As the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe meets in Sofia, and Bulgaria's foreign minister Solomon Passy snuggles up to Colin Powell and turns Bulgaria ever more into a 'vassal state' of Washington and NATO -- while more than half of its population (and all its many Roma) sink into ever deeper destitution -- it is worth reading this 2003 article by Chad Nagle of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group: "Bulgaria: A Traditional Vassal State Serves a New Warlike Master" globalresearch.ca/articles/NAG305A.html