The New American articles from September 2002

The New American archives from September 2002

Shaping things to come. (Letters to the Editor).
September 9, 2002... Your August 12th issue does a great job bringing to light many subtle socialist doctrines being foisted upon the American people through the incredibly popular Sci-Fi genre. One of the more obvious ties of Sci-Fi to globalism is Star Trek's...

Reshaping H.G. Wells. (Letters to the Editor).
September 9, 2002... Regarding your August 12th issue, in his article "Shaping Things to Come," William Norman Grigg attempted one of the most incomprehensible revisions of H.G. Wells I've seen in some time. To call the piece misleading is to be kind. He has...

Capitalism in crisis. (Letters to the Editor).
September 9, 2002... This letter is prompted by your recent article, "Criminalizing Capitalism" (August 26th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN). The underlying cause of the present dislocation of our economy has been the export of our industries. After President George...

Qaddafi an "ally" against terror?! (Insider Report).(Britain hopes to recruit Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in the fight against terrorism)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... "Britain yesterday sent its first ministerial mission to Libya in 18 years to try to sign up Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in the war against international terrorism," reported the August 7th Washington Times. Departing for Tripoli, Foreign...

Libya to chair UN Human Rights Commission? (Insider Report).(United Nations Human Rights Commission)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... During the inaugural summit of the African Union in July, Libya was nominated to preside over the next session of the UN's Human Rights Commission (which begins next March). Although all 53 governments represented in the Geneva-based UN panel...

Republican socialism. (Insider Report).(hundreds of millions of dollars in federal spending shifted to Republican districts)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... "The 1994 revolution that gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives produced a seismic shift in federal spending, moving tens of billions of dollars from Democratic to GOP districts," reported the Associated Press on August 6th....

Sign me up! (Insider Report).(government officials continue to be assassinated in Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... In an August 13th Los Angeles Times op-ed column, international affairs commentator Amir Taheri related the following Afghan joke: "Hamid Karzai, the interim head of state, signs a document and hands it to a man sitting across from him. 'Here...

"Liberating" Afghanistan. (Insider Report).(Afghan government to permit abortions in life-threatening situations)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... In early August, London-based pro-abortion group Marie Stopes International (MSI) opened an abortion mill in Kabul, reported the Cybercast News Service. "Abortion was banned under the Taliban, but in January the interim Afghan government...

Provocateurs 'R' us. (Insider Report).(two prominent neo-Nazis are revealed as intelligence agents)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... Two of the most notorious leaders of Germany's neo-Nazi movement have been unmasked as intelligence agents. After police arrested 27-year-old "Tilo S," leader of the White Aryan Rebels heavy metal band, "they found during questioning that he...

ICC still threatens U.S. soldiers. (Insider Report).(Bush administration agreements with the International Criminal Court leaves US soldiers susceptible to arrest)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... The Bush administration's "compromise" on the International Criminal Court (ICC) leaves U.S. soldiers vulnerable to arrest and prosecution by that UN tribunal. Under the arrangement worked out between the administration and the UN Security...

Insider opposition to Iraq war? (Insider Report).(Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... In early August, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft wrote op-ed columns seemingly opposed to the approaching U.S. attack on Iraq. Since both of these CFR stalwarts served as national security advisers to Republican presidents, some...

Feeding the God of War. (The Right Perspective).(analogy: the perpetual wars of the Aztecs, and of the United States)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... Centuries before the phrase "Wag the Dog" entered the American vocabulary, an earlier American superpower perfected the use of politically convenient phony wars. Through the use of stage-managed, conspiratorial conflicts called "Flower Wars,"...

George W.--master of disguise: spouting patriotic rhetoric and enjoying the support of fellow Republicans, George W. Bush has masqueraded as a conservative while actually advancing a liberal agenda. (Cover Story: False Conservatism).(federal spending increasing faster under George W. Bush than under Bill Clinton)
September 9, 2002... When Bill Clinton boasted that "the era of big government is over," there were probably more belly laughs than nods. After all, Clinton was widely recognized as a big-spending liberal. He was seen by many as a dangerous demagogue with an...

Bush's Wilsonian internationalism: how radical is President Bush's globalist agenda? Establishment pundits approvingly compare him to President Woodrow Wilson, the icon of modern one-worldism. (Cover Story: False Conservatism).(President George W. Bush is proving to be an internationalist)
September 9, 2002... As the 2000 presidential election campaign was heading into its final weeks, Foreign Affairs, the house organ of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), sent a message to its prestigious readership. Writing in the September/October issue of...

