحول أو أن نقتل، أو أن نموت وسيوفنا في أيدينا

Tariq Ali


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