- It’s time! It’s long past time to terminate NAFTA. We all know that the free trade agreement has vastly increased poverty in Mexico, helped create a dangerous level of unemployment in the US, and lost Canada valuable manufacturing jobs. Ross Perot predicted “a giant sucking sound.” Many of us campaigned hard against Bill Clinton’s pressure to pass NAFTA. The Zapatistas rebelled on 1/1/94, the first day the trade agreement went into effect.
- Here at home NAFTA’s undemocratic leadership and judicial system is only one of many reasons we are in danger of losing our democracy. Maybe we’ve lost it already. Who chooses our representatives in Washington – the people or the corporations? Who chooses our health care system? Who our defenses? Who our mainstream media? Are we already a plutocracy? How can we, who work in solidarity with the peoples of Latin America, best answer their request for us to work at home to stop the US interference and domination?
- Now available free! My book, Cancer in the Body Politic: Diagnosis and Prescription for an America in Decline. In 95 pages it analyzes the symptoms and signs of illness in this country, suggests a set of standards by which to judge it, diagnoses and lays out a therapeutic regimen. From the last paragraph: Recent events make it even more clear that we need emergency measures, including major surgery, to save the life of this now quasi-Republic. In order to cure and rehabilitate Patient USA we need to adopt all the measures recommended in previous chapters. To turn around this radical swing to the right in America, we will need all the brain power and bravery of the first American war for independence and all the dreams of the early American leaders. But if we can succeed, literally all the people and the world will rejoice. To order, please send a label with your name and address plus $2 to cover postage to 57 S Main St. Pittsford, NY 14534.