| UN
Western Sahara
Scandal Ripped
Off by Colum
Lynch from
Inner City
Press 2021
Scoop
by
Matthew Russell Lee
UN GATE, May 11 –
How
corrupt are
United Nations
officials and
the
correspondents
who cover (up
for) them
today?
On
May 9, a
long-time UN
insider named
Colum Lynch,
who has
bounced from
the Washington
Post to
Foreign Policy
and beyond,
ran a
belatedly
rip-off piece
about the UN
Mission in
Western
Sahara, based
off "a
political
problem...
cited in news
reports about
the disputed
territory."
While Lynch,
as is his
M.O., refused
to name or
credit the
"news
reports," he
named and used
the problem:
"a Russian
national named
Alexander
Ivanko, was
involved in a
romantic
relationship
with a local
Moroccan
woman."
There
is a major
problem: Inner
City Press in
2021 first published
this
information,
and has
remained
banned by the
UN until this
day. For
example, Inner
City Press in
December 2021
published,
available then
as now in
Google:
"Inner
City Press has
been contacted
by UN
whistleblowers
outraged at
what they say
is already a
pro-Morocco
scandal at
MINURO under -
literally -
Ivanko. They
tell Inner
City Press
that Ivanko
has struck up
a predatory
relationship
with a
Moroccan woman
who was
recruited into
MINURSO by
now-rewarded
predator Colin
Stewart.
Inner
City Press on
the morning of
December 20
put this
question to
all UN
spokespeople...
It has the
victim's name
but it is not
publish the
name for now).
Its press
corpse, too.
Colum Lynch
has previously
ripped off
Inner City
Press, while
it was still
in the UN.
And
when UNSG
Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric -
quoted as
"Mister" by
Lynch - had
Inner City
Press roughed
up and thrown
out of the UN,
it was covered
by the
Columbia
Journalism
Review and
The
Independent,
for example,
but not
a word
from Lynch or
Foreign Policy
or his other
employers.
Lynch
also lets off
the hook and
covers up for
many others in
(and left out)
of this story.
But that's a
story for
another day.
We cover
the SDNY now,
most recently
Carroll v.
Trump (booklet
here)
- but this
type of
journalistic
theft and
collusion
cannot and
will not go
unremarked.
Inner
City Press has
appealed
to re-enter
the UN and
will not rest.
Watch this
site.
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