| As UN Guterres Skips Davos
His Staff Call Him a Coward and ID
His Cronies After New Book
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UN GATE,
Jan 21 – As the UN moves in
2026 to pick a new Secretary
General, as its last one
Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukraine, Gaza and basic
transparency, a new book has
been published.
It is "United
Nations Betrayals: From
Election Stolen by Guterres to
Bribes and Banning of the
Press," by Matthew Russell Lee
(who quickly discloses that he
has been ousted and banned
from the UN by Guterres, for
his reporting).
On January
21 as Guterres citing a cold
skips any showdown in Davos,
this, from UN staff: "Dear
Matthew Russell Lee: UN staff
is most grateful for your work
to uncover corruption in
Guterres’ UN. Your article a
couple of days ago on the
shameful Sandi Arnold brings
light on two of the most
corrupt individuals in the
rotten UN system: Martha
Helena Lopez, ASG for Human
Resources, and Catherine
Pollard USG for Policy,
Management and Compliance.
Both are “HQ
rats” with little or no
knowledge of field dynamics as
their only goal is to stay for
as long as possible collecting
their fat salaries in New
York. The light sanction
imposed to Sandi Arnold
is a pattern. Remember the
“Sophocles case”, very minor
sanction for sexual
harassment? There is a pattern
of double standards, nepotism
and protection to those
working on mission support.
Every mission is full of
complaints and corruption,
from Colombia to Somalia, from
Libya to South Sudan, from
Kosovo to DRC. Yet long term
Catherine Pollard, Martha
Helena Lopez or arrogant swine
Athul Kare are in their posts
for decades while staff
suffer. The UN is an example
of mismanagement thanks to
them. Junior staff is being
fired on daily basis because
of lack of funds while these
corrupt Dinosaurs remain
collecting their fat salaries
and protecting their cronies.
Catherine Pollard, Atul Khare
and Martha Helena Lopez must
be held accountable.
And many
others.
A noted
by New York Magazine on Lee's
Maximum Maxwell book,
at times here he uses the
character Kurt Wheelock, who
first appeared in his
Predatory Bender.
The book
begins with Guterres beating
out female candidates for the
UNSG post, after a murky year
being paid by Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian Foundation. The
book digs into the bid by the
China Energy Fund Committee,
convicted of UN bribery, for
Gulbenkian's oil company.
Readers can draw their own
conclusion, including on the
need for SG campaign finance
disclosure in 2026.
Part of
the book in italics delves
into the UN Correspondents
Association and its efforts to
throw Lee out. They appear
again in the afterword /
novella, "Whacking Qaddafi,"
which was first mentioned in
the New Yorker magazine's Talk of
the Town piece about
Lee. It addresses more
countries: from India to
Pakistan, Guinea to Guinea
Bissau.
The main
text addresses UN failures in
Sri Lanka - including the UNCA
connection - Cameroon, Western
Sahara, Syria, North Korea,
Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere. UN
Betrayals indeed - this should
be the first of a series.
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