georgephillip
Diamond Member
Last March Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed offered the following explanation of why food riots are likely to become the new normal:
"We now know that the fundamental triggers for the Arab spring were unprecedented food price rises.
"The first sign things were unravelling hit in 2008, when a global rice shortage coincided with dramatic increases in staple food prices, triggering food riots across the middle east, north Africa and south Asia.
"A month before the fall of the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported record high food prices for dairy, meat, sugar and cereals."
Why food riots are likely to become the new normal | Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com
IMHO, Americans have far more to fear from Radical Capitalists than from Radical Islam and Evangelical Christianity combined.
"We now know that the fundamental triggers for the Arab spring were unprecedented food price rises.
"The first sign things were unravelling hit in 2008, when a global rice shortage coincided with dramatic increases in staple food prices, triggering food riots across the middle east, north Africa and south Asia.
"A month before the fall of the Egyptian and Tunisian regimes, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported record high food prices for dairy, meat, sugar and cereals."
Why food riots are likely to become the new normal | Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com
IMHO, Americans have far more to fear from Radical Capitalists than from Radical Islam and Evangelical Christianity combined.