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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life.

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Lucy Komisar

Lucy Komisar

Lucy Komisar is a 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.

She wrote about Gladio , the secret American funding of a rightist paramilitary in Europe after World War II (Turkey's Terrorists: A CIA Legacy Lives On) - The Progressive, April 1997, and also investigated on the Clearstream affair, first uncovered by the French journalist Denis Robert. (Her article "Explosive Revelations$," In These Times, April 15, 2002.)

She wrote a chapter called BCCI's Double Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad, for the 2007 book, A Game As Old As Empire.

Her articles on offshore -- all at http://thekomisarscoop.com -- include:

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