A senior US trade official recently accused developing countries’ ministers and officials of wearing expensive jewellery at the WTO’s Cancun Conference, implying that corruption was the reason why they did not want to negotiate a new treaty on government procurement. But recent reports have exposed how the US administration itself is channelling many billions of dollars of contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan to companies linked to its leaders and friends. A case of pot calling the kettle black?
TWO recent reports have shown up again the double standard of the United States administration, which criticises other countries for unsavoury practices, when it is itself just as guilty or even more so.