In recent days New York’s Occupy Wall Street protests have found sympathetic echoes in nearly all the world’s major metropolises.
From Tokyo to Johannesburg, London to Mexico City, demonstrators -- self-proclaimedly 99 percent of mankind, but mostly belonging to the educated middle class in their countries -- poured into the streets to express their frustration with what they see as the built-in inequities of global capitalism. It’s more than interesting that no significant gestures of solidarity came from the cities of India and China, two of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
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