Word: socialist
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...European expatriate, I am watching with horror and disbelief as Europe is being transformed through left-wing ideology against the will of most Europeans. Europe is inexorably coming to an end. It is now nothing more than a socialist dictatorship governed by a political élite that is among the most corrupt in the world. What's happening in the E.U. today is not in accordance with the principles of democracy. Giorgio Corazza, ORANGE GROVE, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Chile. Although Chile has one of South America's strictest anti-abortion codes, it's estimated to have twice as many abortions each year (200,000) as Canada - a country with twice Chile's population. (Abortion is legal in Canada.) As a result, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, late last year sanctioned the free distribution of emergency "morning-after" contraception pills at government-run hospitals. In a nation where three-fourths of the public say they oppose liberalizing the abortion law - which, like Nicaragua's, bars abortion in all circumstances, even in cases of rape or when the mother...
...Vietnam's highest-profile political case in years, the five defendants were found guilty of "conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic" after a raucous, half-day trial Friday in which the priest loudly denounced the court as "the law of the jungle." At that point he was hushed up and hustled out to follow the proceedings by loudspeaker in an adjoining room where he eventually heard his sentence: Eight years in prison for helping set up and publicize a small, illegal opposition party, known as the Progression Party...
...Sarkozy isn't the only candidate seeking ghetto affirmation through his choice of song. Olivier Besancenot, candidate of the Revolutionary Communist League, has used this hip-hop interpretation of the classic socialist anthem "The Internationale" for most of his 2007 campaign...
...unsuccessful) bid to secure the socialist party's nomination as its presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn released this re-make of a 2006 summer hit. In a pretty danceable chorus, the former Finance Minister lays down his socialist credentials ("to the left, to the left...