ABSTRACT
I was sitting at my computer one day in the summer of 1995, skimming through the e-mail traffic and looking for items of interest. I came upon a message urging support for the repeal of NAFTA. Since I had been involved in local opposition to NAFTA, and was about to publish an article on the NAFTA debate in the US, this message caught my attention and I took a closer look. It had been cross-posted over several left-progressive lists until it had arrived at one to which I was subscribed. But I was surprised to find that, despite my experience of anti-NAFTA activism and my research in this area, I had never heard of the organization from which this message originated. Who was the Liberty Lobby and why did they oppose NAFTA? And how was it that the Liberty Lobby was originating anti-NAFTA messages which were being actively circulated through various left-progressive communities where the Lobby itself was little known? I had struck the tip of an iceberg, but didn’t yet realize what was just beneath the surface.
