Word: fascism
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...Amos Elon called The Pity of It All. It's about Jewish life in Berlin right before the war. The whole environment of the salons and all this culture-there was a real openness and freedom. It's scary to think the response to that was this incredible fascism...
...were intended to celebrate aeronautical motion, but these paintings lack the meticulous artistry that characterized their forerunners. Still, almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci conceived the world's first flying machine, this gallery is a shrine to Italy's aircraft industry, which flourished in the 1930s, sustained by Fascism's colonial ambitions...
...Just as we must ensure that Islam at large not be conflated with the broken neologism “Islamo-fascism,” when we hear an official trot out some turn of phrase casting Iran as an “enemy of democracy,” we must be careful of confusion. He refers to the absence of pro-American representative government, and ignores the factual if fragile mechanism for political participation in place. Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric is troubling, but it was endorsed and he empowered by democracy; in the end, he will have to reckon...
Western commentators tend to see political Islam as an antiliberal and irrational form of "Islamo-fascism." Yet much of the Islamists' success in Pakistan and elsewhere comes from their ability to portray themselves as champions of social justice, fighting Westernized lites--like Benazir Bhutto. Her reputation for corruption was gold dust to these Islamic revolutionaries, just as the excesses of the Shah were to his opponents in Iran 30 years earlier. During Bhutto's government, Pakistan was declared one of the most corrupt nations in the world, and she and her husband Asif Ali Zardari were charged with jointly...
That was too much for the wild card Republican libertarian Ron Paul, who warned of "fascism ... carrying a Cross." (Huckabee's reply: Sometimes a bookshelf is just a bookshelf.) But then, the line between sacred and secular has always been blurry at this time of year--check out all the White House Christmas trees. The Iowa situation is regrettable because it's so arbitrary and unnecessary. There's no good reason for the campaigns to be crammed into the week reserved for family and faith. It's just thesad result of jealous competition among states over the chance...