Category: Opinions

  Freedom of Expression – Croatian StyleBy Jerry Blaskovich, MDA major drama is being played out in Croatia that has tremendous ramifications, for it strikes at the very heart of the basic…

  Dominant leftist media ushers in ‘Croatian Deafness’ era in CroatiaBy: Dr. Jerry BLASKOVICH(In California, USA)Contrary to what many intellectuals in Croatia and some individuals in the HDZ’s hierarchy may think, there…

  A person with a conviction IS A MAJORITY Yesterday’s newspaper is used primarily to wrap today’s fish with itHi, you all,Mr. Marko Mijat has made the proper suggestion. The only correct…

THE VIEW OF CROATIA IN THE WEST  By John Peter Kraljic   Published in Croatian Chronicle 22 March 2005   “Are Croatian leaders reallythat thick that they can not see the importance…

  Feudal system of state-owned property transferThe Vecernji list published a brief article on the 13th of March, 2005, about the recent encounter of a former Minister in the Croatian government, a…

   Croatia’s EU Membership Held ‘Hostage’ by few EU states.These are the titles of the articles that were published all over the world. In the title it says “WAR CRIMINAL”, without trial,…

“Ten Questions to Ask Before You Give Away Your Country”   John Blundell’s Open Letter to Croatia’s Prime Minister, Ivo SanaderAs featured in Dnevnik, Croatia’s Business Daily, Wednesday, March 2, 2005 with…

  Za demokrate postoji samo jedan neprijatelj, a to je totalitarizam bilo koje boje! Revolucija protiv demokracije – reagiranje na pisanje Slobodne Dalmacije Kroz mitos antifašizma Split je 1944. godine doživio ponovno…

  Mr. Miksic’s chance to be electedThe fact that Mr. Miksic was not allowed to present his views on Croatian HTV and most newspapers until the very last days certainly had much…

  Kljucni element Hrvatske buducnosti su probudjeni stvaraoci   Hrvatska mora hitno razviti KONKURENTNOST na svakom nivou   Prvi Kongres Hrvatskih Znanstvenika, Zagreb-Vukovar 15-19.11.2004.(tekst glavne deklaracije: http://www.mzos.hr/pkhz/dokumenti/deklaracija.pdf )osobno vidjenje voditelja prirodne sekcije,…

  Why will I, Nenad Bach, vote for John Kerry   Dear all,   These days I am getting thousands of letters and many of them are with the question about our…

Essentially, the wars are waged so that rich people can profit from them I hope Bunnatine brings Rummy, Cheney and their criminal conspirators down. Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, chief contracting officer for the Army Corps of Engineers, has called for an investigation of procurement practices. Mainly in awarding billions of dollars to Haliburton in no- bid contract. It is also important to note that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root got an extra 11 monthswithout bidding to provide logistical services in the Balkans (mainly supplying the largest US military base in Europe: Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo). In this case, Ms. Greenhouse asserted, where operations have continued for four years, claims of an emergency or that Kellogg Brown & Root was the only feasible provider were not tenable. The company is expected to draw $165 million from the extension. Essentially, the wars are waged so that rich people can profit from them. People like Cheney. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/politics/25halliburton.html?th—— ————————————————— Ivo Skoric 19 Baxter Street Rutland VT 05701 802.775.7257 ivo@balkansnet.org balkansnet.org

Talented Janitors Dear Mr. Editor, Thank you very much for publishing such a provocative article. (E) Attitude toward the educated professionals Sep 09, 04 Opinions I am pretty much sure that the majority (if not all) of educated professionals who emigrated from Croatia can write hundreds of pages of similar stories. The Croatian attitude in general can be summarized in “once you leave for an academic education abroad – better stay there”. As a native of Croatia and a medical professional, currently employed by a teaching hospital in the USA, personally I met with such an attitude too many times. It was almost absurd to listen one of the organizers of an international medical conference hosted last year in Zagreb, who stated that in his opinion “most of the Croatian medical professionals employed abroad work as a service personnel”. I am still not sure what did he mean by that (janitors, maybe). Even better story comes from my spouse (medical professional herself, employed by another US teaching hospital), who was told during her last stay in Zagreb, that one – today prominent Croatian public figure, educated abroad – was “probably just washing dishes during his stay in the USA”!!! What to do when being confronted with such a narrow-minded jealousy? Politely smile, and return to the USA (to wash dishes and mop floors, of course). I can not help myself being ironic, but this is a huge problem of close-minded mentality and no government can ever change that. Croatians are maybe able to celebrate as a national hero one Berkley fellow when he wins the Olympic silver medal (most of them maybe were not aware of the fact that his enormous talent and potential were fully developed abroad), but this is as far as their enthusiasm for expatriates goes. And that is what makes me so sad. Sincerely, Stanislav Lechpammer, MD, Ph.D. Boston, MA, USA Stanislav_Lechpammer@dfci.harvard.edu

  Attitude toward the educated professionalsRecently, there was an article in the Slobodna Dalmacija which was reprinted in the Croatian American of Aug. 10. “One more Croatian graduate of West Point has…

  Living in Croatia – Odgovor – Reply I see that my opinion hooked Dr. Zdeslav Hrepic. As they say in psychology….if you don’t have a hook, nobody can hang anything on…

Living in Croatia – Odgovor Nedavno je u CROWN-ovoj rubrici “opinions” objavljeno pismo Gdje. Matesic koje se, iako mozda zapoceto kao “opinion”, razvilo i zavrsilo kao neprimjerena i neorganizirana prodika. A prozvani…

  Povratak Sve je mijena. Dan i noc, san i java, zdravlje i bolest.. Tako je i s covjekovom potrebom za odmorom. Rad je covjeku potreban ali suvremeni život i sve što…

  World, Wake UpI, Radenko Fanuka, the author of Reflections: Personalizing Life, Nature, Man and God, was born on March 19, 1939, during the unspeakable days of World War II. The whole…

  Tragicna Sudbina ukradenih Hrvatskih LipicancaTragicna sudbina hrvatskih lipicanaca: kako to vlast stiti nacionalne intereseZahvaljujem Vjesniku da je 12. srpnja prenio informaciju iz Dnevnika (SCG) – >>Povratak lipicanaca jos uvijek upitan<<. Istodobno…