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Meanwhile, the U.N. has announced that Annan himself has "reiterated his full support" for including the Millennium Development Goals in the summit document and says that any effort to remove the targets "would hurt billions of people."

So the number of Bolton's potential victims has now risen into the billions!

It should be apparent that we are witnessing a carefully orchestrated campaign trashing Bolton and his staff, who are working overtime to correct major flaws in a U.N. document that is designed to expand the authority and power of the U.N. at the literal expense of the U.S. Our media have openly taken sides against the U.S. position.

The campaign is facilitated by the fact that the U.N. Correspondents Association (UNCA), the group of journalists covering the U.N. on a daily basis, enjoys a very cozy relationship with the world body. The relationship is so close that one journalist, The Nation's U.N. correspondent, has taken money from the world body. Other reporters are paid by the U.N. to appear on the U.N. "World Chronicle" television program. UNCA's conferences are subsidized by pro-U.N. organizations funded by billionaire George Soros and Ted Turner, which helps explain why our major media refuse to examine the big money behind the pro-U.N. lobby.

The Results group, for example, listed the Soros-funded Open Society Institute as its largest donor in 2003, having contributed at least $200,000 to the organization. In his book, The End of Poverty, Sachs himself praises Soros as a "world-class philanthropist and financier" and one of the "miracle workers in promoting global justice who have generously helped me in my own activities..."

For his part, Sachs advocates a "global tax on carbon-emitting fossil fuels..." that "would finance a greatly enhanced supply of global public goods." A book prepared by the U.N., New Sources of Development Finance, endorses such a proposal.

The headline in the Post should say, "U.N. Wants to Raise Global Taxes on Gasoline." But if a reporter wrote a story to go with that headline, that might generate negative feelings toward the U.N. at a time of rising gas prices in the U.S. Some people might even get the impression that the U.N. wants to play the role of a new King George.

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Cliff Kincaid is Editor of the AIM Report.

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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