PBC News & Comment: UC Regents Adopt Problematic “Tolerance” Policies

Amended at last minute, new policy deplores “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism”—vague subjective standards that diminish freedom of speech in selective manner……--at The Intercept, Robert Mackey offers a good account of Regents meeting
--in last-minute speech at Stanford, Hillary Clinton rejects GOP bluster and incendiary talk, calls for “intelligence surge” against IS
--at Salon, Brogan Morris comforts “Bernie or Bust” types
--Anonymous group is bitterly split over attacks on Trump
--Daesh video gloating about Brussels attacks includes audio and images of Trump
--Russian jets return to support Syrian troops trying to retake Palmyra but that’s not considered violation of cease-fire
--in new in-depth interview, NSA expert James Bamford talks about Obama’s “insider threat” program that spies on our spies
--AG Loretta Lynch indicts 7 Iranians for cyber attacks in 2011, which were likely retaliation for our Stuxnet attacks
--Blackwater founder Erik Prince is reported under investigation for trying to sell services of mercenaries to other governments
--in Buenos Aires, Obama admits US took too long to condemn mass human rights violations, but he doesn’t quite apologize
--blogger Roger Shuler is vindicated as Alabama Gov. Bentley makes bizarre public apology for his non-physical affair with aide
--after knife attack in West Bank, Israeli soldier shoots and kills wounded Palestinian accused of the attack
--former Serbian leader Karadzic is found guilty of genocide, gets 40 year sentence