Ebook: Backstabbing for beginners: my crash course in international diplomacy
Author: Soussan Michael
- Tags: Ayuda humanitaria / Iraq, Embargo / Iraq, Humanitarianism / Iraq, Sanciones (Derecho internacional) / Iraq, Erlebnisbericht, Oil-for-Food-Programme, Soussan Michael, Naciones Unidas / Programa Petróleo por Alimentos / Prácticas corruptas, United Nations / Oil-for-Food Program / Corrupt practices
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- City: New York;NY
- Language: English
- epub
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Theo James, the gripping true story of a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.
"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves."
A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he landed a position as a program coordinator for the United Nations' Iraq Program. Little did he know that he would end up a whistleblower in what PBS NewsHour described as the "largest financial scandal in UN history."
Breaking a conspiracy of silence that had prevailed for years, Soussan sparked an unprecedented corruption probe into the Oil-for-Food program that exposed a worldwide system of bribes, kickbacks, and blackmail involving ruthless power-players from around the globe.
At the crossroads of pressing...
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