[lbo-talk] Mediterranean revolts

[Peter Fay]

And, of course, the 'breadbasket' idea was resurrected a thousand years
later when Italy became a state, as the 'Mare Nostrum' ('our sea'), and
extended by Mussolini as Italty's 'spazio vitale', when Italy launched the
pacification war against Omar Mukthar in Libya.

Today, I guess the Italians simply call it, Eni S.p.A.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:06 AM, michael perelman <
michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> wrote:


> North Africa was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire.
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Dennis Claxton
> <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Tonight on KPFK I heard the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, et. al. referred
> to
> > as "Mediterranean revolts"  Is this more common in Europe than here?
> >
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