Well anons, found this and LOL today.

Goldman Sachs thinks the Arab spring was 'in part' due to grain prices…LOL funny.

1. Finally, the more time I spend with true experts in commodities, the more I wonder if youre underestimating the building risks of a global food and energy crisis. In developed countries, this could be a broad cost-of-living crisis (witness recent data from the UK which showed the largest hit to disposable income since the 1950s); in developing countries, the pain and the reaction could be far more severe (as Jeff Currie reminded me, the Arab Spring partially owes its genesis to grain prices).

Guess they never heard of a color revolution or the C_I_A before.