Bush's "Star Chamber": White House determination to try "enemy combatants" secretly is reminiscent of the despotic "Star Chamber" courts of England's King Charles I. (War on Terrorism).(Bush administration putting aside constitutional law in dealing with suspected terrorists)
September 9, 2002... He wasn't the first choice to rule, and he seemed ill suited to his position. His awkwardness in public speaking often gave the impression that he was slow and poorly educated. From early in his reign, he seemed determined to repeat and magnify...

Terrorism's best ally--the UN: when retired Major General Paul Vallely made a fact-finding trip to Israel, he discovered shocking evidence that the United Nations is openly siding with Hezbollah terrorists. (At a Glance).(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... Retired Major General Paul Vallely (bottom right) returned on July 19th from a five-day fact-finding trip to Israel. What he discovered was even hard for this former 351st Civil Affairs Commander to take. While taking photographs on the...

Pro-life, anti-cancer. (Making a Difference).(Brita Stream,pro-life beauty contestant from Oregon)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... Brita Stream of Eugene, Oregon, graduated from Oregon State University in June with a degree in health development and family sciences. She has long been an articulate advocate for women's health and the unborn via efforts to raise public...

Good sport. (Making a Difference).(Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz helps establish a Christian school)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... On June 14th, Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Smoltz registered his 20th save of the year, becoming only the fourth major league hurler to win both 20 games in one season and save 20 games in another. In 1996, after posting a 24-7 win-loss...

Remembering the Alamo: vastly outnumbered and with no hope of relief, the Alamo's defenders courageously gave their lives and bought precious time for Texans to rally resistance. (History--Struggle for Freedom).
September 9, 2002... Daniel Cloud, a 21-year-old Kentuckian lawyer, had been on sentry duty for hours in the bell tower of the San Fernando Church. Like most of the other "Texians" who had gathered in the town of San Antonio de Bexar, Cloud had retired late...

Jewelry store shootout. (Exercising the Right).(attempted jewelry store robbery in Marietta, Georgia)(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... On July 9th, a man and woman entered Norton's Jewelry in downtown Marietta, Georgia, and asked to see some expensive items. They left without making a purchase, but owner Ronnie Norton, 54, felt uneasy, suspecting that they may have been casing...

Bizarre nighttime intruder. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... Shortly after 2:00 a.m. on July 5th, Dale Clinton Beatty, 22, emerged naked from his residence in East Naples, Florida, and began causing a ruckus in the driveway of neighbor Gerald House, 55. House's wife Jill and their 20-year-old son...

Crazy like a fox. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... At 6 p.m. on July 13th, Brian Bloom left his home in Conover, North Carolina, to investigate the source of some animal sounds coming from his front yard. As he looked around, a fox suddenly scampered from under his car and charged at him....

Correction, please!(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... Wronging Women ITEM: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reported the Voice of America News for July 31st, "has approved an international treaty intended to promote equality for women around the world. The Convention on the Elimination...

CEDAW attacks sovereignty. (The Last Word).(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... The United Nations produced its Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1979. Characteristically, President Jimmy Carter signed it for the United States in 1980. But the Senate has never ratified it...

George W. Bush -- Master of Disguise. (Letters to the Editor).
September 23, 2002... [Regarding "George W. -- Master of Disguise" in the September 9th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN:] How true. I am a conservative Republican who voted for Bush. The man doesn't have a single patriotic bone in his body! He is a RINO (Republican In...

Idaho, Washington, and Texas GOPs Lead the way. (Letters to the Editor).
September 23, 2002... As an avid reader of THE NEW AMERICAN, I was very interested in the articles in the August 26th issue. I asked a friend to read "Washington Follows Idaho's Lead" and "Texans Issue a Challenge" about the Idaho, Washington, and Texas state...

Criminalizing Capitalism. (Letters to the Editor).
September 23, 2002... In Mr. William Norman Grigg's article "Criminalizing Capitalism" (August 26th issue), he labels Congressman Tom DeLay (R-Texas) as being an, "anti-corporate Bolshevik" merely because the congress-man expressed determination in prosecuting...

WTO, EU defining U.S. tax policy. (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... Amid the welter of controversies that culminated in the American War for Independence, one principle was understood and supported throughout the colonies: "No taxation without representation." Decisions about taxing Americans, the colonists...

Snuggling up to Beijing. (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... There are legitimate concerns about Communist China's abuse of the Uighurs (pronounced "whee-gurs"), a Muslim ethnic minority residing in western Xinjiang province. As is the case with the Muslim population in Chechnya, discontent among the...

Minority Report: close to reality? (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... Reviewing Attorney General John Ashcroft's guidelines for terrorism investigations, civil libertarian Nat Hentoff warns that they "could be part of the new Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report, which envisions the nabbing of...

