Word: fascistically
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...began singing loud Catholic folk music, waving red-and-white checkerboard flags, wearing shirts of the same colors, passing close to Serb military men who didn’t look at all amused by these outbursts. The same flag remembered largely as the symbol of Croatia’s fascist regime during World War II, under which proper Croats made refugees out of some 300,000 Serbs less than 100 miles away, was now being waved in the faces of Bosnian Serbs, whose reputation is well-publicized in America and elsewhere courtesy of Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and their...
...wish he were with us now; our times cry out for someone with Orwell's gifts of clear-eyed observation and analysis. What would he have thought, I wonder, of American policy in Afghanistan and Iraq, which uses essentially imperialist means to defeat fascist regimes and rebuild nations ravaged by them? Orwell was not a pacifist. He had lived long enough among the poor in Britain and France to understand the inequities of the liberal democracies, but he had a splendid contempt for those unwilling to defend them against a greater evil. If he believed that rogue states or radical...
...also joined Orwell in his formative experience, the Spanish Civil War. He went to write articles about the Republican cause, she to help edit a workers' party newspaper. He soon joined the party's fighting unit and saw some action, though he couldn't bring himself to shoot a fascist soldier running from a latrine with his pants down. Standing one day in the trenches built for shorter Spaniards, he was shot through the throat. As he recovered, the Soviets were double-crossing their Republican clients. Bowker reports that a Soviet spy had been tailing the politically unreliable couple...
Dead dogs hang from the lampposts in the capital of a mythical South American country. Attached to their carcasses are literate, even ironic, signs announcing a pre-revolutionary terrorist campaign directed at the corrupt and fascist local regime. An honest, weary cop, Augustin Rejas (Javier Bardem), is assigned to investigate. In particular, he must track down "Ezequiel," in whose name the increasingly violent terrorist campaign is being prosecuted...
...books. He defends French intellectuals for being right when governments were wrong: in the 1930s against fascism, in the 1950s against France's colonial presence in Algeria, in the 1970s against the Soviet Union, in the 1990s against the Serbs in Bosnia. "It's always easier to be a fascist than a democrat," he says. "Daniel Pearl was killed because he was a living refutation of his killers' view of a clash of civilizations: he was a Jew curious about Islamic culture who had moved beyond condemnation. In this Manichaeistic epoch, some people can't stand such figures and want...