of Kirmizi
All the great social and political upheavals are carrying innovative features, unique to an era new and at the same time, factors that speak to us apparently ancient past.
Now there are two things that can easily affect the attention of a small observer. The first is that very few analysts have been able to provide for the possibility that you experience the wave of revolutions that are going through North Africa and the Middle East. The second is, however, that all the media are trying to identify the cause of this last period in the emergence of a new generation of Arab citizens, won firmly to the cause of liberal democracy through the use of the West new technologies, the Web and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Countries like Egypt, like Tunisia, Libya as a percentage of population under 30 years of around 70 per cent. E 'then almost obvious that this huge band of young, mostly educated, are a powerful agent of change for the mere fact of being as they are: young, educated, frustrated and in connection with the rest of the world and each other through the Web
However, the obsession of the media of our house in identifying the cause of the Arab peoples in the case of the West (the same one who has supported until a few weeks ago, Mubarak, Ben Ali and Gaddafi) seems objectively little suspect. The distortion is more easily recognizable if you leave the ground for a moment "ideological" democratic values \u200b\u200band prerogatives of the magnificent network of liberal and stops its attention on the materiality of a very "old" or rather old: the need of bread. Yeah its the bread, or of that particular combination of a cereal (wheat) and water.
If you take heed to what he says FAO then you will notice that from June to December of 2010 the index of food prices worldwide has risen by as much as 32 percent. A veritable explosion due mainly to cereals, oil, sugar and meat. All products are essential for people who have previously stood just above the subsistence level.
The legitimacy of authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, therefore, has broken or is breaking (with the partial differentiation of the Libyan situation) does not convert on an abstract ideal of the younger generation the values \u200b\u200bpreached (but often not practiced) by the West but on the shopping bag.
just that this data would allow for the ruling classes of Europe and the United States also face the problem of control of food prices on the world market: a real insult to the "sacred and inviolable" laws of the free market. In fact, the increase in cereal prices is only partly explained by the unfavorable Climate of the season in 2010 in Russia (for fires) and Canada (for rain): first, because even the so-called "fickle weather" are basically attributable to the impact that economic development requires the ecosystem. But you can not understand what is happening if you do not take into account the demand for corn as bio-fuels from countries like the U.S. and the speculation of multinationals do not enter the food market to make up the price.
These are all nodes (along with others such as blocking of migration flows and subsidies for their agricultural enterprises) that relate to the structure of international markets and the relationship between North and South.
Now, after bringing down the old and corrupt dictatorships that oppressed them, the Arab people will not take long to understand and the Internet and social networks that connect them to the world as a powerful accelerator of this process.
often the case that revolutions write the following pages to the first with a language more clear: it is likely that it will be unwelcome to the great capitalist countries of the North. The coming days could give us a confirmation.
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