Add Romania to the list of nations experiencing Austerity Riots

by John Galt
January 15, 2012 15:15 ET

Coming to the U.S.A. soon.

The protests initially started out over a government modification to the country's national health care program. on Day 3 it evolved into an anti-government protest which has continued through Sunday in Bucharest and across many major cities according to this Reuters story, Romania protests spread despite health bill withdrawal. The video and report from Russia Today though tell a tale the Western media will not cover nor illustrate about what is brewing in the Balkans with regards to the discontent and violence which has already occurred in many of the nations within the region.

With the region already simmering from Kosovo to Athens it is only a matter of time before the sectarian and religious violence exacerbated by the collapsing economies puts the Balkans back on the front page of the world's newspapers and conflict rules the day.