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Overview 7 The “Free Trade” Agenda Threatens Our Rights by Larry Greenley — New free trade agreements would end our independent, constitutional republic that has secured our rights since 1787.

Regionalism 12 Global Merger Piece by Piece

by William F. Jasper — Globalists, socialists, and communists AP Images promote regional blocs that destroy national sovereignty. 12 16 European Union 16 The EU: Regionalization Trumps Sovereignty by Alex Newman — The nations of Europe are being forced into a federation — whether Europeans want it or not.

Fast Facts

22 Trade Promises... and Trade Reality AP Images AP Images

nORTh American Union 25 25 North American Union: From NAFTA to the NAU by Charles Scaliger — NAFTA was a major step toward an EU-style North American Union.

Trade Promotion Authority 30 Fast-track: Enabler of the “Free Trade” Agenda by Jack Kenny — Fast-track (aka Trade Promotion Authority — TPA) has been key to approval of all our free trade agreements.

Trans-Pacific Partnership

33 Regional Scheme for the Pacific Rim AP Images by William F. Jasper — The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would start an EU-type bloc for the entire Asia Pacific region. 33

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership 38 EU/U.S. — Transatlantic Convergence by William F. Jasper — The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) proposes political and economic merger of Europe and the United States. 30 AP Images AP Images THE LAST WORD 44 Preserve Your Rights: 38 Stop the “Free Trade” Agenda by Larry Greenley

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Space Available 2,750 square ft. and 2,820 square ft. Call 239-677-7441 or Email [email protected] Cleveland Ave. (Rt. 41) • Ft. Myers, Florida • Stamra Inc. From THE EDITOR Publisher John F. McManus Saving the American Dream genuine free trade (which would mean al- Editor America was once almost universally re- most no government involvement), and it is Gary Benoit garded as a land of opportunity, where al- not confined to the issue of trade; it is instead Senior Editor most anything was possible. And for good about transferring economic and political William F. Jasper reason! In other lands, the heavy hand of power to regional arrangements as stepping- government and a controlled economy sti- stones to global governance under the guise Associate Editor fled upward mobility and kept the people im- of free trade. Kurt Williamsen poverished — except for a relative few who This agenda is farthest advanced in Eu- Copy Editor possessed most of the nation’s wealth and rope, where the architects of European order John T. Larabell also pulled the political strings. But here in proposed a Common Market. But by de- America, the government was restrained by sign, this supposed free trade zone has since Foreign Correspondent the chains of the Constitution, and the people morphed into the EU, a government of Eu- Alex Newman prospered. rope (see page 16). Contributors This contrast between the collectivist old If we continue down the road of the free Bob Adelmann • Dave Bohon world and America helps explain why many trade agenda, the promised jobs will not Raven Clabough • Selwyn Duke wanted to come here from distant lands — and materialize any more than they did with Thomas R. Eddlem • Brian Farmer why even today many still want to come here. NAFTA. But as bad as the economic con- Christian Gomez • Larry Greenley In America almost anyone, no matter how sequences may be, they will pale in com- Gregory A. Hession, J.D. poor, could pull himself up by the bootstraps parison to the political consequences. If the Ed Hiserodt • William P. Hoar into the middle class — and in some cases United States were to be submerged in a Jack Kenny • R. Cort Kirkwood beyond — if he were willing to work hard supranational government, the Constitution Patrick Krey, J.D. • Warren Mass enough. Home ownership — a major com- would become a dead letter, and America Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ponent of what we call the American dream would be ruled by multinational bureaucra- Fr. James Thornton, — was achievable. So was starting a business. cies and elites. Joe Wolverton II, J.D. In fact, so many succeeded in converting their On the other hand, if we preserve our na- Art Director American dreams into American realities that tional independence, we will still possess the Joseph W. Kelly our country quickly developed a burgeoning means under our Constitution to solve our middle class, dwarfing the small or virtually own problems. One problem, most Ameri- Graphic Designer nonexistent middle classes in other countries. cans agree, is that the federal government Katie Carder But for many of us, pursuing the American has grown too big — far exceeding its con- Research Dream seems more elusive than in the past. stitutional mandate. Transferring power to Bonnie M. Gillis Even during a period of “recovery,” the econo- supranational tribunals is going in the oppo- my is not too good, and many are out of work. site direction of where we need to go. PR/Marketing Manager In fact, many well-paying jobs that helped The American Dream was more achievable Bill Hahn give America its reputation as a land of op- when government was much more limited Advertising/Circulation Manager portunity have been moved out of the country. than today. We should be optimistic about Julie DuFrane Why? Part of the reason for the “giant making this great dream as bright as ever — sucking sound” of jobs exiting America was if we preserve our Constitution and country. the creation of NAFTA, the North American Because of what is at stake, we encourage Free Trade Agreement (see page 22). Yet you to read the articles that follow and to when NAFTA was proposed, its promoters become involved. promised that it would create jobs and pros- — Gary Benoit Printed in the U.S.A. • ISSN 0885-6540 perity. Similarly, promoters of the free trade P.O. 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and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Although the Articles of Confederation provided legitimacy for the new nation during the War for Independence, it took the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to provide a government that would ad- equately secure our rights. And it has for over 220 years. Among other things, the above passage from the Declaration of Independence established our nation as unique in assert- ing that our rights come from God and that governments are instituted to secure these rights. Although we all remember the Declaration as listing our rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we don’t as easily remember that it says that these three rights are only “among” our other God-given rights. Many of these other rights were spelled out in the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the new Constitution that were proposed by Con- gress on March 4, 1789, and ratified by the states as of December 15, 1791. Many of our rights are at the heart of the big news stories of the present day. For example, our right “to keep and bear arms” (Amendment II) is being threatened The “Free Trade” Agenda by the UN Arms Trade Treaty, gun control bills in Congress, and Obama administra- Threatens Our Rights tion initiatives in response to the Newtown school shooting and the Zimmerman ver- dict. Furthermore, our right “to be secure New free trade agreements with Pacific Rim nations and the in [our] persons, houses, papers, and ef- fects, against unreasonable searches and European Union would lead to the end of our independent, seizures” (Amendment IV) is being in- constitutional republic that has secured our rights since 1787. fringed by massive government surveillance of our personal phone calls, e-mails, and other online activities. And in a last by Larry Greenley committee of the whole, edited every line example, our right not to be “deprived of of his draft. Finally, on July 4, 1776, the … property, without due process of law” t was not so very long ago when a Continental Congress approved what we (Amendment V) is being violated by the 33-year-old attorney spent much of now know as “The Declaration of Inde- implementation of the UN’s Agenda 21 by I his time during two seasonably hot pendence” by Thomas Jefferson. local, county, and state planning bodies. weeks in his second-floor apartment in an Our most precious heritage as Ameri- So you’re probably thinking, yes, I Eastern city drafting an important docu- cans is contained in the Declaration: know about our rights and how they are ment on a portable writing desk of his secured by our government, but what’s this own design. Finally, a clean copy of his We hold these truths to be self-evi- got to do with the free trade agenda? draft was submitted to an assembly of del- dent, that all men are created equal, egates, of which he was a member. that they are endowed by their Cre- Fake Free Trade Next, he spent an excruciating two and ator with certain unalienable Rights, In brief, the connection is that the rights that a half days while this assembly, sitting as a that among these are Life, Liberty we prize as Americans are secured by the www.TheNewAmerican.com 7 overview

cent decades and that has led In short, the WTO considers itself to be a The NAFTA agreement included NAFTA to numerous so-called free supranational last resort for settling trade trade agreements since the disputes between nations. tribunals that are superior to the U.S. 1990s and the establishment Our congressmen were warned about Supreme Court in cases involving North of the World Trade Organiza- the significance of placing the United tion (WTO) in 1995. States under the jurisdiction of the WTO American trade, and NAFTA has provided The hundreds of free by none other than Newt Gingrich during a platform for initial steps in the political trade agreements between his testimony before the House Ways and two or more nations since Means Committee in June 1994: integration of the United States with the 1990s are considered Mexico and Canada. “regional trade agreements” I am just saying that we need to be by the WTO, and all of them honest about the fact that we are are duly registered with the transferring from the United States independent republic that was established WTO as agreements under its jurisdic- at a practical level significant author- by the Constitution in 1787 that we know tion. However, even the WTO does not ity to a new organization. This is a as the United States of America. However, claim to be consistently a proponent of transformational moment.... contrary to the meaning conjured up in our free trade. For example, in the “Who We I agree … this is very close to minds by the innocent-sounding term “free Are” page on its website (www.wto.org), Maastricht [the European Union trea- trade agreement,” such agreements general- the WTO states: ty by which the EU member nations ly create partnerships that affect many other surrendered considerable sovereign- areas beyond trade, set up supranational tri- But the WTO is not just about open- ty], and twenty years from now we bunals and governing bodies, and, in gen- ing markets, and in some circum- will look back on this as a very im- eral, greatly diminish the independence of stances its rules support maintaining portant defining moment. This is not the parties to the agreement. To the extent trade barriers.... Trade relations often just another trade agreement. This that our nation loses its independence, to involve conflicting interests. Agree- is adopting something which twice, that same extent it loses its ability to secure ments, including those painstakingly once in the 1940s and once in the our rights. negotiated in the WTO system, often 1950s, the U.S. Congress rejected. I In this special issue of The New Ameri- need interpreting. The most harmo- am not even saying we should reject can we are not arguing against “free trade” nious way to settle these differences it; I, in fact, lean toward it. But I think policies that have led to lower tariffs and is through some neutral procedure we have to be very careful, because it lower export subsidies over the past cou- based on an agreed legal foundation. is a very big transfer of power. ple centuries. However, we are taking That is the purpose behind the dis- issue with what we are referring to as the pute settlement process written into Later that year, prospective Speaker of the “free trade agenda” that has emerged in re- the WTO agreements. House Newt Gingrich helped bring about a lame-duck session of Congress following the 1994 November elections. It was during that session when America’s entry into the WTO was approved by the House and Senate. Gingrich voted “yea.” In contrast to our current situation where our nation has made “a very big transfer of power” to the WTO regarding trade matters, Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution states: “The Congress shall have Power … to regulate Com- merce with foreign Nations.” That is to say, our Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power of regulating our nation’s trade with foreign nations. This is an essential component of our national independence. Eventually, we need to restore our Constitution and national independence by withdrawing from the WTO and all of

AP Images its regional trade agreements, such as the Newt Gingrich admitted to his fellow congressmen in 1994 that placing the United States under North American Free Trade Agreement the jurisdiction of the WTO would be “a transformational moment” and would involve “a very big (NAFTA), the Central American Free Trade transfer of power.” Agreement (CAFTA), and so on.

8 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 Furthermore, in 1974, Congress surrendered to the executive branch a great deal of its exclusive power of regulating foreign trade by granting the president fast-track negotiating authority (see page 30). This fast-track authority remained in effect until 1994. It was restored in 2002 under the name Trade Promotion Au- thority (TPA), but expired again in 2007. Fast-track authority severely compro- mises the role of Congress in regulating foreign trade by transferring the initiative for negotiating “free trade” agreements to the executive branch, and then when a completed trade agreement is ready for congressional approval, it only per- mits Congress an up-or-down vote on the agreement with no amendments or fili- busters permitted.

Although the Obama administration AP Images does not currently have TPA, it formally European Parliament, Brussels: The 28 EU member states are under the virtually complete requested this authority earlier this year. control of the European Parliament, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and Since TPA is so useful for expediting trade the Court of Justice of the European Union. agreements through Congress, you can expect TPA legislation to be introduced and our God-given rights. In other words, the Steel Community (ECSC). By 1957, Euro- voted on in Congress prior to any votes on life of freedom that we have enjoyed as pean insiders had parlayed the ECSC into approving new free trade agreements. Americans, with our rights secured by our the European Economic Community (EEC, By approving our nation’s membership independent, constitutional republic, is or Common Market). Now fast forward to in the WTO and approving the numerous at risk from the free trade agenda of the the present day. The EU now comprises 28 “free trade” agreements that have fol- Obama administration. formerly independent European nations. lowed, Congress has seriously undermined The Obama administration is current- These 28 member states are virtually com- our national independence by unilaterally ly negotiating two mammoth free trade pletely under the control of the European surrendering its constitutional power to deals: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP; Commission, the European Parliament, the regulate foreign trade to supranational tri- see page 33) and the Transatlantic Trade European Central Bank, and the Court of bunals and organizations. and Investment Partnership (TTIP; see Justice of the European Union. And, as the Our nation has already experienced in- page 38). The TPP involves a free trade article points out, the European Union is cremental losses of independence through agreement between the United States and on a course to further strengthen its control its participation in the North American 11 Pacific Rim nations, including Japan; a over its 28 member states. Free Trade Agreement. Not only has the vote on congressional approval is expected Six years ago the United States signed economic integration stemming from the as early as late 2013. The TTIP involves a a “trans-Atlantic economic integration NAFTA agreement included NAFTA tribu- free trade agreement between the United plan” with the EU. Then this year on Feb- nals that are superior to the U.S. Supreme States and the European Union (EU); a ruary 12, President Obama mentioned in Court in cases involving North American vote by Congress could occur by 2015. his State of the Union address that his ad- trade, but furthermore, NAFTA has pro- To understand the very real danger of ministration intended to complete negotia- vided a platform for initial steps in the po- losing our national independence and there- tions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and litical integration of the United States with fore our rights, it is instructive to compare to launch talks on a comprehensive Trans- Mexico and Canada, which is commonly our situation now with that of Europe in the atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership referred to as building the North American 1950s. Read the article beginning on page with the European Union. Sure enough, Union (NAU; see page 25). 16 of this issue, “The EU: Regionaliza- on July 8 representatives from the United tion Trumps Sovereignty” to learn how the States and EU met in Washington, D.C., Present Path sovereign nations of Europe in 1951 have for one week to begin negotiations on the To the extent that new multilateral trade been transformed into the European Union TTIP with the goal of economic integra- pacts are capable of putting our nation on of 2013. As this article points out, the EU tion of the United States and EU. This is a path leading to the end of our national began in 1951 with what seemed to be a the same EU that aggressively politically independence and changing our form of very limited degree of cooperation among integrated its 28 member states into a new government, these new trade pacts could six European nations regarding their coal EU superstate after it had economically end our government’s ability to secure and steel industries, the European Coal and integrated them.

