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A Congregation of Pain
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22 April 2012
Unrepentant Marxist, writer, journalist, filmmaker and political campaigner, Tariq Ali is still searching for socialism with a human face. He sits on the editorial board of the New Left Review and is a regular columnist for The Guardian, Counter Punch and the London Review of Books. He compares Marx with the Prometheus of Greek mythology who stole the heavenly gift of fire from Zeus and brought it to the mortals. What we do with that fire is up to us, he is fond of saying. Tariq Ali was in Delhi recently to deliver the Faiz Ahmed Faiz Memorial Lecture. He had a freewheeling interview with Bharat Bhushan, a shorter version of which appeared in print:
When you look at your original homeland, Pakistan, what thoughts come to your mind?
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Is the world too big to fail?
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03 October 2011
Noam Chomsky
Eisenhower expressed concern over 'Middle Eastern hatred', explained by the NSC as 'a perception that the US supports dictatorship and blocks democracy and development' [GALLO/GETTY]
The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces - coinciding, fortuitously, with a remarkable uprising of tens of thousands in support of working people and democracy in Madison, Wisconsin, and other US cities. If the trajectories of revolt in Cairo and Madison intersected, however, they were headed in opposite directions: in Cairo toward gaining elementary rights denied by the dictatorship, in Madison towards defending rights that had been won in long and hard struggles and are now under severe attack.
Each is a microcosm of tendencies in global society, following varied courses. There are sure to be far-reaching consequences of what is taking place both in the decaying industrial heartland of the richest and most powerful country in human history, and in what President Dwight Eisenhower called "the most strategically important area in the world" - "a stupendous source of strategic power" and "probably the richest economic prize in the world in the field of foreign investment," in the words of the State Department in the 1940s, a prize that the US intended to keep for itself and its allies in the unfolding New World Order of that day.
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Bahrain: the Divided Kingdom
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08 August 2011
Sometimes I think there must be a fatal connection between the initial letter "B" and places torn apart by struggles for power between different religious communities. I started as a journalist in Belfast in the early 1970s when the city was convulsed by sectarian warfare between Catholics and Protestants. In later years, I moved to Beirut to cover the many-sided civil war, at the heart of which was the conflict between Muslims and Maronites. After 2003, I spent long months in Baghdad, writing about the fighting between Shia and Sunni which culminated in the slaughter of 2006-7.
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The New Operation Wetback
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06 August 2011
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¿Comienza una revolución anti-capitalista?
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21 June 2011
En un pasaje memorable del Manifiesto Comunista Marx y Engels sostienen que con su ascenso la burguesía desgarró impiadosamente el velo ideológico que impedía que hombres y mujeres percibieran la verdadera naturaleza de sus relaciones sociales “para no dejar subsistir otro vínculo que el frío interés, el ‘pago al contado’.” El capitalismo, decían, “ha ahogado el sagrado éxtasis del fervor religioso, el entusiasmo caballeresco y el sentimentalismo del pequeño burgués en las aguas heladas del cálculo egoísta. … En una palabra, en lugar de la explotación velada por ilusiones religiosas y políticas ha establecido una explotación abierta, descarada, directa y brutal.” Y culminan esa sentencia diciendo que en ese mundo construido por la burguesía “todo lo sólido se disuelve en el aire; todo lo sagrado es profanado y los hombres, al fin, se ven forzados a enfrentarse, sobriamente, con sus condiciones reales de existencia y sus relaciones recíprocas.”
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Tour of villages for Kurds candidates
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08 June 2011
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The counter-revolution club
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28 May 2011
They are a shish kebab of hereditary monarchies, emirates and outright theocracies. Most sit on oceans of oil (45% of the world's reserves). They are addicted to the West's glitter and glamour - from London to Monte Carlo, from the delicacies of Paris to the weaponized delicacies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO. They abhor democracy like they abhor poverty. Some would be glad to topple their own people - as indeed they do. And they view Shi'ite Iran as worse than the anti-Christ.
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The Anglo-American Military Axis: West Backs Holy Alliance For Control Of Arab World And Persian Gulf
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27 May 2011
The standard-bearers of Anglo-American imperialism in the current epoch, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron, met in London on May 25 to discuss the world's two ongoing wars of aggression, those in Afghanistan and Libya, both under the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization dominated by Washington and London.
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Interview with Noam Chomsky
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27 May 2011
Frank Barat poses questions from artists, activists and journalists, on Egypt, corporate power, Palestine and more.
For his second interview in less than a year with Professor Noam Chomsky (the first one took place in Cambridge in September 2010 and is available here), Frank Barat asked well known artists and journalists to each send one question that they'd like to ask Noam.
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Arab image in Turkey
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21 May 2011
There was some serious soul searching done in the 10th edition of the Arab Media Forum held in Dubai this week under the auspices of the Dubai Press Club.
It covered issues from the battered image of Arab citizens to the state of the Arab media, from the impact of WikiLeaks on Arab rulers to the role of social media in recent uprisings in the region. More than 2,400 regional and international journalists as well as media professionals from 40 countries followed debates at the forum.
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