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Why Tunisia Changed the World

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Prices are rising in part due to corporate speculation: food and raw
materials like oil are the safe bets of the world economy, where rich
investors flock in times of economic uncertainty.  Their greed makes
matters worse, increasing the odds of revolution worldwide.


But predicting the next uprising isn't so easy. Revolution is a
cocktail that no scientist can formulate; it's an aggregate of
innumerable sufferings, stirred together in a giant cauldron that has no
precise boiling temperature. But boil it does. Especially when
unemployment and food prices push up the heat worldwide. 


The awakening of the Arab revolution should be fully supported by
the working people in America, who have no interest in spending their
tax dollars to fight wars and build military bases on the other side of
the globe. 


While Arab workers are struggling to push out the U.S.-backed
tyrants in the region, U.S. workers must be demanding that tax dollars
be diverted from war funding to social spending, since food and energy
prices, along with unemployment, are too high in the U.S. as well.   

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Shamus Cooke is a social service worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action (www.workerscompass.org)
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