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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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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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