https://znetwork.org/author/tariqali/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:52:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/tariqali/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abduction-in-caracas/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abduction-in-caracas/#respond Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293252 Two decades before US forces kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro this weekend, Hugo Chávez had already predicted the approach: Years ago, someone told me: ‘They’re going to end up accusing you of being a drug trafficker – you personally – you, Chávez. Not just that the government supports it, or permits it – no, no, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abduction-in-caracas/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuclear-options/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuclear-options/#respond Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285236 The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad faith with Iran over its nuclear programme, the Israeli regime took advantage of an interval to bomb Tehran, assassinating leading scientists, a senior general and other [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuclear-options/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conquered-lands/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conquered-lands/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280328 To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the old Ottoman-dominated Arab world and created new countries (Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia), principalities and outposts (the Gulf States, southern Yemen) and puppet states (Egypt, Iran), as well as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conquered-lands/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/tariq-ali-on-trumps-embrace-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza-global-rise-of-the-far-right/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/tariq-ali-on-trumps-embrace-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza-global-rise-of-the-far-right/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:54:00 +0000 Acclaimed scholar and activist Tariq Ali joins us for a wide-ranging conversation. In Part 1, he responds to Trump’s support of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the U.S.’s capitulation to Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the rise in right-wing authoritarianism around the world. Ali says Donald Trump is “the most right-wing president in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/tariq-ali-on-trumps-embrace-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza-global-rise-of-the-far-right/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-roads-to-damascus/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-roads-to-damascus/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276991 None but a few corrupt cronies will be shedding tears at the tyrant’s departure. But there should be no doubt that what we are witnessing in Syria today is a huge defeat, a mini 1967 for the Arab world. As I write, Israeli land forces have entered this battered country. There is not yet a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-roads-to-damascus/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/tariq-ali-on-u-s-u-k-arming-israels-war-on-gaza-pakistan-protests-macrons-embrace-of-the-right/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/tariq-ali-on-u-s-u-k-arming-israels-war-on-gaza-pakistan-protests-macrons-embrace-of-the-right/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:53:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1272193 We speak to acclaimed historian, activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali about Western governments’ support for Israel’s war on Gaza and popular protest in support of Palestine, which Ali calls the “biggest divide we’ve seen in politics almost since the Vietnam War.” He argues that this division is “challenging the very nature of democracy” and the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/tariq-ali-on-u-s-u-k-arming-israels-war-on-gaza-pakistan-protests-macrons-embrace-of-the-right/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-reprieve-for-assange/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-reprieve-for-assange/#respond Mon, 20 May 2024 17:33:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266646 The High Court’s decision to permit Julian Assange to appeal his pending extradition is an important, if partial, victory. The judges are only too aware that, in reality, he has no case to answer. The US charge of ‘espionage’ is blatant nonsense. The fact that it hasn’t already been dismissed and Julian released is a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-reprieve-for-assange/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-baluchistan-imbroglio/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-baluchistan-imbroglio/#respond Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:51:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1260983 The level of ignorance in Western coverage of the border clashes between Iran and Pakistan should come as no surprise. Nor should the State Department declaration that Pakistan’s response was ‘proportionate’ – making for queasy comparisons with the ongoing mass slaughter being perpetrated by another US funded and armed entity not too far away. To [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-baluchistan-imbroglio/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/health-workers-in-the-uk-shut-down-the-headquarters-of-a-gaza-war-profiteer/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/health-workers-in-the-uk-shut-down-the-headquarters-of-a-gaza-war-profiteer/#respond Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:16:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259871 Last week, hundreds of UK health workers shut down the central London headquarters of US tech giant and spy firm Palantir to disrupt its business. Their mass picket aims to blockade entry to and exit from the building in protest against National Health Service (NHS) England awarding a £330 million contract to Palantir, a company [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/health-workers-in-the-uk-shut-down-the-headquarters-of-a-gaza-war-profiteer/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uprising-in-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uprising-in-palestine/#respond Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:18:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255461 In December 1987, a new intifada erupted in Palestine, shaking Israel as well as the elites of the Arab world. A few weeks later, the grand old Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani wrote ‘The Trilogy of the Children of Stones’, in which he denounced the older generation of Palestinian leaders – today represented by the corrupt, collaborationist Palestine [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uprising-in-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/khan-against-the-generals/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/khan-against-the-generals/#respond Mon, 22 May 2023 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246411 For much of the past week, former Pakistani Prime Minster Imran Khan’s house in Lahore has been surrounded by armed police, and the Rangers – a repressive force straddling the police and Army but under civilian control – have been on standby. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has ruled that Khan should not [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/khan-against-the-generals/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/assassination-time-again/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/assassination-time-again/#respond Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:18:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1231485 A failed attempt in Wazirabad last Thursday to assassinate the former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has resulted in mass demonstrations throughout the country. Khan was aboard his campaign truck, on the long march of his supporters to Islamabad to demand immediate elections. Bullets hit him in the leg. Was it two or three? Such is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/assassination-time-again/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/king-charles-iii-may-keep-his-head-his-kingdom-is-another-story/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/king-charles-iii-may-keep-his-head-his-kingdom-is-another-story/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:50:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1220167 The monarchy needs deaths and weddings for its cyclical renewal. But they called last orders on the United Kingdom some time ago. London—Charles is a name that most English monarchs have avoided since the 17th century. Let’s therefore start where we really should. 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