Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struggle is not against America but against uncontrolled globalization," he told TIME. "McDonald's is a symbol of industrial food production. Whether such products are American or French, the effect is the same: the destruction of traditional farming, different cultures and ways of life." He blames the European Union as well as the U.S. for "the imperialism with which they aid agricultural exports." Arguing for the right of every country to "choose what it wants to eat," Bove supports tariff barriers to protect national agricultures and calls for the creation of an independent world court to validate its decisions...
Just take the great martial powers of modern times: the U.S., the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, Japan, China and Israel. The age of America's expansion in the 19th century was marked by the low-tech coffeepot that was left on the fire until the brew inside had thickened into a blackish acid just right for tanning buffalo hides...
...Soviet Union: toxic mud and tepid water. But the Red Army went all the way to Berlin in 1945. It blithely crushed revolts in various satellite countries, moved into Cuba, Africa and Afghanistan. Prussia-Germany? In the old days, only the rich could afford real coffee; the masses had to make do with a blend of burnt barley and chicory. But that stuff took the Wehrmacht to the gates of Moscow and Cairo...
...should surprise no one that, as Dunn notes, Lenin had a statue of Robespierre erected in Moscow in 1918. (Made of cheap stone, it soon crumbled, as the Soviet Union would some 70 years later.) Sister Revolutions shows not only how the French and American experiments developed, but also why their differing examples have continued to beguile ambitious leaders...
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, so it's the kind of place that might like a rebel like Senator John McCain. In fact, the symbol of that rebellion still flies above the statehouse today. But the Confederate flag also stands for a tradition that is likely to help Texas Governor George W. Bush even more: resistance to change. Conservatives who like the established way of things have kept the state's senior Senator, Republican Strom Thurmond, in Washington for 45 years, making him the longest-serving member...