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February
13, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Banning
the Koran
George
Monbiot
American
Imperialism
February
12, 2002
Uri Avnery
The
Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran
Tommy
Ates
Black
Land Loss
February
11, 2002
Walt Brasch
The
Synergizing of America
John Troyer
Enron's
Deep Throat?
February
9, 2002
John Blair
Criticize
Cheney, Go to Jail
February
8, 2002
CounterPunch
Wire
Ashcroft
the Bigot
Molly
Secours
Racism
and Real Estate
Wole Akande
World
Economic Forum:
The Aftermath
Cockburn/St.
Clair
Dita
Sari Tells Reebok
to "Shove It"
February
7, 2002
Patrick
Cockburn
Taliban's
War on Chess
John Chuckman
Howdee,
Dick!
Tariq
Ali
Mullahs
and Heretics
February
6, 2002
Amira
Hass
On
the Edge of the
Non-Violent Demonstrations
Vivian
Berger
Sentenced
to Rape
Vladimir Georgiyev
Russian Intelligence:
War on Iraq Begins in Sept.
Tom Turnipseed
"Axis
of Evil" a Cover for Corporate Corruption?
David
Vest
The
Enron Creature
February
5, 2002
Norman
Madarasz
Dispatch
from Pôrto Alegre
Tom Malinowski
What
to do with
Our "Detainees"?
Dita Sari
Why
I Rejected the
Reebok Human Rights Award
February
4, 2002
Eric Miller/Beth
Daley
Five
Weapons Systems
That Bilk the Taxpayers
Kenneth
Roth
Dear
Condoleezza,
You've Misstated the
Geneva Convention
Robert
Jensen
The
Occupation Must End
Shahid
Alam
How
Different Are
Islamic Societies?
David
Vest
Everybody
Says I Loathe You
John Chuckman
American
Politics of Grief
February
3, 2002
Zoltan
Grossman
War
and New Military Bases
February
2, 2002
Francis
Schor
Carlucci's
Strange Career
February
1, 2002
Dr. Susan
Block
The
Great Ashcroft Cover Up
Jeremy
Voas
Why
We're Suing Ashcroft
David
Vest
10
Things I Know About Him
January
31, 2002
Rahul
Mahajan
The
State of the Union:
A New Cold War
Dave Marsh
Miles
Copeland, War
and the Future of Music
John Pilger
The
Colder War
Alexander
Cockburn
American
Journal:
Killer Dog, Weird Couple
Dr. Susan
Block
Blowback
and Daniel Pearl
January
30, 2002
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Linda
Lay, Hill and Knowlton and the Tears of a Clown
Jack McCarthy
Free
Noelle Bush!
Michael
Ratner
Memo
to Bush: Adhere to
the Geneva Convention
Jay Moore
Proud
to be an American?
Susan
Block
The
Great Pretzel Swallower
and Guantanamo Porn
January
29, 2002
Gary Leupp
Why
This War Was, and Remains, Utterly Wrong
Alexander
Cockburn
The
Birds of Kandahar
Patrick
Cockburn
Afghan
Opium Trade
Back in Business
January
28, 2002
Larry
Chin
Brosnahan
for the Defense
Mokhiber/Weissman
Tyranny
of the Bottom Line
George
E. Curry
Civil
Rights Nominee Called Affirmative Action "Racist"
Sen. Russ
Feingold
Campaign
Finance Reform?
Think Enron
John Chuckman
Liberal?
Media?
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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February 14,
2002
Ante Pavelic:
The Real Butcher
of the Balkans
By Jonathan Levy and Tom
Easton
Ante Pavelic was the original 'Butcher of the
Balkans." He was the leader of the Nazi puppet government
of the "Independent Sate of Croatia" who died peacefully
in Madrid in 1959. The mass murderer of 80,000 Jews, 30,000 Gypsies,
and over 500,000 Serbs survived the Second World War and never
faced a war crimes tribunal.
Instead Pavelic was offered sanctuary
by the Vatican and became a security advisor to Juan and Eva
Peron before retiring to fascist Spain. Key to Pavelic's survival
was the so-called Croatian Treasury, really nothing more than
Pavelic personal wealth, the plunder of concentration camps and
massacres throughout the Balkans and beyond. Wherever the loyal
 Ustashe (Croatian Nazis) served
Pavelic and Hitler, Orthodox Christian churches and Jewish synagogues
were plundered and the property of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, Ukrainians
and others were confiscated. The crimes of Pavelic and the Ustashe
were so barbaric that even hardened Nazis were disgusted by it.
In the final days of World War II, Pavelic
and his inner circle bought and bribed their way to Rome where
help was waiting at the Vatican. Pavelic committed genocide on
a level far greater than any known before or since in the Balkans
but he had been personally received by Pius XII during his reign
of terror. The Franciscan Order and Vatican bank eagerly helped
launder Pavelic's loot the proceeds of which were used to establish
the so called ratline which helped thousands of Nazis and Ustashe
escape to South America.
Over 50 years later, a class action lawsuit
was filed in Federal Court in San Francisco in 1998 seeking an
accounting of the Pavelic loot. The defendants, the Vatican bank,
Franciscan order, and the remaining Ustashe were asked to account
for the gold, silver, and gems plundered so many years ago. A
Federal judge has taken the case under submission.
Last month, an ex-US Army intelligence
official revealed that Pavelic's body is secured at a secret
location in Madrid awaiting its eventual return to the "homeland".
Pavelic's followers view the current Croatian state as the successor
to the Nazi inspired Independent State of Croatia, their legacy
will be fulfilled only by the return of their supreme leader
or in the Croatian language, Poglavnik, to lie in state in Zagreb.
Tudjman, the late blood stained ruler of Croatia, was a proponent
of returning Pavelic to Croatia and indeed Pavelic's ghost must
be pleased to find so many new public monuments to his loyal
Ustashe springing up like toadstools after a spring rain in democratic
Croatia.
Attorneys in the class action lawsuit
while awaiting the court's ruling are opening up a second front
against the Croatian Nazis in Madrid. It is thought a large portion
of the Croatian treasure was secreted in Madrid and remains there
yet along with Pavelic's relatives and ever loyal Ustashe who
maintain a vigil over their leaders grave. Spanish law firms
have been contacted and an action of some sort in Spain is likely
especially in light of the Spanish National Court's recent interest
in the Pinochet case. The Spanish courts have demonstrated an
interest in fighting Fascism abroad, now they are presented with
even worse case at home. Let's hope they will put the principles
of International Law to work on this domestic case and stop the
Ustashe.
An annual ceremony presided over by Croatian
Franciscan priests is thought to take place annually on Pavelic's
birthday. At such Ustashe ceremonies eternal hatred towards Serbs
and others are sworn on a crucifix, knife, and a revolver. Many
Ustashe returned to Croatia in 1991 and have played a role in
the ongoing hostilities in Herzegovina.
Jonathan Levy
is a California attorney who has represented organizations and
individuals in a variety of Holocaust related lawsuits including
banking, insurance, and slave labor matters.
Tom Easton
is a veteran civil rights attorney in Northern California. Tom
has traveled extensively in Russia and Europe and holds a Masters
degree in History. They can be reached at: resistk@yahoo.com
A summary of the class action suit can be found at: http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/
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