To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDZachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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