Crime and no punishment: By Alain Gresh. Intro: "The United States Congress is angry about a scandal. It is alleged that from 1996 to 2003 the United Nations oil-for-food programme enabled Saddam Hussein to misappropriate hundreds of millions of dollars. Certain senior UN officials, particularly the man in charge of the programme, Benon Sevan, are said to have pocketed large kickbacks, and it is claimed that foreign, especially French, politicians took similar advantage of the system. These are serious accusations that warrant detailed investigation. But it must be immediately pointed out that there is a wealth of public documentation on the operation of the programme since 1996. It contains all the relevant information, including lists of all items supplied to Iraq in each six-month period." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
