Laura Carlsen | Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)

About every six months or so, the media provide a fleeting show of North American unity. Whether on the shores of the Mexican Caribbean, the forests of Quebec, or the hurricane-torn streets of New Orleans, the script is pretty much the same. It includes a lot of back-slapping and almost no public information.

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By Gabriela Rico | Arizona Daily Star

It is a steel and concrete corridor that will run right through the Old Pueblo, connecting Mexico City to Edmonton, Alberta.

Its purpose is to facilitate trade among the three countries and minimize traffic and congestion for residents.

Or is it evidence of a move afoot to intertwine the three North American countries and blur the lines of sovereignty?
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The Phyliss Schlafly Report

Has George III Returned? 
It's a good thing that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's U.S. visit was upstaged by the dramatic reception Americans gave Pope Benedict XVI. Brown might have been booed if he hadn't delivered what aides called his "signature" speech within the cloistered walls of Harvard's Kennedy Center.

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Barack Obama: I will repair our relationship with Mexico

I will repair the strained relationship with our southern neighbor

Under George W. Bush, the United States has not lived up to its historic role as a leader in the Western Hemisphere.
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OTTAWA, /CNW Telbec/ - Maude Barlow, David Suzuki, Ken Georgetti,
Maher Arar and Monia Mazigh are sending Prime Minister Stephen Harper a letter
today demanding that his upcoming Throne Speech include a commitment to submitread more »

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The Teamsters Union is asking a federal appeals court in San Francisco to block the Bush administration's plan to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States. Federal officials say the lawsuit is without merit.read more »

By Kimball Cariou

The media spotlight will shine on Montebello, Quebec, when George W. Bush, Stephen Harper, and Felipe Calderon meet Aug. 20-21 for the third annual summit of North American leaders. But their real business has been taking place behind closed doors, away from the eyes of the 450 million inhabitants of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

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By Rodrigue Tremblay | Online Journal Guest Writer

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by Stephen Lendman

Besides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington. That's the apparent aim of those in power here wanting one continent, "indivisible" minus old-fashioned ideas like "liberty and justice for all" we used to believe in when, as kids, we recited our "Pledge of Allegiance." They now have a whole new meaning. They're just words drummed into young minds hoping they'll still believe them when they're old enough to know better.

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