I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNo international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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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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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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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