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
ADAM HOCHSCHILDIn 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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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