The New American back issues from October 2007:
Risks vs. safety.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Regarding "Pushing National IDs" (July 9 issue), the key is to weigh the imminently obtainable benefits against the sacrifices or risks given to secure the benefits. As I see it, the loss of civil autonomy and erosion of our civil rights would be immediate and permanent; the ...
Due process violated.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Thank you so very much for running the articles about how state social services personnel commit child theft from parents ("Families Separated by the State," July 23 issue). My wife and I are on appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court for some of the very same reasons you stated in the article ....
Many questions raised by loose nukes.(Inside Track)(nuclear weapons transfer)
Oct 01, 2007 ... On August 30, an Air Force B-52 strategic bomber took off from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and flew to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. This otherwise unremarkable event was made extraordinary by the fact that the B-52 in question was armed with live nuclear weapons, making ...
UN and global-warming activists turn up the heat.(Inside Track)(United Nations)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The United Nations and the environmental lobby are turning up the political heat in preparation for the big UN Climate Change Conference in December on the Indonesian island of Bali. The Bali Conference, says the UN Chronicle Online, "will build upon the political momentum generated by the ...
Armed Services chairman asks tough questions about Iraq war.(Inside Track)(Ike Skelton)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has never been a headline seeker during the 16 terms he has served in Congress. So the concern he elicited about "the overall security of this nation," delivered as he led off the joint Armed Services-Foreign Affairs ...
Recent reports on Iraq disagree with general and ambassador.(Inside Track)(General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Three recent reports about the struggle in Iraq provide numerous contrasting views to the recent upbeat testimony supplied by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. One report, provided by the Government Accountability Office, said that Iraq's ...
U.S. bribing Iraq's Sunnis to get them to combat al-Qaeda.(Inside Track)(United States)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... American forces are doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to Sunni insurgents to buy their influence to help cleanse their area of al-Qaeda forces. Reporters for the London Sunday Times claim to have firsthand knowledge of the delivery of huge quantities of cash to Iraqis who ...
FBI surveillance capability more extensive than once thought.(Inside Track)(Digital Collection System Network)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation have provided disturbing details about the extent of the FBI's ability to monitor the communications of American citizens. According to Wired News reporter Ryan Singel, "The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click ...
Patriot Act under fire.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The USA Patriot Act has come under fire in U.S. District Court from Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York. The case related to National Security Letters which, according to Wired News, were used under the Patriot Act "to issue 143,074 requests for phone and internet ...
Permission given to create human/animal hybrid embryos.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has given permission "in principle" for scientists to create human/animal embryos for the purpose of medical stem-cell research in a September 5 ruling. "This is not a total green light for cytoplasmic hybrid ...
Deadly truck explosion highlights concerns about Mexican truckers.(Inside Track)(Monclova, Mexico)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... At least 28 people were killed and 130 injured on September 10 when a truck trailer laden with 25 metric tons of ammonium nitrate explosives crashed and sent a bright orange fireball along a two-lane highway north of Monclova, Mexico. "It was like a hurricane .... It just blew everyone ...
China steps up repression as Communist Party Congress nears.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Citing the need for political and social stability and security, the Chinese government announced on September 9 a stepped-up crackdown on "criminals" and regime critics. Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang was quoted on the government's official website as telling a meeting ...
Imprisoned Chinese Catholic Bishop dies in custody.(Inside Track)(Han Dingxiang)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Roman Catholic Bishop Han Dingxiang, age 71, died in police custody on September 9, after nearly eight years of imprisonment in China. "With the exception of a few of his very close relatives who were suddenly summoned by the government authority to his bedside before his death, none of ...
Noted tenor passes away at 71.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I think life in music is a life beautifully ...
White House official predicts continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq.(QuickQuotes)(Joshua Bolten )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... "I don't think that any realistic observer thinks that by the time the president leaves office in 2009 it'll be possible--safely--to get ...
