While I don't remember any serious evidence behind a bit of what you can legitimately call "right wing propaganda": when the Arab "Spring" started it was propos

While I don't remember any serious evidence behind a bit of what you can legitimately call "right wing propaganda": when the Arab "Spring" started it was proposed that one of the causes was how US policy of burning food as fuel (corn ethanol) was driving up world food prices. This was in reference most especially to Egypt, which has to import half its calories. To the extent there may have been a secular increase in the price of basic grains at the same time all this was happening through Syria, it's worth considering.