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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] The price of food is at the heart of this wave of revolutions
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:25:40 -0700


seems we've been expecting this

The price of food is at the heart of this wave of revolutions
No one saw the uprisings coming, but their deeper cause isn't hard to fathom
By Peter Popham Sunday, 27 February 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-price-of-food-is-at-the-heart-of-this-wave-of-revolutions-2226896.html

Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and
mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several died as protests grew
more serious in Iraq. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah tried to bribe his people
into docility by splashing out $35bn on housing, social services and
education. Across the water in Bahrain the release of political prisoners
failed to staunch the uprising. In Iran, President Ahmadinejad crowed about
chaos in the Arab world, but said nothing about the seething anger in his own
backyard; in Yemen, the opposition gathers strength daily.

And it's not just the Middle East. This is an African crisis: Tunisia, where
it started, is an African country, and last week in Senegal, a desperate army
veteran died after setting fire to himself in front of the presidential
palace, emulating Mohamed Bouazizi, the market trader whose self-immolation
sparked the revolution in Tunisia. Meanwhile, the spirit of revolt has
already leapt like a forest fire to half a dozen other ill-governed African
nations, with serious disturbances reported in Mauritania, Gabon, Cameroon
and Zimbabwe.

Nowhere is immune: dozens of activists in China are in detention or under
other forms of surveillance, and the LinkedIn network was shut down as
authorities seek to stamp out Middle East-style protests there. In what is
arguably the most repressive state on the planet, North Korea, the army was
called out and five died in the northern city of Sinuiju after violent
protests erupted there and in two other cities. The generals who rule Burma
under a trashy façade of constitutional government were keeping a close eye
on the Middle East, ready to lock up Aung San Suu Kyi again at the first sign
of copycat disturbances.




  • [Livingontheland] The price of food is at the heart of this wave of revolutions, Tradingpost, 02/28/2011

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