The Rape of Europaby Geoff Kelly |
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In 1938, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy Viennese Jew and a patron of modernist painter Gustav Klimt, fled Austria to Switzerland to escape the Nazis. Bloch-Bauer’s massive art collection, including Klimt’s portraits of his wife Adele, was subsequently seized, along with the rest of his property and his considerable financial interests. |
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War, Inc.by George Sax |
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Earlier this week, on the same day I received a review copy of War, Inc. from FedEx, the New York Times carried a front-page article on the losing struggle of a Pentagon contract executive to hold Iraq war contractor KBR to account for its expense statements. KBR was until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton, the oil industry conglomerate whose chief executive in the 1990s was US Vice President Dick Cheney. |