
Fred Gardner
Managing Editor, O’Shaughnessy’s and Writer at CounterPunch
managing editor of O'Shaughnessy's, a tabloid created by crossing a medical journal with a political leaflet. The focus is on cannabis.
Articles
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1 week ago |
theava.com | Fred Gardner
Slightly condensed from an article in the March 1949 American Legion Magazine by Paul Gardner (my dad, whose folder of yellowed clippings I’ve been looking through.)In mid-summer of 1946 Bill Veeck limped into Cleveland to head up a syndicate which had bought out the 6th place Cleveland Indians.
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2 weeks ago |
theava.com | Fred Gardner
Alexander Cockburn, the most incisive political journalist of our time, was born on June 6, 1941 (the year of the snake).
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2 weeks ago |
theava.com | Fred Gardner
There was no such thing as “semitism” when Wilhelm Marr, a German journalist/political organizer, coined the term “antisemitism” to mean prejudice against Jews. When Marr founded “The Anti-Semitic League” in 1879, why didn't he use the obvious term, “Anti-Jewish?”According to his biographer, Moshe Zimmerman, ”The Patriarch of Antisemitism,” wanted to distinguish his point of view from that of a rival faction who hated Jews on religious grounds (for killing Jesus, etc.).
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1 month ago |
theava.com | Fred Gardner
Are you ready for some hopeful news?
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2 months ago |
theava.com | Fred Gardner
The removal of 381 books from the US Naval Academy Nimitz library last week was flashback-inducing for your correspondent. When Sen. Joseph McCarthy was at the peak of his power in March, 1953, Dashiell Hammett was subpoenaed to appear before his Subcommittee. McCarthy's pretext for grilling Hammett and other writers alleged to have CP affiliations, was that libraries maintained overseas by the US State Department purchased their books. I was 11 years old and wide awake.
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