The epidemic of global riots is symptomatic of global system failure - a civilisational form that has outlasted its usefulness.
In the aftermath of the global riots of 1968, the C.I.A. identified Mills as one of the most influential New Left intellectuals in the world, though he had been dead for six years.
They include the spread of Al Qaeda across the Western Sahara; the snail's pace of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program; global riots prompted by religious intolerance; and sharp new tensions in Asia over competing claims to small, potentially mineral-rich islands.
An appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that a US-produced film called Innocence of Muslims, which sparked global riots after its release in 2012, should not be banned from YouTube.
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots.
However, because of the large ensemble cast, Matthew Gilbert of Slate.com commented that season two of Heroes was "even more overpopulated than the last, expanding from a rabble to a veritable global riot of Dubiously Gifted Ones".
As I wrote at the time, Obama was just plain fortunate that Mitt Romney so mishandled the Benghazi disaster from the start, foolishly charging Obama with "apologizing" to the real protesters -- against the hate-Islam video that later sparked something of a global riot -- who stormed the US embassy in Cairo earlier on the anniversary of 9/11.
And as I wrote at the time last September, Obama was just plain fortunate that Mitt Romney so mishandled the Benghazi disaster from the start, foolishly charging Obama with "apologizing" to the real protesters -- against the hate-Islam video that later sparked something of a global riot -- who stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo earlier on the anniversary of 9/11.
The worst drought in 50 years in the United States and poor harvests in Central Asia have raised fears of global food riots, and led to increased scrutiny of commodities traders who profit by exploiting volatile prices.
When Adbusters posted a call last week on its blog for a global "laugh riot" in Chicago, Jo Robin, who goes by the clown name "Non Commandante," took a Greyhound to Chicago from New York to start training protesters in the rudiments of clowning.
