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    R. I. P. Claudia Rosett

    The U.N. Oil for Food program, we learn from the reporting of Claudia Rosett in The Wall Street Journal, was a rip-off on the order of $21 billion—with money intended for hungry Iraqis going instead to Saddam Hussein and his henchmen, to bribed French and Russian businesses and, evidently, to the U.N.'s own man in charge, Benon Sevan. For this work, she was honored with the 2005 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism and a "Mightier Pen" award from the Center for Security Policy.

    Claudia Rosett (May 29, 1955 – May 27, 2023) was an American author and journalist. An editorial board member of The Wall Street Journal, she was the only print journalist to witness the Tiananmen Square massacre and later broke the United Nations’ Oil for Food scandal, the largest public fraud in history. After her Journal career in Hong Kong, Moscow, and New York, she wrote a foreign affairs column for Forbes, blogged for PJ Media, and made regular appearances on national television and radio, including Fox Business. She also worked for the Independent Women's Forum and the London Center for Policy Research, and served as an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.

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    https://www.hudson.org/claudia-rosett-wonderful-life

    That prompted the Journal to hire her, and the rest is history. One of Claudia’s scoops was to get into a labor camp in Siberia that was part of what she called “one of the most sordid, and profitable, joint ventures in Russia”—a “state to state deal between Moscow and Pyongyang under which some 15,000 North Koreans, tended by North Korean guards, log the vast birch and pine forests of southeastern Siberia.” Even the Russians likened them to slaves.

    Claudia was at Hong Kong, when word began to go around about an anti-government protest building across China, including in the communist capital. Claudia raced to Beijing, just in time to get a hotel room overlooking Tiananmen Square. She covered the protest from inside the square and, as it was suppressed, braving machine-gun fire as she dashed back and forth between the square and her hotel, whence she phoned in reports of the action.

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    Highlights of her journalism career include exposing the Oil-for-Food corruption scandal at the United Nations; covering the Russian invasion of Chechnya; and monitoring Beijing’s abrogation of its one-country, two-systems promise on Hong Kong. Her short book, What to Do About the UN, argues that the international organization founded in 1945 as a vehicle to avert war and promote human freedom and dignity has instead become fraught with bigotry, fraud, abuse, and corruption.

    One of her most memorable pieces of reporting took place on June 4, 1989, when she was present in Tiananmen Square as Chinese tanks rolled over unarmed, peaceful student protestors. In an article published in the Wall Street Journal the next day, she wrote, “With this slaughter, China’s communist government has uncloaked itself before the world.” Thirty-four years later, these words still ring true.
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    Re: R. I. P. Claudia Rosett

    Thank you for this, Kingspoint. I had no idea at all. Her words will resonate a long long time hopefully.

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    Re: R. I. P. Claudia Rosett

    Eric Davis was born on her 7th Birthday.
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