For the past decade, William F. Jasper has served as a senior editor of The New American magazine, published by an affiliate of The John Birch Society. Mr. Jasper has covered firsthand many of the major UN conferences, including the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro, the 1998 Rome summit for an International Criminal Court, and the September 2000 UN Millennium Summit in new York. His previous book, Global Tyranny-Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order (1992), has been praised as the most authoritative and detailed expose of the UN ever written.