America's manufacturing losses are staggering.(QuickQuotes)(manufacturing jobs)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... "During the past 20 years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, 4.8 million jobs were lost in manufacturing, while only 200,000 were gained. Thirty-seven states lost manufacturing jobs." Calling on the federal ...
New federal airport scrutiny policy disturbs Sikhs.(QuickQuotes)(Sikh Coalition)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The federal government has equated our most precious article of faith with terrorism. To send a message that the turban is dangerous sends the wrong message to society." ...
Mexico's president makes sweeping claims that ignore U.S. sovereignty.(QuickQuotes)(Felipe Calderon)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... "I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico." Numerous ...
U.S. ambassador wants more time to solve Iraq's political problems.(QuickQuotes)(Ryan Crocker)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... "I do believe Iraq's leaders have the will to tackle the country's pressing problems, although it will take longer than we originally anticipated." In his testimony before ...
Iraqi diplomat acknowledges problems with Shiite militia groups.(QuickQuotes)(Samir Sumaidaie)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... "We have a lot of militias that are only fronts for organized crime." Iraq's Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaidaie, knows that ...
Colorado police say gangsta rap music stimulates crime.(QuickQuotes)(Skip Arms )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... "We don't want to broad-brush hip-hop music altogether, but we're looking at a subcomponent that typically glorifies and promotes crime, and ...
How the Internet is changing political campaigning: Ron Paul, unanointed by the major media as a "viable presidential candidate," is using the Internet successfully to sell the small-government message.(INTERNET)
Oct 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If the presidential election were held in cyberspace, [Ron] Paul would probably win hands down. --Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist When Texas Congressman Ron Paul's name is brought up in conversation, more often ...
Ron Paul's race: presidential aspirant Ron Paul speaks about successfully bypassing the media that have ignored him and about why his campaign is drawing supporters across the political spectrum.(INTERVIEW)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Interview of Congressman Ron Paul by Brian Farmer THE NEW AMERICAN magazine interviewed Congressman Ron Paul a few weeks after the Iowa Straw Poll. What follows is a transcript of that interview. THE NEW AMERICAN: You seem to be more popular on the Internet than any ...
What a gas! The current politically correct promotion of ethanol and hydrogen to power vehicles overlooks the serious drawbacks of those fuels and the huge potential of natural gas.(ENERGY)
Oct 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After two years of soaring gas prices, and with oil supplies continually threatened by those antagonistic toward America, Americans are searching desperately for alternatives to power our vehicles, our economy, and our future. Congress, influenced by ...
Slipping through legislation: all too often members of Congress use legislative strategies to secure the passage of harmful bills that would otherwise potentially fail on the congressional floor.(CONGRESS)
Oct 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Congress introduces many thousands of pieces of legislation each congressional term. Only a fraction of that legislation ever makes it to the voting floor, and even a smaller number passes both houses of Congress in order to be signed into law by the ...
Blocking the coming merger: Dr. Jerome Corsi, coauthor of the bestseller Unfit for Command, has written a valuable new book exposing the planned merger of the United States with Mexico and Canada.(The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada)(Book review)
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., Los Angeles: World Ahead Media (a WND book), 2007, 241 pages, hardcover, $25.95 One of the most famous adages in the English language is, "You can't judge a book by its cover." This ...
Rabid fox.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Five-year-old Rayshun McDowell, along with six other children, was enjoying a cookout outside his family's home in Kingstown, North Carolina, on July 1, when, suddenly, a fox intruded upon the gathering. "I looked out the window and Rayshun had the fox by the neck and was ...
Waitress gets education.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(education finance )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Jessica Osborne works as a waitress for a Pizza Hut in Angola, Indiana. Among her regular customers was a mother who always brought her two sons into the restaurant. Each time they visited, they requested that Jessica be their server. Jessica recalls that they always ordered the same ...
Firefighter of the year.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Thomas Feaser)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Thomas Feaser, a 24-year FDNY veteran, is a member of Ladder Co. 78/Engine Co. 155 in Staten Island, New York. One day last December, the station received a call from police officers that a person had fallen into the Kill van Kull, a tidal strait separating Staten Island from Bayonne, New ...
