McWar
Joshman | 22.11.2002 11:09
no two countries possessing at least one branch of McDonald's have ever gone to war with each other. So the prospects for global peace must have diminished alarmingly this month when the Illinois-based fast-food chain and de facto world government announced it was pulling out entirely from three unnamed countries in the Middle East and Latin America.
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According to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention, first put forward by the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in the mid-1990s, no two countries possessing at least one branch of McDonald's have ever gone to war with each other. So the prospects for global peace must have diminished alarmingly this month when the Illinois-based fast-food chain and de facto world government announced it was pulling out entirely from three unnamed countries in the Middle East and Latin America.
Full story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,845138,00.html
According to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention, first put forward by the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in the mid-1990s, no two countries possessing at least one branch of McDonald's have ever gone to war with each other. So the prospects for global peace must have diminished alarmingly this month when the Illinois-based fast-food chain and de facto world government announced it was pulling out entirely from three unnamed countries in the Middle East and Latin America.
Full story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,845138,00.html
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not true anymore!
22.11.2002 13:21
Friedman, by the way was also the originator of a far more useful quote when it comes to understanding the workings of US corporate / military imperialism:
"the hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas [arms manufacturer]... And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US army, air force, navy and marine corps."
Couldn't have put it better myself!
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