| On Taiwan as
5 US Reps Visit UN Guterres Bans Taiwanese
From UN, Belt and Roadkill Exposes His UN
Corruption
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Book
NEW YORK CITY,
Nov 26 –
How can a powerful country
intimidate anothers' elected
officials, or try to, while
entirely silencing the United
Nations? On Taiwan,
undeterred, these first
Congressmembers went to visit:
Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a
Michigan Democrat, House
Veterans' Affairs Chairman
Mark Takano, a California
Democrat, Reps. Colin
Allred, a Texas Democrat,
Nancy Mace, a South Carolina
Republican, and Sara Jacobs, a
California Democrat.
Meanwhile
the UN of Antonio Guterres
bans not only Inner City Press
(1340 days) but any journalist
from Taiwan from entering the
UN. And the so-called United
Nations Correspondents
Association (UNCA), with
Chinese state media on its
unopposed, clear slate
executive committee, says
nothing. Today's UN is
corrupt.
What is a novel?
How long should it be? How
corrupt is the United Nations?
What is the line between real
world injustice and fiction,
black comedy?
A just published
novella, "Belt and
Roadkill," raises these
questions.
The corruption of
the UN, its documented
domination by China as
evidenced by two recent
real-world bribery
prosecutions in the U.S.
District Court of the Southern
District of New York, are the
soil or message of the text.
But the meta questions about
what is a novel(la) is raised
by its form and length. (It is
available, first on Kindle, here).
Earlier this
month Parul Sehgal in The New
Yorker bemoaned the
democratization of literature,
or content, by Amazon and
Kindle Direct Publishing. But
who are the gatekeepers? Who
should they be?
The author of
Belt and Roadkill, years ago,
was on the threshold of elite
/ elitist publishing, summoned
to a venerable firm on Union
Square in Manhattan and told
that if only the actual names
of Citigroup's predatory
lenders could be dropped, it
might be possible to move
forward.
But aren't public
figures open to satire,
without danger of libel
lawsuits?
Aren't those
Predatory Benders who
foreclose on thousands of
homes just targets, like those
at the UN who cover up
hundreds of rapes by
peacekeepers, and ten thousand
Haitians killed by cholera, as
only two examples?
Belt and
Roadkill does not mention
Haiti, even once. It does,
however, name-check Cameroon
and Western Sahara, Huawei and
the January 6, 2021
insurrection, breach or
protest, whatever your
politics.
Let a
hundred flowers bloom, as Mao
said before moving to cut them
down. There will be
more.
[Belt and Roadkill: A Story of
Dis-United Nations, by Matthew Russell
Lee, Inner City Press is on Kindle,
and by paperback soon.]
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