Mainstream media is finally waking up to the idea that its not just the “right of Atilla the Hun” group that has a problem with the UN:
FT.com / World / International economy – UN warned it faces overhaul as crisis grows
“It was possible to see the first wave of the crisis as inspired by the US critics of the UN, but as a clearly neutral voice like Volcker starts to opine as he did in the commentary of the audit, it’s a lot harder to shrug this off as a rightwing conspiracy,” Mr Malloch Brown said.
At the end of this month, Mr Volcker will issue his preliminary
findings. “That may be a transition point,” Mr Malloch Brown said, “where people realise thatbanging [on about] the need for management reform is not [just] responding to Republicans in shoe boxes on the beltway. It should be a mainstream preoccupation of every government shareholder of the UN.”