The New American articles from June 2004

The New American archives from June 2004

Fix states' rights first.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 14, 2004... The article "No Child Left Unbrainwashed" (April 19 issue) is about yet another unconstitutional act of Congress. The article suggests that we contact our congressmen about reversing this act and of course we should. But I would like to point...

A second look at Klayman.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 14, 2004... Larry Klayman, formerly with the Judicial Watch organization, is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate here in Florida. A recent release issued by the "Klayman for U.S. Senate" committee shows unmistakably that he is no true friend of U.S....

The UN's victory in Iraq.(Insider Report)
June 14, 2004... "The war in Iraq has become an epic of unanticipated (and some anticipated) consequences, and one of the most unanticipated of all is certainly the emergence of the United Nations as the new [molder] of Iraq's political future," commented the...

From Abu Ghraib to the ICC?(Insider Report)
June 14, 2004... Amid new and increasingly shocking disclosures of torture and other abuses by U.S. personnel at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, "China delayed a UN Security Council vote on a controversial measure to extend the immunity of U.S. peace, keeping troops...

U.S. subsidizes Russia's Weapons of Mass Destruction.(Insider Report)
June 14, 2004... America has spent tens of billions of dollars and made an enormous commitment of our Armed Forces personnel and resources to find Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). So far, only a relatively small number of old nerve gas...

China's religious persecution.(Insider Report)
June 14, 2004... One man was beaten to death and 90 worshippers arrested in China's northeastern province of Heilongjian during a crackdown on an underground Protestant church, AsiaNews reported on May 19. Li Shixiong, chairman of the U.S.-based Committee for...

"Gaia guru" flips, embraces nuclear power.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... British scientist James Lovelock, venerated by fervent environmentalists worldwide as a kind of high priest of "green theology," is causing anxiety, confusion and heated debate among the enviro-faithful. Professor Lovelock is most famous for...

MALDEF buddy faces primary.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Congressman Chris Cannon (R-Utah), whose outspoken defense of illegal immigration earned him an award from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), faces a June 22 primary challenge from attorney Matt Throckmorton. As...

California city becomes 1st U.S. "no Communist zone".(Insider Report)
June 14, 2004... Garden Grove, California, a city known as "Little Saigon" due to its large Vietnamese population, has become the first U.S. city to declare itself a "no Communist zone." Garden Grove's city council passed, by unanimous vote, a resolution...

China's steel appetite hurting U.S. industry.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... In a June 27, 2003 commentary, The Economist magazine of England noted: "China's steel producers are developing so fast that the country is likely soon to overtake Japan as the world's largest importer of iron ore, a crucial ingredient in the...

UN passively abets African genocide.(Insider Report)
June 14, 2004... On April 7, declaring that "the international community cannot stand idle" in the face of state-sponsored mass murder, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed an "action plan to prevent genocide, involving the whole United Nations system."...

"Eco-criminal" prison-bound?(Insider Report)
June 14, 2004... "John A. Rapanos has spent more than $1 million on attorneys, consultants and fines while tussling with regulators lot some 15 years over accusations of illegal wetland destruction," observed the April 26 Detroit Free Press. "Now, the Midland...

Reheating the "global warming" myth: spurred by an agitprop blockbuster movie, radical eco-socialists are renewing their efforts to enact the UN's Kyoto treaty--key elements of which have already been implemented.(Global Warming)(Cover Story)
June 14, 2004... "Glaciers at the North Pole are melting. Sea levels are rising. Storms are intensifying. Heat waves, like the one that swept through Europe last summer, are longer and more deadly. Right now, we are in the middle of an unfolding climate...

Science, politics and death: environmental extremism kills. Millions die annually because of restrictions on DDT, and imposing the "Kyoto" regulations would kill many more.(Global Warming)(Cover Story)
June 14, 2004... Easily usable energy is the currency of human progress. Without it, stagnation, regression and untold human deaths will result. The lamentations of the popular press notwithstanding, there is no shortage of energy. Scientists define...

A greener future: science has demonstrated that plant life and food production will benefit substantially from higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.(Global Warming)(Cover Story)
June 14, 2004... Imagine a world without carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]). It would be a world without life. Plants of all kinds, from the greatest of the world's stately trees to the smallest single-celled algae, would disappear. Gone too would be the herbivorous...

Remember global cooling?(Snapshots)
June 14, 2004... A cooling trend beginning in about 1940 caused a "global cooling" scare in the 1970s. Today, of course, the environmental Chicken Littles who fretted about a coming ice age now warn against catastrophic global warming. [I]t is projected...