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Although the United States is still considered the most powerful nation in the world, do we seriously expect that we won’t end up being politically integrated with the EU if we proceed with the TTIP? We should especially expect this outcome when we realize that it is our establishment elites who have funded and guided the formation of the EU ever since World War II. Now they are positioned to finish off the job and create a powerful new regional government bloc from the present-day United States and EU. If they are allowed to complete this step, then the next step would be integrating the U.S.-EU bloc with other regional government blocs as a next step toward an eventual world government under the United Nations (see page 12).

Jeffrey J. Schott, senior fellow, Peterson AP Images Institute for International Economics, has United Nations General Assembly: We absolutely could not trust a UN world government to already alluded to this next step of further secure our God-given rights. According to the UN, a person’s rights are “granted him by the integration of the existing and proposed constitution or by law” and can be revoked by the same. new trade blocs in an interview, “Why Transatlantic Trade Winds Are Blowing,” process in advance of that time. Re- law and that our rights can never be exer- posted on the Council on Foreign Rela- gional co-operation and integration cised contrary to the purposes and prin- tions website on February 25, 2013: should be seen as an important and ciples of the UN. integral part of a balanced system of What a far cry from our American heri- There will be a great effort and in- global governance. tage of freedom in the Declaration: centive [to take these super-regional arrangements, such as TPP and Thus, this UN report is saying that the time We hold these truths to be self-evi- TTIP, and the precedents that they is fast approaching when regional eco- dent, that all men are created equal, are setting and] to say, “Let’s try nomic and political blocs could be stitched that they are endowed by their Cre- to seek some convergence on these together into a “balanced system of global ator with certain unalienable Rights, broad rule-making initiatives, by governance” under the United Nations, in that among these are Life, Liberty bringing the agreements together other words a UN world government. and the pursuit of Happiness. — That in Geneva [WTO headquarters] and The bottom line is that we absolutely to secure these rights, Governments trying to multilateralize regional- could not trust a UN world government to are instituted among Men, deriving ism.” We may be reaching a time secure our God-given rights. According to their just powers from the consent of when we can begin to operational- the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human the governed. ize the concept of multilateralizing Rights (1948), Article 8, a person’s rights regionalism. are “granted him by the constitution or by Our American heritage is one of our God- law.” Implicit in that statement is the im- given rights, secured by an independent, Schott is saying that we are reaching a time portant fact that a government that grants constitutional republic. We must not sur- when the internationalist elites can move rights — through a constitution or through render to a deceptive free trade agenda that from the stage of multilateral negotiation some law — is a government that can can- would destroy the national independence of trade agreements between nations to cel them. Furthermore, Article 29 says: of the government that has secured our the next stage of multilateral negotiation rights for over 220 years. of super-sized trade agreements between In the exercise of his rights and free- Armed with this understanding, please trade blocs. doms, everyone shall be subject only read the rest of this issue to learn the de- The UN-appointed Commission on to such limitations as are determined tails of this threat so that you can better Global Governance had already anticipat- by law.... These rights and freedoms convince others that Congress must not ed this next stage in its 1995 report, Our may in no case be exercised contrary approve either the Trans-Pacific Partner- Global Neighborhood, where it stated: to the purposes and principles of the ship or the Transatlantic Trade and Invest- United Nations. ment Partnership agreements, if we intend The UN must gear itself for a time to remain free and independent. when regionalism becomes more So, the UN spells out that our rights are Be sure to read “The Last Word” on ascendant worldwide and assist the subject to limitations as are determined by page 44 for specific actions to take. n

10 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 Quotes

“It is just because we are really attacking the principle of local sovereignty that we keep on protesting our loyalty to it so loudly.... I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national In Their states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.” — Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and a leading intellectual light of the European unification effort, in his essay, “The Trend of Inter- Own national Affairs Since the War,” in the RIIA journal International Affairs, November 1931

“The UN must gear itself for a time when regionalism becomes more ascendant worldwide Words and assist the process in advance of that time. Regional co-operation and integration should be seen as an important and integral part of a balanced system of global governance.” — The UN-appointed Commission on Global Governance’s 1995 report, Our Global Neighborhood

“We cannot leap into world government in one quick step.... Genuine globalization — is progressive regionalization, because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s national security advisor and a founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to world leaders at Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1995 State of the World Forum

“Fiscal union, banking union and political union; all three need to move forward together.... Europe’s economic interdependence — so strikingly highlighted by the financial crisis — calls for increased political integration.” — José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, speech on July 5, 2013

“The Treaty of Lisbon is the same as the rejected [EU] constitution. Only the format has been changed to avoid referendums.” — Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former French president and the president of the EU Con- stitutional Convention, in an open letter to several European newspapers in 2007

“I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority to a new organization.... I, in fact, lean toward it. But … it is a very big transfer of power.” — Newt Gingrich, in House testimony in June 1994, regarding U.S. entry into the World Trade Organization. (He later voted for, and successfully led congressional efforts for, U.S. membership in the WTO.)

“My vision is one of political union because Europe needs to forge its own unique path. We need to become incrementally closer and closer, in all policy areas. Over a long process, we will transfer more powers to the [European] Commission, which will then handle what falls within the European remit like a government of Europe.” — Angela Merkel, German chancellor, in a January 25, 2012 interview with The Guardian

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• Stewart M. Patrick, senior fellow and director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at the CFR; and Global Merger • Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Ker- stetter Professor of Politics and Interna- tional Affairs at Princeton University, and recently the director of Policy Planning for Piece by Piece the Obama State Department under Hil lary Clinton. Globalists, socialists, and communists promote regional Professor Slaughter, who served as the presider of the CFR panel discussion, has blocs that destroy national sovereignty. Ultimate goal: taught at the University of Chicago and merge regions into world government. Harvard University, and is a former president of the American Society of Interna- tional Law. She has also authored some of the most blatant appeals — for the CFR journal Foreign Affairs and other establishment periodicals — in favor of subverting national sovereignty with regional schemes of “transnational governance.” But we digress; let us return to the Bremmer subversion quote referred to above. His outburst came amidst the vent- ing of frustration by the panelists over what they see as the “ineffectiveness” of the G20 process. Professor Slaughter and Berggruen, particularly, argued that the G20 needed to be given actual powers that would enable it to do more to effect global governance. According to the CFR panelists, national sovereignty and national interests get in the way of this desired goal. Thus, Bremmer commented: “The

AP Images EU is much more significant. There’s real Subverting sovereignty: Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer (above) applauded the “real subversion of sovereignty by the EU that subversion of sovereignty by the EU” on a video program sponsored by the Council on Foreign works.” Relations (CFR). We have been pointing out in these pages for many years that the designers by William F. Jasper Bremmer have usually denied. Bremmer of the European Union intended from the admitted — with apparent approval — that very start of the EU — which began in the n February 12, 2013, the Coun- “there’s real subversion of sovereignty by 1950s as the six-member European Coal cil on Foreign Relations (CFR) the EU.” and Steel Community (ECSC) — that it O hosted a speaker program entitled The sponsoring organization and the would gradually develop into a suprana- The G-20: Prospects and Challenges for participants in the above-noted event are tional regional government, eventually Global Governance. The program, which significant and worth mentioning, as they subverting the sovereignty of, and usurp- was video-recorded and is available for have been providing key political and in- ing legislative, executive, and judicial viewing on the CFR website (www.cfr. tellectual leadership for the ongoing phe- powers of, its member states. This plan org), featured a lineup of top-drawer talent nomenon of regionalization. of intentional subversion has been docu- from the CFR brain trust. It also yielded The CFR panel included: mented from many sources, including a number of revealing statements by the • Nicolas Berggruen, chairman of the the personal correspondence, diaries, and panel participants. But an admission by Berggruen Institute on Governance and memoirs of many of the EU architects, as Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer is coauthor of Intelligent Governance for well as official papers, many of which had especially noteworthy, in that it once again the 21st Century: A Middle Way Between been hidden under a cloak of secrecy for publicly confirms what critics of the Eu- West and East; decades. ropean Union have been saying for dec • Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia We also have pointed out that it was key ades, but which CFR globalists such as Group; CFR members in the Truman and Eisen-

12 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 hower administrations who provided the which more and more nations would be Community (as the EU was then known) indispensable aid — political, diplomatic, added until the world government which in 1973. “There are some in this country and economic — in post-World War II Eu- [the] UN had failed to bring about would who fear that in going into Europe we rope that guaranteed the Eurofederalists be realized. At a favorable point in the shall in some way sacrifice independence would be ascendant. Utilizing Marshall Common Market’s development America and sovereignty,” Heath stated in a prime Plan funds and America’s new power on would be brought in. But the American ministerial TV broadcast in January 1973. the war-ravaged continent, the CFR glob public had to be softened first and leaders “These fears, I need hardly say, are com- alists running the U.S. State and Trea- groomed for the change-over.” pletely unjustified.” sury departments — Dean Acheson, John Official British papers released dec Foster Dulles, Christian Herter, David Stealth and Deception ades later confirmed what many people Bruce, John J. McCloy, C. Douglas Dil- The American and European co-conspira- already knew: that Heath had lied, that he lon, George Ball, et al. — raised to power tors in this subversive restructuring of the knew full well he was taking Britain into a those who championed an amalgamated, continent did not, of course, openly admit sovereignty-destroying arrangement, and “integrated” Europe, and cast down those to the people of Europe how revolutionary that he colluded with Labor Party leaders who clung to “outmoded” notions of na- their plans were and how radical and ex- to deliver the combined votes needed to tional sovereignty and independence. tensive the integration process would be. cinch this national suicide. Heath was fol- One of the most astute observers and To the contrary, the leaders of the Eurofi- lowing the lead of the CFR’s sister orga- chroniclers of this subversive process over cation movement repeatedly assured con- nization in England, the Royal Institute of the course of five decades was the late Hi- cerned citizens and skeptical political op- International Affairs (RIIA, also known as laire du Berrier, publisher of the authori- ponents that they had nothing to fear; the Chatham House). One of the RIIA’s most tative, Monaco-based HduB Reports. Du Common Market would never morph into famous members, and a key player in pro- Berrier was also a longtime contributing an actual government that would in any moting the EU, was Arnold J. Toynbee, editor to The New American (and to its way override national and local authority. who stated in an address to his colleagues: predecessors, American Opinion and The One of the most infamous false as- Review of the News), “The CFR,” wrote surances in this regard was promulgated I will merely repeat that we are at du Berrier in the January 1973 issue of by British prime minister and Conserva- present working, discreetly but with HduB Reports, “saw the Common Market tive Party leader Edward Heath, when he all our might, to wrest this mysterious from the first as a regional government to led Britain into the European Economic political force called sovereignty out

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Fatal beginning: Foreign ministers of the six participating nations signed the Treaty of Paris (also known as the Schuman Plan) on April 18, 1951, creating the European Coal and Steel Community, which was later transformed into the European Union. Shown from left to right, following the signing: Paul van Zeeland of Belgium, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg, Joseph Meurice of Belgium, Count Carlo Sforza of Italy, Robert Schuman of France (who proposed the plan) Konrad Adenauer of West Germany, and Dirk Stikker and Jan van den Brink of the Netherlands.

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of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.

Heath was not alone; many other Euro- pean politicians followed Toynbee’s ad- vice of “denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands.” The Peterson Institute for International Economics, one of the CFR’s most important adjunct think tanks, approvingly refers to this ongoing deception in the EU process as “integration by stealth.” Gradually, the new rulers of Europe have dropped hints and made statements validating the worst fears expressed by critics and opponents of the EU. In July 1988, former European Commission President Jacques Delors shocked many AP Images with the prediction that within 10 years 80 percent of economic legislation, and Step by step: “We cannot leap into world government in one quick step,” Zbigniew Brzezinski perhaps also fiscal and social legislation, told a Gorbachev Foundation audience, but through gradual, step-by-step “regionalization.” would come not from national parlia- ments, but from the European Parliament, Member States vary widely, ranging alism becomes more ascendant the European Commission, and other EU from around 6% to 84%. worldwide and assist the process in institutions. Various studies using differ- advance of that time. Regional co- ing methods of calculation have produced In the past few years since the 2008 fi- operation and integration should be widely disparate estimates of the extent to nancial crisis, the power of the Eurocrats seen as an important and integral which EU laws and regulations are influ- in Brussels has dramatically increased. It part of a balanced system of global encing and overriding national legislation. may not yet have attained the sway that governance. A study in 2010 by the British House of Delors predicted, but the trajectory is still Commons reported: in that direction. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s The EU integration process is referred national security advisor, a longtime CFR In the UK data suggest that from to as “deepening and widening”: The member, and a founder of David Rocke- 1997 to 2009 6.8% of primary leg- “deepening” refers to the steady usur- feller’s Trilateral Commission, told world islation (Statutes) and 14.1% of sec- pation of more and more powers by the leaders at Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1995 State ondary legislation (Statutory Instru- EU’s supranational institutions over of the World Forum: ments) had a role in implementing more and more of the domestic functions EU obligations, although the degree of national and local governments; the We cannot leap into world govern- of involvement varied from passing “widening” refers to the adding of new ment in one quick step. [It] requires reference to explicit implementation. member nation states. a process of gradually expanding Estimates of the proportion of nation- One-worlders readily acknowledge that the range of democratic cooperation al laws based on EU laws in other EU regional governance, as exemplified by the as well as the range of personal and European Union’s subversive national security, a widening, step process and steady growth, is by step, stone by stone, [of] existing Arnold J. Toynbee stated in an address the path that will most suc- relatively narrow zones of stability cessfully lead to eventual in the world of security and coop- to his colleagues: “I will merely world government. eration. In brief, the precondition repeat that we are at present working, The UN-appointed Com- for eventual globalization — genu- discreetly but with all our might, to wrest mission on Global Gover- ine globalization — is progressive nance, for instance, declares regionalization, because thereby we this mysterious political force called in its seminal 1995 report, move toward larger, more stable, sovereignty out of the clutches of the local Our Global Neighborhood: more cooperative units. national states of our world.” The UN must gear itself In a July 13, 2000 interview with the for a time when region- Italian newspaper La Stampa, Italian