Wisconsin teens assist.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(helping flood victims)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Early this past summer, a group of teenagers from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in New Berlin, Wisconsin, went on a public service trip to Neodesha, Kansas, where they had volunteered to repair the houses of low-income residents. After their efforts in Kansas, they returned to ...
Sputnik: the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 50 years ago this month shocked America. How did it come about that the United States failed to beat the Soviets, and what is the legacy of Sputnik for us today?(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Georg Hegel, the German philosopher, once remarked that the owl of Minerva flies only at dusk. The owl, in this case a symbol of knowledge that accompanied the Roman goddess of wisdom, represented the understanding that we learn the true meaning of an event only after sufficient time has ...
Roadblock.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(deranged ex-boyfriend )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... On May 7, 46-year-old Lawrence Jennings was acting crazed. He blocked an intersection in Kingsport, Tennessee, with his vehicle so that the car his ex-girlfriend was riding in could not pass, and then he began to vandalize the vehicle, kicking and hitting it. He then managed to enter the ...
Felons fall.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(robbery)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... On May 11 at about l0 p.m. in East Oakland, California, 17-year-old Tommy Ray Spencer and 23-year-old Juan Gonzalez entered a liquor store to rob it. They ordered the store manager to the floor, and Spencer threatened a clerk at the store's counter with a pistol. Then, according to the San ...
He loves his wife.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(husbands rescue of his wife against robbers)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Just after midnight on the Fourth of July, an unidentified man from Fort Worth, Texas, and his wife stopped at a grocery store for yogurt and soda. While she went inside, he waited in the car. While he sat there, he saw some men nervously pacing in the parking lot. He called 911 when he ...
Country at war.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(attempted robbery and neighborhood safety)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... At about 5 a.m. on May 23, four young men were about to attempt a robbery of a unit in an apartment complex. Kuamae Keaton and Michael Fripps were supposed to act as the lookouts while Buchkechio Geddie and Torrian Knowles--one of them apparently armed with a weapon--broke into the ...
A nanny.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Boris Miles's social policy)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Texas state Representative Boris Miles (D) recently "opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force," reported the Brownsville Herald. The bill, which passed and went into effect on September 1, "states that a person has no duty to retreat from an ...
New push for illegal alien "guest worker" amnesty.(Correction, Please!)(foreign labor issues)
Oct 01, 2007; ... ITEM: "Harvest havoc is predicted for this fall," warned the headline of a California Central Valley Business Times story for August 24, 2007. The CVBT story reported that the agriculture business lobby was pushing for revival of the Ag JOBS proposal included in the immigration bill that ...
Corporate sell-out artists.(THE LAST WORD)(Canada, Mexico and United States)
Oct 01, 2007; ... This magazine has repeatedly documented the fact that political elites in America and elsewhere have been working to consolidate political and economic power regionally and globally. But it is not just the political elites. Business elites, who are supposed to favor capitalism and oppose ...
From the editor.(Editorial)
Oct 15, 2007; ... Dear reader, As the artistic rendering of the flag on this magazine's cover suggests, a new North American Union would come about as a result of the merger of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Americans who love our country, our Constitution, the freedoms our ...
Understanding America today: immigrants have long come to America to live "the American dream." Now, that dream is becoming more difficult to attain. To reinvigorate America, we must understand the problem.(SPECIAL REPORT: WHAT'S WRONG)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] America has long been known as a land of opportunity--not just for a powerful few but for all citizens. Here in America, an impoverished individual willing to work hard could pursue what became known as the American dream. And that dream, enjoyed by a ...
Continental merger: a coalition of groups warns that President Bush's Security and Prosperity Partnership will lead to a merger of the United States, Mexico, and Canada, but Bush claims that the pact is not threatening. Who is being truthful?(SPECIAL REPORT: NORTH AMERICAN UNION)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The U.S. media paid scant attention this past August when President George W. Bush headed for a meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (more commonly referred to as the SPP) in Canada. The two-day summit (August 20-21) with ...