Behind Chalabi's decline: once touted by Washington as Iraq's "liberator," Iraqi expatriate Ahmed Chalabi is now accused of leaking sensitive intelligence to Iran.(Iraq)
June 14, 2004... "It was just last January that Ahmed Chalabi occupied the coveted balcony seat next to First Lady Laura Bush and gazed out at Washington's glittering elite" during the State of the Union Address, observed foreign affairs commentator Jim Lobe on...

Population downturn.(Ahead Of The Curve)
June 14, 2004... ITEM: Citing the planet's downward spiral of fertility rates given in Phillip Longman's recent book, The Empty Cradle, an April 28 Wall Street Journal editorial warned, "But it is to the situation in America that [Longman] devotes most of his...

Predictable pitfalls of computerized voting.(Ahead Of The Curve)
June 14, 2004... ITEM: On May 23, Katharine Q. Seelye of the New York Times reported, "A coalition of computer scientists, voter groups and state officials, led by California's Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, is trying to force the makers of electronic...

Empowering the United Nations.(Ahead Of The Curve)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... ITEM: In his May 24 speech, President Bush said: * "The United Nations special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is now consulting with a broad spectrum of Iraqis to determine the composition of this interim government [for Iraq]. The special envoy...

RWYouth.com: through the Internet, RWYouth is bringing together young Americans to learn more about their priceless heritage of liberty.(Robert Welch Youth)
June 14, 2004... Crucial to the preservation of liberty is knowledge of the key principles and values safeguarding it. As the Founding Fathers expressed it in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government...

Happy ending.(The Goodness Of America)
June 14, 2004... At about 7:15 p.m. on January 21, Katharine Whitney of Sandy, Utah, left her workplace with six-week-old daughter Elizabeth Kay to attend a baby shower. After placing the infant in a car seat, she realized that she had forgotten the shower gift...

Train rescue.(The Goodness Of America)
June 14, 2004... During the past four years, Massachusetts residents James Ahern and nephew John "Jack" Ahern have served with the Paramedic 3 unit of Boston Emergency Medical Services. On August 16, 2002, they responded to an emergency call involving a man who...

Private schools place in top 10 at Mock Trial event.(The Goodness Of America)
June 14, 2004... This year's National High School Mock Trial Championship in Orlando, Florida, on May 6-9 included 44 teams from 41 states, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands. In 2002 and 2003, home schoolers affiliated with the Family Christian Academy of...

Diving in with American know-how: in 1776, American patriot David Bushnell's little wooden Turtle not only threatened British naval supremacy, its technology would help lead to America's own dominance of the sea.(History--American Ingenuity)
June 14, 2004... On the night of September 6, 1776, the HMS Eagle lay at anchor, easily riding the moonlit swells in New York Harbor, just north of Staten Island. The Eagle, her 64 guns bristling in every direction, appeared unassailable. What could the...

Neighbor rescues child.(Exercising The Right)
June 14, 2004... In the early evening of April 26, four-year-old Emily Paige Stinnett and her three-year-old stepsister were playing on a swing set in the yard of their home in Hodgenville, Kentucky. The family's pit bull was chained to a tie-out stake nearby,...

Bungled break-in.(Exercising The Right)
June 14, 2004... Shortly after noon on April 5, two young men knocked on the front door of Elroy Dusbabek's farmhouse in Spokane County, Washington. Since Dusbabek was not expecting anyone, and did not want to be bothered by salesmen, he did not open the door....

Cougar confrontation.(Exercising The Right)
June 14, 2004... Humans are rarely attacked by mountain lions in California. People have been injured by the cats in only 14 incidents since 1890, though six confrontations resulted in human deaths. For a few harrowing moments on April 6, 14-year-old Andy White...

Criminal career cut short.(Exercising The Right)
June 14, 2004... At around 3 a.m. on October 21, 2003, Tommy Christian was asleep in his Jackson, Mississippi, home when he was awakened by the noise of someone tampering with his back door. Having been burglarized on two other occasions in recent weeks,...

Sons of Kyoto.(Between The Lines)
June 14, 2004... ITEM: The Scripps Howard News Service for May 6 reported that "state governments, especially in the Northeast and on the West Coast, are stepping up efforts to reduce global warming in the absence of federal action...." Among these actions,...

Kerry joined "other side".(Between The Lines)
June 14, 2004... ITEM: The Associated Press released a national story on May 2, carrying the headline, "Dole Rises to Kerry's Defense over Vietnam," citing the former Kansas senator and World War II hero. The lead sentence, referring to an interview on Fox News...

We lose if LOST wins.(The Last Word)
June 14, 2004... Some bad ideas just keep coming back again and again, like a vampire that hasn't been properly disposed of with the wooden stake to the heart. The United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is just such a creature. Pronounced dead several...