14 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 Prime Minister Giuliano Amato made less, despotic rule. It should be of more “The Soviet United States of Europe,” some startlingly candid remarks about than passing interest then to note that the said Leon Trotsky, in The Bulletin of the the deception utilized by the EU. Amato EU program fits well within the model of Opposition, 1930, “is the only correct would shortly after this interview go on regional unification outlined by top com- slogan pointing the way out from Euro- to become the vice-president of the EU munist leaders such as Stalin, Lenin, and pean disunity, a disunity which threatens Constitutional Convention, where, along Trotsky. not only Germany but the whole of Eu- with Giscard d’Estaing, he employed the Stalin’s 1936 official program of the rope with complete structural and cultural very same deceptive practices he had Communist International declared: decline.” described. Here are excerpts of his La Less well known than the above-men- Stampa interview: This world dictatorship can be es- tioned communist leaders, but perhaps tablished only when the victory of more influential in helping to put their One must act “as if” in Europe: as socialism has been achieved in cer- plans into practice, was Alexander Ko- if one wanted only very few things, tain countries or groups of countries, jeve: philosopher, intellectual gadfly, in order to obtain a great deal. As if when the newly established proletar- and confidant to European presidents nations were to remain sovereign, in ian republics enter into a federative and prime ministers. Kojeve, it turns out, order to convince them to surrender union with the already existing prole- was also a longtime KGB mole, serving their sovereignty. The Commission tarian republics … [and] when these the Soviet Union. Keith Patchen at the in Brussels, for example, must act federations of republics have finally National Observer, who has dug out a as if it were a technical organism, grown into a World Union of Soviet tremendous amount of detail on Kojeve’s in order to operate like a govern- Socialist Republics uniting the whole activities, has noted that as early as the AP Images ment … and so on, camouflaging of mankind under the hegemony of 1950s Kojeve “wrote to [political philos- and toning down. The sovereignty the international proletariat organ opher] Leo Strauss that a world socialist lost at national level does not pass ized as a state. state might be realized through the grad- to any new subject. It is entrusted to ual expansion of the European integration a faceless entity: NATO, the UN and V.I. Lenin’s Thesis on the National and across the globe.” eventually the EU. The Union is the Colonial Questions, which was adopted Kojeve, Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky vanguard of this changing world: it by the Second Comintern Congress, 28 would heartily approve of the EU-style indicates a future of Princes without July 1920, declared: “Federation is a tran- regionalism that has been spreading across sovereignty. The new entity is face- sitional form towards the complete union the globe under the guise of free trade less and those who are in command … of all nations” agreements. n can neither be pinned down nor elected.... That is the way Europe was made too: by creating communitarian organisms without giving the organisms presided over by national governments the impression that they were being subjected to a higher power.... I don’t think it is a good idea to replace this slow and effective method — which keeps national States free from anxiety while they are being stripped of power — with great institutional leaps. Therefore I prefer to go slowly, to crumble pieces of sovereignty up little by little, avoiding brusque transitions from national to [EU] federal power.

Comrades in Collectivism Supporters of the EU’s regional approach to governance scoff at critics who see a totalitarian design emerging from the

shadows in Brussels. However, the con- AP Images stant centralizing of power and steady Lie boldly: British Prime Minister Edward Heath told British voters that fears of loss of erosion of the remaining vestiges of na- sovereignty and independence to Brussels were “completely unjustified.” His papers released 30 tional sovereignty point toward more, not years later show he knew his assurance was a lie.

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Last year, during his “state of the union” speech, Barroso was explicit in outlining where all of this was going. “We will need to move toward a federation of nation states. This is our political horizon,” he declared, adding that “unavoidable” changes The EU: to European treaties had to be made. “This Regionalization Trumps Sovereignty is what must guide our work in the years to come.” While acknowledging more recently that today, at least, the idea of a federal regime ruling over Europe may seem like “political science fiction” to many, the commission chief echoed his previous predictions that a “federation” was all but inescapable — and coming soon. In the announcement, the former communist said plans for the federalization of the continent would be unveiled by next spring, prior to the 2014 elections for the so-called European Parliament. The process is already well under way, Barroso explained, pointing to the emerging Eurozone “fiscal union” that he claimed would lead to “intensified political union” between all of the formerly independent nations. “This is about the eco- AP Images nomic and monetary union but for the EU Former Maoist revolutionary and current European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has started openly declaring that “political union” through a European federation ruled from as a whole,” the EC chief said in a speech. Brussels is inevitable. “The Commission will, therefore, set out its views and explicit ideas for treaty change in order for them to be debated With backing from U.S. one-worlders, the nations before the European elections,” Barroso of Europe are being forced into a federation ruled by continued. “We want to put all the elements on the table, in a clear and consis- autocrats in Brussels — whether Europeans want it or not. tent way, even if some of them may sound like political science fiction today. They by Alex Newman that the European Union’s top leadership will be reality in a few years’ time.” What and national political leaders across the purpose the supposed “debate” will serve t all began as a simple “Coal and continent openly boast that the so-called if the outcome is already pre-determined Steel Community” between six Euro- member states will inevitably be bound was not made clear. I pean nations after World War II. The together under a federal system run from According to Barroso and other anti- scheme was supposed to help prevent fur- Brussels. The timeline: as early as 2014. sovereignty extremists plotting to foist ther war, or at least that is what its propo- an all-powerful regime on Europe, the nents claimed. In the decades since 1952, EU Chiefs Seek Federal Government Eurozone’s adoption of a federal system however, the first real supranational body Reiterating previous statements made over in fiscal and economic matters will even- has morphed into an emerging super-state the years, former Maoist revolutionary and tually require complementary political that will eventually obliterate national sov- current European Commission President structures. So-called political union, the ereignty, and inevitably individual liberty, José Manuel Barroso declared in early argument goes, would ultimately ensnare if left unchecked. May that a federal Europe would be a every member state, regardless of whether Today, 28 of Europe’s formerly sover- “reality within a few years.” Whether the or not it uses the euro, because that is the eign national governments are rushing full formerly sovereign member states use the end result of “economic integration.” speed toward the imposition of a federal controversial single euro currency or not, “Further economic integration would regime — an unaccountable transnational Barroso announced, all of the 28 EU gov- transcend the limits of the intergovernmen- entity seeking to regulate and control vir- ernments will be ensnared in the project. tal method of running the EU and the Eu- tually everything. There is already a flag According to Barroso and his cohorts, it is rozone in particular,” Barroso explained in and an anthem. The plan is so far along all inevitable at this point. some of the most explicit comments about

16 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 the scheme yet. “We must remember that giving Europe real rights of intervention in directly confiscating wealth from citizens, the present configuration of the euro area national budgets,” she told the Bundestag too — everything from a “carbon tax” is only temporary, since all member states lower house. to a “financial-transaction tax” has been but two [the U.K. and Denmark, which Merkel’s plan, supported by more than pushed, and it appears as though Brussels have opt-outs] are destined to become full a few European leaders, was announced will not rest until its bureaucrats are able to members of the Economic and Monetary shortly after Barroso declared last year seize money straight from citizens without Union [EMU] under the Treaties.” that Europe needed to move toward a pesky national-government middlemen. Speaking during the opening speech full-blown “federation.” Socialist French So where does all that money go? Tens at the “Conference on the Blueprint for a President François Hollande, meanwhile, of billions are spent every year on inter- Deep and Genuine EMU,” Barroso spent also claimed there was “no choice” but to national wealth redistribution to meet some time with the obligatory nod to “de- “march toward a unified Europe.” Accord- EU “convergence objectives.” Essential- mocracy” and “accountability.” However, ing to Hollande, at least, the destruction of ly, taxes are confiscated from people in despite claiming to care about what people national sovereignty is “destiny.” Among richer countries to provide “investments” think and harping on the need to have a the bloc’s political establishment, the sen- in poorer ones, such as Romania and Bul- “debate,” the commission chief all but de- timent is widespread. garia. More than $50 billion, meanwhile, manded that European nations give up all goes to agricultural subsidies every year power and authority to Brussels as soon The EU Today through the “Common Agricultural Poli- as possible. Already, according to differing methods cy,” which purchases loyalty from farmers “Fiscal union, banking union and po- of calculation in the various EU member but causes countless market distortions. litical union; all three need to move for- states, from six percent to 84 percent of the (As an example, we could cite the “butter ward together,” Barroso demanded, adding “laws” governing Europe come from un- mountain” of unwanted butter caused by that the people essentially would have to elected bureaucrats in Brussels, according EU subsidies to dairy farmers.) be brought along as well. “Europe’s eco- to estimates cited by political leaders. In In 2011, the latest year for which data is nomic interdependence — so strikingly 2011, the EU’s budget was more than $150 available from the European Commission, highlighted by the financial crisis — calls billion. Between 2007 and 2013, Brussels the EU spent almost $70 billion on what it for increased political integration. We will spent well over $1 trillion, with expen- calls “sustainable growth.” That includes not get away with half-hearted solutions ditures increasing each year. While the spending on everything from “social pol- anymore, and half-integrated institutions economic crisis has temporarily put the icy agenda” and economic intervention to will no longer do.” brakes on ballooning spending, analysts spending on “convergence objectives.” expect the behemoth to continue growing Other expenditures include $10 billion “Member State” Leaders Agree as soon as eurocrats believe people will on “administration”; huge sums on pro- EU chiefs are not the only ones pushing tolerate it. EU propaganda; grants to agencies, na- for the abolition of sovereignty via eco- Right now, most of the funds flowing to tional and local governments, and univer- nomic, monetary, and political union. In- the EU come from taxpayers via the EU- sities; and subsidies to “non-governmental deed, some of the most fervent advocates mandated value added tax (VAT) and im- organizations” (NGOs) and “media” out- of the plot are actually national political port duties collected by “member states.” lets that serve as attack dogs against EU leaders — politicians who would seem- The EU, however, is seeking ways to start critics. As for “security,” Europe also has a ingly have the most to lose as authority continues flowing away from Europe’s capitals and toward Brussels. At this rate, the EU is on the fast track to collecting more power than even the U.S. federal government has amassed, yet most of Eu- rope’s national leaders are celebrating it. In October of last year, for example, supposedly “conservative” German Chancellor Angela Merkel — currently Supposedly conservative German under fire after a new book exposed her Chancellor Angela Merkel, under previous work as a propagandist for the fire for serving as a propagandist communist regime ruling East Germany in the Communist East German — announced a push to give Brussels regime, is a leading advocate veto power over national governments’ of empowering the EU to veto budgets. “We have made good progress national budgets and more. on strengthening fiscal discipline with the fiscal pact but we are of the opinion, and I speak for the whole German government on this, that we could go a step further by

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Not everybody was sur- national governments were gradually The European Union’s top leadership prised by recent develop- brought on board with lofty promises of ments, though. The New peace, security, and prosperity. Then, in and national political leaders across the American magazine and 1992, the Maastricht Treaty was signed by continent openly boast that the so-called its predecessor publications the 12 EEC member states, creating the have been warning for de- European Union and building the ground- “member states” will inevitably be bound cades that the so-called Euro- work for the single euro currency and the together under a federal system run from pean Project was eventually European Central Bank (ECB). A decade aimed at abolishing national later, euro coins and bills went into circu- Brussels. The timeline: as early as 2014. sovereignty on the continent lation in a dozen countries, leaving com- — ideas that were long blast- plete control over monetary policy in the ed as mere “conspiracy theo- hands of the ECB. fledgling law-enforcement agency known ries” by the very same forces that were In 2004, as Jasper’s 1989 article fore- as Europol and a 60,000-strong military quietly working to build a federal Europe. saw, former communist countries began “rapid reaction force” dubbed Eurocorps. In 1989, three years before the EU was to join the EU, too — Poland, the Czech In terms of raw EU power exercised officially born, TNA’s William Jasper Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lith- over formerly sovereign governments and wrote a detailed exposé entitled “United uania, and more. By 2007, Romania and peoples, two recent examples illustrate the States of Europe.” That remarkably pre- Bulgaria had joined as well. Today, there situation well. scient article highlighted the signs — long are 28 member states, and the EU is still Last spring, the EU came under fire ignored or downplayed by the establish- seeking to expand the number of countries from across the political spectrum when ment media on both sides of the Atlantic under its yoke. the European Commission began push- — of what was to come. Today, in mid- By 2004, when “former” communist ing “reforms” to “food-safety laws” that 2013, after many decades of scheming, the nations were joining en masse, the real would regulate all “plant reproductive ma- “dream” of a Europe unified under a single agenda started coming out in the open terial” within the bloc. In essence, under authority is virtually a reality. when the then-25 member governments the original scheme, analysts said every The current EU super-state, long sought signed the European Constitution. All but seed variety on the continent — from by prominent internationalists at the seven eventually ratified the deeply con- those raised by home gardeners to seed Council on Foreign Relations and its af- troversial document, which aimed to re- stocks used by farmers — would have filiates, took its first major leap forward place all of the treaties with a single docu- been declared illegal unless it was “certi- in 1952 with the birth of the European ment empowering the EU while making it fied” and “registered” by the EU. Coal and Steel Community. A powerful far easier for the super-state to impose its More recently, after two years of failed supranational entity, the ECSC helped lay wishes on the peoples of Europe. “discussions” between London and Brus- the foundations for what was to come. In In 2005, however, French and Dutch sels over U.K. restrictions on welfare to 1957, the six members of the “commu- voters overwhelming rejected the scheme. immigrants, the EU announced that it was nity” signed the Treaty of Rome, creating That should have been the end of it. Of hauling British authorities to the Luxem- the European Economic Community — a course, it was not. As has become typi- bourg-based European Court of Justice scheme to use economic integration as a cal with the EU, the wishes of citizens (which purported to allow bans on criti- step on the road to eventual political union. proved to be no match for proponents of cism of the EU in 2001) to enforce its de- Over the next three decades, other ever-closer “union.” In 2007, as this writer crees. U.K. taxpayers must pay welfare to immigrants, Brussels claims. Virtually all analysts — even among the fiercest critics of “integration” — expect the EU to Then-Czech President Václav Klaus, a liberty-minded anti-communist hero, prevail in its own “court.” warned last year that the EU was in the final phase of destroying self- How It Happened governance and national sovereignty, For decades, the European “project” was stating that the EU is “a federation sold as just a “common market” aimed at in which the provinces become increasing trade and prosperity. Every- meaningless,” and that maintaining one who suggested that something bigger statehood and sovereignty “is might be in the pipeline was immediately impossible in a federation.” attacked as a “conspiracy theorist,” fear- monger, or worse. In recent years, perhaps convinced that there is no turning back at this point, EU officials and even national leaders have been far more brazen about

