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Revolution in the Air: The Arab Spring and a World in Motion- Tariq Ali in conversation with Oliver Stone

Thursday, Oct. 27th

Doors 7:00 pm \\ Talk 7:30 pm \\ Free

Haymarket Books is pleased to present world-renowned political thinker and activist Tariq Ali in conversation with director Oliver Stone, coauthor of Haymarket Books’ On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation and frequent contributor to The Guardian, London Review of Books, and the New Left Review.

From the revolts that have shaken the Middle East, to the Occupy Wall Street sentiment sweeping the U.S., mass movements have been born across the globe. Join us as we discuss this new resistance to the status quo, it’s challenge to empire and the dictates of capital, and radical notions of democracy and liberation born anew.

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Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

2433 N. Lincoln, Chicago, IL

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Talk \\ Q & A \\ Booksigning \\ Bar

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Power to People? CrossTalk on Egypt with Tariq Ali

From the archive

  • ‘Com Dilma, EUA continuarão sem “policial” na América do Sul’: Tariq Ali speaks to Folha

    December 2, 2010

    Tariq Ali interviewed by Claudia Antunes for Folha, November 25 2010

    FOLHA - Os EUA se aproximam da Índia, cuja candidatura ao Conselho de Segurança da ONU apoiaram. A China, do seu lado, se aproxima do Paquistão. Isso afeta a guerra no Afeganistão? TARIQ ALI - Os EUA sabem que têm que se retirar do Afeganistão. Gostariam de sair, mas manter bases militares lá. Isso não vai ser possível. Os chineses, nos bastidores, disseram aos militares paquistaneses que não querem bases permanentes da Otan na sua fronteira. Para resolver esse problema, os EUA precisam dos militares paquistaneses.

    Simultaneamente, os EUA estão jogando a Índia contra a China. A Índia é o país mais importante para os EUA na Ásia. Sempre foi, mesmo quando a Índia tinha uma política externa de neutralidade. Mas hoje há uma elite indiana que se ajoelha  …

  • ‘Elephantine Corruption’

    December 3, 2010

    ‘Elephantine Corruption’ by Tariq Ali for the London Review of Books Blog, December 3, 2010

    The Wikileaks confirm what we already know about Af-Pak. Pakistan is a US satrapy: its military and political leaders constitute a venal elite happy to kill and maim its people at the behest of a foreign power. The US proconsul in Islamabad, Anne Patterson, emerges as a shrewd diplomat, repeatedly warning her country of the consequences in Pakistan if they carry on as before. Amusing but hardly a surprise is Zardari reassuring the US that if he were assassinated his sister, Faryal Talpur, would replace him and all would continue as before. Always nice to know that the country is regarded by its ruler as a personal fiefdom.

    Then we have the country’s military boss, General Kayani, sweetly suggesting that the Pushtun leader  …