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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

Adam Hochschild

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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act 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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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