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18 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 the reality is that the U.S. government has been supporting the development of the union from the start. Major American tax-exempt foundations helped fund the effort, too. Also key were establishment fronts such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg conference, as Jasper’s 1989 article documented extensively. More recently, former EU “Commissioner for Industry” and Bilderberg chair Étienne Davignon admitted in a March 2009 interview with the EU Observer that Bilder- berg helped to create the single euro currency. All along, the real goal was to bring AP Images the world closer toward centralized rule. Then-Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates, a self-styled socialist, speaks before signing the The U.S. government, long dominated Lisbon Treaty, a re-packaged version of the EU Constitution that was rejected by voters. by CFR types, was important as well. After World War II, the Marshall Plan, for reported for The New American in 2009, “The peoples of Europe do not want this example, played a major role in foisting the establishment unveiled its new strategy kind of highly centralized Federal Euro- today’s regime on the peoples of Europe. — an approach that would not require ap- pean Union whose most striking feature is Back in a 1947 speech, then-U.S. Secretary proval from most of the peoples of Europe. that it is run virtually entirely by commit- of State George Marshall (CFR) strongly tees of politicians, bureaucrats and judges, suggested that European economic coop- Lisbon Treaty = Constitution none of whom are directly elected by the eration was a precondition for desperately Enter the Lisbon Treaty, a repackaged ver- people.” needed American aid after World War II. sion of the constitution, giving the “new Only Ireland held a referendum on the The Committee of European Economic and improved” EU virtually unlimited repackaged constitution. Unsurprisingly, Cooperation, chaired by then-British For- powers in every field of life. “The Trea- with polls showing that Europeans did not eign Secretary Ernest Bevin, officially ty of Lisbon is the same as the rejected favor surrendering more power to the EU responded with a major report that was constitution,” boasted Valéry Giscard but instead wanted strict limits, the Irish ultimately transmitted approvingly by the d’Estaing, the former French president voted no. Within 16 months, following State Department to President Harry Tru- and the president of the Constitutional a brazen pro-EU campaign waged with man. Signed by government representa- Convention, in an open letter to several a combination of propaganda and scare- tives from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, European newspapers in 2007. “Only the mongering amid a brutal economic crisis, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxem- format has been changed to avoid refer- Ireland was forced to hold another vote. bourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, endums.” Everybody knew voters would This time, the globalists succeeded. Just Sweden, the United Kingdom, and more, never accept it. one man was left in the way: Czech Presi- the committee outlined efforts to create a While purporting to grant citizens dent Václav Klaus. Eventually, he was customs union that could eventually lead “rights” to healthcare, “a high level of forced to sign, too. to even further cooperation. U.S. officials consumer protection,” welfare, “gender Lisbon, which analysts estimate re- were pleased. equality,” “education,” and security, the tained more than 95 percent of the failed Members of Congress, especially Rep. “Charter of Fundamental Rights of the constitution, went into effect in December Walter Judd (R-Minn.), tried to get lan- European Union” all but obliterates tradi- 2009. Now, as Barroso made clear, the guage in the statement of purpose for the tional notions of individual, property, and EU wants even more: more power, more original Marshall Plan bill of 1948 explic- parental rights. Allegiance to the United money, more government, and more Eu- itly declaring that it was the policy of the Nations Charter and “sustainable develop- rope. Whether or not the people want it — United States to encourage the economic ment” is explicit. they don’t, as recent polls made perfectly unification and the political federation of “The Lisbon Treaty is an attempt to clear — matters little. Europe. In the end, language calling for construct a highly centralized European the development of economic cooperation Federation artificially, from the top down, U.S. Role, Bilderberg, was included instead. out of Europe’s many nations, peoples CFR, Atlantic Community The next year, the “political federation” and States, without their free consent and While Europeans have been spoon-fed amendment was pursued again, with the knowledge,” writes Professor Anthony propaganda about the “integration” proc result being the addition of the sentence: Coughlan in an analysis of the document ess for decades, with countless citizens “It is further declared to be the policy of for the Brussels Journal, entitled “These naively believing that the EU would help the people of the United States to encour- Boots Are Gonna Walk All Over You.” “counter-balance American influence,” age the unification of Europe.” By 1951, www.TheNewAmerican.com 19 european union

draw from the union. Among the threats: less trade, loss of jobs, and more. Before that, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke was demanding closer Eu- ropean integration, too, calling for the creation of a central regime with power over taxing and spending. “If Europe had a single fiscal authority, that would put them in a much closer situation relative to the United States,” Bernanke said during an August 2012 “town hall” meeting in Washington. “That would probably address many of the concerns, many of the problems that they had.”

Further Expansion

AP Images Ironically, critics of the EU point out, if the EU applied to join itself, it would not Croatian President Ivo Josipovic (right) celebrates Croatia becoming the newest EU “member qualify due to its undemocratic structure. state,” following a tax-funded propaganda campaign threatening people’s pensions if they refused to join the union. Still, putting more formerly sovereign nations under the EU regime remains a high Congress finally came out and said it definite limits to the degree of political priority, with some powerful figures even openly, with a clause included in the 1951 unity we can achieve across the ocean.” seeking to expand EU rule well beyond Mutual Security Act stating: “to further (Emphasis added.) Europe’s borders. encourage the economic unification and In a letter sent to Congress by the State The most recent member to surrender the political federation of Europe.” Department the next year, Assistant Sec- its sovereignty is Croatia, where a tax- The goals of U.S. government support retary for Congressional Relations Wil- funded propaganda and scaremongering for European integration were explained liam Macomber (CFR) reiterated the ad- campaign threatening people’s pensions in part decades ago, though largely ig- ministration’s position. According to the resulted in voters opting to join early last nored, by top U.S. officials. On September congressional record, the State Depart- year. Other nations from the former Yugo- 20, 1966, for example, then-Under Secre- ment “wished to encourage our European slavia are expected to join in the coming tary of State George Ball (CFR) testified allies to continue to seek common solu- years. before Congress on the State Department’s tions to their problems through European Eventually, more than a few pro-EU ex- view on forming an “Atlantic Communi- integration.” pansionists hope to add Islamic Turkey, a ty,” essentially merging the United States “A number of subsequent events have small piece of which is on the European with Europe. demonstrated the advantages of pursuing continent. After that, there are prominent “I find little evidence of any strong in- the policy which they outlined, that of voices calling for the union to expand into terest among Europeans for any immedi- seeking intensified cooperation in NATO Africa, the Middle East, and even Russia. ate move toward greater political unity while supporting a stronger and more uni- In 2007, for example, then-U.K. Foreign with the United States,” he explained. fied Europe,” Macomber explained. “Re- Secretary David Miliband proposed a “They fear the overwhelming weight of cent actions by the European Economic U.S. power and influence in our com- Community to consolidate and advance Signed 1948 1951 1954 1957 1955 1975 1985 1986 1992 1997 2001 2007 mon councils.... We believe that so long economic integration have brought into In Force 1948 1952 1955 1958 1957 N/A 1985 1987 1993 1999 2003 2009 Document Brussels Paris Treaty Modified Rome Merger European Council Schengen Single European Act Maastricht Treaty Amsterdam Treaty Nice Treaty Lisbon as Europe remains merely a continent of sight the completion of a single economic Treaty Brussels Treaty Treaties Treaty Conclusion Treaty establishing the EU Treaty medium- and small-sized states there are system at the center of Europe.” Even today, the U.S. govern- Three pillars of the European Union: ment continues to push Euro- European Communities: European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) French President François Hollande, pean integration whether the people want it or not. Consider European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) Treaty expired in 2002 European Economic Community (EEC) meanwhile, also claimed there was the Obama administration’s outrageous statements sur- Schengen Rules European Community (EC) “no choice” but to “march toward a European Justice and Home rounding the increasingly like- Union TREVI Affairs (JHA) Police and Judicial Co-operation unified Europe.” According to Hollande, ly possibility of British seces- Criminal Matters (PJCC) (EU) sion from the EU, with the U.S. European Political at least, the destruction of national Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) president warning that Britain Cooperation (EPC) sovereignty is “destiny.” would suffer severe economic Unconsolidated bodies Western European Union (WEU) losses if voters decide to with- Treaty terminated in 2011

20 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 “version of the European Free Trade As- Where It Is Going “new model” as a viable scheme, how- sociation that could gradually bring the With the brutal economic crisis wreak- ever. Firebrand U.K. Independence Party countries of the Mahgreb, the Middle East ing havoc across Europe, anti-sovereignty (UKIP) chief Nigel Farage, a member of and Eastern Europe in line with the single extremists have seized the opportunity to the rubber-stamp European Parliament, market, not as an alternative to member- accelerate the “integration” process with regularly attacks the EU as an illegitimate ship, but potentially as a step towards it.” promises of “financial stability.” Some regime filled with “former” communists In the upper echelons of power within of the most stunning developments in- and criminals. In his view, the so-called the EU and Russia, there are also efforts clude the erection of a so-called “banking “European Project” is destined for inevi- under way to bring the Russian govern- union”; the creation of a perpetual bailout table failure, and possibly violence if EU ment into the fold amid the march toward mechanism with virtually unlimited ability leaders do not cease and desist in their ef- “global governance.” During a meeting to extract wealth from Europeans, dubbed forts to abolish national sovereignty and late last year between Russian and EU a “financial dictatorship” by critics; the self-government. leaders, Bilderberg-selected European replacement of elected national leaders in “Like Communism, this has all gone “President” Herman Van Rompuy said: countries such as Italy and Greece by EU- badly wrong, and the EU Titanic has now “By working together, the EU and Rus- establishment stooges; and more. What hit the iceberg,” MEP Farage said in an sia can make a decisive contribution to former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev impassioned plea before Parliament last global governance and regional conflict approvingly described as “the new Euro- year. “It is a European Union of economic resolution, to global economic gover- pean Soviet” during a 2000 visit to Britain failure, of mass unemployment, of low nance in the G8 and G20, and to a broad appears to be coming into view, according growth; but worst of all, it’s an EU with range of international and regional is- to analysts. the economic prison of the euro.... This sues.” Russian heavyweights have also Even prominent officials are openly now poses huge dangers to the continent. started publicly calling for “integration” discussing the future of Europe as a bloc We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, — including political — between the EU where unaccountable Brussels makes the possibly even revolution in some countries and Russia. decisions. “The Euro currency is stable that have been driven to total and utter des- Of course, the EU is not the only trans- again. But the crisis has not gone away peration.” national entity at work usurping national completely, of course, and we have to Whether the EU will descend into vio- sovereignty on the continent. Founded in continue to follow these new rules if we lence and more severe chaos remains to 1949, another prominent and increasingly want to ensure that it does not return,” be seen. What is clear, however, is that influential body, known as the Council of announced European Commission Vice- the forces seeking to build global gov- Europe, has ensnared almost 50 national President for Inter-institutional Affairs ernment view European integration as a governments and 800 million people — and Administration Maroš Šefcovic in key stepping stone on the path to world virtually every country in Europe. The a speech to Lithuanian lawmakers, add- order — and they are not likely to aban- Strasbourg-based entity already has its ing that eurocrats will now be approving don their grandiose dream without a fight. own “court,” dubbed the “European Court member states’ budgets. “Pooling sover- The planet is quietly being divided up into of Human Rights,” that imposes its con- eignty in this way would have been un- regional blocs ruled by an unelected and troversial social-engineering schemes on thinkable a few years ago, and yet now unaccountable cabal, and with the destruc- member states while doing little to uphold it is likely to be the model for future de- tion of national sovereignty in Europe al- genuine human rights. Among the mem- velopment of the economic and monetary most complete, the only serious force left bers: Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, union.” that can stop the scheme appears to be the and more. Not everybody in the EU sees the American people. n

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Exports and Prosperity JOBS

Promise: Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) will boost Promise: NAFTA will create thou- exports and prosperity. sands of new, good-paying jobs.

This has been one of the most repeated broken promises of the PIIE’s Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott FTA promoters, with NAFTA being the prime example. Two of the claimed in “NAFTA: An Assessment,” that big-name experts most often cited by NAFTA supporters are Gary NAFTA would create 170,000 net new jobs in Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott of the Peterson Institute for Internation- the United States. al Economics (PIIE). In their influential 1993 PIIE paper, “NAFTA: An Assessment,” they predicted that “with NAFTA, U.S. exports to Mexico will continue to outstrip Mexican exports to the United States, leading to a U.S. trade surplus with Mexico of about $7 (billion) to $9 billion annually by 1995.” They further predicted that the U.S. trade surplus with Mexico would rise to $12 billion annually between 2000 and 2010.

Reality: NAFTA turned an annual trade surplus with Mexico into an ever-growing deficit. Reality: NAFTA has killed/ex- In 1993, the year before NAFTA went into effect, the United States ported hundreds of thousands of had a $1.66 billion trade surplus with Mexico; by 1995, the first year American jobs. after NAFTA had entered into force, that changed to a $15.8 billion deficit. The deficits have escalated ever since, soaring to $24.5 billion NAFTA proponents have been unable to iden- in 2000, $49.8 billion in 2005, and $74.7 billion in 2007. From 2010 tify any significant new jobs created here. on, the deficits have been running in the $60+ billion range annually. Hufbauer admitted in a Wall Street Journal in- In 1993, the year before NAFTA, we imported around 225,000 cars terview in 1995: “The best figure for the jobs and trucks from Mexico. By 2005, our imports of Mexican-made ve- effect of NAFTA is approximately zero.... The hicles had tripled to 700,000 vehicles annually, and in 2012 Mexico’s lesson for me is to stay away from job fore- export of vehicles to the United States surpassed 1.4 million. casting.” Chrysler, Ford, and GM transferred major production facilities The federal government’s program known (and jobs) from the United States to Mexico. as Trade Adjustment Assistance had by 2010 In 1993, our annual trade deficit with Canada was $10.7 billion; by certified over 720,000 workers as having lost 1995 it had ballooned to $17.1 billion, and by 2005 to $78.4 billion. their jobs due to NAFTA.

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Sovereignty

Promise: When NAFTA was being proposed, its advocates ridiculed concerns that the agreement would threaten U.S. sovereignty — in the same way that TPP and TTIP proponents dismiss the same concern today.

Reality: NAFTA tribunals have already overridden U.S. laws and U.S. court rulings, and prominent NAFTA backers have admitted that opponents’ fears on this issue are justified.

Pro-NAFTA author William Orme, Jr. made this revealing admission in the Washington Post:

Didn’t Europe also start out with a limited free trade area? And, given the Brussels precedent, wouldn’t this mean ceding some measure of sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats?... NAFTA’s defenders said no. They argued that the agreement is designed to dismantle trade barriers, not build a new regulatory bureaucracy. NAFTA, declared one congressional backer, “is a trade agreement, not an act of economic union.” Yet the critics were essentially right. NAFTA lays the foundation for a continental common market, as many of its architects privately acknowledge. Part of this foundation, inevitably, is bureaucratic: The agreement creates a variety of continental institutions — ranging from trade dispute panels to labor and environmental commissions — that are, in aggregate, an embryonic NAFTA government.

