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
"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
Mayor Brown is pushing for quick approval of a Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan that gives a lot to homebuilding giant Lennar, and not nearly enough to the city or the shipyard's neighbors
Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.
An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?
A controversial San Francisco study is spending taxpayers' money to see if Christian clergy, Indian medicine men, and Tibetan lamas can heal patients with AIDS and brain tumors
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?
Local scientists are shrinking chips and wires to atomic scale, revolutionizing the electronics industry. But most of the nanotechnological advances you've read about are outsized hype.
While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal
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.
Has Office Depot taken the city for a ride? ​Let's hope the city saved its receipts. According to San Francisco's Director of the Office of Contract Administration, Naomi Kelly, the vast majority of the city's office supplies are purchased from Office Depot -- that would be the same Office Depot currently under investigation by the state Attorney General for overcharging on contracts with various public agencies around California (not to mention investigations currently under way in Miss
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