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Tariq Ali

Novelist, historian, political campaigner and one of New Left Review’s editors.

15 articles

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“Iraq’s destiny still rests between God, blood and oil”

by Tariq Ali

30 January 2006

In three years of Iraq’s occupation, for most western observers, the lies, half-truths and suppressed facts have become part of everyday life. In Iraq, the main concern is whether the country, already divided in three parts, will survive or disappear. Today, the poems of Mohammed Mahdi (...)

“The logic of colonial rule”

by Tariq Ali

7 October 2005

Nowadays, we usually have no differences with regard to the fact that the Western occupation of Iraq is a disaster for the people of this country and the soldiers as well. George W. Bush and Tony Blair deceitful rhetoric has lost its credibility. The only choice is the withdrawal of the (...)

The logic of colonial rule

by Tariq Ali

Caracas (Venezuela) | 28 September 2005

There is now near-universal agreement that the western occupation of Iraq
has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster; first for the people of
Iraq, second for the soldiers sent by scoundrel politicians to die in a
foreign land.