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+ Naomi Klein has contributed immensely to our understanding of the effects of the radical capitalist policies which have increasingly dominated our planet for the past 4 decades.  A few get fabulously wealthy while most of the rest of us see either little change or see our material wealth decline.  Many have been reduced to poverty by these policies which its advocates still say will improve the lives of everyone. 

She wrote SHOCK DOCTRINE which tells how the disciples of Milton Friedman have used crisis situations over and over again to implement these radical policies.  Often they have taken advantage of situatons during and after some horrible repressive events such as the coup which overthrew the popularly elected Marxist president of Chile in 1973.  There is now a documentary named SHOCK DOCTRINE which tells the stories of some of these terrible events. 

Please watch it.  Get informed. Try to change these destructive policies so often supported by the governments of the planet including the USA, the UK, Russia and Israel.  Find ways to change policies.

Sadly, a vote for the Democrats here in the USA is not nearly enough since many Democrats support these repressive policies including, apparently, President Obama. At least he has done little to stop them.