As the rift between Europe and America deepens, there are signs that the world could be entering a new eraof economic boycotts. CNN reported that Americans are emptying French wine into gutters, chanting, "Wedon't want your stinking wine." We've heard about the re-baptism of French fries. Freedom fries they'recalled now.There's news trickling in about Americans boycotting German goods. The thing is that if thefallout of the war takes this turn, it is the US who will suffer the most. Its homeland may be defended byborder patrols and nuclear weapons, but its economy is strung out across the globe. Its economic outposts areexposed and vulnerable to attack in every direction. Already the internet is buzzing with elaborate lists ofAmerican and British government products and companies that should be boycotted. Apart from the usual targets,Coke, Pepsi and McDonald's - government agencies such as USAID, the British department for internationaldevelopment, British and American banks, Arthur Anderson, Merrill Lynch, American Express, corporations suchas Bechtel, General Electric, and companies such as Reebok, Nike and Gap - could find themselves under siege.These lists are being honed and re fined by activists across the world. They could become a practical guidethat directs and channels the amorphous, but growing fury in the world. Suddenly, the"inevitability" of the project of corporate globalisation is beginning to seem more than a littleevitable.