Word: socialist
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...Ground Zero of Spain's new water wars, however, may be Barcelona's planned diversion of the Ebro, Spain's largest river, which is expected to be completed in October. The Socialist government of recently reelected Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero plans to build a pipeline alongside the highway to transport diverted Ebro water north to Barcelona. But when he was first elected in 2004, Zapatero's government overturned a similar plan, hatched by the conservative Popular Party (PP), to divert water south to Valencia. The fact that Barcelona's government is Socialist, while Valencia is ruled...
...However, Tadic's victory is not complete. Since he can't form a government on his own, he will need to find a coalition partner. Paradoxically, the most likely candidate is the Socialist Party of Serbia, whose founder was Slobodan Milosevic, the darkest figure in Serbia's recent history. The Socialists won 20 seats in the parliament, which, along with ethnic minorities who have 10 seats, should be enough for Tadic to build a comfortable majority...
...Ortega had earlier signed a food-security pact with his fellow travelers in the ALBA alliance, a socialist cooperation agreement between Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia. ALBA is blaming the food crisis on the "tyranny of global capitalism," and is using the situation as a teaching moment for its regional propaganda campaign...
...Other sacred cows will need to be challenged. India's old socialist system may have had its problems, says Imrana Qadeer, one of India's foremost public-health experts, but the belief that private enterprise can cure all of India's woes is dangerously misguided. "The private sector doesn't want to do basic things like treating diarrhea, improving nutrition, immunizing babies because that's not where the money is," says Qadeer. "In India we cannot live without a strong public sector...
...continued, to the laughter of the over 200-person audience. “I actually have two new poems to be published in the next month, one in The Nation, and the other in the Socialist Review...