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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSo 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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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