[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are aban...
Iain Pears
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civilization, decay, end of the world, genocide, god s wrath, jews, mankind, panic, papal authority, plague
Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of t...
Christopher Hitchens
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communism, dflp, dogmatism, edward said, humanism, liberation, middle east, moscow, orwell, palestine