I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.
Tariq AliThe past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.
Tariq AliHistory, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.
Tariq AliAll these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want to do this, but we're doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other.
Tariq Ali