Word: fascistically
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...President Woodrow Wilson’s stated commitment to building a new world order that would preserve democracy and prevent international conflict (even though the United States, because of domestic political bickering, never actually joined). Yet its feebleness and inability to deter violent aggression quickly became apparent. In 1923, Fascist Italy shelled and occupied the Greek island of Corfu. There were protests in the League against the Italian bombardment, but no credible response was authorized. Then, in 1931, Japanese armed forces took over the Chinese province of Manchuria and subsequently established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Once again, despite...
...gasoline, worried that supplies would soon run out. Opposition parties - backed by the public-sector unions and National Business Association - accuse the President of promoting class hatred, and of taking the country toward Cuban-style socialism. But Chávez maintained he would survive what he called "the terrorist-fascist strike," and refused to discuss elections. He said his opponents were trying to destabilize the country and force the military to intervene, which is exactly what happened in April, when dissident military officers briefly overthrew the government. Meanwhile, international mediation efforts continued, led by the Secretary-General of the Organization...
...utopian ideology of multiculturalism and closed their eyes to the contradictions spawned by their social choices. Fortunately, the center-right has co-opted the far-right’s immigration platform, and with it their popularity, while steering clear of extremism. Instead of blasting all European conservatives for imaginary fascist tendencies, liberals should thank them for saving Europe from the real thing...
...looks like Vietnam. One day soldiers arrive (conspicuously similar to American G.I.s) and destroy the village. She flees through the jungle and across the sea. She arrives at a modern city with dark, bedraggled citizens under constant surveillance. She meets a street musician, who after being arrested by the fascist police force, leaves her with child. At the end, the cry of the newborn continues the father's song...
...child of a middle-class Viennese Jewish family, Lerner was a teenager when the fascist regime came to power in Austria in 1934. She became engaged in the underground student resistance movement, but when the Nazi takeover later forced her and her family into exile, she alone escaped to the U.S. to join the radical leftist party and embark on her academic career...