[Peace-discuss] Tariq Ali speaks at UIUC this Thursday

[Brussel, Morton K]

Just to note that Tariq Ali was rather cavalier, disappointing, with respect to the dangers of a nuclear confrontation/war, and sanguine (bad word) with respect to war in general. He made just a mention about Korea, nothing that I can recall regarding Syria/Palestine-Israel or Iran.  The words war/militarism were downplayed or not mentioned in his presentation.

He knocked Putin, but allowed his adroitness in foreign policy, was pessimistic about South America, compared Norway’s use of oil wealth to Venezuala’s (albeit the situations between the two are/were radically different).

Perhaps there wasn't enough time to go into all of that. He was mostly interested in the nature of revolutions, past and present.

It was an impressive presentation, nonetheless.

I couldn’t hear well much of what he said…

—mkb

On Mar 30, 2018, at 12:25 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

Ali's analysis of the Russian Revolution diverges from Chomsky in that Chomsky argues that the April Theses were public relations, was as Ali sees them in a more authentic light.

Ali called Trump a "shithole" for what it's worth (although mainly for laughs), cutting him no slack as Caitlin Johnstone is inclined to do. That is, no analysis of populism/nationalism in any positive sense from Ali.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:37 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
We certainly don’t want subscribers to an AWARE mail list to know what you think.

On Mar 29, 2018, at 11:14 PM, kmedina67 via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

 My apologies.
I was writing from my cell phone; I did not notice that the email was cc'd to peace. Drat. I really tried NOT to send it to peace.

Also apologies for the mis-spellings. Auto- correct is sneaky at changing my words.
- Karen Medina



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