The Little-Known Story of How a Financial Crash that Began on Wall Street is Setting the Middle East

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/news/149736/the_little-known_story_of_how_a_financial_crash_that_began_on_wall_street_is_setting_the_middle_east_on_fire

Tens of thousands in the streets are being driven by an economic disaster that has sent unemployment skyrocketing and food prices climbing.

This is an upstairs/downstairs story that takes us from the peak of a Western mountaintop for the wealthy to spreading mass despair in the valleys of the Third World poor.

It is about how the solutions for the world financial crisis that the Ceos and Big pols are massaging in a posh conference center in snowy Davos Switzerland have turned into a global economic catastrophe in the streets of Cairo, the current ground zero of a certain to spread wave of international unrest.

Yes, the tens of thousands in the streets demanding the ouster of the cruel Mubarek regime are there now pressing for their right to make a political choice but they are being driven by an economic disaster that has sent unemployment skyrocketing and food prices climbing.

More at the link --

[closeupready]

1. Yes, hunger drives people to - deliberately or not - 'feed' instability.

Very predictable outcome, in hindsight.

[HereSince1628]

2. Yes. DDDT= Desperate Do Desperate Things.

DDDT ia much more dangerous than DDT. At least DDT went to Egypt to kill mosquitoes and control malaria.