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Obscene History: The Fact-Free Political Alarmism of Naomi Wolf

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lostlakehiker1/10/2013 10:44:32 pm PST

re: #11 EPR-radar

So Chile is fascist?

Let’s look at some indices of freedom.

Reporters Without Borders Linkrates Chile 82nd among nations (first is best) on freedom of the press. The US rates 47th, Israel 92nd, Brazil 99th, Venezuela 119th, and Mexico 149th. All those other countries must be either more fascist or more Communist, if Chile is fascist.

Freedom House (linked to by Huffpost) rates Chile as “Free”. Link

How about economic freedom? Chile ranks 7th Link(Heritage Foundation and the WSJ). (USA, 10th).

How fare the poor? 0.5 percent of children under the age of 5 underweight. (USA, 1.3 percent.)

Chile doesn’t have an military entanglements. By what stretch of the imagination can Chile be deemed fascist? Indices right and left (any way you want to take that) say different.