Destination backfire.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 28, 2004... Regarding the article "New World Order Strategist" (May 3 issue), the journey to a new world order represents the exact opposite direction from which we should be going. One gets that assurance from its founders' strategy of creating a...

Willful blindness?(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 28, 2004... Regarding Jodie Gilmore's article "No Child Left Unbrainwashed" (April 19 issue), some people don't get the picture and others don't want to get the picture. After reading the article, I passed it on to my wife, who in turn began talking...

While there is time.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 28, 2004... The article "Teens Against the Total State" (May 31 issue) was very interesting. There is a difference between the Jewish persecution and why Schnibbe, Hubener and Wobbe were persecuted. Jews were persecuted as a race, even though...

Pharmaceutical cartel.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 28, 2004... Not to impugn the honor of William P. Hoar's intentions in "Between the Lines" (May 17 issue), but his information is a bit incomplete. According the Los Angeles Times, the California Association of Physicians and Surgeons, and even the CDC's...

Parity price and farming.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 28, 2004... I have just encountered your December 1, 2003 issue containing the article "Engineered Extinction." I want to commend you for this factual and important writing. I would like to provide a brief additional aspect to the raw material picture...

What's your "TQ"?(Insider Report)
June 28, 2004... That's "terrorism quotient"--also known as "High Terrorism Factor," or HTF. The AP reported on May 20 that Seisint, a federal contractor employed by the Bush administration to develop the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX),...

Homebuyers as terrorist suspects.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2004... Over the past several years--thanks in large measure to the Federal Reserve's loose credit policies--the housing market has undergone a spectacular boom as millions of Americans have become first-time homebuyers. While buying a home is always...

Grooming an establishment elite.(Insider Report)
June 28, 2004... "I hope some journalist has the guts to ask John Kerry (Skull and Bones, 1965) and George Bush (Skull and Bones, 1967) whether they have any qualms about belonging to a secret, oath-bound network since their college days," wrote the author of a...

Picking a bone with Bush.(Insider Report)
June 28, 2004... "Maybe the Yale secret society Skull & Bones isn't as cozy as previously believed," wrote New York Daily News columnist Lloyd Grove on May 25. "A new book, Ambushed, reveals that Bonesman David Richards, now a Manhattan real estate lawyer, was...

The "NAFTA draft".(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2004... In May, the Bush administration and its media mouthpieces--Rush, Hannity, Fox News, et al.--touted the Labor Department's report that 288,000 new jobs were created in April. At one campaign stop in Dubuque, President Bush appeared to say that...

Victory over COG.(Insider Report)
June 28, 2004... On June 2, the House of Representatives defeated, by a vote of 63-353, a proposed constitutional amendment (House Joint Resolution 83) that would provide for the appointment of congressmen to fill vacant seats in the event of a national...

Another unconnected "dot".(Insider Report)
June 28, 2004... For more than three years, THE NEW AMERICAN has documented that federal officials had abundant, specific foreknowledge of the 9-11 plot. To that body of evidence can be added the case of Niaz Khan, a British citizen of Pakistani background who...

Bilderbergers celebrate half a century of intrigue, secrecy.(Insider Report)
June 28, 2004... The Bilderberg Group, one of the most secretive clubs of global movers and shakers, held its 2004 meeting June 3-6 in Stresa, Italy, near Milan. The four-day event at the secluded, palatial Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees marked the 50th...

ADL's leftist influence still at Bush-Ashcroft DOJ.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
June 28, 2004... Following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno launched an all-out campaign to demonize all serious opposition to the Clinton administration's left-wing political agenda. The Clinton-Reno...

Feds behaving badly.(Insider Report)
June 28, 2004... On May 19, Jacqueline A. Blake, a biologist employed at the FBI laboratory, admitted to "submitting falsified DNA analysis reports in more than 100 cases," reported the AP. As part of an agreement reached with prosecutors, Blake pleaded guilty...

"Hat in hand," on "bended knee": after supposedly breaking with the UN over the Iraq War, the Bush administration has not only come to the UN as supplicant but is pushing for a UN standing army.(Arming The UN)(Cover Story)
June 28, 2004... It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying, "We need you to come back." --Edward Mortimer, a senior aide to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan ...

Mission accomplished? President Bush's war on Iraq has opened the U.S. to new dangers, weakened our defenses, and provided a huge lift to the UN and advocates of world government.(Iraq War)(Cover Story)
June 28, 2004... When President Bush landed on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, he was greeted with a huge banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished." U.S. forces had quickly routed Saddam Hussein's army, and many Americans were under the...

