The New American articles from May 2003

The New American archives from May 2003

Free trade. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 5, 2003... I am writing about William F. Jasper's articles "Your Job May Be Next!" and "Why the Race to the Bottom?" (March 10, 2003 issue). I agree with Mr. Jasper that we need to abolish socialist world government institutions such as the IMF, World...

Iraq's U.S./UN viceroy. (Insider Report).(Jay Garner)
May 5, 2003... Retired U.S. Army General Jay Garner, director of the newly created Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, "has been dubbed variously viceroy, proconsul, president-in-waiting and even the 'sheriff of Baghdad,"' noted the April...

More on "liberated" Iraq. (Insider Report).(Pentagon lawyer Michael H. Mobbs to supervise civil reconstruction in Iraq)
May 5, 2003... "A Pentagon lawyer who sought to have U.S. citizens imprisoned indefinitely without charge as part of the war on terrorism will supervise civil administration" in newly liberated Iraq, reported the April 4th London Guardian. Michael H. Mobbs, a...

Bombing baghdad, coddling China. (Insider Report).(United States stance on human rights abuses in China)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... In an annual Human Rights Report published in late March, the U.S. State Department criticized Communist China for systematically engaging in torture, forced confessions, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary executions, slave labor,...

"Hanoi Jane," abortion, and Iraq. (Insider Report).(Jane Fonda receives Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... It's a perfect match, though hardly one made in heaven: Jane Fonda and Planned Parenthood. On March 29th, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) honored Fonda with the Margaret Sanger Award, named for the organization's racist,...

Critique of faux (fox) news. (Insider Report).(Fox News Network's coverage of Iraq War)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... The war in Iraq was a ratings bonanza for Fox News, the neoconservative cable network owned by Australian expatriate Rupert Murdoch, a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations and admitted "friend of China." As Israeli media critic...

Proving his point? (Insider Report).(producer Ed Germon fired by Alliance Atlantis Communications following comments on United States foreign policy)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Describing the CBS miniseries "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" in the April 12th-18th TV Guide, executive producer Ed Germon stated: "It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, who ultimately chose to give up their civil rights and...

WMDs? What WMDs? (Insider Report).(Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, or not)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... President Bush insisted during a March 6th press conference that the war on Iraq would be fought to confront "the threat posed to our nation and to peace by Saddam Hussein and his weapons of terror." The peril posed by Saddam's weapons of mass...

Scalia on Scaling Back rights. (Insider Report).(Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on civil rights in time of war)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... "War Means Rights May Be Scaled Back" read the headline of the Associated Press story in the March 18th issue of Newsday. "The government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution, Supreme Court...

The wages of permanent war. (Insider Report).
May 5, 2003... "A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative--that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville. The neoconservatives in charge of the Bush administration's foreign...

Saddam--a company man. (Insider Report).(United States involvement in creation of Saddam Hussein's totalitarian regime, Iraq)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... "If Saddam Hussein did not exist, we would have to invent him," wrote Fareed Zakaria, former editor of Foreign Affairs, in the September 16, 1996 issue of Newsweek. "He is the linchpin of American policy in the Mideast." As has been repeatedly...

Meanwhile, in the Balkans... (Insider Report).(assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... In early March, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was murdered. His confessed assassin was alleged mob boss Dusan Spasojevic, prompting Balkans affairs analyst Nebojsa Malic to speculate that the late prime minister, who had ample mob...

Trading freedom for security: when it comes to many of the "anti-terror" policies and laws being fastened upon us, the "cure" may be more deadly than the disease.(Cover Story)
May 5, 2003... "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety," observed Benjamin Franklin, "deserve neither liberty nor safety." The harsh verdict of history sustains the bitter truth of Dr. Franklin's observation. Those who...

Exporting our "first responders": local police and emergency personnel man the front lines of "homeland defense"--yet tens of thousands have been sent to fight overseas. (Law Enforcement).
May 5, 2003... "The country's security comes first when the country reaches out and says we need your skills to fight this war," explained Army Reservist Jim Howatson, a captain in the Tacoma, Washington, police department. "There's no question that's where...

