The Joys of Neo-Liberalism

From 1947 to 1973, Latin America experienced a 70% rise in real wages per capita. States had the capacity to both distribute wealth and sustain growth. They showed no need to subscribe wholesale to the capitalism that dominated the American economic scene

Between the Reagan and Clinton administrations (1980 to 1998), Latin America’s average per capita income did not increase at all. 

 

Looking at Latin America’s poverty from the 1960s on evinces something more: about 10% of the region’s denizens were destitute by today’s subsistence standards of less than 2$ a day; however, by 1996, a third of Latin America was poor by the same standards. After just two decades of changes in international trade, ownership and sundry laws, 165 million Latin Americans were impoverished. Unfortunately, by 2005, regional poverty had increased from its 1996 levels, numbering 220 million poor. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/latin-america-and-the-us-techno-empire/

How to Expose Right Wing Propaganda in the Media

Oldies but still goodies! They need to be trotted out once again to counter the recent propaganda orgy in the corporate state's media. See:

http://porkupineblog.blogspot.ca/2007/01/lies-and-exaggeration.html

http://porkupineblog.blogspot.ca/2006/09/how-to-lie-like-politician.html

http://porkupineblog.blogspot.ca/2006/07/envy_08.html

http://porkupineblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/little-political-dictionary.html

And More information on the Kurds and Murray Bookchin's Communalism

Article by Janet Biehl - http://new-compass.net/articles/bookchin-%C3%B6calan-and-dialectics-democracy

A video of her speech written above - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfK3ye_SBc

Social ecology in the Mountains of Kurdistan - http://www.kurdishquestion.com/insight-research/analysis/socialism-gender-equality-and-social-ecology-in-the-mountains-of-kurdistan/81-socialism-gender-equality-and-social-ecology-in-the-mountains-of-kurdistan.html

More Info on Libertarian Kurds

1. An informative article by Kevin Carson on Kurdish communalism as influenced by Murray Bookchin - 
 http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/01/obama-wants-to-defeat-isis-but-not-that-badly/

2.A report on the situation in Western Kurdistan by an eye witness
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27301