And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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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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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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