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Subject: U.S. Army Activities

  • Worst Mix Tape Ever: The Torture Playlist

    March 7, 2008
  • This Week in the Wacky World of Food

    September 12, 2008
  • Examiner Swims Against Local Tide

    September 26, 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
  • Very Minor Miracle

    No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

    September 24, 2008
  • Letters to the Editor

    July 4, 2007
  • Nostalgia Trip

    Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

    December 20, 2006
  • Virtual Quagmire

    The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

    December 14, 2005
  • Pacifists for War

    How the fractured counterrecruitment movement includes those hoping to bring the draft back

    November 2, 2005
  • What the Left Got Wrong About Iraq

    Anti-war activists ignored Saddam Hussein's horrendous crimes against ordinary Iraqis. Do they have anything -- beyond anti-Bush demonstrations -- to offer the oppressed in Iran and Syria?

    May 25, 2005
  • Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, October 13, 2004

    October 13, 2004
  • Under the Gun

    Why the Army thinks a 30-year-old college-educated California bull rider will help it recruit soldiers during wartime

    September 29, 2004
  • Remembrance of a War Past

    An unfond look back at Freedom Toast, TV jingoes, and a pro-war bully called Tony Hall

    April 16, 2003
  • 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
  • Saving Private Mad Max

    Mel Gibson stars in The Patriot

    June 28, 2000
  • South to the Future

    Military to Form PC Corps

    November 17, 1999
  • Be-Siege'd

    November 4, 1998
  • The Invisible Veterans

    Thousands of Filipinos fought and spied and suffered and died under American command to help us win World War II. The U.S. government says the soldiers who survived -- now elderly, often living in poverty -- aren't worthy of military benefits. Four storie

    July 16, 1997
  • When the Bay was Groun Zero

    A look at the Cold War ghosts that haunt the rim of the city

    October 16, 1996
  • As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie

    July 8, 2009
  • Few Show For California Redwoods' Football Opener -- But Fans Still Manage to Have Fun (Legally and Illegally)

    Jim HerdThere is grandeur in this view of life...​Text by Joe Eskenazi. Gorgeous photos by Jim Herd. In the many months between when we first reported the inception of the San Francisco-based United Football League up to the moment we wandered into a largely abandoned AT&T Park for the Saturday night home debut of the California Redwoods, we never did figure out the league's "mission statement." The UFL, it reads, "was developed to fulfill the unmet needs of football fans in major markets

    October 19, 2009