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Since the famously photographed murder of a Socialist leader by a right-wing youth in 1960, being a Japanese politician has been hazardous to little more than one's ego. That may have changed with the shocking murder last Friday of Diet member Koki Ishii. The 61-year-old Ishii was steps away from his car outside his home when he was stabbed repeatedly with what appeared to be a 30-cm sashimi knife by Hakusui Ito, a 38-year-old with ties to right-wing extremists. Ito fled the scene but turned himself in to the police the following...
...have long had a turbulent relationship with liberals—I believe deeply in their causes and eschew their techniques. Their self-righteousness too often disgusts me, although I vote happily every two years for Bernie Sanders, the socialist congressman who represents my home of Vermont. Four years ago, when I left the Senate, I thought I had found in Wellstone a candidate for president in whom I deeply believed. Thus, when he bowed out of the race in January 1999 for health and family reasons, I was crushed. That disappointment was the beginning of a long frustration with...
...deputy chair of the former ruling party. "He has acted in favor of the investment community against his own people. I don't believe in his good intentions." Veltchev's intention, he says, is simply "to pursue the right economic policies." He is frustrated by what he calls the "socialist mentality still prevalent" among many Bulgarians. "Things like privatization and structural reforms are sometimes easier than the most fundamental change - getting people to start thinking in market- economy terms, to stop expecting the government to take care of them." Veltchev has the cour-age of his convictions, but some socialist...
...head is three times greater than theirs. Even though their refurbished roads bear signs saying brought to you by the E.U., only 33% of Estonians and Latvians think joining is a good thing. That's less than in any other candidate country. Many regard the Union as quasi-socialist and culturally homogenizing - a hit song from Latvia starts "Europe will not understand us." None of that translates into political opposition; Estonia's main parties are still pushing for entry. But they promote membership not as a blessing but as protection against getting swallowed up by a revanchist Russia...
...hemispheric affairs. But none of that will be possible by isolating Brazil from international investors, whose outlook may be more conditioned by the IMF orthodoxy of the recent past that has little sympathy for government spending on social programs to alleviate economic distress among the urban poor. Indeed, the socialist Lula's greatest challenge may lie in persuading local and international investors that his policies are the ones that will secure the long-term future of capitalism in Brazil...