Professor Robert A. Pastor (in photo above), one of the leading architects for expanding NAFTA into a continent-wide version of the European Union, wrote in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations: “NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America.” NAFTA supporter Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute has written:

With economic integration will come political integration.... One of the purposes of NAFTA and other international trade agreements is to set the principles by which such decisions are to be made, including the critical question of how to ‘har- monize’ differing labor, consumer, environmental, and other standards. By whatever name, this is an incipient form of international government.

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North American Union: From NAFTA to the NAU NAFTA was a major step toward an EU-style North American Union; but grassroots pushback has caused elitists to shift strategy to Pacific Rim and European partnerships.

Despite its significance, the FTA was Is this map indicative of the passed with little fanfare in the United mindset of North American States, where President Reagan presented elites, who for years have it to Congress under a “fast-track” proce- been promoting convergence dure that limited debate and disallowed among the police, intelligence- amendments. gathering, and security As it stood, the FTA was a fairly typi- services in the United cal trade accord, but it did not come about States, Canada, in a vacuum. Unnoticed by most lawmak- and Mexico? ers at the time of its passage was another initiative, under way since 1986, to create a trilateral trade agreement involving not only Canada and the United States, but also Mexico. This agreement, which was to become the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) only a few years later, was the real prize; the FTA was supposed to lay the groundwork for, and be superseded by, NAFTA, and was only negotiated because those favoring a more comprehensive trade agreement knew that a Canada-U.S. accord would be much easier to achieve.

AP Images NAFTA, which came into force in Homeland insecurity: Senators Patrick Leahy and Dianne Feinstein of the Senate Intelligence 1994, was billed as a sort of expanded Committee with a map designating all of North America as the “Homeland,” for the purposes of FTA, but in reality, it was nothing of the terrorism counterintelligence. sort. Rather, NAFTA was North America’s first foray into transnational government by Charles Scaliger would be different, leaders in both coun- camouflaged as a “free trade agreement,” tries assured their respective citizenries. of the sort that the Europeans had been n January 2, 1988, leaders of the This time around, trade barriers would be building on the other side of the Atlantic United States and Canada met to lowered across the board, and protective since the 1950s. O sign the first major agreement tariffs and other barriers become a thing By the 1990s, it was very clear to any in decades designed to comprehensively of the past. Moreover, Americans and Ca- careful observer what was afoot in Eu- lower trade barriers between the two coun- nadians received glib assurances that the rope. All rhetoric aside, what had begun tries. Since the 1850s, American and Ca- agreement would in nowise jeopardize in 1951 as an international commission nadian politicians had striven to lower or the sovereignty or independence of either regulating the trade of coal and steel, eliminate trade barriers between the two country. and had soon morphed into the Euro- countries, with uneven success; the first In one respect, American and Canadian pean Economic Community (informally such agreement, the Elgin-Marcy Treaty leaders were telling their constituents the termed the “Common Market”), was well of 1854, was torpedoed by the United truth: This trade agreement was different. on its way to becoming a bona fide con- States only 12 years later in retaliation for The FTA — unlike its various abortive tinent-wide government. The Maastricht British support of the Confederacy during predecessors over the previous 130 years Treaty of 1992, which created both the the Civil War, and successive efforts over — was intended to be but the first step in a European Union and a continent-wide the years at eliminating various protec- process of economic and political integra- currency, the euro, established once and tionist policies inevitably fell prey to cries tion that would indeed, over the long run, for all the real agenda of Europe’s “free of protectionism or favoritism on one side abolish the independence not only of the trade” movement: the creation of a super- or the other. United States and Canada, but the rest of state to govern the formerly independent But 1988’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) North America as well. nations of Europe.

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by NAFTA’s Chapter 19) for agreement did not envisage any uni- Having had so much success in building enforcement of its provisions fied approach to extract NAFTA’s — organs whose decisions promise, nor did it contemplate any a regional government in Europe using are understood to supersede common response to new threats.... free trade as a pretext, the globalists, any legislation or ruling by In the absence of a compelling vi- local, state, or even federal sion to define a modern regional en- who have always had international — and legislatures or courts. And tity, and lacking institutions to trans- eventually global — government as their NAFTA’s over 900 pages of late that vision into policies, the old verbiage are a compendium patterns of behavior among the three overarching goal, decided to recycle the of new rules and regulations governments remained. formula in the New World. to which all laws and regulations — local, state, and na- In a 2004 article for Foreign Affairs entitled tional — in all three partici- “North America’s Second Decade,” Pastor Continent-wide Government pating countries are required to conform. (a member of the Council on Foreign Rela- With the creation of the North American And more is on the way — much more. tions, CFR) admitted that NAFTA is “mere- Free Trade Agreement, the process of cre- No sooner was the ink dry on the NAFTA ly the first draft of an economic constitu- ating continent-wide government began agreement, than North American foreign tion for North America,” while decrying the anew, but this time on the other side of the policy elites such as Robert Pastor, profes- monumental setback to continental integra- Atlantic. Having had so much success in sor of International Relations at American tion entailed by the 9/11 attacks. Follow- building a regional government in Europe University and longtime foreign affairs in- ing 9/11, the United States virtually sealed using free trade as a pretext, the globalists, sider, began advocating a more integrated its borders and returned to its traditional who have always had international — and North America than NAFTA can furnish. In unilateralism, Pastor lamented, whereas in eventually global — government as their 2001, in Toward a North American Com- a more enlightened future, “security fears overarching goal, decided to recycle the munity: Lessons From the Old World for the would serve as a catalyst for deeper inte- formula in the New World. New, the first in a series of books promoting gration.” Acknowledging the obstacle of NAFTA was sold to Congress and the greater North American integration, Pastor Mexico’s underdevelopment relative to her American public as a “free trade agree- lamented the inadequacies of the then-six two northern neighbors, Pastor advocated ment.” But instead of creating conditions year old NAFTA agreement: the establishment of a “North American for free trade (borders transparent to the Investment Fund” to funnel hundreds of flow of goods, services, and people), What’s wrong with NAFTA is not billions of taxpayer dollars from Canada NAFTA set up a complex bureaucracy what it did, but what it omitted. The and the United States to Mexico. Stiff cul- tasked with managing and controlling North American trade and with adjudi- cating trade disputes. In other words, NAFTA was not a “free trade” but rather a “managed trade” agreement, in complete conformity with the creed of socialists of every hue that the free market cannot be trusted, and that all mercantile activity must be closely monitored and managed by allegedly benevolent bureaucrats who can determine, better than market forces, how much of a given good to produce, at what price, and up to what standards. Moreover, NAFTA, by imposing such a managed trade regime across international boundaries, was not merely an “accord” but also a first layer of regional international government where none had existed before. Of course, treaties have always involved concessions of absolute sovereignty in order to be binding; what makes NAFTA different from traditional international trea- AP Images ties (and similar to the United Nations, the Opening up the borders: President Ronald Reagan signs legislation authorizing the Free Trade European Union, and the World Trade Or- Agreement (FTA) between Canada and the United States in September 1988. While purporting to ganization) is that it created international eliminate tariffs in the name of “free trade,” the FTA actually was intended to lay the foundation review panels (such as those contemplated for the more ambitious NAFTA trade agreement.

26 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 Free Trade Agenda Timeline for the United States 1974 1988 1993 1994 2001 2002 2004 Congress Congress Congress approves Talks begin at the The FTAA attracts President George W. Bush The John approves approves the North American Summit of the public notice at announces his intention Birch Society fast-track the Canada- Free Trade Agreement Americas about the 2001 Quebec to complete an FTAA launches negotiating United States between the United establishment of a City Summit of agreement by 2005 and get a STOP authority for Free Trade States, Canada, and Free Trade Area of the the Americas. congressional approval the the FTAA the president. Agreement. Mexico. Americas (FTAA). same year. campaign.

2005 2009 2011 2013 A November FTAA meeting fails to produce an FTAA agreement The SPP/NAU Robert Pastor publishes The President Obama announces and the FTAA movement fizzles out. initiative was North American Idea: A Vision negotiations on two mega free trade abandoned; of a Continental Future, in pacts, the Trans-Pacific Partnership President George W. Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico however, some which he specifically names (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and announce the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of its activities “the John Birch Society” as Investment Partnership (TTIP), which (SPP), a trilateral cooperative effort to transform NAFTA into the continue under the among the leading groups that would leapfrog the NAU and eventually North American Union (NAU). North American “have been the most vocal, politically integrate the United States Leaders’ Summit. active and intense on North with leading Pacific Rim nations and The Council on Foreign Relations publishes Building a North American issues, and they were the European Union, respectively. American Community, a blueprint for transforming NAFTA into effective in inhibiting the Bush the NAU. administration and deterring The John Birch Society launches a the Obama administration from STOP the Free Trade Agenda campaign The John Birch Society launches a STOP the NAU campaign. any grand initiatives.” to stop the TPP and the TTIP.

tural resistance in all three countries to sub- careful to distance themselves from the for further integration down the road, mersion in a North American Community European Union; the “new North Ameri- which would doubtless include a single would be overcome by the establishment can community,” they wrote, “will not be currency and central bank and, ultimately of “Centers for North American Studies” modeled on the European Union or the Eu- — as has been done in Europe — a conti- to “help people in all three countries to ropean Commission, nor will it aim at the nental legislature. understand the problems and the potential creation of any sort of vast supranational Now, with the perceived threat of eco- of an integrated North America — and to bureaucracy.” nomic immolation receding, talk of a think of themselves as North Americans.” continent-wide community has resumed. From such policy recommendations Denials and Duplicity The indefatigable Pastor published an- as these emerged, in 2005, “Building a Pastor was quick to point out to detractors, other book, The North American Idea: A North American Community,” a policy as he wrote in a letter to WorldNetDaily in Vision of a Continental Future, in 2011, statement promulgated by the Council on 2007, that what he is proposing is a “North which reiterated the proposals of the pre- Foreign Relations, in consultation with American Community,” not a “North vious decade, but dressed up to appeal to the Canadian Council of Chief Executives American Union.” In strict semantic terms, post-Great Recession sensibilities. And and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos he’s right, but his terminology is deliber- no part of the Council on Foreign Rela- Internacionales (Mexican Council of In- ately misleading. After all, what began as tions’ 2005 program has been retracted; ternational Affairs). The statement — of the European Community (EC) eventually only last March, Pastor penned a policy which Pastor was one of the authors — became the European Union. As Pastor ad- initiative for the CFR (Policy Innovation laid out a program for establishing a sort mitted in 2001, the European path toward Memorandum no. 29) entitled “Short- of EU-Lite to take the place of NAFTA. integration ought to be a model for North cut to U.S. Economic Competitiveness: Among its recommendations: a common America; a continent-wide “community” A Seamless North American Market,” in security perimeter around the borders of would then inevitably become — as it was which he calls for, among other things, North America, harmonization of visa re- in Europe — a precursor to union under negotiating a common external tariff; quirements, sharing of data on the exit and full-blown regional government. building public support for a “shared vi- entry of foreign nationals, enhanced law- As it is, the yet-to-be realized North sion” via various information initiatives, enforcement cooperation, the adoption of American Community would extend its such as a “Buy North America” push to a common external tariff, the development competency far beyond trade — as in- replace “Buy America”-type slogans in of a North American Border Pass with bio- tended. It would require harmonization of the United States; forging a “continental metric identifiers, and the aforementioned policing, immigration laws, and — more plan for transportation and infrastructure” North American Investment Fund and ominously — the creation of biometric (NAFTA Superhighway, anyone?); and Centers for North American Studies. ID cards. Meanwhile, propaganda organs creating a “single North American regu- Aware of potential red flags among their disguised as centers for North American latory group on regulatory issues with a readership, the document’s authors were research would prepare public opinion comprehensive strategy.” This last is par-

www.TheNewAmerican.com 27 north american union ticularly vague and open-ended; does Pas- the euro, to be styled the “amero.” In point As for the North American Union it- tor truly propose to give an international of fact, the “amero” was first proposed by self, the organization was mentioned by group competency to overhaul the vast Herbert Grubel, a Canadian economist, in name by former Mexican president Vi- web of American commercial regulations 1999. Robert Pastor endorsed the idea in cente Fox, who wrote, in an online forum (like the UCC) to bring it into compliance Toward a North American Community, discussing his book Revolution of Hope, with a regional trade accord? Well, yes. In opining that an amero would be a benefit “Why can’t we be not only partners in the Pastor’s words: to all three countries “in the long run.” As long term, but a North American Union?” long as the U.S. dollar remains the world’s In 2001, Fox told a PBS documentary on A merged working group should aim reserve currency, prospects for a North world trade that he expected “conver- for across-the-board regulatory con- American currency seem remote, but an gence of our two economies [i.e., those vergence. This means that pharma- amero might become an appealing pros- of the United States and Mexico], con- ceuticals should be subject to uniform pect in the event of a dollar crisis. vergence on the basic and fundamental high standards and would not need to The “NAFTA Superhighway” has re- variables of the economy, convergence on be retested in each country, that food ceived a good deal of attention in Wash- rates of interest, convergence on income imports should be tested just once by ington and, if Pastor’s proposal for a of people, convergence on salaries.” He North American inspectors, and that “continental plan for transportation and hoped that a future generation of North regulations on the size, weight, and infrastructure” is any indication, the North American leaders would “erase that bor- fuel efficiency of trucks should be the American globalist crowd is contemplat- der, open up that border for [the] free same in all three countries. ing ways to make roads and other infra- flow of products, merchandises, [and] structure amenable to continental integra- capital as well as people.” Parts of the Plan tion. But Texas Governor Rick Perry’s Beyond these candid statements of Pres- But what about more highly publicized, “Trans-Texas Corridor” — the original ident Fox, few if any would-be supporters sensational-sounding steps toward North source of concern — has been officially of a North American Union have gone on American integration? It is sometimes shelved due to public backlash, although record promoting such an organization by suggested that plans are afoot for a single it continues surreptitiously under other name. A few, such as Pastor, have been North American currency, patterned after project names. careful to draw semantic distinctions be-

