So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDLeopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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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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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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