June 28 A young friend’s band played at the Pride Parade in San Francisco today—their first paying gig! I didn’t share my memories with them. How could I convey the fear that pervaded the city…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
This morning (June 23) NYTimes.com ran this teaser: “Good morning. The Times pieced together the days and hours leading up to President Trump’s decision to strike Iran. It’s a story of diplomacy, deception and a…
(A year late, and about $400,000 short…) Juneteenth has a double-edged significance. The one-day happy ending is now celebrated as a federal holiday, while the extension of slavery by the diehard racists running the Great…
New York Times coverage of Israeli aggression has always been as slanted as the Star of David. It’s Zionist propaganda –the more subtle, the more powerful. I enter into evidence the week that was. Israel…
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…
Alexander Cockburn, the most incisive political journalist of our time, was born on June 6, 1941 (the year of the snake). I sent him this in ‘91: Greetings to our favorite lefty, Alexander Cockburn, 50…
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…