"Fundamentalism" is the enemy. (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... The true enemy in the "war on terrorism" is "religious fundamentalism" of all varieties. This was the conclusion of participants in a weeklong conference convened in Houston by the Texas Faith Network (TFN), described by the August 24th Houston...

Bush pushes collectivist "service". (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... "As September 11th approaches, difficult memories of planes and buildings will resurface," declared President Bush in his August 31st national radio address. "But so will images of brave individuals coming to the aid of neighbors in need."...

Training exercise resembled 9-11. (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... "In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last September 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings," reported the Associated Press on August...

Homosexual anti-family assault. (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... Beginning this September, the New York Times "Sunday Styles" section "will publish reports of same-sex commitment celebrations and of some types of formal registrations of gay and lesbian partnerships," announced the Times on August 18th. The...

FBI's "perverse culture". (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... In the year that has passed since a rash of anthrax attacks terrorized our nation, the FBI has failed to name a credible suspect. Using methods that could best be described as dubious, the Bureau has identified a "person of interest," Dr....

FBI ineptitude, continued. (Insider Report).
September 23, 2002... "A worldwide alert for a Saudi man was issued by the FBI this week after agents examined a CD-ROM received three months ago that contained an image of his passport and photographs of some of the September 11 suicide hijackers," reported the...

The new world religion: presented to the world as a mystical revelation, the UN Earth Charter is actually a diabolical blueprint for global government. (Cover Story: World Government).
September 23, 2002... My hope is that this charter will be a kind of Ten Commandments, a "Sermon on the Mount," that provides a guide for human behavior toward the environment in the next century and beyond. -- Mikhail Gorbachev Millions of Americans were...

Eco-agenda for planetary control: the Earth Summit's Agenda 21 and other radical proposals -- supposedly intended to save "Mother Earth" -- will bring untold human suffering and ecological damage. (Cover Story: World Government).
September 23, 2002... In October 1984, the American public was suddenly assaulted with the appalling reality of the Ethiopian famine, one of the terrible disasters of our age. Shocking images of thousands of skeletal men, women, and children perishing in abject...

The JBS: alive, well, and growing; the leader of the Americanist cause for over 40 years, the John Birch Society continues to work successfully for less government, more responsibility, and a better world. (Americanism).
September 23, 2002... If there had been even one chapter of the John Birch Society in Havana prior to 1959, working to expose Castro as [John Birch Society founder] Robert Welch was at the time, Cuba would not have fallen to Communism. --Major Pedro Diaz Lanz...

It's not just about the money. (Making a Difference).
September 23, 2002... Azzat Amer, 40, is a native of Egypt. He has lived in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for the past 18 years, and during the last three has owned and operated A.Z. Patterson Grocery on the city's east side. In 1989, while he was running a local...

Homeschool high achiever enters Air Force. (Making a Difference).
September 23, 2002... Joyce Lippe, 18, lost her father in a helicopter accident at age two. Soon thereafter, she began pestering her mother to teach her to read. Mrs. Lippe eventually relented, and within a three-week period at age three Joyce was reading on her...

Taunton's patriots & tories: the patriotic struggle in one southeastern Massachusetts community led to honor for patriot Robert Treat Paine and obscurity for Tory Daniel Leonard. (History -- Struggle for Freedom).
September 23, 2002... The night air was cold that February evening in 1775. But Tory loyalist Colonel Thomas Gilbert and the 30 or so ruffians accompanying him were hot with resentment as they trudged along the rural road through Berkley, Massachusetts. The Sons of...

D-Day vet combats invasion. (Exercising the Right).
September 23, 2002... During World War II, Anchorage, Alaska, resident Roy Lee Hendricks, 81, served with the 82nd Airborne Division. On D-Day, he parachuted into the thick of battle at Normandy, and after the war fished for crab in the Bering sea, worked for a time...

A blessing in defense. (Exercising the Right).
September 23, 2002... At around 10 p.m. on July 3 1st, Terry Alston and his family returned to their home in Duncan, North Carolina, after attending a barbecue at the home of Mrs. Alston's mother. Shortly before 10:30 p.m., Mr. Alston and the couple's two...

Correction, please!
September 23, 2002... Mandates & Medical Costs ITEM: The August 21st USA Today declared, "Finger pointers [who] can't settle on who's to blame for health costs" aimed in all directions. "Patients and employers should not expect relief from rising costs anytime...

The HMO culture of death. (The Last Word).
September 23, 2002... Few human tragedies can compare to the death of a child. Perhaps the only greater one is a childhood blighted by a lingering terminal disease. And that agony is transmissible from the child to his parents. Take that unfathomable suffering,...