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| 1 |  | 2008-10-28: Democrats for Despotism by Mary Anastasia O'Grady |  |
| It took eight years, but on Oct. 8 I finally got a copy of Fusion's 1999 contract with Teleco. By law it is public but Fusion wouldn't give it to me until the FCC made them. Now I think I know why. | Rating: 5 |
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| 2 | | 2008-09-14: Manager for GOP Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin Linked to Haiti Bribery by Lucy Komisar in the Huffington Post | |
| Michael Glassner served as a vice-president at IDT. At issue was the company's alleged deal made with former president Aristide for a monopoly on telephone service in exchange for kickbacks paid into an offshore shell corporation. Now head of VP campaign. | Rating: 5 |
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| 3 | | 2008-09-03: Palin Campaign Operations Chief Was VP of IDT, Investigated for Haiti Bribery by Lucy Komisar | |
| Michael Glassner, in charge of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s campaign operations, was till April 18th a vice-president of IDT, the New Jersey-based telecom fined $1.3 million by the FCC for failing to file its Haiti contract. | Rating: 5 |
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| 4 | | 2008-07-16: FCC Fines Aristide-Linked Telecom $1.3 Million by Lucy Komisar, in Conde Nast Portfolio | |
| IDT, run by one of McCain's top fundraisers, James Courter, is fined for failing to disclose Haiti contract under which it diverted long-distance revenue to a Turks & Caicos shell company owned by Aristide. | Rating: 5 |
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| 5 | | 2008-07-16: Above Article Forces Resignation from McCain Campaign by Lucy Komisar, in Conde Nast Portfolio | |
| Jim Courter resigns from the McCain campaign after publication of the above article. A former Republican New Jersey congressman, he had been with the campaign since February 2007. | Rating: 5 |
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| 6 | | 2007-03-13: Sealed Evidence in the IDT Haiti Case Is Revealed by Lucy Komisar, investigative journalist | |
| Read Michael Jewett's detailed account of what happens in a major corporation when a lone employee stands up against corruption. Can also happen in an NGO. | Rating: 5 |
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| 7 |  | 2006-09-27: Recorrecting Our Correction about the Haiti Democracy Project by The Oregonian | |
| As a British journal is finding out, there is no quicker way to bulk up your corrections column than by printing unverified propaganda of partisan groups. | Rating: 5 |
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| 8 | | 2006-09-18: Is Top Justice Official Shielding a Firm Accused of Bribery? by Lucy Komisar | |
| Special for haitipolicy.org: Alice Fisher's nomination was voted by the Senate, but there was a conflict of interest in that she is helping block an investigation of her former client, the IDT, accused of bribery in the Haitian telephone scam. | Rating: 5 |
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| 9 |  | 2006-09-18: See All of Lucy Komisar's Articles on the Aristide Telecom Scam by The Komisar Scoop | |
| Read the prizewinning journalist's articles in Corpwatch, Guerrilla News Network, and Haiti Democracy Project, visit her web page to learn how corruptionists abroad and at home use offshore banks to rip off poor third-world countries. | Rating: 5 |
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| 10 | | 2006-09-18: Shouldn't Have Confirmed this Justice Dept. Official Without Investigation by Haiti Democracy Project | |
| We are concerned that a top Justice official was confirmed by the Senate 61-35 although she blocked an investigation of her former client, IDT, a telephone company charged in the embezzlement scheme with President Aristide. | Rating: 5 |
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| 11 |  | 2006-09-07: British Journal Is Victimized by news media | |
| The distinguished medical journal is the latest dupe in Aristide's campaign to strip away U.N. protection so that Haiti will be defenseless against his gangs. | Rating: 3 |
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| 12 | | 2006-09-07: Human Rights Abuse: A Random Survey of Households by Athena R. Kolbe and Royce Hutson, Lancet magazine | |
| The study purports to show that U.N. soldiers, police, and anti-Lavalas gangs, but not pro-Lavalas ones, raped 35,000 Haitian women. Lyn Duf, the main author, is a perfervid Aristide activist posing as a neutral academic. | Rating: 1 |
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| 13 |  | 2006-08-30: Let's Try Supporting Rather than Slamming Haiti by Michael Deibert, on Alterpresse | |
| Commentary from April 2006. Claiming to be progressive, Znet, The New Left Review and others have in fact been doing the work of Haiti’s reactionary landowners and upper-class, marginalizing peasant and worker activists. | Rating: 5 |
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| 14 | | 2006-03-01: Haiti Democracy Project Said Backed By Big Business, CIA by Marc Mohan, The Oregonian | |
| "Aristide ran afoul of such groups as the Haiti Democracy Project, backed by American business interests, and, allegedly, the CIA," writes an ill-informed person after watching a pro-Aristide film. | Rating: 1 |
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| 15 |  | 2006-01-04: Aristide Supporters Attack Labor Movement by Mario Pierre, in San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center | |
| Opportunists and reactionaries attempt to crush Haitian workers' organization Batay Ouvriye. Exposes fabrications by Haiti Progres et al. | Rating: 3 |
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| 16 | | 2005-07-18: U.S. Members of Aristide Foundation Board by Aristide Foundation for Democracy | |
| A number of prominent Americans were listed as members of the organization's board in the late 1990s. Not known how many resigned or were removed. | Rating: 5 |
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| 17 |  | 2005-03-29: Slamming U.N. Mission in Haiti by Harvard Law School and Brazil Justica Global | |
| A confusing piece that alternately blames U.N. for inactivity or hyper-activity and police for excessive force, overlooking the 36 police killed in action by gangs. Country described more resembles Switzerland than Haiti. | Rating: 1 |
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| 18 | | 2005-03-12: Follow the Money: Bipartisan Grab for Haiti Big Bucks by Christopher Byron, New York Post | |
| Democratic and Republican bigwigs equally cashed in on backroom deals with Aristide. Prime research on the cash cow that created the Aristide lobby. Helps us understand the huge burden on Haiti of greedy U.S. politicians and their propaganda campaign. | Rating: 5 |
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| 19 |  | 2005-01-05: Let the Myth-making Roll by DeWayne Wickham, USA Today | |
| A counter-factual article that completely omits terrorism of Aristide supporters, idealizes Aristide himself, and exaggerates the problematic of the former armymen to reach a predetermined conclusion. Downgraded to a "1." | Rating: 1 |
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| 20 | | 2004-12-22: Rep. Maxine Waters's Kin Cash In by Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich, Los Angeles Times | |
| As disclosure requirements tighten on members of Congress themselves, their relatives, who don't have to report, are increasingly becoming the recipients. This article cited only the transactions it could document. | Rating: 5 |
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