Tag: Volume 270 | No. 14 - Page 3 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, March 23

2025—Israeli Defence Forces fire on five Palestinian ambulances in Rafah; the vehicles are crushed and buried, 15 medics are tortured and executed. 2016—Tay, a Microsoft™ AI chatbot, is released on Twitter. She’s pulled 16 hours later for being a Nazi. 2004—In a Senate office building, 19 Members of Congress watch a golden crown being placed on the head of convicted tax cheat and Washington Times owner Rev. Sun Myung Moon. 2003—A lost U.S. Army convoy is ambushed near Nasiriyah, Iraq: 11 KIAs, five WIAs, & six POWs, including Pvt. Jessica Ryan. An Air Force A-10 kills six to 10 U.S. Marines. A U.S. Patriot missile …

Sun, March 22

2018—At a UN confab at the Yak and Yeti Hotel in Nepal, the keynote speech is given by robot named Sophia. 2006—MV Queen of the North, a Canadian ferry four miles off course, hits an island at 17 knots and sinks with a loss of two lives. Union reps deny crewmembers were having sex at the time. 2003—The chief officer of RMS Mülheim, getting out of his chair while on watch, catches his trousers on a lever, falls and hits his head, losing consciousness. The ship runs aground at Land’s End in Cornwall, a total loss. 1987—The Mobro 4000, a barge toting 3,168 tons of …

Setting the Record Straight on WWII

by Richard Balzano Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has a skewed understanding of the Second World War. In a recent Sky News Arabia interview, Graham claimed the existential threats faced by Israel are akin to those faced by the U.S. in WWII, insisting that Israel’s military response in Gaza is no less justified than the allied choice to bomb civilian targets in Germany or the American decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan: “Just flatten it. We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo. Were we wrong to drop an atomic bomb to end the Japanese reign of terror?” He has repeatedly invoked Hiroshima and Nagasaki to justify …

Remembering Country Joe

by Ed Palm We lost a great American on March 7th. To my generation at least, he was great. I’m referring to Joseph Allen McDonald, known to his Vietnam-Generation fans as Country Joe McDonald. He died from complications of Parkinson’s disease at age 84 in his home in Berkeley, California. Country Joe burst on the scene at Woodstock with his satiric antiwar anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die-Rag.” That song poses the musical question, “What are we fightin’ for?” And Joe’s answer: “Don’t ask me. I don’t give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam.” If you’ve never heard it, Google it. A video of Country Joe’s original Woodstock performance …

Yet Another Undeclared War

by W.D. Ehrhart So here we are again, engaged in another war that can only be called “legal” by the most dubious and twisted reasoning while ignoring the right to go to war vested only in Congress by the Constitution. Let’s call this one the “Who-Is-Jeffrey-Epstein-Anyway?” War. And it’s certainly working. Once again, as he has done over and over and over again in his charmed life, our Grifter-in-Chief has evaded responsibility or accountability for his immoral, amoral, criminal behavior. Nevermind if the primary beneficiary of crippling Iran happens to be Israel, a nation that has maintained an apartheid state for over 80 years, has …

The only thing we can say with certainty, fourteen months into what ought to be called the Dunning-Kruger administration,* is that nobody knows what the hell is going on. We, its subjects, formerly known as “we the people,” certainly do not. Granted, there do seem to be two broad schools of thought about what’s going on, but their positions are diametrically opposed. If one school is right, then the other must be wrong. According to the conventional view of our tripartite form of self-government, an undefined “fourth estate” ought to be acting like a beacon, cutting through the fog, helping us to understand current events. …