By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag
LITERARY UN GATE, April 23 -- This genocide was a perfect opportunity for a vacation to Lisbon, Big Tony Guterres decided.
So what if the Russians wouldn't confirm that he's get any face time to Putin? He'd have this third-string spokesperson Eri Kaneko, hired to pay back Japan for continuing to pour money into the UN despite being frozen out of the Security Council, tell that moldy press corpse that he would be *received* by Putin. Hell, maybe that would poisoning by Polonium less likely.
And Tony could stop in Lisbon along the way, and before his second leg to Kiev, and again before returning to New York. So what if Catalina didn't want to see him? The bankers always greeted him, now flush with yuan as he was. The gratuities, he'd let the global taxpayers pay. He congratulated himself. Big Tony had really turned this genocide around and to his favor.
Dujarric, too, was happy. On the Thursday he'd teased the trip, but misleadingly said it might be to Nigeria, in a colloquy arranged with his Qatar funded counterpart. Now he could take Friday off, out to the Hampton, and let Eri took the heat. If the blogger trashed her - and he would - he could rail against it as sexist and claim he always protected his people even as he threw them to the wolves.
Dujarric had covered up the Sri Lanka genocide for Ban Ki-moon. Now he was covering up Ukraine for Guterres, only with more sophistication, and this time with all critics banned from the building. Was this how Peskov felt? Did he live in Russia's equivalent of the Hampton?
Melissa Fleming had been taking a more active hand in covering up the genocide, having her Department send orders to 25 officials to not call it a war or invasion. But now just as things got good, and her Big Boss Big Tony played three dimensional chess, she was laid up wit COVID.
Maybe she could turn even this to her advantage... Write a piece about it on Medium, how concerns she was about passing it on to her husband and son. What did they do anyway?
Kurt Wheelock, railing in front of Big Tony's empty mansion, was watching. Watch this site.
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