From the editor.(Editorial)

The Old Testament prophet Isaiah warned long ago: "Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst."

We clearly live in a similar day. People all over the world are being led into political, economic and spiritual bondage even as they are told that "freedom" is spreading.

As this special issue of TNA shows, the so-called free trade agreements--the European Union, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas--have nothing to do with genuine free trade. They have everything to do with creating regional governing bodies on the road to world government.

The regional approach to world government is most advanced in Europe, where the European Union is now consolidating governmental powers once exercised by independent nation states. On our own continent, NAFTA is already infringing on our national independence. It is also harming our economy. But the harmful effects of NAFTA would become much worse if the FTAA is created. The FTAA would encompass not just North America but the Western Hemisphere, and it would possess more powers than NAFTA. It would also, according to its promoters, be modeled after the EU.

Of course, this is not what we were told when NAFTA was pushed through Congress in 1993, and this is not what we will be told when the FTAA agreement is ready for congressional approval. The party line, then and now, is that these so-called free trade agreements will create jobs and prosperity by eliminating trade barriers and opening up markets. That was the same party line, by the way, that was employed to trick the peoples of Europe into accepting the "Common Market," a forerunner to the EU.

Should we allow our own country to become a part of a supranational government of the Americas? There are many good reasons for ...