“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.” PeopleWayWantWarHelpingHandsUsedCoursesTerribleSakeHumanitarianIdeologyInterventionFactionsHumanitarian InterventionSleight Of Hand Author: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, it's better. We know where we kneel.” KnowsWayHas BeensNamesFrightenedImperialismAmerican Imperialism Author:Tariq Ali
“I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three together. I would say that Syriza and Podemos are movements which have come out of mass struggles. In the case of Podemos, directly out of tariqaliextremehuge mass movements in Spain, which started with the occupation of the square. In Greece, as a response to what the EU was doing there, punishing it endlessly, for the sins of its ruling elite.” ThinkingWayDifferentTogetherThreeSinCasesStruggleMovementMassResponseOccupationSquaresElitesSpainRulingGreece Author:Tariq Ali
“If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia, which is just run like a colony. The way they used to stand up and sing hymns to President Tito, they now salute the EU flag. It's a very strange transition that we're witnessing in most of Europe, and I don't think it's going to work.” IfsThinkingWayStatesRunningUsedPresidentSituationStrangeEuropeFormerTransitionFlagsGoing To WorkColonyHymnsSaluteBosniaSerbiaBalkansCroatiaTito Author:Tariq Ali
“The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.” WayStillsStatesTodaySufferingCoursesEasyUnitedDealsUnited StatesEuropeBlameDependentAutonomyAlliancesEasy Way Author:Tariq Ali
“There are huge political problems in Germany, but German economic power is something which was bound to happen. The way out of this situation is through the further democratization of the European Union and a changing of its structures.” WayProblemHappensPoliticalSituationEconomicHugeStructureUnionsBoundsGermanyEuropean UnionEconomic PowerDemocratization Author:Tariq Ali
“The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.” PeopleKnowsWayCasesForeverSeriousFunctionCurrentsGermanyElsewhereEurozone Author:Tariq Ali
