Rushford Report Archives

Rushford Report Archives - 2001

	December 2001 Cover Story From “Public Diplomacy” to Secret Intelligence: Why Uncle Sam is Lagging The War for Islamic Hearts and Minds Yankee Trader Uncle Sam takes Canada to the ($6 billion) woodshed Publius “Never trust a Catfish with a foreign accent” Players Protectionist Pigs of 2001 Mr. Koonce meets Mr. Zoellick — and quickly exits Fair trade coffee activists to Procter & Gamble: “Let’s kick your can”
	November 2001 Cover Story Special report: Is “fair-trade” coffee for real? HOW DO YOU TAKE YOUR LATTE: “FAIR TRADE,” OR “SWEATSHOP?” Yankee Trader What’s really going on in “fair-trade” retail outlets? And who is more secretive, the anti-globalist activists or the World Bank? Players America changed on Sept. 11. American protectionists did not. Since Sept. 11 U.S. officials talk free-trade. But do they walk the walk? Nobel prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta on the Leahy amendment restricting U.S.-Indonesian military ties: “Indonesia has changed.”
	October 2001 Cover Story Critics of the CIA should first point the finger at themselves... Why Was There No Warning? Yankee Trader Crises bring out the best in everyone. Well, not everyone in Congress. Publius Why did the CIA miss September 11? It’s more complicated than you’ve read. Players How Bush will get fast track (if he does). Is Treasury Sec. Paul O’Neill up to the job? The September 11 tragedy: “What’s in it for me?” The special interests get busy. Zoellick speaks out Bring the WTO to The Big Apple
	September 2001 Cover Story When private enterprise collides with national security... The Story of the U.S. (Self) Enrichment Corporation Yankee Trader President Tom Daschle? Publius Secretary of State Pat Leahy? Players It’s Groundhog Day for the U.S. steel lobby Indonesia to Zoellick: We want market access in clothing Australia to the United States: We want access to U.S. sugar markets Rainmaking World Bank Development Prospects
	August 2001 Cover Story Mr. Tung Comes to Washington Yankee Trader Things that the steel lobby doesn’t want you to know Publius The extraordinary U.S.-Vietnam trade bilateral: a matter of national security Players Looking to Doha: The business community finds its voice. But will the trade education continue? Mike Moore’s WTO “wise men”
	July 2001 Cover Story What would Mark Twain’s famous Connecticut Yankee think of present day Europe’s aversion to genetically modified food? THIS IS…POLITICALLY CORRECT LONDON Yankee Trader George W. Bush and the steel lobby: Is the fix in? Publius Watch the Bones: U.S. catfish farmers target Vietnamese “catfish” Players Anne Krueger to the IMF: Another victory for the steel lobby? The CEA’s L. Glenn Hubbard: No questions on free trade, please Grape Lobbying: Chile and Mexico show how it is done
	June 2001 Cover Story Rum Rumble Yankee Trader Zoellick's WTO compliance problem Publius Three mini-case studies: How the U.S. steel lobby, Hong Kong's C.H. Tung, and America's Motorola, Inc. pay for dumb PR Players The steel lobby goes after another honest woman Why U.S. steelmakers should love foreign steel Is Zoellick really in George W.'s inner circle? An influential business grouping dumps on "dumping" politics as usual
	May 2001 Cover Story The Summit of the Americas 2001... FEARS AND TEARS IN Quebec Yankee Trader The Senate Finance Committee’s untested leadership Publius Alan Greenspan gives senators a free-trade primer. Not all of them got it. Players Zoellick’s (WTO-illegal) backdoor banana deal U.S. business: Ambivalent about a new WTO Round Zoellick’s top team The South China Morning Post loses its editorial voice The Washington Post finds a “human rights” organization The costs of Sen. Byrd’s antidumping amendment
	April 2001 Cover Story In the Philippines, even big American multinationals can get shaken down... MUGGED IN MANILA Yankee Trader Bob Zoellick, Steel Warrior Publius Is Hong Kong becoming a backwater? Players Bob Lighthizer gets his woman “U.S. Steel Coalition” attacks Japan Bob Zoellick, Fair Trader Self-censorship in Hong Kong The ITC strings up steel wire rope producers
	March 2001 Cover Story Dumping on American farmers Yankee Trader Why Zoellick will succeed Publius Economics meets antidumping laws in a “bulletproof” case — and economics wins Players Hong Kong’s Tung Chee-hwa vs. Taiwan Bush re-nominates Thelma Askey to the ITC, steel lobby launches effort to kill the nomination Corporate America on labor and the environment: We’re “flexible” Rainmaking World Bank Development Prospects
	February 2001 Cover Story The U.S. steel lobby targets the World Trade Organization Yankee Trader George W. Bush’s uncertain trade transition Publius Commerce Secretary Don Evans expresses sympathy for steelmakers, U.S. oilmen ask, “What about us?” Players Matters of Principle: Hong Kong’s Anson Chan and Charlene Barshefsky Clinton expresses his “idealism” by firing the ITC’s Thelma Askey, hiring Dennis Devaney The USW’s 2001 trade agenda
	January 2001 Cover Story International pressures to sanction Burma intensify. Will they work? BASHING BURMA Yankee Trader How some of America’s biggest users of antidumping laws are accused of dumping dioxins on the Canadian Arctic Publius Protectionist Piggies of 2000 Players From beef, bananas, steel, Japan autos, to Airbus and Gats, what’s behind the last-minute flurry of activity at USTR? Rainmaking World Bank Development Prospects