the Islam Quintet and will only be replying to urgent e-mail in June
and most of July 2009. His latest book 'The Protocols of the Elders
of Sodom and Other Essays' will be available in July.
Most recent books:
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path
of American Power
Published by Simon and Schuster in September 2008.
'To recapitulate. After Benazir Bhutto was assassinated last December,
her will was read out to the family’s assembled political retainers. Her
19-year-old son, Bilawal, inherited the Pakistan People's Party, but until
he came of age her husband, Asif Zardari, would act as regent. The
general election, postponed following her death, took place in February.
The immediate impact of the stunning electoral defeat suffered by
General Musharraf's political party and his factotums was to dispel the disillusionment of the citizenry. Not for long. 'Zardari is running the government with the help of his old cronies; the
judges dismissed by Musharraf have still not been reinstated; the
economy is a mess; and the US Air Force has started dropping bombs
on the North-West Frontier Province again. Poor Pakistan.'
Tariq Ali in the London Review of Books, July 17, 2008
New in paperback:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Since 1998, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo
Chávez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal
consensus and American foreign policy. While Chávez's radical social-
democratic reforms have brought him worldwide acclaim among the
poor, he has attracted intense hostility from Venezuelan elites and
Western governments.
Tariq Ali draws on first-hand experience of
Venezuela and meetings with
Hugo Chávez to
analyse the Bolivarian revolutionary process. He
discusses the influence of Castro on Chávez,
Bolivia’s Evo Morales
and Ecuador's Rafael Correa,
the latest addition to the 'Axis of Hope’.
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