Calling the shots on the EU & NAFTA.

ITEM: The June 18 Associated Press reported." "European Union leaders agreed Friday on the first constitution for the reunited continent, overcoming disputes about power-sharing, national sovereignty and even whether God deserved a mention, officials said." AP added, "The constitution aims to streamline the EU's complex institutions and boost its image on the world stage by creating an EU foreign minister: Fearing gridlock in the expanded club, the document also aims to curb areas where individual countries can veto decisions."

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Many Europeans are now awakening to the designs of their leaders, realizing that the "Common Market" agreement sold to them years ago is now metastasizing into a full-blown, socialist regional government.

In our April 10, 1989 article entitled "United States of Europe," we noted that "the first concrete step forward in the plan for abolition of the European nation-states came in 1951 with the signing of the treaty creating the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)," which was authored by the "Father of Europe," Jean Monnet. The ECSC became the even more powerful European Community (EC)--which, we observed, "was clearly designed to lead nations into a suicidal merger."

We then forewarned of the EC's intention to admit former satellite nations of the Soviet Union (Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.) into the agreement. The EC has now been transformed into the European Union, with 25 members states, a parliament, a central batik, and a court.

In our May 7, 1991 follow-up, "A European Suprastate," we noted that "what we are looking at in the EC is a miniature new world order, which economically and politically is planned to be very much in the Soviet mold." This is indeed happening right before our eyes.

ITEM: "After the highest court in Massachusetts ruled against a Canadian real estate company and after the United States Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal, the company's day in court was over. Or so thought Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Massachusetts court, until she learned of yet another layer of judicial review, by an international tribunal." So reported an April 18 New York Times article tellingly headlined "NAFTA Tribunals Stir U.S. Worries."

The Times interviewed Abner Mikva, a former chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington and a former congressman, concerning another case in Mississippi. Mikva is "one of the three NAFTA judges considering the Mississippi case." "He declined to discuss it," stated the Times "but did offer his perspective on Chapter 11 [of the NAFTA agreement]. 'If Congress had known that there was anything like this in NAFTA,' [Mikva] said, 'they' would never have voted for it.'"

"There are grave implications here," Chief Justice Ronald M. George of the California Supreme Court told the Times. "It's rather shocking that the highest courts of the state and federal governments could have their judgments circumvented by these tribunals."

The Times, with uncharacteristic frankness, added: "The availability of this additional layer of review, above even the United States Supreme Court, is a significant development ... [in that] the tribunals have the potential to upset the settled American constitutional order."

"It's basically been under the radar screen," Peter Spiro, a law professor at Hofstra University, nonchalantly told the Times. "But it points to a fundamental reorientation of our constitutional system. You have an international tribunal essentially reviewing American court judgments."

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Unlike the "All-the-News-that-Fits" major media, not only did we at THE NEW AMERICAN and the John Birch Society know about this stealth bomber against national independence flying "under the radar screen," we were sounding the alarm about what it would do to our country.

As far back as our August 13, 1991 issue, we warned: "George Bush [the elder] has no more intention [of establishing free trade] than his Trilateral allies in Europe.... But free trade rhetoric is the perfect cover. What George Bush really intends to do is to first consolidate the northern portion of the western hemisphere, then add the southern...." Subsequently, in article after article in 1992 we exposed NAFTA's "free trade" Trojan horse nature.

In our September 21, 1992 issue, we again warned, "Nowhere, sad to say, do any of the mass media's experts even hint that NAFFA amounts to another step toward George Bush's 'new world order.' The chief principle being ignored here is that economic union precedes political union. And the treaty is a giant step toward an economic union of all North America. The North American Free Trade Agreement in reality has little to do with free trade and a great deal to do with economic consolidation and eventual political union."

More than a decade before the Times admitted the truth, we warned that NAFTA would not only have "the potential to upset the settled American constitutional order," but would begin overriding our nation's Constitution. Hemispheric political union is exactly what the United States would be absorbed into if the FTAA is carried through to completion.