Tariq Ali on the Obama Syndrome

[@marionreynolds7080]

How prescient that this video should be available today. This is Tariq Ali at his most expansive. He covered international politics and the mainstream media to boot. The man is a seer undoubtedly.

[@slampersand3145]

And now

[@mtsardar]

Man is an encyclopedia He deals with facts , he’s never afraid to call spade ♠️ a spade ♠️

[@cliffjburns]

Well-argued and passionate, as always. Tariq Ali is intelligent, credible, his erudition beyond dispute. An important voice on issues relating to foreign affairs and the depredations of capitalism and neo-colonialism.

[@sankachandimaabayawardana]

How Obama became a black face for the white agenda became clear from the way the City group of bank executives came up with 31 US cabinet ministerial positions in 2008, one month before the Election Day. Now the same group who ran the corporate mega operation for Obama is running the campaign for the most corrupt and dangerous US presidential candidate in recent history, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. Reading who John podesta is and who else is involved in managing democratic nominees campaign would clear the slightest doubt one might have on the real dark nature of the Clinton campaign. www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/us-presidential-election-2016-the-fate-of-the-agenda-of-the-corporate-capital/

[@Tespri]

What you see is not depredation of capitalism but socialism.

[@andresamplonius315]

@@Tespri Seguro, "Pubertario" 🤣🤣🤣

[@Tespri]

@@andresamplonius315 Sorry I don't speak spanish

[@jullietmburu9672]

Watching this in June 2024.. wow .. ❤❤❤

[@yveqeshy]

Right? watch the rest of his interviews and honestly history repeats itself everywhere

[@jullietmburu9672]

​@@yveqeshy I've had to,,, I'm glad i came across him!

[@bettyboossister3918]

What an INSPIRATIONAL Man....😊😊😊

[@DrJG9]

"If only they had listened" - couldn't agree more!

[@Edmonddantes123]

This was back when “alternative news sources” meant Al Jazeera and not Fox News/Breitbart

[@Lexomm1]

Fox is not news, never was, Al Jazeera is award winningly good, maybe the best. Maybe because it is owned by a rich government who does not need it to make a profit.

[@FatimaCastillo-b6v]

Thank you so much Tariq Ali.

[@patrickjenkins9167]

👏🗿 Damn❗ An genuine INTELLECTUAL whose speaking style is down-to-Earth, concise & factual. Personally, I'm both humbled, and a bit "blown away"❗

[@bankimkulshreshtha8695]

Tarique ali sahab is very great public intellectual,,,i have been a continuous listener of his speeches,,,i am very lucky to have read his books and speeches,,

[@faizahaider2142]

what an intellectual

[@SZAS1978]

Excellent speech, Tariq Ali. Thank you. But with due respect I was surprised by the suggestion that instead of two nation theory, Israelis and Palestinians live in one country. Israelis are not benevolent people, they are not going to give same rights to Palestinians and I do no think it is going to happen.

[@lsobrien]

***** You're contradicting Bibi. How dare you!

[@rezonthe]

+SZAS1978 Maybe Mr Ali can cure some of your ignorance about Israelis.

[@saturncomes]

why don't palestinians have equal rights NOW if israelis are such a benevolent people. if they were so benevolent would they put millions of arabs into an open air prison and deprive them of basic necessities? if you people think they are so damn benevolent what do you make of the gross disparity in the death toll of israelis and the death toll of palestinians. common israeli's may be perfectly nice but that doesn;t change the fact that the Israeli elite has been allowed to continue merciless slaughter and deprivation of the palestinians.

[@Jeremy031152]

+Anon Anan A Jew hater? Yes I know, i have seen it all before. How sad.

[@CarlyonProduction]

+Jeremy Swanson grow up. We are allowed to criticise the Israeli STATE without hating all Jews. Only nut jobs claim to hate all Jews. Most of us reasonable people have no problem with Jewish people, but have deep problems with the state of Israel and its ruling class. Much like we have deep problems with our own ruling class. It's amazing how so many isreal trolls stand up for their ruling elite...they don't care about you. Most Israelis have more in common with working people the world over, than they do with their own ruling elite. Stop supporting their actions.

[@mikewellwood1412]

Note that this was evidently recorded in 2011 (listen around 35 minutes in).

[@jamiecullum5567]

@Paul Judkins if you believe that your just blind my friends. The economic crisis of 2008 could happen again, the underlying processes of the economy has not changed. This was his point. Not really sure what you mean about the arab spring, considering america the supposed home of democracy cant make its democratic system to work, how can you expect a country just coming out of dictatorship to do so.

[@slampersand3145]

Living with less is not ever discussed even now. Electric and solar and wind, oh my.

[@Edmonddantes123]

Making fun of Sarah Palin seems so quaint in hindsight…

[@bankimkulshreshtha8695]

👍👍👍👍👍👍 what they do not what they say is punchline to evaluate any leader anywhere,, especially my country India about our PM modi too ,,one of our writer also wrote a book titled republic of rhetoric,, Tariq Ali is simply an enlightening public intellectual

[@socialism-succeeds-to-fail]

a great PM, Modi ji - has brought excellent infrastructure, minority security, transparency, women's emancipation, water/electricity/water leftists, corrupt politicians, beneficiaries of national poverty, jihadis, missionaries and the antihindu lobbies are worried that their interests are not taken care, no more!! The the Nehru-Indira-Rajiv-Sonia-Rahul-Priyanka family are worried!!

[@roscoe5253]

Tariq is dead on about the internationalization of the media and the control of the narrative.

[@eoharafisher]

That’s how the military gets officers. They give scholarships to colleges that cover quite a lot, not loans, and then the student owes four years in plus four years national guard.

