Blocking the coming merger: Dr. Jerome Corsi, coauthor of the bestseller Unfit for Command, has written a valuable new book exposing the planned merger of the United States with Mexico and Canada.

The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., Los Angeles: World Ahead Media (a WND book), 2007, 241 pages, hardcover, $25.95

One of the most famous adages in the English language is, "You can't judge a book by its cover." This expression cautions us not to judge something based on what we may see on the surface, since what is on the inside or underneath may be very different. We should, therefore, take a closer or deeper look before deciding.

When the adage is used, it often has nothing to do with books. But it is sometimes used in reference to books, and it is certainly very apropos in the case of Dr. Jerome R. Corsi's latest work, The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, because the title of the book suggests a foregone conclusion: defeat.

"The Late Great USA" implies that our beloved America has already passed away and therefore can no longer be resuscitated. "The coming merger" too hints at inevitability.

But Jerome Corsi is not a defeatist. In fact, the title notwithstanding, he has written a hopeful book. From the get-go, he makes clear that the "coming merger" can be avoided if the American people are informed as to what the elitists are planning. "I believe that an informed American public will fight to retain American sovereignty, rejecting the globalist determination to merge the United States, Mexico, and Canada on the way to a borderless 'free trade' world," he writes in his foreword.

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Almost 200 pages later, in his conclusion, Corsi not only reiterates that America can still be saved but summarizes what informed Americans can and must do to retain American sovereignty: "Reject the SPP oppose the NAU, and say 'no' to NAFTA super corridors." Of course, Corsi's readers will know long before his concluding remarks that the "NAU" refers to the planned North American Union, and that "NAFTA" and "SPP" refer to the already-existing North American Free Trade Agreement and Security and Prosperity Partnership, both key parts of an unfolding plot to commit merger. And they will likely agree that rejecting the SPP opposing the NAU, and saying "no" to NAFTA--not just the super corridors but NAFTA itself--"are the steps we must take if we are to avoid a regional government along the lines of the European Union."

In fact, it is hard to imagine any reader who stays with Corsi through the entire book coming to any other conclusion. It is also hard to imagine many readers dropping by the wayside due to boredom or lack of interest. Corsi is a capable writer, and what he has to say is both interesting and important. "The argument made in The Late Great USA is that policy makers in the three nations and multinational corporations have placed the United States, Mexico, and Canada on a fast track to merge together economically and politically," he says in his foreword. From the foreword to his call to action at the end, he carefully and skillfully builds a compelling and convincing--and maddening!--case.

Before delving into the evidence showing that our political, academic, and corporate elitists are working to create a North American Union, Corsi first directs his readers' attention to the other side of the Atlantic, where the European elites have been "advancing step by step toward a united Europe"--even as these same elites, until recently at least, "studiously avoided suggesting their goal was to create a 'supra-government.'" But a supra-government of Europe was the goal all along. And as Corsi points out, "What began as a coal and steel agreement advanced to a common market and ended as a regional government--exactly as Jean Monnet [the father of what is now known as the European Union] wanted."

That regional government continues to amass power. But the EU has already acquired so much political and economic power over the once-independent nations of Europe that it no longer makes any sense for the elites to claim that their creation is not a supra-government. "Today, some 70 to 80 percent of the laws passed in Europe involve nothing more than rubber stamping regulations already written by nameless 'working group' bureaucrats in Brussels or Luxembourg," Corsi writes. "Virtually gone is the ability of European countries to set their own policy direction and the ultimate arbiter of justice is the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, not the highest court in each country."

But when the architecture was being put in place for a future European supra-government, the peoples of Europe were told time and again that the intent was something very different: creating a "Common Market" for the free flow of goods and services, resulting in more jobs and prosperity. It was a lie, pure and simple. In short, "free trade" was the bait, and European supra-government, including heavy regulation of the supposedly "free trade," was the hook.

A similar trap has been set on this side of the Atlantic, as Corsi makes abundantly clear. In chapter after chapter, Corsi builds an iron-clad case supported by irrefutable facts, including admissions from the architects planning the power grab. Corsi, for example, quotes Professor Robert Pastor, a key architect of the North American merger, as calling for a "North American Community" while claiming that the "Community" he envisions would not be a "North American Union." Semantics aside, Pastor's own words show that his envisioned "Community" would possess economic and governmental powers, and Corsi wisely quotes Pastor extensively to make the case. To cite one example, Pastor has called for a North American currency called the "amero," which would not be unlike the new European currency called the "euro." (Interestingly, the intermediate steps to the European Union included the European Economic Community and the European Community.)

Corsi demonstrates that NAFTA is not just a "free trade" agreement but the foundational framework for constructing, incrementally and through stealth, the North American Union. He shows that the Security and Prosperity Partnership, launched by President George W. Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in March of 2005, is part of the North American merger process, advanced through various SPP "working groups." He shows that these working groups, operating behind the scenes and in secret comprise a sort of SPP shadow government. This shadow government, operating without congressional approval or oversight, and without public awareness, will acquire more and more clout on the road to merger unless exposed and stopped. Corsi also documents the direct connection between the governmental SPP and the private Council on Foreign Relations, the most visible manifestation of the American Establishment, by quoting both CFR and SPP documents. The CFR elitists, his analysis shows, provided the blueprint for the SPP.

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A significant portion of Corsi's book is devoted to exposing the planned integration of the North American transportation system, commonly referred to by critics as the NAFTA Superhighway. The system would be comprised of a network of corridors designed for international trade. Massive quantities of Chinese goods would be shipped by truck and rail from Mexico across the border to inland "Smart Port" processing centers located deep in America's heartland.

Anyone who questions the existence of the plan to create these trade corridors, like anyone who questions the existence of the plan to create the North American Union, needs only to read Corsi's valuable book and to check out his documentation, much of it available online, to find out the threat is real and imminent.

This reviewer encourages you to get a copy of the book, to crack open the cover, and to dig deep.