Unpeaceful symbol: a look at the history of the so-called peace symbol reveals that it originated in ancient pagan rituals, and that its use has been primarily as a token not of peace, but of evil. (Peace Symbol).
May 5, 2003... In Barcelona, Spain, on the evening of March 26th, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest the war with Iraq. Turning violent, some of the "peace" marchers smashed windows in a McDonald's restaurant and in a department...

United Nations, RIP? With the UN preparing to play a key role in post-war Iraq, rumors of the world body's death have been greatly exaggerated. (United Nations).
May 5, 2003... "Get US out! of the United Nations--and get the United Nations out of the United States!" Such has been the war cry of the John Birch Society for more than 40 years. Now that the Bush administration has gone to war in Iraq despite the UN's...

Castro's crackdown: while U.S. forces battled Saddam's regime, a brave band of brothers stood against the terror and oppression of a brutal tyrant 90 miles from our shore. (Cuba).
May 5, 2003... The fall of Saddam Hussein and his East German-trained secret police apparatus was the one clearly good thing to come out of the war on Iraq. But while jubilant Iraqis celebrated the end of Saddam's tyranny half a world away, Fidel Castro was...

Essay on religious freedom. (Making a Difference).(charter school yields to media pressure regarding case of student wanting to make presenation on the Bible, Colorado)
May 5, 2003... Elizabeth Johnson, 11, attends Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette, Colorado. Shortly before Christmas last year, the sixth-grader, along with her classmates, was assigned an oral report on a book of her choice. Elizabeth, a member of the...

Christian candy caners. (Making a Difference).(high school students win right to distribute religious literature, Westfield, Massachusetts)
May 5, 2003... During last year's holiday season, seven members of the Love and Insight for Eternity (L.I.F.E.) Bible Club at Westfield High School in Westfield, Massachusetts, decided to pass out candy canes accompanied by folded cards that, among other...

With a little help. (Exercising the Right).(woman living alone uses gun to stop burglar, Duncan, South Carolina)
May 5, 2003... Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on March 20th, someone rang the front doorbell of Margaret Summey's home in Duncan, South Carolina. The 64-year-old widow did not answer and moments later heard someone jiggle the back door. She then heard the noise of...

Dog day. (Exercising the Right).(use of pistol saves woman and two young girls in attack by rottweilers)
May 5, 2003... On January 18th, Teresa Castellano was tending her six-year-old daughter Alysa and Alysa's eight-year-old friend Kaitlyn Green at Kaitlyn's home in Tampa, Florida. She and the girls began laughing at something on television when, for some...

Betsy Ross: a just sew story. (History -- Struggle for Freedom).(history of the making of the American flag)
May 5, 2003... Did Betsy Ross sew the first stars and Stripes? An unbiased look at all historical sources -- written, oral, and pictorial -- lends credence to the story Anyone over 40 remembers learning about Betsy Ross, credited with sewing the first...

Minimum wage woes. (Correction, Please!).(Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich considers minimum wage increase)
May 5, 2003... ITEM: "Organized labor and a passel of politicians turned on the pressure... to push for an increase in Illinois' minimum hourly wage from $5.15 to $6.50," reported the Chicago Sun-Times for March 31st. "'Someone who works 40 hours a week, 52...

Benign discrimination? (Correction, Please!).(University of Michigan accused of practicing reverse discrimination)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... ITEM: "The question at the center" of the debate at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1st, said the Detroit Free Press, "is whether the Constitution leaves room to advance the opportunities that America has always promised for each and every one...

Accidental anti-gun myths. (Correction, Please).(statistics on accidental gun deaths)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... ITEM: The Hoyafor March 28th reported on a gun-control debate at Georgetown University quoting David Haffty of Hand-gun-Free America as saying: "'When we find a product that is harmful to the public, we ban it,' Haffty said. Haffty offered a...

