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Shuai UN Guterres Has Not Comments As Belt
and Roadkill Exposes His Pro China
Corruption
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Book
NEW YORK CITY,
Nov 25 – How corrupt is China,
and today's UN under Antonio
Guterres which backs China up?
On November 18, Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
was asked: "There's a lot of
concern around the world about
a missing Chinese tennis
player, and there are
questions about the email that
she may have sent or may have
been fabricated. Does…
is the Secretary‑General
joining all of those who are
concerned about the
whereabouts of this tennis
player and urging for there to
be proper proof that she's
safe and well? "
Duarric for
Guterres said, " I don't have
any comment on this at this
particular moment."
And he hasn't since. There is
nothing China could do to
trigger Guterres critique, and
Guterres ruthlessly wants to
keep the Press that asked
banned from "his" UN. But it
is not his. Or if it is, it is
worthless.
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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