Allen Ruff is joined by Tariq Ali. Ali is a British-Pakistani journalist, historian, filmmaker, novelist, social political activist and anti-imperialist voice. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and regularly contributes to numerous periodicals.

He’s the author of a lengthy list of titles, among them works on Pakistan and Kashmir, and several on U.S. imperial meddling in the Middle East and elsewhere including the Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity (2002),  Bus in Babylon (2003), The Obama Syndrome (2010), The Extreme Centre: A Warning (2015) and the recently published The Dilemmas of Lenin.