Kerry postures as a war hero. (The Last Word).(military past and pacifist activities of presidential candidate Senator John Kerry)(Column)
May 5, 2003... Senator John Kerry wants to be president. His membership in the Council on Foreign Relations guarantees that the world government crowd will accept him. He can tap into his wife's millions to overcome any fundraising shortfall. And his...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
May 5, 2003... In "Rallying 'Round What Flag?" (April 21st issue) the wrong location was given for Camp Lejeune. The military base is in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Signs of the times. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 19, 2003... I appreciated William Norman Grigg's "Last Word" in the March 24th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN. I applaud Mr. Grigg for illuminating an insidious ploy: President Bush's "Christian conversion" as a means of justifying totalitarian actions as if he...

Korean threat. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
May 19, 2003... Thank you for your timely cover stories on Korea and the accompanying feature articles -- "Beating the Odds at Inchon" and General Douglas MacArthur's "Duty, Honor, Country" speech (THE NEW AMERICAN, February 24th). With all the media focusing...

Baghdad's Russian Mafia "mayor". (Insider Report).(Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi)
May 19, 2003... On April 20th, an Iraqi opposition leader named Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, a close associate of U.S.-backed Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi, proclaimed himself "mayor" of Baghdad and announced the creation of a municipal government. "We have...

Arizona rescinds constitutional convention calls. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... America has taken another step away from the brink of an Article V constitutional convention. On April 1st, the Arizona House of Representatives approved without dissent a resolution rescinding all of its prior applications to Congress to call...

UN meddles in U.S. legal system. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... In recent years, the UN has reviewed several controversial death penalty cases in the United States. In late March, UN scrutiny of our legal system took a new turn as the United Nations Human Rights Commission (presently chaired by Libya)...

Thanks for nothing. (Insider Report).(federal officials fail to inform Nevada law enforcement leaders of terrorist threat against Las Vegas)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... "Southern Nevada law enforcement leaders are upset that federal officials did not share with them allegations that a terrorist sleeper cell in Detroit wanted to destroy Las Vegas," reported the April 11th Las Vegas Review-Journal. During...

U.S. confirms UN war authority. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... On March 20th, U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Negroponte sent a formal letter to the president of the Security Council. Therein, Negroponte confirmed that, relative to Iraq, America would only act based on Security Council resolutions and that...

UN benefited from Iraq war. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... Many supporters of the UN considered the war on Iraq to be a potentially lethal blow to the world body's prestige. Former Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller does not share that assessment. During a March visit to San Francisco,...

UN's black gold. (Insider Report).(United Nations oil-for-food program )
May 19, 2003... In 1990, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the UN slapped sanctions on Baghdad's oil industry. In 1996, supposedly to relieve the suffering inflicted on civilians by the oil embargo and other trade sanctions, the UN created the...

U.S. military or imperial legions? (Insider Report).(recruitment of foreign nationals by US armed forces)
May 19, 2003... "Put none but Americans on guard tonight," instructed General George Washington in an April 30, 1777 order to his army. An executive order quietly issued by President George W. Bush on Independence Day 2002, represented a radical departure from...

What did we win? The war was short and our losses--though tragic--were relatively light. But what did "Operation Iraqi Freedom" actually accomplish? (Cover Story: Iraq).
May 19, 2003... It was a perfect tableau of liberation. To the cheers of jubilant Iraqis, a U.S. Marine climbed the immense statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad and triumphantly draped the Stars & Stripes over Saddam's heathen-idol visage. Shortly...

Weapons of mass delusion: President Bush told the world that Saddam's alleged WMDs directly threatened the U.S. but the war is over and no arsenal has yet been found. (Cover Story: Iraq).
May 19, 2003... Secretary of State Colin Powell used a February 24, 2001 press conference to defend a recent airstrike against Iraq. "The message I plan to give to all the leaders I speak to and to the Arab public is that the cause of this problem that we have...

