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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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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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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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