New York City-based
investigative journalist.
She writes about offshore banking, corporate secrecy, international
money-laundering, and how they relate to corporate fraud;
international corruption; the looting by dictators; financing of
terrorism; international crime including arms, drug and people
trafficking; and tax evasion.
In the 1980s and 90s, she wrote about
international affairs, with a focus on movements for democracy in
the developing world. In that context she reported from Central
America, the Philippines, Zaire and elsewhere in Asia, the Middle
East and Latin America. She also wrote about European politics and
foreign policy and covered dissident movements in the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe. She was banned from East Germany and harassed by
security police in Zaire.
She was editor of the Mississippi Free
Press in Jackson, Miss., 1962-63. The weekly covered the civil
rights movement and related political and labor issues and was read
largely by black people in Mississippi. (The newspapers and her
other civil rights papers are archived at the University of Southern
Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
Santiago
at which
Henry Kissinger
told
Augusto Pinochet
to ignore the criticisms Kissinger had been pressured to make
publicly regarding Pinochet's violations of human rights.
"Newly Opened Files Show Kissinger Privately Promised
Pinochet Support While Publicly Decrying Human Rights Abuses,"
Pacific News Service, March 1, 1999.
"Kissinger Covered Up Chile Torture,"
The Observer (London), Feb. 28, 1999.
"Kissinger Alentó a Pinochet en la Represión,"
El Pais (Madrid), Feb. 28, 1999.
"Into the Murky Depths of Operation Condor,"
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 1, 1998.
Corazon Aquino: The Story of a Revolution (New York:
George Braziller, 1987), political biography of former president
of the Philippines. (Zurich: Benziger Verlag, 1988; Manila: The
National Bookstore, 1988)
Down and Out in the U.S.A. A History of Public Welfare
(New York: Franklin Watts, 1973 and 1977; New Viewpoints, 1973
and 1977), history of the American welfare system from colonial
times to the present.
The New Feminism (New York: Franklin Watts, 1972;
Paperback Library, 1972), primer on feminism, including history,
law, work, education and origins of contemporary movement.
Tax Justice Network and
author of its report,
Citigroup: a History
and Culture of Tax Evasion
(January 2006). She is founder of
TJN-USA, TJN's American
branch.
She was a national Vice-President of the National Organization
for Women, 1970-71 and was successful, with Legislative VP Ann
Scott, in getting the US government to extend federal contractor and
cable TV affirmative action rules to women. Her NOW papers are in
the Schlesinger archives at Harvard University.
Back in 2004, when Chris Christie was the
U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, his office first
heard allegations that IDT Corporation, a
Newark, N.J.-based global telecommunications
company, was involved in a case of international
bribery. No federal criminal case was ever
brought against IDT, in contrast to several
successful federal prosecutions in similar cases
elsewhere. The company is run by James Courter,
a former Republican congressman from New Jersey.
Fast forward to the present, and Christie is
now the Republican candidate for the governor of
New Jersey. And, an examination of campaign
finance records shows, Christie has thus far
racked up $26,800 in campaign contributions –
earning him a total of $80,400 including state
matching funds — from 27 individuals who could
have a direct interest in the IDT case.
Oct 17, 2009 - When he was interviewed for
the investigative story I did in March on
Sodexo's practice of demanding rebates (ie
kickbacks) from suppliers, Sodexo deputy counsel
Tom Morse argued that working only...
March 17, 2009 - There's a mysterious "Bank
Madoff, New York" that U.S. authorities don't
appear to know about. International securities
clearing houses move trillions of dollars a year
for banks and brokerages and...
Feb 11, 2009 - The U.S. government might
finally get a powerful tool against offshore tax
evasion by mega-wealthy individuals and
corporations. The worst most miscreants face now
is negotiated pay-ups years after they are...
Feb 8, 2009 - At a time when New York State's
budget is reeling from Wall Street tax losses --
Wall Street pays 20 to 30 percent of revenues --
you'd think Governor David...
Inter Press Service (IPS), July 14, 2009 - At
a recent conference in Miami organised by
Offshore Alert, a specialised media organisation
focused on financial crime, IPS sat down with
veteran investigator Bob Roach...
Inter Press Service (IPS), May 8, 2009 -
Jeffrey Owens, the tax "point person" of the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD), was stung by activist
critics of the OECD standards under which
countries...
Inter Press Service (IPS), April 30, 2009 -
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is
hitting pay dirt with a novel legal tactic
designed to catch tax evaders. And it's going to
use it to...
Jude Law drives "Hamlet" with an animal energy
and naturalistic fervor that overwhelm the stage.
This is not the tentative or tormented Hamlets we
are used to. This "Hamlet" is a thriller and Hamlet
the vengeful detective. The excitement is palpable.
It's a brilliant interpretation...
Seeing
how both halves lived - We were descending a into
300-foot-deep Welsh coal mine, hard hats firmly in
place, watches and anything else with batteries
removed because the law requires it to...
AlterNet, March 26, 2009 - Congress has deftly
avoided the real story of AIG's collapse, which will
make a few million in bonuses seem like peanuts.
Most legislators at a House Finance subcommittee
hearing...
Oct 23, 2007 In the continuing saga of the
Frigates of Taiwan, involving about $1 billion in
bribes and kickbacks paid by the French company
Thomson to win a bid on the sale of...
Inter Press Service (IPS), July 14, 2009 - At a
recent conference in Miami organised by Offshore
Alert, a specialised media organisation focused on
financial crime, IPS sat down with veteran
investigator...
Radio interview about Naked Short Selling and the
Financial Crisis on “For the Record” with David
Emory Nov. 4, 2008, For that show and others search
for Komisar on Dave Emory show. Or...
Dimanche (Lausanne), 14 décembre 2001 Pour vendre
600 kg de matériel nucléaire à des Saoudiens,
l’ex-conseiller national UDC et son notaire ont pris
moult précautions. Berne ouvre une enquête.
Mercredi, le Ministère public de la...
Servicio Inter Press (IPS), 4 de abril 2007
Los legisladores de Estados
Unidos que investigan la veracidad de los argumentos
del presidente George W. Bush para invadir Iraq
deberían analizar una de sus...
Von Lucy Komisar*, Beat Kraushaar Und Henry
Habegger, Mitarbeit: Laurent Duvane SonntagsBlick
(Zurich) 9 Dezember 2001 BERN – 600 Kilo nukleares
Material wollten Ex-SVP-Nationalrat Bernard
Rohrbasser und Notar R. verkaufen – an die Saudis.
Verwickelt...
In January 1986, I went to the Philippines to
chronicle the growing movement against the
Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship....
Reporter...