Africa and South America Pursue Integration

by Alex Newman toward issuing the “Single African Currency.” Another bloc that has developed rapidly is the Union of orth American integration is not the only example of South American Nations (UNASUL in Spanish, UNASUR regional economic and political merger taking place in Portuguese). One of many transnational regimes emerg- N based on the EU model. In fact, every region and virtu- ing in the Western Hemisphere, the socialist-dominated South ally every country in the world is now involved in some type of American Union — modeled on the European Union — is sovereignty-killing transnational plot, as the global establish- fast becoming one of the premier “integration” schemes in ment drives humanity toward so-called global governance. The Latin America. Officially born just over two years ago, the usual suspects — the CFR and company, for example — have union promptly selected self-styled socialist leaders. It also their fingerprints all over the schemes, along with foreign pow- announced plans to integrate law enforcement, infrastructure, ers, including Russia, China, and more. defense, currency, and more. A South American Parliament is One of the more advanced blocs, which developed seemingly already in the works and the “South American Defense Coun- out of nowhere and promptly took off, is the African Union. cil” aims to promote “military cooperation.” A single currency Born in 2002 out of the “Organization of African Unity,” the is also being discussed. AU now includes 54 member states — every country on the Of course, there are plenty of other regional integration continent except Morocco. schemes around the world currently chipping away at national Its objectives include promoting “sustainable develop- sovereignty. Each one is in its own phase of development, but ment,” the political “integration” of Africa, “harmonization” the pattern is clear. By gradually expanding the powers of each of policies, and more. A united military force is currently in unaccountable regional regime while increasing cooperation the works to deal with “rebellions” and conflicts, and AU between the different blocs under UN guidance, proponents of troops have already been deployed in various conflicts. Like global government now have a clear path to victory. Whether the EU, the AU also has its own Parliament and Court of Jus- they will succeed, however, depends largely on the American tice. The African Central Bank (ACB), meanwhile, is working people’s willingness to submit or resist. n

28 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 tween “union” and “community,” but, as the Europeans can attest, weasel words mean far less than intent. And of that there can be no mistake: North America’s elites covet regional government no less than do their European counterparts. After all, elites on both sides of the Atlantic ardently support that embryonic global government, the United Nations. As a general principle, those who believe government is the best solution to every problem (and most political leaders and policy analysts do) always want more and more government — including, wherever possible, regional and global government. The same fetish for regula- AP Images tory control exhibited by so-called “liber- Former Mexican President Vicente Fox (left) is shown with former President George W. Bush, als” in the domestic arena is no less ardent a few days before 9/11. Fox is one of the few power brokers who has actually called openly for a in the international sphere. “North American Union.” The European Union was brought about on a continent that had seen two world wars brisk. The threat of external terrorism pro- northern and southern neighbors. In the in less than a half century, and was parti- vides some pretext, but nothing on the scale meantime, expect the Robert Pastors of the tioned by the Cold War for another four and that Nazism or World War II did for Europe. world to continue laying the groundwork a half decades. North America has seen no In short, nothing less than an epochal so- for eventual North American economic and comparable international conflict since the cioeconomic meltdown is likely to furnish political union, while simultaneously push- first half of the 19th century. Trade among the political camouflage for dissolving the ing Transatlantic and Trans-Pacific mergers the United States, Canada, and Mexico is borders between the United States and her via the TTIP and TPP n

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30 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 Fast Track: Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)

Created Extended Extended Expired Extended Expired TPA

Inactive 1974 1979 1988 1994 2002 2007 TPA Active 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 motion Authority, the logic of the court’s The proposed trans-Atlantic agreement organized labor, and Tea Party Republicans decision suggests TPA has it backward: with the European Union would be even reluctant to cede Congress’ constitutional Congress may approve and/or amend a bigger, creating what has been described authority to the president, may succeed in proposed trade agreement and the presi- as the world’s largest free trade zone. blocking passage. dent may, with his signature or veto, vote “If Obama could negotiate and imple- Trade agreements affect the economic it “up or down” (subject to congressional ment just these two agreements,” wrote future of some 300 million Americans. override by a two-thirds vote in each house Paul Sracic in The Atlantic, “he would Limiting congressional debate will surely in the case of a veto). almost without question be the most suc- limit the public’s and even the representa- cessful trade president in U.S. history.” tives’ and senators’ knowledge of aspects Using Congress’ Creation But gaining renewal of fast-track, or Trade of trade agreements that typically cover Congress nonetheless created the fast- Promotion Authority, for passage of those thousands of pages. In a June 13, 2013 track authority in the Trade Act of 1974, agreements will not be easy, as there will letter to U.S. Trade Representative Mi- with the authority due to expire in 1980. It be resistance in Congress to trading the leg- chael Froman, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- was extended for eight years, however, by islative power of a sovereign nation for the Mass.) expressed her concern over what a 1979 act of Congress and renewed again promise of future prosperity. As with trade she described as “a lack of transparency” in 1988 through 1993. It was later extend- agreements in general, opposition to fast in the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific ed a number of times by congressional -track cuts across partisan and ideological Partnership. actions, including a 3:30 a.m. House ap- lines. Democrat Max Baucus of Montana is “I have heard the argument that trans- proval of the Trade Act of 2002 on June a leading proponent of renewal in the Sen- parency would undermine the administra- 27 of that year. It expired on July 1, 2007, ate, where fellow Democrat Sherrod Brown tion’s policy to complete the trade agree- albeit with fast-track authority continued of Ohio, concerned over the loss of manu- ment because public opposition would for any trade agreements negotiated before facturing jobs in the nation’s “rust belt,” is be significant,” the senator wrote. “This that date, including agreements negotiated opposed to giving the president that author- argument is exactly backwards. If trans- with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea. ity without stricter enforcement of exist- parency would lead to widespread opposi- The Obama administration indicated ing trade rules, increased spending on job tion to a trade agreement, then that trade early this year that renewal of the authority training for displaced workers, and action agreement should not be the policy of the would be a requirement for the successful against China over currency manipulation. United States.” conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partner- In the House, a coalition of progressive As Alexander Hamilton is said to have ship negotiations, involving 11 nations. Democrats, representing the concerns of put it more succinctly, “Here, sir, the people rule.” And the people rule through their elected representatives, as Hamilton noted when showing the House of Rep- resentatives chamber in what was then the new Capitol building to a visitor from England. (Whether the autocratic Hamil- ton approved of the people’s rule is another question.) By abandoning the right to a full debate and to amend trade agreements, Congress would be surrendering to the executive branch not only its own but, by extension, the people’s power under the Constitution of the United States. If President Obama wants to establish a free trade legacy, wrote Sracic, he must face the reality that “the toughest trade ne-

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impression that the Obama administration is forthrightly providing the American Access denied: Sen. Ron people with all the up-to-date information Wyden (D-Ore.) was denied they need to accurately evaluate the agree- access to TPP documents ments that are being made in their name, until he threatened to push and that would, if accepted by Congress, transparency legislation, but privileged corporate devastatingly impact their lives, their lib- and NGO “stakeholders” are erty, and their future. given full access. The USTR “Fact Sheet” cites as evidence of its transparency efforts the number of consultations it has held with its selected trade advisory committees and privileged “Civil Society stakeholders.” It states, for instance:

Over the course of the TPP negotiations, USTR has conducted more than 147 meetings with the trade advisory committees. Since June 11, 2010, USTR has posted 110 TPP documents to a website for cleared AP Images trade advisors to review and provide by William F. Jasper they would like to see implemented for comments. the Asia-Pacific rim nations. As with the ith little fanfare or public Transatlantic Trade and Investment Part- This transparency boast actually exposes a notice, the Obama adminis- nership (TTIP, which we discuss on page dangerous feature of the TPP process: The W tration has pushed full speed 38), the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been TPP documents are not available to the av- ahead over the past year with negotia- designed to follow the EU example of erage American citizen, only to “cleared tions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership relentless widening and deepening, con- trade advisors.” And who are the “cleared (TPP), a so-called free trade agreement stantly eroding national sovereignty, while trade advisors”? According to the USTR, loaded with potential for enormous po- building “transnational governance” that these are “representatives from industry, litical and economic harm for Ameri- is not restrained by the checks and bal- agriculture, services, labor, state and local cans. The TPP, which currently involves ances of national constitutions. governments, and public interest groups.” 12 nations — Australia, Brunei, Canada, But, apparently, that does not include Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Secrecy vs. Transparency elected representatives of the American Peru, Singapore, the United States, and If there is one word that is used more people, since members of Congress have Vietnam (Japan is negotiating for mem- often than “reform” by governments, been forced to plead, and threaten in order bership and is likely to join soon) — is politicians, and international organiza- to get a peep at the secret TPP texts. really intended as an interim arrange- tions — and abused even more frequently For instance, Senator Ron Wyden (D- ment, on the road to an expanded Free and egregiously — it is “transparency.” Ore.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) As with the United Nations and the World Committee’s subcommittee on Interna- that would include all 21 nations of the Trade Organization (WTO), the White tional Trade, Customs, and Global Com- grouping known as the Asia-Pacific House and the U.S. Trade Representa- petitiveness, requested copies of the TPP Economic Cooperation (APEC). That tive’s (USTR) office regularly proclaim draft documents but was stonewalled by includes China and Russia. their commitment to transparency while the USTR. When Senator Wyden threat- The architects and promoters of the doing everything possible to hide their ac- ened to propose a measure in the Senate TPP and FTAAP frequently point with tions from their constituents. The USTR’s that would force transparency on the proc admiration to the “integration” process “Fact Sheet: Transparency and the Trans- ess, the USTR agreed to grant the sena- of the European Union (EU) as the model Pacific Partnership” is intended to give the tor a peek at the documents, though his

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trade agreement that will This is the same lineup of “Civil Society Members of Congress have been forced to support more jobs for Organizations” (CSOs) that is providing working Americans here faux grassroots participation for the TTIP plead, cajole, and threaten in order to get at home. planned economic and political merger of a peep at the secret TPP texts. the United States with the EU [see page The Controlled Opposition 38]. No surprise there; we have seen the The Obama administration’s same CSO/NGO players engaged in the staff was not permitted to see them. This standard response to any question or objec- same deceptive games during the battles type of secretive process has no legitimate tion is to replay the all-purpose, shop-worn over the North American Free Trade place in our system of government, and it mantra that it — and the Bush and Clinton Agreement (NAFTA), the Central Ameri- obviously puts Congress at a distinct dis- administrations before it — monotonously, can Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the advantage in the TPP process, since the mindlessly intones: “More trade equals Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), real work of examining the detailed legal more jobs and more prosperity.... More the Security and Prosperity Partnership texts normally falls to congressional staff trade equals more jobs and more prosper- (SPP), the World Trade Organization members who are often experts in particu- ity.” End of discussion, end of debate. (WTO), and the many other trade-agree- lar areas of domestic and foreign policy. And when pressed into a corner, the ment fights. The purpose of these sham Wyden spokeswoman Jennifer Hoelzer TPP advocates will “engage” and “brief” opposition groups is to foster the false told the online Huffington Post that it was a pre-selected coterie of activist stakehold- perception of widespread public involve- also “insulting” that members of Con- ers who constitute the usual controlled ment in the TPP process and strong public gress and their staff are denied access to opposition. According to the USTR, these consensus for the TPP objectives. Even documents that industry officials on the stakeholders are “leaders from the AFL- when these “opposition” groups publicly “cleared” trade advisory committees are CIO, Citizens Trade Campaign, Coalition object to truly objectionable features of given free access to. “I would point out for a Prosperous America, the Emergency these trade agreements, it is usually for how insulting it is for them to argue that Committee for American Trade, Friends the wrong reasons, and invariably they members of Congress are to personally of the Earth, Grocery Manufacturers As- argue that the proposed new trade author- go over to USTR to view the trade docu- sociation, Maine Citizens Trade Policy ity be given more powers and go beyond ments,” Hoelzer said. But they are not al- Commission, Public Citizen, and the Si- trade issues to deal with the environment, lowed to make copies. However, Hoelzer erra Club — among others.” labor, financial services, etc. By establish- pointed out, “An advisor at Halliburton or the MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] is given a password that allows him or her to go on the USTR website and view the TPP agreement anytime he or she wants.” The USTR has responded to mounting criticism over its “transparency deficit” with a PR campaign that has featured a succession of meetings and consultations with “stakeholders” that are substantively meaningless but give the appearance of democratic legitimacy. The USTR transparency fact sheet states:

USTR invited over 250 Civil Soci- ety stakeholders to a briefing held on June 19, 2012 and provided non- governmental organizations the opportunity to discuss specific issues with USTR negotiators.

Moreover, it says:

USTR will continue to engage with

stakeholders to find ways to increase AP Images transparency in the TPP negotiations, while moving ahead toward an inno- C. Fred Bergsten, a key backer of TPP — and a leading light in the CFR and Trilateral Commission vative, groundbreaking 21st-century — says TPP is a steppingstone to a larger Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP).

