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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Is Bob Dylan a racist?
NORMAN MARKOWITZ says recent claims by the so-called Council of Croats in France are not what they seem
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
I recently circulated a petition calling for Fifa to suspend the Croatian football team from upcoming World Cup games in Brazil because of its use of World War II Croat fascist slogans.
There's another story relating to Croatia's wartime role which has received greater international attention, however - people claiming to be representative of the Croatian community in France have sued Bob Dylan.
Their accusation is that this great singer, whose songs of social criticism such as Masters of War, Blowin' In the Wind and The Times They Are A'Changin' have made him one of the best-known and most admired US artists of the last 50 years, has made offensive and even racist remarks about Croats in Rolling Stone magazine.
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