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Subject: Military and Defense Policy

  • Oops: Pentagon Accidentally Sent Taiwan Nuclear Material. Again.

    March 25, 2008
  • Chevron's Prince of Darkness

    By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April, two months before the Senate Arms Services Committee (SASC) completed a bipartisan investigation that found Haynes' actions at the Department of Defense "deeply troubling." In 2002 Haynes recomm

    December 24, 2008
  • All the Rage: Pentagon Grants SFSU Prof $1.9M to Analyze How Emotion Leads to Violence Among Ideologues

    "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." In a move that required little reading between the lines, the Department of Defense yesterday announced a  $1.9 million Minerva Research Initiative Award for Professor David Matsumoto and his work on the role emotion plays in driving religious and ideological groups to violence. That's right -- this is all about ... Dutch soccer hooliganism! The Pentagon wants to understand -- and quash -- rampant football violence in the Low Countries. Or maybe it's mo

    January 23, 2009
  • Off-Base (Part II)

    January 10, 1996
  • BART’s Radar Dreams

    August 23, 2006
  • Fun With Flesh Wounds

    The epic poem Beowulf gets the Monty Python treatment

    June 28, 2006
  • Blood Business

    Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

    February 8, 2006
  • Chemical Welfare

    The government accuses Bechtel of mismanagement as a smoke screen to avoid paying for alternative means of destroying deadly gases

    February 9, 2005
  • Keeping Occupied

    Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

    February 11, 2004
  • Rolling in War Bucks

    How the state public employees' retirement system and the politically connected Carlyle Group profit from defense

    October 22, 2003
  • The World According to Bechtel

    There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

    June 18, 2003
  • The Tangled Path to a Response

    As we prepare to retaliate for last week's atrocities, let's take time to be sure of our targets

    September 19, 2001
  • Asking, Telling

    The Pentagon claims gays who serve openly undermine the force, but a local researcher's evidence says otherwise. Could his work help President Bush make life better for gay soldiers than it ever was under Clinton?

    January 31, 2001
  • Tapped Out

    There're not enough buglers and honor guards to keep pace with dying vets

    January 19, 2000
  • Military Might

    Stanford activists in fight against laws forcing campuses to accept recruiters

    May 26, 1999
  • Dirty Dealings at the Dock

    San Francisco is planning to take title to the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard before the military completes an environmental cleanup. The move could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars -- or more.

    February 25, 1998
  • Hey, Sailor!

    The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

    May 3, 1995
  • Paper Trails

    April 26, 1995