In my wildest dreams, I cannot imagine such a riot anywhere in the US.  Anyone with a lit bottle of gas would be shot dead before getting a chance to heave it.  People with un-lit bottles would be shot dead too.  American police routinely murder civilians for far less.

It looks like Greece is one step away from a true revolution; Provided this is what Frence and Germany want, they're doing a good job. Often people will say we in the Balkans suffer because we've been under foreign domination for half a millenia; that is true, but our foreign domination ended in the 19th century, whereas W. Europe's foreign domination strarted in the middle of the 20th c. and is still not finished... . Thus, don't expect the French and the Germans to look at the world with the eyes of the free. Need proof?.. I can watch RT here in E. Europe no prob, but try to see the Max Keiser show on RT in Britain or Germany.. and you'll have to act like an old time Yugoslav partisan... . "Freedom" is more than a word, my dear western friends; it's an actual experience that you've forgotton about. I''ve also noticed some racially intended comments like southern Europeans this and that... - again, we've been there already and done that. And since when Frence joined the "northern league"? And Ireland and Iceland the mediterrenian one? Yes, it looks like difficult times affect us all like a bottle of vodka - the best shines in the good and the worst out of the brainless ;)

I think it is evident that most of Greece's problems stem from the fact of its being a misfit within the European Union. This country obviously has little in common with the countries of Northern and Western Europe, and cannot compete with them economically at this point in time. Notwithstanding the geographic "European" designation, the ancient history of being the cradle of European civilization, and some religious and cultural affinities with the rest of Europe, Greece today, economically and socially, is not European in the same sense as, say, Germany, France or the Netherlands - or even Russia or Ukraine. It is ridiculous for the average Greek citizen, with a totally non-productive economy that cannot even carry out basic agriculture and livestock breeding, to expect to have the same living standards and purchasing power as Western Europeans. Greece should pull out of the euro and the EU, tone down its expectations and return to the basics, and focus instead on cooperating to form a sort of economic union and common bloc with Israel, Cyprus and some of the Balkan countries. This would also provide a welcome counterweight against an increasingly aggressive Turkey with neo-Ottoman pretensions under the Islamist Erdogan regime. If Greece as a nation collapses and is wiped out, it won't be taken over by Western Europeans as their new colony - it will be taken over by Turkey, which is right next door, has a burgeoning population and a large powerful NATO-member army as well as a history of hostility and belligerence towards Greeks, and which, under its current Saudi-and-U.S. allied Sunni Islamist government, is a favored nation of New World Order globalist imperialists. & nbsp;