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 Riots Rock Algeria Over Prices, JobsPosted on Jan 7, 2011
Protests erupted in the Algerian capital of Algiers and several other cities this week as people took to the streets over a doubling of food prices and a stubborn 25 percent unemployment rate. The protests are getting some attention: The government announced that prices for sugar and some other commodities would be rolled back. —JCL
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By Musabr, January 8, 2011 at 9:01 pm Link to this comment
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Oh really? and what is the truth dig’s perspective on the death of 5000 birds and scores of fish in Arkansas between late last year and January 1st this year?
Report thisBy rico, suave, January 8, 2011 at 9:31 am Link to this comment
robbes:
I’m still puzzled. Who enjoys the economic freedom in Algeria? The government or the people? The government’s ability to “roll back” sugar prices arbitrarily tells me the market is not free.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, January 8, 2011 at 6:05 am Link to this comment
@Rico, “economic freedom”? That’s what both Algeria and Tunisia have been practicing for almost 20 years now, instead we’re saying the same effect that we already saw turn into major political shifts in Latin America. The “free market” is having a funny way of making leftism and socialism popular again.
Report thisBy rico, suave, January 7, 2011 at 10:58 pm Link to this comment
robbes:
The “government” is rolling back sugar prices in response to the riots. Do ya think that maybe the “government” is the source of the problem? And maybe do ya think that economic freedom might be a solution? Only askin’.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, January 7, 2011 at 8:49 pm Link to this comment
Long live the workers of Algeria! They have the courage to do what Americans are still too dumbed down to do themselves.
Report thisBy rico, suave, January 7, 2011 at 6:41 pm Link to this comment
I gotta tell ya- truthdig knows how to find the stories that cut to the heart of what’s happening in America.
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