Juan Cole: Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism - Truthdig

Juan Cole: Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism - Truthdig: From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities.