Tag: Volume 270 | No. 19 - Page 2 - The New Hampshire Gazette

Mon, June 1

2020—The President asks, about people protesting outside the White House, “Can’t you just shoot them?” 2005—Having wrecked Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz starts on the World Bank. 2002—George W.[MD] Bush announces at West Point that we’ll attack pre-emptively if he feels like it. 1980—Ted Turner launches CNN—the 24-hour news cycle commences. 1971—The New York Times swallows Chuck Colson’s bait: a “vets group” he created says that it backs the war. 1967—Disgruntled GIs found Vietnam Veterans Against the War. 1954—The AEC pulls the security clearance of Manhattan Project boss J. Robert Oppenheimer. 1950—Maine’s Margaret C. Smith asks fellow Republicans to renounce the “Four Horsemen of Calumny–Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, …

Sun, May 31

2009—Dr. George Tiller, while ushering in a Wichita, Kansas church, is shot dead to uphold the sanctity of life. 1989—As Newt drives him from the Speakership, Jim Wright [D-Texas], denounces “mindless cannibalism.” 1948—Two years after Palestinians in Huj hid Haganah fighters from British forces, Israeli troops flatten Huj and drive out Palestinians. 1927—Fred Trump, Donald’s dad, is arrested at a KKK rally in Queens. 1921—A Black WW I veteran in Tulsa refuses a demand to surrender his pistol. During a struggle it fires; a massive “race war” ensues. 1921—The mistrial of Sacco and Vanzetti begins under Judge Webster “Did you see what I did with …

Philip Caputo: Presente

by W.D. Ehrhart I was saddened to hear that Philip Caputo has died. Caputo first came to prominence as the author of A Rumor of War, published in 1977, and one of the most widely read memoirs of the American War in Vietnam. I first got to know him over 35 years ago during a trip to Vietnam when we were both members of a delegation to the first-ever Conference of U.S. and Vietnamese Veteran-Writers held in Hanoi in June 1990. This turned out to be a very interesting trip for an assortment of reasons. There was the conference itself, of course, which took place …

The World’s Biggest Pusher

by Richard Balzano The United States kidnapped Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in January 2026* on now-crumbling allegations that he headed the fictional “Cartel of the Suns.” Washington framed Maduro as a narco-terrorist kingpin to justify what was effectively an act of war disguised as law enforcement, but prosecutors are now quietly backing away from the bolder claims used to rationalize his abduction. The irony, of course, is that the United States has spent decades enabling narcotrafficking in the name of democracy. For 40+ years Washington waged its unsuccessful War on Drugs alongside its oft-illegal Cold War pursuits. In the American hierarchy of foreign-policy values, anticommunism …

Stand Up, People!

To the Editor: When President Trump started the war with Iran, he said it would last two to four weeks. Then it was four to six weeks. Now he said it will not last as long as the ten-year long Vietnam war. He also said he does not care about the economic pain this war is causing the American people. The pain is real, not just in the price of gasoline. Food, energy, electricity, rents, mortgages, and health care are all rising. The cost of living in March was 1.2 percent higher than in February and April was 0.9 percent higher than in March. This …

We should be grateful. Despite our modest size, as the Nation’s Oldest Newspaper™ we feel obligated to record, to the best of our ability, the essence of each fortnight as it passes. As everyone knows who has not yet retreated, for mental health purposes, to the wilderness or a bunker, current events have been, for the past decade or so, a constant barrage from every direction of the simply unbelievable. We are not complaining. As Hyman Roth said to Michael Corleone, “this is the business we’ve chosen.” We merely wish to establish how challenging it can be to winnow out, from this bizarre maelstrom of …