Military and Defense Policy

Oops: Pentagon Accidentally Sent Taiwan Nuclear Material. Again.

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 ... More >>

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 ideologic ... More >>

Off-Base (Part II)

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

BART’s Radar Dreams

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

Fun With Flesh Wounds

The epic poem Beowulf gets the Monty Python treatment

Blood Business

Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

Chemical Welfare

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

Keeping Occupied

Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

Rolling in War Bucks

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

The World According to Bechtel

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

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

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?

Tapped Out

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

Military Might

Stanford activists in fight against laws forcing campuses to accept recruiters

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.

Hey, Sailor!

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

Paper Trails

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

List: Checkout time

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

The Green Zone: Mission finally accomplished

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

Getting Carded

The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

DADT Repeal: With All Deliberate Speed -- Or None At All?

​The Week in GayThe repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is fucking mess, but I think there might be a way to fix things. If we act quickly. This is a real longshot -- and it's not guaranteed to work -- but we need get our hands on some mercury. Lots of it. A flock of Ibises in Florida has been rendered ... More >>

Donald Rumsfeld Calls Oakland Raiders 'Evil'

Is this the face of evil?​In a recent interview that just so happened to take place on Super Bowl Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld -- who was notoriously regarded as callous during his term as Defense Secretary during George W. Bush's Iraq War -- dropped another "evildoer" reference. But this time he was t ... More >>

Wikileaks' Julian Assange and NYT's Bill Keller Trade Barbs at UC Berkeley

Matt Smith Assange via skype ​Julian Assange is a paranoid, misguided, smelly bag lady -- not an open government hero. And New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller? Well, he is a cynical dissembler interested more in covering his own ass than telling the truth.A couple hundred journalists, incl ... More >>

Clinton, Panetta Stop in San Francisco

I'll tell you what a cesspool is ​Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will arrive in San Francisco Wednesday to talk with their Australian counterparts over a proposed base-sharing agreement.According to a Monday U.S. State Department bulletin:Secretary Clinton ... More >>