“I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.” Quote by Tariq 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.” Has BeensFallCultureUnitedDisciplineUnionsWestCommunismOfficialsSovietCollapseSoviet UnionCasting Author:Tariq Ali
“The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.” PastForgetToo MuchForget ItEmbeddedStarting Anew Author:Tariq Ali
“It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.” ImaginationEnemyWesternAdolph Hitler Author:Tariq Ali
“Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it carried on like that. Saddam Hussein became Hitler when he was no longer a friend of the West. Then Milosevic became Hitler.” LeaderWestBritishMinistersPrimeEgyptSaddamPrime MinisterHusseinEdenEgyptian Author:Tariq Ali
“The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.” IfsThinkingStatesImplicationsBin LadenGrotesqueOsama Bin Laden Author:Tariq Ali
“We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.” WorldYearsReasonBigsLastsMemoriesTelevisionWestPopulationDeclineFifteenCoverageFifteen YearsShort Memory Author:Tariq Ali
“History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.” TelevisionAncientContemporaryIgnoredAncient History Author:Tariq Ali
“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.” IfsWorldCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesNewsLatinMexicoContinentsCoverageLatin America Author:Tariq Ali
“The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war. Western television networks aren't showing this, but Arab networks are showing how prisoners are being killed and what's being done to them. Instead, we're shown scenes that are deliberately created for the Western media: a few women without the veil, a woman reading the news on Kabul television, and 150 people cheering.” PeopleWarDoneReadingKnownMediaTelevisionSceneNewsWesternPrisonerCheerConventionsVeilsAlliancesTalibanBeing DoneBreachKabulWestern Media Author:Tariq Ali
“During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.” WarGovernmentUsedChallengesAcceptingEventsNewsVersionsManagersJournalistOfficialsGulf War Author:Tariq Ali