Quick quotes.
Oct 15, 2007 ... "The Security and Prosperity Partnership is setting the stage for uniting the three nations of North America into a North American Union that will parallel for the West what the EU has done to Europe." John Birch Society president John F. McManus, a founding member of the Coalition to ...
Running Roughshod over U.S. Laws: under NAFTA and the SPP, the rule of law--including our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights--is being replaced with arbitrary rule by unaccountable elitists.(SPECIAL REPORT: RULE OF LAW)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ITEM: "NAFTA court is law of the 3 lands." So proclaimed the headline in the Sacramento Bee on April 18, 2004. The article, taken from the New York Times, reports on a NAFTA tribunal overriding the Massachusetts Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. ...
The North American Union invasion: despite the great harm that Americans face from rampant illegal immigration--crime, terrorism, economic devastation--our political and business elitists push for more amnesties.(SPECIAL REPORT: IMMIGRATION)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CNN's Lou Dobbs touched a nerve with the American public when he declared, "The Bush administration's open-borders policy and its decision to ignore the enforcement of this country's immigration laws is part of a broader agenda. President Bush signed a ...
Myth vs. fact.(SPECIAL REPORT: DEBUNKING MYTHS)
Oct 15, 2007; ... MYTH: The North American Union is a delusion perpetrated on the American public by cranks and crackpots. FACT: The phrase North American Union (NAU) is commonly used to refer to the very real process of merging the United States with Mexico and Canada. This process began when ...
NAFTA: it's not just about trade! The North American Free Trade Agreement was intended from the beginning to be the foundational framework for a future North American Union.(SPECIAL REPORT: NAFTA)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When President Bill Clinton pushed for congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, he argued that the pact would create jobs for American workers--200,000 in the first two years alone. "NAFTA means jobs, American jobs ...
Is it "free trade" or something else? "Free trade" agreements are composed of large numbers of all-encompassing regulations. Do such tight controls really make trade "free," and are they in America's best interests?(SPECIAL REPORT: FREE TRADE)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When appended to trade, the word "free" brings to mind unencumbered transactions. The term has been applied to NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement), and other so-called free-trade pacts that the United ...
Express route to poverty: U.S. policy already gives foreign competitors almost every advantage in trade, yet our government is working hard to make shipping foreign imports cheaper than ever before.(SPECIAL REPORT: NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For a variety of reasons, the United States is getting creamed in world trade. In trade with China alone, America's trade deficit jumped from $6 million in 1985 to $201 billion in 2005. Most U.S. trade ills are the result of negligent U.S. policy ...
Global risks, national solutions: internationalists argue that global risks require global governance. In reality, global risks are best managed by independent nations.(SPECIAL REPORT: USA v. NAU)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The world has always had its idealists. Frequently enough, they have dreamt of erecting a paradise on Earth where the squabbles of nations, the ravings of dictators, and the recurring banes of famine and disease would be made relics of the past in a ...
An amero for your thoughts: if America adopted a single currency (e.g., the "amero") with Canada and Mexico, we would no longer control our own monetary policy.(SPECIAL REPORT: AMERO)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On May 16, 2002, then-Mexican President Vicente Fox gave a speech in Madrid, Spain, in which he stated: <Pre>Eventually, our long-range objective is toestablish with the United States, but alsowith Canada, our other regional partner, ...
It's good at the top: NAFTA promised to raise wages and living conditions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, yet the middle class in these countries is getting poorer while the rich get richer.(SPECIAL REPORT: WHO BENEFITS?)
Oct 15, 2007; ... "Free trade agreements are designed to force adjustments on our societies," Donald Johnston, former Canadian MP and cabinet minister, once remarked. Mr. Johnston ought to know: a longtime vociferous supporter of both NAFTA and its bilateral predecessor, the 1989 free-trade agreement ...