34 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 ing themselves as the noisiest adversar- ies, and the only ones the establishment politicians and media deem credible, they successfully co-opt the opposition label and prevent any genuine opponents from rising to the fore. Then they can be count- ed on to fold, sell out, or walk out at the critical moment and leave the field wide open for passage of the agreement. Not surprisingly, virtually all of these osten- sibly grassroots organizations are actually astro-turf groups funded by grants from government agencies, the big tax-exempt foundations, major corporations, and big labor unions. The TPP proponents are only too happy to accommodate this fake vox populi; as with the TTIP, they are including virtually everything — including the kitchen sink — in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The White House, the USTR, the State Department, and the private organizations Threat to Internet freedom: The TPP copyright enforcement scheme jeopardizes promoting the TPP openly admit that this Internet access and free speech with mandates that would bankrupt most agreement is not simply a trade agree- independent Internet service providers. ment, not simply about lowering tariffs. It encompasses — among other things AP Images — customs, telecommunications, investment services, technical barriers to trade, scheme that extends far beyond the limits being unfair practices in restraint of trade. sanitary and phytosanitary measures, in- currently imposed by DMCA.” Who would adjudicate these types of cases? tellectual property, regulatory coherence, The Electronic Frontier Foundation They would be decided by an international development, non-conforming measures pointed out the TPP threat to Internet arbitration tribunal overseen by the secre- and cross-border trade in services, rules of freedom: tary-general of the United Nations. origin, competition, agriculture, textiles, This is an all-out assault on national and environment. Each of these “deepen- Private ISP enforcement of copyright sovereignty, unconstitutionally transfer- ing” areas is pregnant with incredible po- poses a serious threat to free speech on ring legislative powers from the U.S. tential for havoc. the Internet, because it makes offer- Congress; state legislatures; and local, ing open platforms for user-generated city, and county governments to unac- What Are They Hiding? content economically untenable. For countable international bureaucrats, and As just one example of the enormous dan- example, on an ad-supported site, the judicial powers from our federal and state gers that are lurking in the hundreds (or costs of reviewing each post will gen- courts to black-robed TPP globalists. It thousands) of pages of still-secret texts, erally exceed the pennies of revenue would also confer huge advantages on consider the leaked TPP draft text on in- one might get from ads. Even obvious foreign businesses and large multination- tellectual property that would threaten fair uses could become too risky to als, while concomitantly putting American Internet freedom — as well as American host, leading to an Internet with only businesses — especially small and medi- sovereignty — with new TPP surveillance cautious and conservative content. um-sized enterprises — at a competitive requirements. As The New American disadvantage. American businesses would reported last year, the leaked document The net effect would be to squeeze out the remain shackled with the onerous regula- would mandate that TPP member nations smaller, independent ISPs, further carteliz- tory burden of EPA, FDA, ADA, OSHA, enact regulations that require Internet ser- ing our communications and news media, etc., while their foreign competitors could vice providers (ISPs) to privately enforce and eventually wiping out the burgeoning operate here unimpeded by those same copyright protection laws. “Current U.S. alternative Internet-based news media. strictures. law,” noted The New American’s Joe Another TPP draft document leaked How many more similar dangers (or Wolverton, “specifically the Digital Mil- last year would require the United States worse) are hidden in the TPP texts? Based lennium Copyright Act (DMCA), would to agree to exempt foreign corporations on what has already been leaked so far, be supplanted by TPP Article 16.3. This from our laws and regulations. Foreign should Congress not already be demanding provision in the TPP draft document paves businesses could challenge any of our fed- total transparency, with full and immediate the way for a new copyright enforcement eral, state, or local laws and regulations as access to all of the TPP negotiation texts? www.TheNewAmerican.com 35 Trans-Pacific Partnership

At the 12th round of TPP negotiations, ambitious Free Trade Area of the Asia Pa- The TPP is regarded as an interim ar- held in Dallas, Texas, in May of 2012, cific (FTAAP). That is not merely the con- rangement or stepping stone toward a stakeholder participants requested that jecture of this writer; U.S. officials and the broader, regionwide Free Trade Area the negotiation texts be made public so original architects of the TPP have stated of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), possi- that stakeholders could formulate more this explicitly. bly within a decade, as envisaged by informed evaluations, questions, and re- A very important source of statements APEC leaders in Bogor [Indonesia] sponses. How Barbara Weisel, assistant in this regard is the pro-TPP book pub- in November 1994 and reaffirmed U.S. trade representative for Southeast lished in January of this year by the Peter more recently by them in their meet- Asia and the Pacific and the lead negotia- G. Peterson Institute for International Eco- ing in Honolulu in November 2011. tor for the United States at TPP, replied nomics (PIIE), entitled Understanding the TPP negotiators are not only think- to this reasonable request is chillingly in- Trans-Pacific Partnership, coauthored by ing about new countries joining the structive. According to the USTR’s own Jeffrey J. Schott, Barbara Kotschwar, and ongoing talks but also planning and website, “Weisel said that while the U.S. Julia Muir. The PIIE is one of the premier constructing the trade pact with a position is that constantly evolving TPP global think tanks and has played an es- view toward future linkages with chapter texts cannot be released to the pecially important role in promoting the other APEC members, including and public, the Office of the U.S. Trade Repre- WTO, IMF, United Nations, and free trade especially China. sentative has been and remains committed agreements (FTAs), including NAFTA, to discussing in-depth with a wide range CAFTA, TPP, and FTAAP. Schott, the Chapter 6 of the PIIE book is revealingly of stakeholders the formation of U.S. po- primary author of the study, has been in entitled “Moving from TPP to FTAAP.” It sitions, the substance of negotiations as the forefront of the establishment wonks declares: they take place, and how issues should be designing and promoting FTAs. The PIIE handled by negotiators as talks continue.” study states (in Chapter 1): The current TPP architects envision The “TPP chapter texts cannot be re- building an eventual FTAAP on the leased to the public”! That’s the Obama Over time, the TPP is expected to comprehensive foundations of the administration’s “transparency”! evolve into a major integration ar- TPP accord, with other APEC coun- rangement covering most of the tries joining the pact in coming years. From TPP to FTAAP members of the Asia-Pacific Eco- We mentioned at the beginning of this ar- nomic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Perhaps the most important admissions in ticle that the TPP is actually intended as Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partner- a door opener to an even larger and more Again in Chapter 1, we find: ship are to be found in the book’s preface

Twelve nations are involved in the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. (Japan is negotiating for membership and is likely to join soon.)

36 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 by PIIE’s director, C. Fred Bergsten. As envisions a global monetary authority and gion, an FTAAP would some day yield much as anyone, Dr. Bergsten shepherded a world government under the United Na- enormous social and commercial benefits APEC and TPP into existence. “Twenty tions. Bergsten is a longtime member and for the people of the Asia-Pacific region, years ago,” Bergsten writes in the pref- leading intellectual of both the CFR and including the United States.” ace, “I chaired the Eminent Persons Group TC. The PIIE is named for and chaired by The dangers of the TPP are becoming (EPG) established by the leaders of the Asia Peter G. Peterson, a longtime chairman daily more obvious. The secrecy of the Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) of the CFR. The PIIE board of directors TPP negotiation process and the threats forum to develop a long-term vision for and advisory board, as well as its roster to national sovereignty that have al- economic integration of the region.” of scholars and fellows, is a register of ready been exposed due to leaks of text Bergsten then goes on to note that “the prominent CFR and TC members, includ- drafts show it to be incompatible with seeds of a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pa- ing David Rockefeller, former chairman of our American constitutional system. The cific (FTAAP) began to take serious root the CFR and founder of the TC. Many of fact that its authors and promoters admit about a decade ago, with proposals from the PIIE’s leaders have held Cabinet posi- the TPP is just a “steppingstone” to an APEC’s Business Advisory Council, and tions in various administrations. Leading even more expansive and more dangerous now have multiple green shoots — the big- the Obama TPP/FTAAP effort are CFR/ FTAAP, should be sufficient to guarantee gest and sturdiest of which is the ongoing TC members Michael Froman (U.S. trade its defeat. However, defeating the TPP negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partner- representative) and Robert Hormats (un- and FTAAP will require a coordinated, ship (TPP).” dersecretary of state). sustained effort by American patriots Those familiar with Dr. Bergsten’s During the George W. Bush adminis- over the next few months to take this in- background and connections recognize tration, U.S. Trade Representative Susan formation to their fellow citizens. It will that these admissions are all the more im- Schwab (CFR) praised APEC at the organ take — in the words of Samuel Adams portant because he, Schott, and the other ization’s 2007 meeting in Cairns, Austra- — “an irate, tireless minority keen to set PIIE authors are channeling the party line lia, and endorsed the FTAAP. brush fires in people’s minds.” And then of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) “FTAAP is a visionary proposal that the heat and light from those brushfires and the Trilateral Commission (TC), two APEC is well-suited to take on,” said Amb. must be directed at members of Congress of the most influential globalist organiza- Schwab. “By more effectively knitting to- so that they will honor their constitutional tions pushing for a New World Order that gether the dynamic economies of the re- duty to stop the TPP. n

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The following day, on February 13, Presi- dent Obama followed through on this commitment, joining European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Euro- pean Commission President José Manuel Barroso to announce the initiation of TTIP negotiations. On June 17, at the G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Ireland, President Obama joined British Prime Minister David Cameron and Messrs. Barroso and Van Rompuy to again pitch the jobs-and-prosperity promise in a press conference to boost the TTIP. Van Rompuy gave a hint as to the AP Images deeper nature of the proposed EU-U.S. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shares the stage with EU Commission President José Manuel partnership. Barroso while promoting TTIP in Brussels, Belgium, on April 22, 2013. “The positive ramifications will even go beyond the economy as such,” he by William F. Jasper succeeded with NAFTA, though barely; said. “We are making our economies all once the American public began to learn over the world more interdependent.” For lying largely under the radar, the what was in the agreement, the Clinton those familiar with globospeak, “inter- first round of negotiations on the White House and NAFTA proponents in dependent” and “interdependence” are F Transatlantic Trade and Investment Congress had to resort to all-out decep- instantly recognized as favorite terms of Partnership (TTIP) took off July 8 through tion, bribery, and political arm-twisting one-world activists who abhor national in- 12 in Washington, D.C. Although most and logrolling to push it through. dependence and sovereignty. It is the basis Americans have barely heard of TTIP — The Transatlantic Trade and Investment of “The Project” — which is how EU in- if they’ve heard of it at all — this plan Partnership could face even stiffer opposi- siders refer to their burgeoning superstate. for economic and political merger of the tion, once knowledge of it gets out. Thus, Although it was originally sold to the United States and the European Union will its proponents have been busy creating public of the six original member nations assume ever greater urgency over the next what will appear to be widespread consen- merely as a coal and steel collective, the year as the negotiation process concludes sus in favor of TTIP — by lining up (and architects had planned from the beginning and we move closer and closer to a vote buying up) support from Big Business, to keep “widening” (adding more member in Congress. Big Labor, Big Banking, Big Green, and states) and “deepening” (usurping more The divisive national debate over Big Media — before average Americans and more national powers). The deepen- NAFTA (the North American Free Trade even learn that this transatlantic freight ing process involves “integration” and Agreement) a decade ago provides a pre- train is about to run over them. “harmonization,” which means complete- view of the tumult to come. But, as with The first public notice most of us got ly intertwining the economies, political NAFTA, before any national “debate” is that the TTIP Express was headed our way structures, policies, laws and regulations, allowed to occur on TTIP, its advocates was President Obama’s televised State of and bringing them all under the authority want to be sure they have already built up the Union address on February 12, 2013, of the EU institutions. an unstoppable momentum. This strategy in which he stated: Barroso provided another hint, stating

38 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 that the TTIP is “a powerful demonstration of our determination to shape an open and rules-based world.” Yes, but many observers would point out that if we are to go by the “rules-based” model imposed on the EU by Barroso and his confreres, we are talking about arbitrary international rules that will be fashioned by faceless, unaccountable international rule-makers, and enforced by international bureaucrats, regulators, and tribunals. Václav Klaus, the Czech economist and president of the Czech Repub- lic from 2003 to 2013, has repeatedly blasted the EU for fastening a new form of the Soviet system onto Europe. “In- stead of dismantling socialism,” he said in a September 1, 2002 speech at Aix- en-Provence, France, “we have got … more sophisticated, more hidden and more intensive methods of government intervention and regulation, the ever- AP Images increasing size and scope of the wel- Wall Street insider Michael Froman, (Citigroup, CFR, Trilateral Commission) heads up the fare state, multiculturalism and political Obama TPP/TTIP effort as the U.S. trade representative. correctness. This is not a great victory.” What was begun under the pretext of fa- Group was one of the first political party President Obama perfectly, since, as cilitating the free movement of goods and groupings to form in 1953 in the Com- evidenced by his words and actions, he people, President Klaus noted, “has been mon Assembly of the European Coal and clearly adheres to a communitarian/so- — slowly but surely — convened into the Steel Community (ECSC), which evolved cialist ideology and believes he is entitled formation of a supranational European into the European Economic Community to ignore Congress and legislate by ex- state aiming at centralization of power (EEC), which evolved into the European ecutive order. (Not that he is completely in Brussels, at elimination of European Community (EC), which evolved into the unique in this; his predecessors George nation states and at socializing Europe.” European Union (EU). The Common As- W. Bush and Bill Clinton — and others Was President Klaus exaggerating? sembly evolved into the European Parlia- before them — also shared this autocratic Not at all. Even former Soviet dictator ment. The Socialist Group, which has gone tendency.) All this being open knowl- Mikhail Gorbachev agrees, but, unlike through multiple name changes, has been edge, how plausible is it that Barroso’s Klaus, Gorbachev approves of the inte- the largest bloc in the European Parlia- EU deputation and Obama’s U.S. contin- gration and socializing of Europe. In a ment throughout most of that history. It is gent will together craft a TTIP that is any- speech in London in 2000, Gorbachev currently the second largest; together with thing other than a socialist-tilted program referred to the evolving EU as “the new the Greens and collectivists in the other that mimics the autocratic EU? European Soviet.” parties, they still represent the dominant We have already seen the official cat- ideology, regardless of the labels. egories of issues that this “trade” agree- An EU-U.S. European Commission President Bar- ment purports to deal with, and to say that “Rolling Collective”? roso is emblematic of the statist pedigree it is exceedingly broad is to sin by under- There is no question that the deepen- and mentality that is all too prevalent statement. This list alone (which we will ing integration of the European Union throughout the EU institutions. As a stu- go over, forthwith) betokens the type of has brought about huge centralization of dent leader, he was a militant Maoist, transnational meddling and intrusion in power in Brussels — and a correspond- a radical in the mold of terrorist-cum- national and local matters that have been ing diminution of the powers of national, professor Bill Ayers (in words if not in the cause of so much concern throughout state, and local governments over remits deeds). As president of the EU Commis- the EU about the “Brussels dictatorship.” they once governed. sion, he has continued the Soviet-style Neither the American public, nor our And there is little question that the Eu- authoritarian and secretive rule of that elected representatives in Congress, have ropean Parliament, the European Commis- institution, ignoring and defying the had access to the secretive negotiation sion, the European Council, and other EU calls for transparency and representation process or the negotiated texts. As with institutions are dominated by socialists, that he claims to uphold and that the EU NAFTA and ObamaCare, we will be Greens, and other “progressives” — and claims to revere. handed a hopelessly complex and incom- have been from the start. The Socialist This is a style of governance that fits prehensible hodgepodge of hundreds (or www.TheNewAmerican.com 39 Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership thousands) of pages, with addi- as banning bent cucumbers (EU tional side agreements, amend- Regulation No 1677/88 specified ments, understandings, clarifica- that cucumbers must be “reason- tions, addendums, etc., and then ably well shaped and practically we’ll be subjected to a high-pres- straight” with a maximum height sure campaign to pass this con- of the arc being “10 mm per 10 coction so as not to jeopardize cm of the length of cucumber”) our opportunities to participate and bent bananas; mandating the in the supposed bonanzas it of- size of cigarette packages (down fers. Remember Nancy Pelosi’s to the millimeter); defining mar- infamous ObamaCare argument: malades and jams and how they “We have to pass it so we can may be packaged; banning olive find out what’s in it.” Expect oil cruets on restaurant tables; or- more of the same when TTIP is dering children to be restricted to finally unveiled. car seats until age 12; prosecuting Privileged “stakeholders” U.K. street vendors and grocers — representatives of business, (the “Metric Martyrs”) for using labor, and environmental groups traditional Imperial weights and — have been given inside seats measures instead of metric; regu- at the TTIP table. Despite all lating the width of tractor seats; the talk of transparency, the pro- and on and on. ceedings have been completely These untold thousands of opaque, with powerful insiders EU regulations on minutiae are and special interest groups exer- complemented by Brussels’ cising immense influence over the usurpation of authority over na- outcomes, which is precisely the AP Images tional fisheries, energy policy, standard operating procedure that Oil ban ruckus: Brussels stirred a row in May 2013 with a ban on taxation, and many other “big has exemplified the EU process. restaurants serving olive oil in cruets, a popular tradition throughout ticket” items — items such as Europe. Public outcry caused the EU bureaucrats to back off. freedom of speech. The EU’s What “Trade” Agreement? Monitoring Centre for Racism Tariffs on trade between the United States Regulatory overload is widely recog- and Xenophobia infamously has defined and the EU now average a mere four per- nized as a huge damper on the U.S. econ- opposition to the European single cur- cent, which is small compared to the dou- omy. A 2010 study for the federal Small rency as “monetary xenophobia.” An ble-digit tariffs that were applied into the Business Administration put the total even more notorious attack on freedom 1940s. So, why is it now such a suppos- annual compliance cost for all federal of expression came from the European edly urgent necessity to put the TTIP on regulations at $1.7 trillion. Obviously, Court of Justice’s (ECJ) Advocate Gen- the fast track? The Obama administration as we have pointed out in numerous ar- eral Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, who and its TTIP allies tell us that it is not the ticles in The New American, true regula- charged, in 2001, that British economist tariffs but the differences in regulations, tory reform should be a top political and Bernard Connolly’s critique of the euro standards, and laws that are impeding economic priority, and should entail the and the EU’s monetary integration was EU-U.S. trade and the jobs and prosper- elimination of destructive and unconsti- akin to “blasphemy,” and therefore not ity that an increase in transatlantic trade tutional federal regulations, as well as the protected speech. The ECJ ruled in the would bring. abolition of unconstitutional regulatory Connolly case that the European Com- agencies. However, no one mission could restrict dissent and punish who is even barely sentient individuals who “damaged the institu- Barroso stated that the TTIP is a can think that the dictocrats tion’s image and reputation.” The Euro- “demonstration of our determination to in Brussels and Washington pean Court of Human Rights has, among have any such solution in other outrages, overturned the British ban shape an open and rules-based world.” mind. on homosexuals in the armed forces and Yes, but if we are to go by the “rules- In case the reader may ordered crucifixes removed from all pub- be unaware, the unaccount- lic school classrooms in Italy. based” model imposed on the EU, we able, unelected Brussels With the above small sampling in mind, are talking about arbitrary international eurocracts have repeatedly imagine the gleeful havoc that the minions stirred outrage with ludi- of Barroso and Obama might wreak with rules that will be fashioned by faceless, crous mandates and pros- a TTIP that includes EU-style interven- unaccountable international rule-makers. ecutions on the most trivial tion in virtually all areas of public and and arcane of matters, such private life. Here is a list of the areas that