[@slampersand3145]

So good and relevant.. timeless, i suppose.

[@nickygreenfingers]

I like you Tariq

[@gertstronkhorst2343]

It's always been Only America First.

[@davidpantoja676]

I was happy he won, that's it he did nothing for the regular folk he made his bones on as an activist here in Chicago, was only allowed to do his donors agenda not of the people he did nothing to help Chicago or the nation he deported more migrants than Bush didn't decriminalize weed n the federal level it's still considered a dangerous drug.

[@TheMagicToyChest]

Tariq Ali, Obama, Bush, Putin, Cameron, it doesnt matter. No one can stop me setting guinness world record for most scotch in one five minute.

[@TreborTheWise]

You were drunk! :o

[@joycemcleod8249]

What he say is as true today as it was then

[@stuarthamilton3832]

Moreover, a moderate Republican in the form of Mitt Romney ultimately failed to "cook the goose" of "Moderate Republican" Democrat Obama.

[@savana699]

The Jerusalem question being the capital of Israel was realised in the end by Trump.

[@emotionalinvalid]

Tariq is excellent

[@Johnconno]

At hanging around Academia and talking about the '60's?

[@DoooBeeDoooBeeDooo]

@@Johnconno sure. gimme more of that. what's so better about the 21st century anyways?!!

[@mehmetdeger9813]

A great mind. Listen and learn from this intellectual .

[@rubymars_xyz]

anyone have a source on Obama saying Reagan was his favorite president? I certainly believe it, but I would like to look it up.

[@AnandKulkarniPlusOne]

Starts at 5:00

[@Moionfire]

Aljazeera English was available in DC and many US cities for years even before it was transormed to aljazeera america. I wish people would stop lying that aljazeera is not available in the US.

[@icgantshat]

How well is Al Jazeera doing in the US now?

[@junacebedo888]

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[@CarlosGarcia-wh5bw]

Well said, the vasal states in Europe and Australia

[@abbytamrat1662]

If you say Obama did not know what American interest was, then what do you think is ‘American interests’ ?

[@MsHumble4]

AMEN !

[@sharynnoble3213]

This will be interesting

[@ignatiusmagnanimous]

The Muslim Brotherhood were wretched and were taking the country backwards. I have empathy for them being subjected to torture, but they wanted a Muslim State ruled by sharia. The power is within the people. And where was the Aussie translator?

[@Internetdev]

Il a parlé à raispn de Mouhamar Khaddafi (mal mais passons) et d'un diplomate américain , mais aussi de Ben Ali et d'une histoire avec la ministre des affaires étrangères Française (Michelle Aliot-Marie) et d'Osny Moubarak. Ce qu'il a oublié et ce qu'il ne semble pas savoir, c'est Khaddafi déérangeait les USA la France (qui a préétendu faire une "union poru la méditéranée" qui n'a jamais vu le jours) et l'EU parce qu'il voulait faire une union panaefricaine Ce qu'il ne sait pas aussi, parce qu'il n'en a pas parlé, c'est que dans deux des cas (Tunisie et Libye) Sarkozy a fait croire aux deux qu'ils allaient réintégrer la scène politique mondiale (l'invitation de Khaddafi avec quelques outrance accordées firent scandale en France et les copinage de sa ministre Michel Aliot-Marie avec Ben Ali qu'elle aussi a essayé de faire les poches avant qu'il tombe comme par magie)

[@DouglasEBeers]

We do get Al Jazeera in the States.

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Of course Americans can watch Al-Jazeera. Either through satellite or Internet streams.

[@rezonthe]

+TheLoyalOfficer Or Comcast, or Verizon...

[@harshbhandari9070]

5:30

[@ColdChicago]

do watch this citizens...you will NEVER see its like on corporate TV...

[@paulgraystone4919]

49 mins thantcher was a wig, blair a tory.. same difference

[@Deathslist]

31:00

[@harshbhandari9070]

1:10:15

[@katsetuis5ryan600]

Guy is smart

[@mtsardar]

Man is simply a genius. Iam Proud to have the same name

[@kevingiblin4122]

Is a PC that weren't more ageing rockstars doing their bits apart from the brilliant one that's doing something you sarcasm is out of order sir

[@stuarthamilton3832]

Saudi Arabia's monarchical dictatorship is more vicious than ever. And the current Egyptian dictator from the military seems to be as bad, if not even worse, than Mubarak. Israel continues to be a bitter apartheid state becoming ever more fascistic so he seems to be right on that score. But otherwise, at least relative to the promise of the Arab Spring, his crystal ball seems to be a little bit cracked. I like Tariq Ali though. Not hatin' on him. 😊

[@HeatherCameronCAS]

he lost me re privatising education. This means the poor dont get educated or only church run education...believe me it's true.

[@doc7000]

lb3g4m3rcyl if you are poor then the only education that you will be able to afford is a church school with exceptions to this rule. This is because the private schools are going to maximize profits while churcj based ones tend to have more charity involved. My sister was able to put one of her daughters into a catholic private school for free and she isnt even catholic.

[@jamiecullum5567]

If you want people to believe you, provide some proof or atleast some. Substance to your arguement, rather than making a statement. Anyone can do as you have. it is far harder to convince someone that your point of view is correct, than to simply tell them your opinion.

[@abbytamrat1662]

I’ve never heard the Democrat Obama adore Regan other than perhaps acknowledge some of the good things he has done like all other presidents. Also, Tariq himself is a convincing speaker like Obama but he too has nothing in the “action not words” department. Still, I give this speaker some credit.

[@junacebedo888]

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