Bob Dylan did not sell out to the Chinese government when he performed in Beijing on April 6. The “sellout” charge was made in the New York Times on Sunday by Maureen Dowd, along with several other people. The problem: Dylan submitted his set list to the Chinese culture ministry, according to The Guardian’s Martin Wieland in Beijing, and as a result the concert was performed “strictly according to an approved programme.”
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Journalism
NPR Station in L.A. Pulls Planned Parenthood Spots — The Nation 4/10
One of two NPR stations in the Los Angeles area, KPCC-FM, suspended its regularly-scheduled Planned Parenthood spots on Friday, in response to Republican demands that Congress eliminate federal funding for the family planning group.
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Change Comes to Nixonland: L.A. Times op-ed 4/5
Watergate was “the ultimate stress test” for the nation, says Timothy Naftali, director of the Nixon Library. It was also a stress test for the National Archives and the Nixon Library. . . .
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Wisconsin’s Cronon Affair: The Power of a Simple Fact — The Nation, 3/28
More than a million people teach at colleges and universities in the United States, but only one faces a Republican demand for his e-mails: William Cronon, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. . . . What does it take to become the target of this kind of attack?
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Liz Taylor and the Raid on Entebbe: Nation 3/25
When Elizabeth Taylor died, Al Jazeera English reported that her greatest role was Cleopatra.
They didn’t report that she had offered herself as a hostage at Entebbe in exchange for the 100 hijack victims held by terrorists at that airport in Uganda in 1976. . . .
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Imagine No Religion: The Nation 3/24
When John Lennon sang “Imagine there’s no heaven” in 1971, rock critics called the song “utopian.” But 40 years later, researchers have found that religion is indeed disappearing in nine countries . . . .
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30 Jewish Studies Faculty Call on DA to Drop Charges against Muslim Students: Huff Post 3/8
In a striking act of interfaith solidarity, 30 Jewish Studies faculty from seven campuses of the University of California have called on the Orange County district attorney to drop criminal charges against 11 Muslim students.
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Ramona Steps Down: The Nation 2/11
Ramona Ripston, who is stepping down as head of the ACLU of Southern California after almost forty years, is both a visionary who transformed the meaning of civil liberties and a dynamic and beloved figure on the LA left. Her most significant achievement was expanding the practice of civil liberties law to include litigating for economic justice.
Continued at TheNation.com: HERE.
100 UCI Faculty Call on D.A. to Drop Charges Against Muslim Students: HuffPost 2/10
100 faculty members at UCI, including five deans, have signed a letter to the Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas calling on him to drop criminal charges against 11 students who disrupted a speech on the UCI campus by the Israeli ambassador to the US last year.
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Reagan’s Lesson for Obama: Invade Grenada. Nation 2/7
On what would have been Ronald Reagan’s hundredth birthday, we find the past offers lessons for the present: does the United States have to fight a war when it is attacked by a ruthless group of militant Islamic fundamentalists? Reagan’s response to attacks on US forces in Beirut in 1983 suggests a way out of the Afghan war for Obama: invade Grenada.
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