Rosset takes on the Messengers for Peace program, not George Clooney

Posted on January 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk

Claudia Rosset comments: “As Hollywood buffs and UN money-raisers already know, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has just named actor George Clooney as the UN’s newest Messenger of Peace, with a ’special focus on UN peacekeeping’. Clooney, currently visiting Sudan, is expected to ‘receive his designation’ Jan. 31st at UN headquarters in New York … The UN ‘Messengers of Peace’ program was set up by Kofi Annan, whose talents deserve to be remembered in the context of Oil-for-Food, genocide in Rwanda, massacre at Srebenica, and endless ways of finagling more money for the murky UN system … not peace for the planet. The UN web page for ‘Messengers of Peac’” tells us (highlighting is mine) the messengers ‘volunteer their time, talent and passion to raise awareness of United Nations’ efforts to improve the lives of billions of people everywhere’. Is that really what the UN does? Improve the lives of billions? … Or does it use billions to improve the lives of select UN special interests…” Rosset blogs here here.

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