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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Adam Hochschild

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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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