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The Rape of Europa

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.



War, Inc.

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.





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