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" The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment. "
Tariq Ali
Corruption
High
Paper
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" The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism. "
Tariq Ali
Political
World
Experience
" As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many. "
Tariq Ali
Party
New
He
" To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system. "
Tariq Ali
Lobby
Competitive
System
" I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis. "
Tariq Ali
God
Praying
Jews
" Revolutionaries are not infallible. "
Tariq Ali
Infallible
Revolutionaries
" The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America. "
Tariq Ali
Through
Serious
Political
" For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy. "
Tariq Ali
India
Policy
Foreign Policy
" I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted. "
Tariq Ali
Cast
Pain
Meaning
" In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance. "
Tariq Ali
Little
Whatever
Importance
" Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow. "
Tariq Ali
Who
Independence
Positive
" There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture. "
Tariq Ali
Years
Agreement
Culture
" As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never. "
Tariq Ali
Fight
Divorce
Army
" The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged. "
Tariq Ali
Voice
Before
Dancers
" In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses. "
Tariq Ali
United States
Cuban
January
" Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups. "
Tariq Ali
Change The World
Change
Women
" When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen. "
Tariq Ali
Out
New
India
" I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. "
Tariq Ali
Activism
Social
Am
" I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests. "
Tariq Ali
Right
Change
Interests
" As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. "
Tariq Ali
Political
Weak
Always
" In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction. "
Tariq Ali
Trade
Which
Place
" Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century. "
Tariq Ali
Independence
Political
Way
" The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity. "
Tariq Ali
Destiny
Interior
Language
" Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans. "
Tariq Ali
Society
Political
Identity
" Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends. "
Tariq Ali
Used
Always
Selfish
" There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves. "
Tariq Ali
Conflict
Fight
People
" Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. "
Tariq Ali
Enthusiasm
Office
Those
" The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago. "
Tariq Ali
Lie
Ancient
Indian
" A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television. "
Tariq Ali
Storm
Night
Mountains
" In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War. "
Tariq Ali
War
Cold
Intensity
" The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government. "
Tariq Ali
Board
Joke
Government