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In 2007 there was a resolution in US congress to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, but it was quashed after a lobbying campaign by the Turkish embassy - 'Meanwhile, major Jewish organizations - AIPAC, ADL, and others, far from expressing any solidarity with victims of another genocide,were closeted with [Turkey] in Washington discussing how to deny it.'

Possibly Trump is really more like Berlusconi than Mussolini (much less Hitler) - a clown and corrupt businessman, but without any serious ideological commitments. According to Anderson, B really was not a radically right-wing ruler. His only serious program in power was to pass legislation to protect himself from being prosecuted for corruption.

"Neither Wilhelmine Imperialism, nor Nazism, nor Stalinism, are serious threats today. A constant preoccupation with them can easily become a screen for more pressing issues, as in Freudian terms an obsession with imaginary dangers typically functions as a displacement - that is, repression- of quite other, real problems."

After a discussion of the broad European complicity in the war on terror, 'Not a single European government has conceded any guilt, while all continue imperturbably holding forth on human rights. We are in the world of Ibsen - updated for postmoderns: pillars of society, pimping for torture.'