Perverted "peacemakers": as the Bush administration's collaboration with the UN becomes more overt, the world body is awash in scandals--from child prostitution to epic international bribery and graft.(UN Corruption)(Cover Story)
June 28, 2004... During the Senate's debate over ratifying the League of Nations Covenant in 1919, Senator William Borah (R-Idaho) sought to disabuse his colleagues of the idea that a world "peace force" would be a blessing to mankind. An international...

Iraq-Nam: John Birch Society founder Robert Welch discerned early on how the global Power Elite stage-manages contrived conflict to accomplish their subversive agenda.(Strategic Deception)(Cover Story)
June 28, 2004... This writer recalls President Richard Nixon mistakenly referring to Vietnam as Korea twice during a live press conference in the 1970s. Given the fashion in which America's foreign policy establishment repeatedly uses the same game plan--with...

From Milo to Rulon: from beating an "unbeatable" foe to coming back from a tragic injury, American wrestler Rulon Gardner credits both faith and family for his persistence in getting the job done.(Courage In Adversity)
June 28, 2004... Thousands of years ago, a remarkable man named Milo was born in Croton, a Greek colony in Italy. When Milo was a youngster, his father gave him a small calf to raise. According to legend, Milo--who was unusually large at birth, and quickly...

Vote on CAFTA in "lame duck" session?(Ahead Of The Curve)
June 28, 2004... ITEM: On May 31, Reuters reported that the business groups supporting passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement include "Boeing Co., Eastman Kodak Co., ExxonMobil, Intel Corp., Nestle, Oracle Corp., and Time Warner Inc." Regarding...

U.S. war spurring rise in number of terrorists.(Ahead Of The Curve)
June 28, 2004... ITEM: In his report in the May 28, 2004 Christian Science Monitor, Tom Regan wrote: "While officials of the FBI and the Justice Department were telling citizens this week to prepare for possible terrorist attacks over the summer, a well-known...

Is inflation back?(Ahead Of The Curve)
June 28, 2004... ITEM: In her published release on May 24, 2004, Associated Press Writer Jeannine Aversa offered: "In its latest economic outlook, the National Association for Business Economics estimated that inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index,...

Proper priorities.(The Goodness Of America)
June 28, 2004... Mark Bartholomew is a demolition worker tot Brandenburg Industrial Services in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. On the evening of March 15, he was cruising along Interstate 70 in a company truck when an automobile ahead of him suddenly went out of...

Coming down from a high.(The Goodness Of America)
June 28, 2004... Shortly before 11 a.m. on April 15, Kaysville, Utah, resident Wayne Olsen left for a work assignment in nearby Farmington. Driving south on a surface road paralleling the I-15 freeway, Olsen glanced to his left and was stunned to see a red...

Precious ring recovered.(The Goodness Of America)
June 28, 2004... After city officials in Colorado Springs, Colorado, began draining Prospect Lake so it could be relined, the receding lake began revealing some of its secret treasures. Retired electrician Orlin Knutsen joined other treasure seekers in...

Sherman's great compromise: Roger Sherman's brilliant proposal saved the 1787 Constitutional Convention from a hopeless deadlock and safeguarded against centralization of power at the federal level.(History--Greatness Of The Founders)
June 28, 2004... The stifling early summer heat in Philadelphia seemed apropos for the increasingly heated debate among the Constitutional Convention delegates. By early June 1787, the convention appeared hopelessly deadlocked. Delegates from the larger states...

Case closed.(Exercising The Right)
June 28, 2004... The Shelby Food Mart is located in Louisville, Kentucky. Shortly after store employee Firas Al Kurdi began his shift on October 12, 2002, a man brandishing a knife entered the store and demanded money. The thug, later identified as James...

To catch a thief.(Exercising The Right)
June 28, 2004... Ernest Galloway, 77, owns the Oak View Auto Service in High Point, North Carolina. At about 11:20 p.m. on December 29, 2003, someone broke into the business and stole some cash and a few snacks. An employee's son later drove by and noticed that...

Perspective on gas prices.(Between The Lines)
June 28, 2004... ITEM: Reuters on May 20 said of the high cost of gasoline: "U.S. retail gasoline prices have topped $2 per gallon. On Wednesday, gasoline futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange traded as high as $1.45 a gallon--a new record--amid supply...

Growing farm subsidies.(Between The Lines)
June 28, 2004... ITEM: India's Economic Times reported from New Delhi that U.S. opposition to farm subsidies had put World Trade Organization talks back on track. On May 23, it said, "Following the EU, the US has now expressed its readiness to eliminate...

Politicizing the pay gap.(The Last Word)
June 28, 2004... Abortion wasn't the only rallying cry at last April's "March for Women's Lives" in Washington, D.C. When it was Senator Hillary Clinton's turn to speak, she declared: "This administration is filled with people who... claim the pay gap between...