North American Union/Articles & Commentary 2005

The following are articles & commentary for 2005 related to the main article North American Union.

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January

• Steven Yates, "'Taking the red pill'. The Real Matrix," Freedom.org, January 2005. (7-part series published in 2004).

February

• "NAFTA railway nears completion," Railway Age (FindArticles.com), February 2005.
• "Homeland Security: Establishment and Implementation of the United States Northern Command" prepared by Scott Shepherd and Steve Bowman, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, The Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, Updated February 10, 2005.

March

• "FBI chief warns of aliens from al-Qaida-tied nations. Illegals 1st get false identity in Brazil, then enter Mexico, cross U.S. border," WorldNetDaily, March 8, 2006.
• Press Release: "Trinational Call for a North American Economic and Security Community by 2010," Council on Foreign Relations, March 14, 2005.
• Timmy the G, "Annexation by degrees," Voice in the Wilderness Blogspot, March 14, 2005.
• Beth Gorham, "Task force urges creation of 'Fortress America'. Increase police, security co-operation, create common external tariff," Canadian Press (InfoWars.com), March 14, 2005.
• Alice Lipowicz, "Panel calls for secured border perimeter with U.S., Canada, Mexico," PostNewsweek Tech Media (GCN.com), March 14, 2005.
• "Task force urges 'North American community' (with a 'common security perimeter')," The Globe and Mail (Canada), March 14, 2005.
• "PNAC/neocon front group pushing tri-national ID on 9/11 corpses," Total911.info, March 15, 2005. re Coalition for a Secure Driver's License
• Press Release: "Trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership Will Boost Jobs and Investment, Say Canada's CEOs," Canadian Council of Chief Executives, March 23, 2005.
• John P. Manley, Pedro Aspe, and William F. Weld, "North America the Beautiful," Wall Street Journal (Council on Foreign Relations), March 23, 2005.

April

• José Luis Alberro, "A US-Mexico Partnership in Energy: A Policy of Convenience," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Mexico Institute/U.S.-Mexico Policy Bulletin Issue 4, April 2005.
• "Kansas City Southern de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. Overview," Kansas City Southern (KCSI.com), April 2005.
• Christopher G. Adamo, "Ominous Rumblings Of A 'North American Union'," ConservativeTruth.org, April 25, 2005.

May

• Steven Yates, "Scuttling Bad Trade Agreements," NewsWithViews, May 6, 2005.
• Phyllis Spivey, "Trade Agreements: Origins & Tactics," NewsWithViews, May 11, 2005.
• Robert C. Bonner, Remarks at the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Kansas City, Missouri, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, May 16, 2005.
• Larry Fine, "Experts call for common North America border," Reuters (InfoWars.com), May 17, 2005.
• Suzanne Presto, "Panel Urges Greater North American Integration," Voice of America News, May 18, 2005.
• José Carreño, "Mexico and U.S. put 'Security Perimeter' on fast-track," MEXIDATA.INFO, May 20, 2005.

June

• Steven Zahniser, "North America Moves Toward One Market," AmberWaves/U.S. Department of Agriculture, June 2005.
• Ricardo Castillo Mireles, "Across the border: NAFTA Rail finally leaves the station," Logistics Today, June 2005.
• Mariana Castillo, "Security, immigration linked," San Antonio Express-News, June 5, 2005.
• Ron Paul, "CAFTA: More Bureaucracy, Less Free Trade," Official U.S. House of Representatives website, June 6, 2005. CAFTA "is unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly grants Congress alone the authority to regulate international trade."
• Phyllis Spivey, "Internationalizing Roads," NewsWithViews, June 10, 2005.
• Douglas S. Massey, Executive Summary: "Backfire at the Border: Why Enforcement without Legalization Cannot Stop Illegal Immigration," Trade Policy Analysis, June 13, 2005. Also see 16-page pdf Report.
• Charlie Norwood, Press Release: "CATO Study Confirms Troops on the Border as the Only Workable Means of Preserving U.S. Sovereignty," Official U.S. House of Representatives website, June 21, 2005.
• Phyllis Schlafly, "CAFTA Should Be Rejected Just Like The EU Constitution," Eagle Forum, June 29, 2005.
• Jim Abrams, "Senate panel narrowly endorses CAFTA," Associated Press (Billings Gazette), June 29, 2005.
• "CAFTA's Threats to U.S. Independence," STOPFTAA, (Free Republic), June 30, 2005.

July

• Phyllis Schlafly, "The Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada," Eagle Forum, July 5, 2005.
• Phyllis Schlafly, "CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada," Eagle Forum, July 13, 2005.
• Deanna Spingola, "Building a North American community, the selling of America," RenewAmerica, July 15, 2005.
• Tom Tancredo, Commentary: "CAFTA undermines immigration laws," North County Times (California), July 17, 2005: "Congress will soon take up the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which many see as an extension of NAFTA and a precursor to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas that would convert all of North and South America into one integrated market." (re Free Trade Area of the Americas)
• Bill Graves, "Good Reasons To Reject CAFTA," The Daily Oklahoman (Free Republic), July 18, 2005: "With CAFTA, as with its membership in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, America will surrender more of its sovereignty as a nation and its states' rights to outside tribunals."
• Joseph Farah, "Merger with Mexico," WorldNetDaily, July 20, 2005.

August

• Steven Yates, "The CAFTA Loss—and Beyond," NewsWithViews, August 14, 2005.
• Diane Lindquist, "Mexico plans an alternative to the jammed docks in L.A., Long Beach," San Diego Union-Tribune, August 14, 2005.
• Steven Yates, "The Globalists' Best Friend: Americans' Ignorance," NewsWithViews, August 21, 2005.
• Miguel Pickard, "Trinational Elites Map North American Future in 'NAFTA Plus'," Americas Program International Relations Center, August 24, 2005.

September

• Philippe Lagassé and Joel J. Sokolsky, "Suspenders and a Belt: Perimeter and Border Security in U.S.-Canada Relations," Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 4, 2005.
• Steven Yates, "Free Trade: The Myth & the Reality," NewsWithViews, September 12, 2005.

October

• William F. Jasper, "Abolishing the USA?" The New American, October 3, 2005.
• "Government of Canada Reports Progress on Regulatory Renewal," Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, October 28, 2005.

November

• Connie Fogal, "The Metamorphosis and the sabotage of Canada by our own government, written in three parts," Canadian Action Party, November 2005.
• Stuart Trew, "NAFTA à la Maude. Maude Barlow on Deep Integration," Ottawa XPress, November 3, 2005.
• Robert L. Dacy, "Texas: Keystone State of the FTAA," The New American, November 14, 2005.
• Jon Dougherty, "Lawmaker: Terror war spilling across border. Concern rising following arrest of al-Qaida suspect in Mexico," WorldNetDaily, November 16, 2005.
• Steven Yates, "Erasing America," NewsWithViews, November 23, 2005.

December

• Pierre Hillard, "Building a North American Community," Voltaire.net, December 14, 2005. This article was first published in Balkans Infos.