Who Started the Fires in Sweden?

Michele Chen @ Truthout - The Local One evening in May, a modest Scandinavian suburb caught on fire. Images streaming out of Husby, just outside Stockholm, overlaid the Nordic socialist wonderland with a scene straight out of Watts circa 1965 - sidewalks strewn with charred cars, shattered glass and angry kids. For days, the riots bled across the region and jarred international observers who tend to associate Sweden with modular furniture rather than youth mobs. But the most shocked might have been Husby's own neighbors, who had been resolutely ignoring the social fissures roiling next door before they exploded in the headlines.  Read more.

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