Say, waiter, wheres the blood on my margarita glass?
January 11, 2005 The new year promises a rich manure of hypocrisy and bad faith. Take the current tumult here in the United States about the U.N. high command and the oil-for-food imbroglio, which right-wing columnists are gnawing on with relish. There are no good guys here, just vistas of corruption and bad faith stretching into the distance. Certainly, weep not for Kofi Annan, whose servility toward the imperatives of Empire was comically revealed in the very same press conference where a pertinacious journalist extorted from the reluctant secretary general the grudging admission that the war on Iraq was illegal. Later on, Annan offhandedly invoked “our allies,” a term that should be alien to the lips of any U.N. secretary general but that accurately reflects political realities. The private dealings of the Annan family may well be fragrant with corruption, but it’s hard to get too excited about alleged skims off the oil-for-food deals against so vivid a backdrop as hundreds of thous
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