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Monday, January 24, 2011
Steep Oil Prices, Food Shortages Will Likely Spark Deadly Riots This Year
Tom Engelhardt
Alternet
From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society.
He was a poor 26-year-old trying to eke out a living and help pay for his sisters’ schooling. He
met the deep corruption
of the Tunisian regime face to face in the most everyday and humiliating way — in the form of bribes he couldn’t afford just to keep his little stand open and the power of a bureaucracy to shut him down on a whim. In frustration, in protest, he doused himself with
paint thinner
and burned himself to death (though it took days for that death to come).
His name was Mohammed Bouazizi; he came from the town of Sidi Bouzid, which you’ve never heard of; and his is a terrible story. Now, he’s known across the Middle East as the man who started the Tunisian revolution and will undoubtedly go down in history — along with
Thich Quang Duc
, the Buddhist monk who calmly seated himself in a Saigon street in June 1963 and started a political firestorm by
immolating himself
to protest a repressive American-backed South Vietnamese government; and
Jan Palach
, the Czech student who did the same in Prague’s Wenceslas Square in January 1969 as a response to the Soviet invasion of his country. In all three cases, others followed their painful example. In all three cases, sooner or later it ended badly for the powers-that-be.
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