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...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...
...half a billion people in 175 countries marked Earth Day in a global festival of political showmanship and corporate spin. President Bush planted an oak in New Orleans (249,999 more would bring the canopy back to pre-Katrina levels). In Indonesia, activists painted themselves green (above). Bolivia's socialist President Evo Morales told the U.N. that "if we want to save our planet Earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system." And capitalists polished their image to a green sheen: Macy's unveiled a new solar-power system in San Jose, Calif.; Chevron...
...many ways, Rubinger's history parallels that of Israel. Born in 1924 in Vienna, he became a Zionist socialist and migrated to Palestine, escaping the Holocaust, which consumed his mother and many relatives. After the war for independence - or as Palestinians call it, al naqba, the disaster - Rubinger was too much of a maverick to be anything but a photojournalist. His first internationally published shots were of a small diplomatic incident: a patient in a Catholic hospital on the Green Line had dropped her false teeth out the window onto the Jordanian side, and after much negotiation, the nuns were...