Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAfter all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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