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Clinton’s Fair-Trade Fraud

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PRESIDENT CLINTON prides himself on calling for “free and fair trade” with foreigners every chance he gets. However, what is the Clinton administration’s idea of fair trade? Few things better illustrate the political corruption of the idea of fairness than the abuses of the U.S. anti-dumping laws. Clinton’s Commerce Department found pretexts to condemn foreigners for unfair trade in 98 percent of the dumping cases filed against foreign companies, ranging from Chilean salmon to Chinese pencils and paper clips, to Romanian steel pipes, to Italian pasta, to Taiwanese roofing nails, to German printing presses, to Indonesian mushrooms. These rulings effectively locked hundreds of foreign companies out of the American market and damaged the competitiveness of American manufacturers who needed foreign inputs and raw materials. In 1999, U.S. anti-dumping laws became a major source of international conflict. Many foreign nations protested that the U.S. government perennially prohibited imports on the flimsiest of pretexts. Clinton, in an interview on the eve of the ...

CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “The C.I.A. and Iran”

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"Remember back in 1979 when the Iranians under Ayatollah Khomeini took over the U.S. embassy and held U.S. diplomatic personnel hostage? Remember how our government portrayed the Iranians as horrible devils and the U.S. officials as innocent angels? Well, the front page of last Sunday's New York Times had a full-length expose of what the U.S. government did in 1953 to precipitate what the Iranian people did 26 years later. Although the CIA, by its own admission, has destroyed many of its documents relating to its coup that put the Shah of Iran in power, a secret history of the CIA's role in the sordid affair turned up in the offices of the Times. The history was written by Dr. Donald L. Wilber, the CIA's chief coup planner. (For years, the CIA has maintained that release of ...

Terrorism, War, and Crises

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The American people survived the threat of terrorist attacks during the millennial celebrations. But fear was definitely in the air. Seattle canceled its celebration after a man was arrested at the Canadian border with bomb-making materials. New York City sealed its manhole covers in Times Square and flooded the streets with cops. Throughout December, the television talk shows featured what seemed like an endless parade of terrorism experts to talk about the threat that Americans faced. And, of course, the U.S. government, with its daily terrorism advisories, investigations, press conferences, and rumor-mongering, continued to be the driving force behind all the terrorism hysteria. Faced with the threat of both terrorism and Y2K, millions of Americans decided to play it safe and sit out New Year's Eve at home. Throughout all the hype and hysteria, U.S. government officials behaved as if they were innocent babes threatened by people who simply have an overwhelming desire to kill Americans for no good reason ...