The new socialism’s gigantic heist

 
By Charles Krauthammer
Published: December 11, 2009

WASHINGTON — In the 1970s and early ’80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and conferences, they began calling for a "New International Economic Order.” The NIEO’s essential demand was simple:...

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