More than $580,000,000,000!  That's Fingleton's latest forecast for America's total trade deficit in 2004. Click here to see how huge that number really is.

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Links of Interest To add your organization to the list, please contact Eamonn Fingleton. James Fallows' Home Page http://www.jamesfallows.com The website of the author of Looking at the Sun, the ultimate guide to Japanese economics. Japan Policy Research Institute http://www.jpri.org Professor Chalmers Johnson's forum on Japan issues, including occasionally issues of concern to American economic nationalists. United Steelworkers of America http://www.uswa.org One of the staunchest and most effective labor unions in fighting globalism. National Research Center for Coal And Energy http://www.nrcce.wvu.edu Focuses on the continuing primacy of manufacturing as the driver of future prosperity. American Steel Industry http://www.steel.org The website of the American Iron and Steel Institute, long-time fighter for fair trade in steel. The American Prospect http://www.prospect.org Among prominent publications, The American Prospect is virtually alone in subjecting globalism to reality checking. Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/chinaed.html HRW executive director Kenneth Roth's devastating analysis of the human rights pitfalls of "constructive engagement" -a.k.a. free trade -- with China. AFL-CIO's review of NAFTA http://www.aflcio.org/news/2001/0419_ftaa.htm AFL-CIO exposes NAFTA's role in destroying jobs and flouting workers' rights. Trading Away Rights http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/nafta/ This is the title of a devastating report by Human Rights Watch on how NAFTA has failed to live it to its promises on workers' rights. Senator Ernest Hollings's Home Page http://www.senate.gov/~hollings/ The website of one of America's most determined and resourceful opponents of mindless globalism. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's Home Page http://www.house.gov/kaptur/index.shtml Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is a fearless advocate of fair trade. Public Citizen http://www.publiccitizen.org Founded by Ralph Nader, Public Citizen fights money politics and sponsors Global Trade Watch, one of the most active and effective opponents of globalism. Global Trade Watch http://www.tradewatch.org Sponsored by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen and directed by Lori Wallich, Global Trade Watch organizes peaceful protests against the WTO. Friends of the Earth trade website http://www.foe.org/international/trade Focus of Friends of the Earth's environmentally-minded agitation against the WTO and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Center for Economic and Policy Research http://www.cepr.net A sharp eye on globalism and other nonsense. AFL-CIO committee on manufacturing http://www.aflcio.org/manufacturing The voice of American labor on the manufacturing crisis. American Jobs http://www.americanjobsfilm.com/ Greg Spotts is the first filmmaker to produce a documentary on the problems created by outsourcing and one-way "free trade." Susan Tolchin http://www.gmu.edu/departments/t-icp/course/syllabi/99fa/701-002.htm Susan Tolchin was one of the first experts to point out how America's trade problems were increasing foreign ownership of the American economy. Her 1980s book "Buying into America" is still an excellent read. Economy in Crisis http://www.economyincrisis.com/ A site launched by concerned citizens in the Mid-West which focuses on the collapse of American manufacturing and the consequent problems for jobs and national security.