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Hong Kong

Free-market capitalism like Communism, which it partnered, has proved time and again to be a failure. Have the chickens come home to roost?  In the Western democracies, the promised riches are distributed far too unequally, and for most, they never transpire.

Belgium

Lately, there seems to be an unusually large number of mass resistance movements unfolding in countries all over the world.  France is repeatedly paralysed by national strikes such as the current transport strike that has put the nation’s transport infrastructure in gridlock.

Sweden

In Sweden, the CEO of Scania, a major trucking company in Sweden, warned that the country could be headed towards a civil war due to the social problems that have bubbled up as a result taking in massive numbers of migrants from alien cultures.

Spain

In Spain, Italy and Germany, such as the disenchantment with their current regimes that a massive swing to the popular right is taking place.

Britain on December 12 heads for the polls and likely a hung or coalition regime squatting in Westminster. The United States is tearing itself apart as the U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached. Recently, the president was humiliated by Western leaders during a NATO anniversary conference.

South Africa

South Africa is mired in a racial civil war whilst at the other end of the Dark Continent, Libya, until 2004 Africa’s most prosperous and benign nation has been bombed back to the Stone Age by NATO. Thanks to Russian intervention, all-out civil war has been prevented in Ukraine and Syria.

Ecuador

In the U.S., Puerto Rico’s recent political turmoil upended the entire local government structure. In Latin America, there have been upheavals over the past few weeks in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile.

Chile

Haiti is experiencing its worst political turmoil since 2004 ousting of President Jean Bertrand Aristide. On the other side of the planet, Arab nations like Iraq and Lebanon have erupted into mass upheavals.

Sudan just a few months ago toppled dictator Omar al-Bashir and now wants his party disbanded. And in Hong Kong, months of mass sustained protests have brought the nation to a standstill. What is happening?

Hong Kong

There are common themes running throughout this widespread global uprising. The unrest is marked by a deep dissatisfaction with an economic order that benefits elites over others, combined with outrage against authoritarianism and the use of force to quell dissent.

Often these are intertwined, as regimes use force to maintain the unequal economic order and demand public subservience and obedience. Then, a new proposed rule or law, seemingly innocuous at first, lights the spark of protest over long-simmering issues.

France

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