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...
