Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
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Is Bob Dylan a racist?
NORMAN MARKOWITZ says recent claims by the so-called Council of Croats in France are not what they seem
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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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