A Return to Transparent Safeguards Reporting
Briefing at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Material Management (INMM)
Secretariat
UN Oil-for-Food Program
Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Committtee, I thank you for the opportunity to testify here today. Speaking as a journalist, I would like to tell you that when I fir...
Congressional Testimonies
The Courtier to Annan
Not so long ago, Kofi Annan was up to his ears in the Oil for Food scandal, and his legacy as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations was on its way down the drain. He was ducking que...
Op-eds
Who’s Dissin’ Whom
As Israel fights to defend itself against the Iranian-and-Syrian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah, are we really seeing a reckless, damaging and — yes — disproportionate response?...
Op-eds
How Corrupt is the United Nations?
Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals at the United Nations, of which the wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq has been only the most visible. We still do not...
Op-eds
Strong Implications
What the Park arrest portends.
Op-eds
The Blow-Up
Annan insults and distracts.
Op-eds
New U.N. Scheme: Alliance of Civilizations
Co-authored by: George Russell NEW YORK — After the epic disaster of Oil for Food, one might imagine the United Nations would tread carefully before launching any ne...
Op-eds
U.N.-Plugged; Imagining the End of the “World” as We Know It
On Monday afternoon the electrical power blew out at U.N. headquarters, forcing the secretary-general and the foreign ministers of four of the world's most powerful nations, along wi...
Op-eds
All the Secretary-General’s Men: the Tangled Web of U.N. Cronyism
Reforming the United Nations is a tall order at the best of times. Today it stands no chance at all unless it starts by removing the network that during Kofi Annan's more than seven years as...
Op-eds
Another Scandal Corner
The big bucks overlooked in Oil-for-Food.
Op-eds
“Hell, No”– He’s Not Exonerated
Kofi Annan and the Oil-for-Food investigation.
Op-eds
Kofi Annan’s Silence
On February 3, the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, issued its first interim report. Volcker's most lurid...
Op-eds
Volcker’s Report Raises Questions of U.N.’s Role
The interim report on the United Nations' scandal-wracked oil-for-food program is due to be released tomorrow, according to the U.N.-authorized Independent Inquiry Committee, led by a former...
Op-eds
Blue: The Next Orange? Forget Reform. The U.N. Needs Regime Change
The advance of liberty and its attendant institutions can be a rough business, provoking stiff resistance by those who find their interests most threatened: the dictators, cronies and retinues of...
Op-eds
Secretary and Son
Kofi Annan Isn't Kojo's Keeper, But He Can't Shirk Responsibility For the U.N.
Op-eds
Come Clean, Kofi
With estimates soaring of graft and fraud under the United Nations Oil for Food program in Iraq, we are hearing a lot about the need to "get to the bottom" of this scandal, the biggest ever to hi...
Op-eds
“Conflicts-of-Interest-R-Us”
Kofi Annan Uses the Iraqi People's Money to Investigate the Oil-for-Food
Op-eds
Saddam’s Sugar Daddy
CIA chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer may not have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but he sure found information enough to blow the lid off the simmering scandal of the United Na...
Op-eds
What’s ‘Illegal’? Kofi Annan Helped Saddam Hussein Steal Food From Babies
When U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan opined last week to the BBC that the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein had been "illegal," two words came instantly to my mind: baby food. No, I...