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In office as Canadian Prime Minister for not quite a year, Paul Martin made it official that’s he’s signing Canada up with the one world order-advocating United Nations, on Friday. With intentions that not even President George W. Bush--due for an official state visit to Canada within the week--will have to read between the lines, Martin is now openly heading his nation down a bold new path, through his vaunted position with La Francophonie. "Today, having existed for over 40 years, La Francophonie finds itself at a crossroads. At a time when a wave of reform is sweeping the multilateral...

In the hidden-behind-the-Iraqi-prison-abuse-story oil-for-food scandal, the plot, as they say, thickens. First came the shock that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo was connected to the ill-fated program. According to the New York Post On-Line edition, family members of former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali are officers of a Panamanian-registered company in which Benon Sevan, a UN assistant Secretary General, appointed to administer the oil-for-food program, had a connection. The Post said it got its information about the Boutros-Ghali connection from Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British businessman and advisor to the Iraqi governing council. The oil-for-food program could totally annihilate...