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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.

Adam Hochschild

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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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In 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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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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