Signs of hope: there are significant signs that an aroused and knowledgeable populace can defeat efforts to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico.(SPECIAL REPORT: ON THE FRONT LINES)
Oct 15, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] State and national legislators are beginning to slow down the drive toward the North American Union. They are responding to alarmed American citizens who are increasingly connecting the dots between stagnant incomes, job losses, North American integration, ...
KGB terrorism still at work.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 29, 2007; ... I wish to thank you for Bill Jasper's two excellent articles on so-called Islamic terrorism in the September 3 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN. Foreign affairs expert Hilaire du Berrier, in the late 1950s, and later in American Opinion, revealed how the Soviet KGB created the FLN ...
No legislative oversight.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 29, 2007; ... I was rereading the "Pushing National IDs" article in the July 9, 2007 issue and something there that I read before really jumped out at me this time. It was the sentences on page 16, first paragraph, "And it has to be stopped now, before implementation, he [Missouri state Rep. Jim Guest] ...
Taking children.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 29, 2007; ... In Coxsackie, New York, a three-year-old girl named Egypt Philips was killed by her mother's boyfriend. Both the boyfriend and mother are in prison, but now some lawyer wants to sue the county CPS agency ("Separated by the ...
Life chain spreads pro-life message coast to coast.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007 ... From Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and from Bangor, Maine, to San Diego, California, as many as a million or more Americans took to the streets on October 7 in over a thousand cities and communities across the nation to stand for the rights of the unborn and to show their ...
Multinational education.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007 ... According to an AP report, the Oregon Department of Education and Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education are conducting discussions to align their curricula so courses will be valid in both countries. Going against conventional practice--wherein foreign students are immersed in the ...
Classified justice department opinions support torture.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007 ... The New York Times unleashed a political bombshell on October 4 when it reported that in 2005, the Justice Department issued a secret legal opinion that, "according to officials briefed on it," was "an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used" by the CIA on ...
Illegal immigrants to get New York driver's licenses.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007 ... Democratic New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced on September 21 that illegal immigrants would be able to apply for driver's licenses in New York. Reaction to the decision was predictable. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Osama bin Laden is somewhere in a cave with his den ...
Deportation fears prompt exodus from Texas City's schools.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007 ... Irving, Texas, Independent School District Superintendent Jack Singley announced on October 3 that an estimated 90 children had withdrawn from the city's schools in the past week because of the deportation fears. The Mexican Consulate recently began warning Mexican citizens to ...
Bush attempts to use International Court against Texas.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007 ... President Bush has issued a memo to his attorney general declaring that state courts must enforce a ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on behalf of Jose Ernesto Medellin and 50 other Mexican nationals on death row in the United States. Medellin was convicted of ...
G.I.s support Ron Paul's "bring them home" message.(Inside Track)(government issue)
Oct 29, 2007 ... For his opposition to the Iraq War and his insistence on bringing our troops home, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has had to endure charges by his political and media opponents that he is unpatriotic, soft on national security, soft on terror, and "doesn't ...
Federal Judge Rules Patriot Act unconstitutional.(Inside Track)(Anne L. Aiken)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007 ... "For over 200 years, this nation has adhered to the rule of law--with unparalleled success," said Judge Anne L. Aiken in a recent ruling declaring that crucial parts of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional. Aiken, a Federal District Court judge in Port land, Oregon, said that certain ...
Justice Thomas recalls being verbally attacked during his confirmation hearings.(Quick Quotes)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The mob I now faced carried no ropes or guns. Its weapons were smooth-tongued lies spoken into microphones and printed on the front pages of America's newspapers .... But it was a mob all the same, and its ...
Supreme Court justices urged to consider original intent.(Quick Quotes)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2007; ... "We do not think that the Supreme Court is some kind of Supreme Council of Ayatollahs that can do anything it wants to do on a 5-4 vote." Federalist Society co-founder Steven G ....