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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

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Tariq Ali
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 21
Film Director
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American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.
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At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.
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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.
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History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.
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Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.
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I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.
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The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
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There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.
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The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.
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Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.
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Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
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One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.
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The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.
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The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing technocrats to take over and run countries for long periods. They did it in Greece they did it in Italy they considered it in other parts of Europe.
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People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.
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That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.
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The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.
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Desperation is the result of globalization.
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The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.
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Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.
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