Rising Up Angry Newspaper

Front page of Rising Up Angry's newspaper May 14, 1972.  The escalation referred to was the bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITSb--T7pGix1xc0A4BtwF2fWh2PAcqL/view?usp=sharing

Senator George McGovern Announces Antiwar Run for President

On January 18, 1971 George McGovern announced his candidacy for president.  His campaign was probably the most left-leaning campaign under the flag of one of the two main parties ever (until Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign, anyhow.)  McGovern promised to withdraw all US forces from Vietnam within sixty days of his inauguration and give amnesty to all draft resisters. He ultimately won the Democratic nomination, despite the best efforts of the centrist/conservative wing of the party.
Here is the text of his announcement:
http://www.4president.org/speeches/mcgovern1972announcement.htm

Unfortunately, he would lose the election to Richard Nixon in November 1972.

The Shah of Iran Leaves!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/16/newsid_2530000/2530475.stm

June 13, 1971 Pentagon Papers

The Nixon regime shut the Times down, but was overturned by the courts.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/2011_PENTAGON_PAPERS.html?_r=0

March 29, 1971--Two Mass Murderers Convicted

On March 29, 1971, Charles Manson was convicted for his role in the murders of Sharon Tate and six others in 1969 in California.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/charles-manson-the-incredible-story-of-the-most-dangerous-man-alive-19700625

Lt. William Calley was convicted for his role in the murders of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in 1968 in MyLai, Vietnam.
http://famous-trials.com/mylaicourts/1656-myl-intro

Winter Soldier Investigation January 31 - February 2, 1971

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Winter_Soldier/WS_entry.html

Bombings in Puerto Rico and Manhattan, January 1975

On January 11, 1975, Cuban exile (gusanos) CIA-paid terrorists killed two young Peurto Rican Independentistas and maimed a child in a restaurant in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.  A couple weeks later, the FALN set off a bomb in a tavern in the Wall Street district of Manhattan in response.  They issued a communique to go with the attack.  Here is the link:
http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC22_scans/22.defense.armed.struggle.1975.pdf

The Christmas Bombings of Vietnam 1972

I was 17 years old in 1972 and I was pissed off.  It was getting near Christmas and every day that I turned the news on the radio I would hear about another flurry of bombing raids on northern Vietnamese cities by hundreds of US bombers.  Hospitals were being bombed.  Civilian neighborhoods were being destroyed and Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and the rest of the war pigs were getting ready for their particular holidays.  I recall going to a protest in downtown Frankfurt against the bombings.  Particularly galling was the targeting of the hospitals.  Indeed, Bach Mai hospital was attacked more than once, killing more than 25 doctors and an unknown number of patients.  Here is a recollection from Vietnam Veteran Against the War Barry Romo, who was in Hanoi during the bombings.
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=2204

Takeover of Bureau of Indian Affairs....Mutiny on the USS Constellation: November 1972

On November 2, 1972, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington , DC.
https://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/native-americans-take-over-bureau-of-indian-affairs-1972/

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, sailors were staging a mutiny on board the USS Constellation.  This was after a riot on board the Kitty Hawk a couple weeks earlier....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B01dj5QyuLDeWXJvWXl4SE9KZEU/view?usp=sharing

The October 1973 War

It was this war that arguably made it clear to Israel that their actions would be backed by Washington, no matter what... It also precipitated an oil embargo and an increase in gas prices, among other changes that affect our current situation....

here is the NSA set of reports, etc.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98/