Tariq Ali: Rights and Needs

A writer, journalist, filmmaker and leading figure among cultural-political analysts, Tariq Ali is the author of several important historical novels that examine the relationship between Islam and the Western World. This Oxford educated activist has been at the forefront of anti-war movements from Vietnam to Iraq. Series: "Voices" [5/2007] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12622]

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[stuffupthecracks]

Your absolutely right. Tariq is to my mind utterly resolute. His meticulous disarticulation of neoliberal lies is (as always) inspiring. Pakistan's finest export to the UK.

[LewisBeyman]

Tariq is one of the best thinkers on the left today and his analysis is often on the money.

What is needed is revolutionary change.

[BelfastAtheist]

I do hope Ali is right about the South-to-North links helping to foster elements of Democracy in the U.S, so far ''Occupy'' isn't anywhere near the sort of critical mass it would need to achieve its aims.

[emotionalinvalid]

admit i have slow dsl. but this is only a 240kpbs video, and it keeps buffering in the intro must have a glitch. no big deal. love Tariq.

[5332wonderboy]

May God grant you a very long life Tariq.

[emotionalinvalid]

@smilingasteroid There are other videos that go into more detail. One is titled:"Talk - Michael Parenti - The U.S. War on Yugoslavia". Tariq is great but Dr. Parenti goes into more detail about the post US imperialism exploitation,destruction and death for the 1%. The upload was from talkingstick tv. I recommend subscribing to that You tube channel. Parenti is special because and also talks in a like-able w class nyc accent. He's a scholar for the people like Ali.

[emotionalinvalid]

@LewisBeyman How prescient you are my friend. You wrote this comment 3 years ago. And now look at the meteoric growth of the occupy wall street and 99% against the 1%. However we cannot overlook how much the Arab spring has significantly influenced the current street protests in the US today. You are a veritable oracle. Our hats off to you and others who have felt, like me, the same would happen here in the US. When authority start killing, cops&g.i.'s will fight for protestors=revolution

[4rcher91]

Nobel Prize's on him.

[4rcher91]

Indeed one of Pakistan's finest. Hope there will be more like him.

[emotionalinvalid]

Another wrong does not make a right. But 911, as terrible as it was, was an effect, not a cause. The cause for the "blowback" of 911 began with the partition beneficial to the west of middle east post ww1. And the US joined into the machinations of propping up bloody dictators in middle east post ww2. From overthrow of Iran's true democracy in 1953 by US/UK, hiring Sadam to assassinate the president of Iraq's democracy,etc. gulf war one, US bases next to Mecca, led to 93' fail, then 911.

[emotionalinvalid]

Tariq Ali, one of our great minds in the past 30 years, makes a crucial point. In so many words Ali sees how the world was tricked that globalization would promote human rights on the world. On the contrary it has decreased rights via exploitive capitalism. You can't fight to make rights laws(as Ali also points out as crucial-human rights must be made law in countries) when laissez faire capitalism forces workers into misery sapping them of their strength to fight for rights to laws.