Journalist Paul Mason covered the uprisings of 2011 as they occurred. His new book "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere," explains why they all happened at once.
Read it at AlterNet
How Financial Crisis, Economic Inequality, Social Media, and More Brought Revolutions in 2011--and Changed Us Forever
Interview of Paul Mason by Sarah Jaffe
This trend is gaining steam globally and is becoming a transforming force as it gathers momentum among international youth now linked through social media and networking.
This can be understood in terms of Naomi Klein's disaster capitalism, which is the ploy of using crisis or manufacturing it in order to force political and economic change that would be impossible through elections under more normal circumstances. The reason is Margaret Thatcher's TINA (there is no alternative).
The push pack is coming from angry youth, who see their future being stolen from them by a greedy elite using a false pretext.
See also the "I Don't Pay" call to action on You Tube
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