New reports coming out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where many of the top leaders of banking, finance, industry and politics gather every year, are showing great concern over the unprecedented events now threatening to plunge the entire Middle East, if not the entire planet, into total chaos and anarchy. The spark that ignited the firestorm currently sweeping the planet was struck,... 

Riots and Protests in North Africa. Prices of basic food items have rocketed in the last year, hitting the world’s least developed countries the hardest, where working people commonly spend half or more of their income on food. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization announced in January that the food price index rose 32 percent between June and December 2010. Prices are expected... 

Food price protests sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East reached Jordan on Friday. Thousands of Jordanians have taken to the streets of the country to protest the government’s inability to control the rising price of commodities. Chanting anti-government slogans, demonstrators in the capital Amman and other cities denounced the government economic policies on Friday, saying Prime...