40 THE NEW AMERICAN • September 2, 2013 are being negotiated in the current round to government officials (led by the U.S. called pro-market groupings are actually of TTIP talks, as listed by the U.S. trade trade representative and the State, Trea- more concerned about carving out special representative’s website: sury, and Commerce Departments for the arrangements for themselves and initiat- United States), an assortment of corporate, ing “public-private partnerships” (PPPs) Agricultural Market Access, Com- industry, trade association, and NGO ac- that provide them with subsidies and tax petition, Cross-Border Services, tivist “stakeholders” have been assigned benefits. Customs and Trade Facilitation, special rights at the negotiating table. While many of the players in this sup- Electronic Commerce and Tele- These include the Sierra Club, Friends of posedly diverse cast will hold clashing communications, Energy and Raw the Earth, Public Citizen’s Global Trade opinions on a multitude of issues, they Materials, Environment Financial Watch, AFL-CIO, Consumer Federation tend to agree on the fundamental issue of Services, Government Procure- of America, Public Citizen’s Global Ac- EU-U.S. integration, and the follow-up ment, Intellectual Property Rights, cess to Medicines Program, and Center step of global integration and global gov- Investment, Labor, ... Rules of for Science in the Public Interest. These ernance, which is merely a euphemism for Origin, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Left/Progressive activist groups are heav- global government. The one side wants to (SPS) Measures, Sectoral Annexes/ ily funded by grants from governments, see a global regime that would enforce Regulatory Cooperation, Small- and corporations, and the major tax-exempt global environmental and social policy, Medium-Sized Enterprises, State- foundations, such as Rockefeller, Ford, while the other seeks the alleged benefits Owned Enterprises, Technical Bar- Soros, Gates, and Carnegie. of a global regime that would make regu- riers to Trade (TBT), Textiles, Trade These left-tilting groups are suppos- lations uniform and easier for business to Remedies edly balanced at the TTIP table by or- navigate. Both are willing to sacrifice na- ganizations that are usually described as tional sovereignty and all that goes with Socialists and Corporatists Together “pro-market,” such as the U.S. Chamber of it — the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitu- Although “we, the people” haven’t been Commerce, National Manufacturing As- tion, checks and balances, states’ rights — allowed in on the TTIP “process,” nor sociation, American Fuel & Petrochemical to obtain their goals. have we been allowed to have a copy of Manufacturers, Grocery Manufacturers The real powers behind the push for the the working draft of the TTIP, we can nev- Association, and the American Associa- TTIP are not the civil society stakeholders ertheless surmise quite a bit about what tion of Exporters & Importers. However, at the negotiation table; they are merely to expect in the final product by study- as the history of the EU, NAFTA, and a façade, a sideshow. The real force for ing the folks who are crafting this new other so-called free trade agreements the TTIP comes from a coterie of think transatlantic “relationship.” In addition (FTAs) demonstrates, many of these so- tanks and their associated multi-national banking and corporate cohorts, such as the Transatlantic Business Council, Busi- ness Coalition for Transatlantic Trade, Business Alliance for TTIP, Transatlantic Policy Network, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Brookings Institu- tion, Atlantic Council, Centre for Eco- nomic and Policy Research, and Peterson Institute for International Economics. Above these high-powered academic and corporate lobbies is yet another brain trust and guiding hand that has been leading the movement for the EU since the founding days of the ECSC in the 1950s, while also leading the movement for global government for much of the past century: the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its sister affiliates, most especially the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and the CFR’s recent creation, the Council of Councils

AP Images (CoC), which coordinates its affiliates in Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the Peterson Institute (PIIE) and chairman emeritus of the CFR, two dozen key countries. leads the push by banking and corporate interests for global political and economic merger The CFR’s importance in the creation of through sovereignty-destroying agreements disguised as trade pacts. the EU, the EU’s progressive integration

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 41 Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and expansion, and the current campaign Both men were principals in massive cor- and President Clinton’s ambassador to to bring the United States into this “wid- ruption scandals (Froman in the bailout of the EU. Chairman of the Atlantic Coun- ening and deepening” process, can hardly Citigroup, Hormats in PetroChina’s take- cil’s International Advisory Board is Brent be exaggerated. In fact, as Alex Newman over of Sudan’s oil). Scowcroft (CFR), former national security demonstrates in his article on page 16, The late Admiral Chester Ward was a advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford (CFR) the EU would not even exist without the longtime CFR member who became one and George H.W. Bush (CFR). Frederick machinations of CFR members, operating of its most notable critics. According to S. Kempe (CFR) is president and CEO of both in capacities as government officials Adm. Ward, the goal of the CFR’s leaders the Atlantic Council. and private individuals. The same holds is the “submergence of U.S. sovereignty At the Center for Transatlantic Rela- true today with regard to the TTIP. and national independence into an all- tions, Daniel Hamilton (CFR) serves as Heading up Team Obama’s official powerful one-world government.” James executive director. Over at Brookings, for- TTIP effort is U.S. Trade Representative Perloff’s definitive book on the CFR, The mer Clinton advisor Strobe Talbott (CFR) Michael Froman (CFR), who is described Shadows of Power: The Council on For- is president and John L. Thornton (CFR) in his official USTR bio as “President eign Relations and the American Decline, is chairman of the Board of Trustees. The Obama’s principal advisor, negotiator and together with numerous articles in this chairman of the Board of the Peterson In- spokesperson on international trade and magazine over the years, has shown Ad- stitute is Peter G. Peterson (CFR director investment issues.” Froman’s chief deputy miral Ward’s evaluation of the organiza- and former CFR chairman), and many of at USTR is Miriam Sapiro (CFR). Lead- tion to be spot-on. the institute’s scholars and directors are ing the effort with Froman is Undersec- The CFR leadership is currently en- also CFR members. The president and retary of State for Economic Growth, En- gaged in further validating the Ward-Per- CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is ergy, and the Environment (and longtime loff thesis with its all-out push for TTIP. Thomas J. Donohue (CFR). Bruce Stokes Washington insider) Robert D. Hormats The CFR’s highly influential journal For- (CFR) is director of Global Economic At- (CFR). Froman and Hormats have been eign Affairs has been busy for years lobby- titudes at the Pew Research Center and a busy for months lining up top-level sup- ing for TTIP support among public policy transatlantic fellow for economics at the port for TTIP in speeches before business, and business elites. One of its most recent German Marshall Fund. banking, and industry groups. They are offerings in this regard is a July 10 article, The list goes on and on, ad nauseam. both Wall Street insiders. Froman was a “Getting to Yes on Transatlantic Trade.” Clearly, Americans are in for an escalat- managing director at Citigroup, and also The CFR hands in the TTIP lobby are ing, non-stop propaganda deluge over the served as president and chief executive everywhere. Serving as co-chairman of next year, with the objective being to build officer of CitiInsurance before joining the the Transatlantic Business Council is sufficient support and momentum to ram Obama administration. Hormats was vice Stuart Eizenstat (CFR), President Jimmy the TTIP through Congress in 2014 or chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Carter’s chief domestic policy advisor 2015. n

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LAST WORD TTHEHE LAST WORD by Larry Greenley Preserve Your Rights: Stop the “Free Trade” Agenda

f you haven’t already done so, Legislative Action Tools please read this entire special Three legislative action tools are I report of The New American provided on the JBS.org website to learn more about what the de- for sending e-mail messages to ceptive free trade agenda is and your representative and sena- how it threatens our national in- tors in Congress in opposition dependence and personal rights. to (1) Trade Promotion Author- You’ll learn from this issue ity (aka fast-track authority); (2) that President Obama is currently the Trans-Pacific Partnership; and negotiating two super-sized free (3) the Transatlantic Trade and In- trade agreements: the Trans- vestment Partnership. You can ac- Pacific Partnership (TPP; see cess these legislative action tools page 33) and the Transatlantic by going to the “Choose Freedom Trade and Investment Partnership — STOP the Free Trade Agenda” (TTIP; see page 38). Congressio- action page on JBS.org and look- nal approval of these agreements ing under the heading “Take Ac- would put our nation on a path tion.” To contact your congress- toward economic and political men by phone or to visit one integration with certain Pacific of their offices in person, go to Rim nations and the European Union, respectively. A vote by https://www.votervoice.net/JBS/Address for contact information. Congress on approving the TPP is expected as early as late 2013 and a vote on the TTIP is expected in 2015. Activating the Grassroots in Your Area There’s also the related issue of Trade Promotion Author- To maximize your effectiveness, you should work with and ity (TPA; see page 30), also known as fast-track negotiating through a pre-existing constitutionalist group in your area, such authority. Since fast-track authority has played such a critical as a Tea Party group, a chapter of The John Birch Society, a role in expediting all of our free trade agreements through Campaign for Liberty group, a 9/12 Project group, etc. If you Congress over the past 25 years or so, it is virtually certain don’t have an active constitutionalist group in your area, work that a bill to reinstitute TPA will be introduced and voted with other like-minded people to start one. on by Congress before consideration of the TPP and TTIP You should hold educational meetings to inform members of agreements. your group and other conservative groups in your community Our goal is to prevent Congress from approving TPA (vote about the threat to our personal freedoms and national indepen- likely in the fall of 2013), the TPP (vote likely as early as late dence posed by the deceptive free trade agenda. Instruct them 2013), and the TTIP (vote likely as early as 2015). regarding how to contact their congressmen in opposition to (1) Your next step should be to learn how you can play a role in Trade Promotion Authority (TPA); (2) the Trans-Pacific Partner- preventing Congress from approving TPA, TPP, and TTIP. ship (TPP); and (3) the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Part- nership (TTIP). “Choose Freedom — STOP the Free Trade Agenda” Expand and intensify your education and action program until After you’ve read this special issue, the best way to learn more you are sure you have convinced your representative and sena- about the free trade agenda and how to stop it is to go the “Choose tors to vote against TPA, TPP, and TTIP, or until you are sure Freedom — STOP the Free Trade Agenda” action page on the that no amount of grassroots pressure will convince one or more John Birch Society website (JBS.org). This webpage provides a of them to vote against the free trade agenda. If the latter case brief statement of what this action project is about, a brief video applies to your area, organize to make the free trade agenda an overview, and “Learn More,” “Tell Others,” and “Take Action” issue in the next election and work to get anti-free trade agenda boxes with five links in each box for educational and action tools. candidates nominated and elected to Congress.

Educational Tools We Can and Must Win! Your initial set of educational tools are (1) this special report of We Americans have a precious heritage of God-given rights se- The New American magazine; (2) two trifold pamphlets (“Not- cured by our independent constitutional republic. We must not so-free Trade” and “What’s the Real Price of Free Trade?”); and allow the deceptive free trade agenda to destroy the lives of (3) two reprints (“Secretly Trading Away Our Independence” and freedom, security, and prosperity that our families and ancestors “Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secret Surrender of Sovereignty”). have enjoyed for over 220 years. Please join with us to block Other tools will be added as time goes on. approval of TPA, the TPP, and the TTIP! n

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