The global school board: by rejoining UNESCO, the U.S. government is aiding the UN's grab for power and boosting the Earth Charter crusade to paganize our children. (Education).
May 19, 2003... A global stealth campaign is underway and is gathering momentum. The masterminds of this campaign are aiming at nothing less than a world revolution, a revolution of mind and heart that will change and "transform" humanity. They have devised a...

UNESCO's rotten track record: contrary to President Bush's claims, UNESCO has not reformed. It is still pursuing the same subversive agenda that it was nearly two decades ago. (Education).
May 19, 2003... If UNESCO is attacked on the grounds that it is helping to prepare the world's peoples for world government, then... let us by all means affirm it from the housetops. -- The Saturday Review, 1952 As a symbol of our commitment to human...

China's "double spy": the recent arrest of an accused Red Chinese spy and her lover, a former FBI counter-intelligence agent, underscores China's continuing effort to steal our defense secrets. (National Security).(Katrina Leung case)
May 19, 2003... Communist China's penetration of our political, intelligence, and defense establishments did not begin with Bill Clinton's "Chinagate" scandal, and did not end with Clinton's departure from the White House. Nor are Beijing's U.S. political...

Motherly instincts. (The Goodness of America).(Salt Lake City Police Detective Ken Sanders saves mother and children from fire)
May 19, 2003... Shortly before 3 p.m. on March 8th, a fire broke out in the first-floor dining room of a duplex in Salt Lake City, Utah. Three children, all under age six, and their mother were home at the time, but did not notice the fire for several minutes....

Civilians help officer. (The Goodness of America).(Sergeant Marcus Young)
May 19, 2003... Sergeant Marcus Young is a 15-year veteran of the Ukiah, California, police department. Twice during his career suspects have pointed guns at his head, but he emerged from both harrowing incidents unscathed. Recently, however, he nearly lost...

Saved by a miracle: in 1402 A.D., a miracle saved the Florentine Republic from being conquered by the Duke of Milan. Florence's story can inspire those who fight for liberty today never to lose hope. (History: Struggle for Freedom).
May 19, 2003... In 1402, citizens of Florence, Italy, fixed their attention on a high-profile contest. The famous Baptistry of San Giovani, where for generations all Florentine children had been baptized, was to receive a new set of bronze doors. Sponsored by...

Stranger in the night. (Exercising the Right).(self-defense case)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... On March 14th in Topeka, Kansas, when David Holmes arrived home and emerged from his car, a man he did not know began shooting at him without warning. Though wounded, Holmes pulled his own gun and returned fire. Someone heard the shootout...

Owner defends store. (Exercising the Right).(Dave Staley, co-owner of Brock's Gunsmithing Inc. in Spokane, Washington)
May 19, 2003... Dave Staley is co-owner of Brock's Gunsmithing Inc. in Spokane, Washington. At 3:57 a.m. on April 9th, the security company monitoring the shop called to inform Staley that a burglar alarm indicated a break-in was occurring. When Staley...

Robber faced down. (Exercising the Right).(self-defense case)(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... On March 19th, an unidentified woman had just stopped at an intersection in Warren, Michigan, when a man approached and jerked open the driver's side door. She could not see the object that he pressed against her jaw, but believed it to be a...

Family feud. (Exercising the Right).(Archie Glenn Williford shooting)
May 19, 2003... Archie Glenn Williford and his second wife, Patsy, separated in late 2002 after 18 years together. According to a family source, Mr. Williford had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which entails wide and sometimes violent mood swings. In...

Correction, please!(Dick Gephardt's tax policy; other political issues)
May 19, 2003... Gephardt's Generosity ITEM: "Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt wants to repeal President Bush's income tax cuts to help employers provide health insurance for their workers," reported the San Francisco Chronicle for April...

The Santorum controversy. (The Last Word).(Senator Rick Santorum)
May 19, 2003... Anyone active in the pro-life movement has heard of Senator Rick Santorum. The telegenic, 45-year-old Pennsylvanian is the third most powerful Republican in the Senate, and he has consistently championed issues related to the sanctity of life...