The U.N.’s Man of Mystery
Is the godfather of the Kyoto treaty a public servant or a profiteer?
Tongsun Park
Call It the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Dictatorships
With Zimbabwe elected Friday to chair the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, we now have the latest poster-child for the usual U.N. Orwellian abuse of the noble mandate, glorio...
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At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong
Before the United Nations can save the planet, it needs to clean up its own house. And as scandal after scandal has unfolded over the past decade, from Oil for Food to procurement fraud to peacek...
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UNder the Law
In what surely qualifies as the single-most-promising United Nations reform effort to date, federal prosecutors in New York, jointly with the New York District Attorney, have just announced the i...
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Plunder Down Under
At United Nations headquarters, Secretary General Kofi Annan likes to imply that the Oil-for-Food era is over (“If there was a scandal” was his locution earlier this year). But Down U...
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After Annan
Authored by Velykhan Velshi Kofi Annan's tenure as UN Secretary General will finish at the end of the year. His legacy will be one of scandal and failure. The UN peacekeepi...
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Will the UN Pick Another Crook?
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Kofi Annan's tenure as UN Secretary General will finish at the end of the year. His legacy will be one of scandal and failure. The UN peacekeepin...
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Central Park
While the United Nations frames its next response to crisis in the Middle East, its last grand venture in that region -- Oil for Food -- has finally resulted in a guilty verdict in open court. La...
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Guilty!
Oil-for-Food has had its first airing in federal court, and the verdict is in. South Korean businessman Tongsun Park was accused of conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein�...
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No Free Parking
The United Nations keeps promising transparency. But for a real window on the U.N., skip the pronouncements of Turtle Bay. The better place to look right now is the federal courtroom in lower Man...
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The U.N.’s Day in Court
While United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has already dismissed the Oil-for-Food scandal as over and done, within the wood-paneled walls of a Manhattan courtroom it has just come to life....
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Strong Implications
What the Park arrest portends.
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The Buck Still Hasn’t Stopped
From the October 3, 2005 issue: The Volcker report on Oil-for-Food is sadly incomplete.
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U.N. Secretary-General’s Brother Kobina Annan May Have Played a Role in Oil-for-Food Scandal
To the cast of characters caught up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, investigators have reportedly added another name, that of the secretary-general's brother, Kobina Annan. That m...
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U.N. Mystery Man: Who Is Jean-Bernard Merimee and What’s His Oil-for-Food Tie?
As investigations proliferate into the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, one of the more intriguing mysteries involves a former French diplomat with a direct link to the U.N.’s executive...
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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...
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Rohrabacher To Probe Role Of French Bank
Rohrabacher To Probe Role Of French Bank Next up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is a trip down the money trail, by way of the French bank tapped by the United Nations - in cahoots with Saddam H...
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Stale Kofi
Yet more scandal at the United Nations? Secret deals, millions in bribes, leading to billions in global kickbacks? What to do? Have no fear, reform is here. The United Nations has alread...
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Canadian Tycoon Could Assist In U.N. Probe
Who are the two mysterious high-ranking U.N. officials fingered in one of the latest indictments of the oil-for-food scandal? The indictment, issued last Thursday, doesn't give the...