Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAll of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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