Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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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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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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