U.S. Department of Defense

"A Place at the Table": Hunger in America

Good Stranger: DoD Records Citizens' Encounters with SFPD

"The Invisible War": Military Sexual Predators Revealed

S.F. Civil Liberties Group Wants Feds to Stop Being So Secretive about Drones

​The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the U.S. Department of Transportation, claiming that the feds are withholding important details about drones -- the unmanned aircraft used in the military --  and under what circumstances public and private entities be allowed to use them. Accordin ... More >>

Obama Talks Jobs at LinkedIn

​On his swing through the West Coast, President Barack Obama stopped in Silicon Valley today where he answered questions for an hour at LinkedIn's campus in Mountain View. His main focus: Jobs. He deftly turned almost every question from the audience back into a endorsement; for his newly propos ... More >>

Week in Gay: Ted Haggard is Bisexual and Anderson Cooper has a 'Companion'

Coming after cousin Geri​This edition of The Week in Gay is a potpourri (either a miscellaneous collection of stories or a mixture of dried flowers and spices) of four categories - plus an extra special bonus!Included are updates on the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the latest stories from San F ... More >>

Travel writer Edward Hasbrouck sues Homeland Security over travel data

Facial Profiling

Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?

War games: Soldiers reenact life and death in Iraq and Afghanistan

Getting Carded

The Green Zone: Mission finally accomplished

S.F. to Office Depot: How Much Were Those Paperclips Again?

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 D ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

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 >>

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 >>

Kim Kardashian's Ass, Jessica Sierra's Sextape - The Best and Worst of Sex in 2007

BART’s Radar Dreams

No $$ for Blood

Blood Business

Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

Protest Song

What Are Words For?

Asymmetric Warfare: The Game

Advances in ultrarealistic simulation let soldiers experience the war in Iraq -- before they go

Chemical Welfare

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

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 2, 2005

The Dog Bites Interview: Robots That Protest

An interview with men who make robots that protest.

Arts Explosion

Music, lit, and art collide

Keeping Occupied

Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

Glowing Review

The Navy says radiation levels are within federal safety guidelines, but are higher than what is legally acceptable for the property to be transferred

Diseaseville

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.

Uncle Sam Needs You to Be a Suspected Terrorist

Wise-ass humor is the best way to fight the Bush administration's anti-terror excesses. And, hey, wise-ass humor is what we do best.

The World According to Bechtel

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

Big Doctor Is Watching

As of April 14, the national security police can monitor your medical records without your knowledge. So can the local police.

Nervous in the Service

As war looms in Iraq, some U.S. reservists are trying to get out of their military obligations

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 1, 2003

The New Defenders

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?

The Spybots Among Us

How the NSA tracks terrorists in the United States through the Internet

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?

The View From Here

In the Cold War, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. saw "remote viewing" as a weapon. What about now?

You Could Be Jammin'

There's a way to foil rude cell phone users. But it's illegal.

Tapped Out

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

When Cesar Reigned

An aging journalist remembers 1999, when an election became a revolution, and the city changed forever

Military Might

Stanford activists in fight against laws forcing campuses to accept recruiters

Music.competition

With MP3s under attack and major labels designing new standards, three Bay Area firms try to corner the market on online music

No Fishin'

The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

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.

Letters

A Pollution Breakthrough

Powerful new environmental cleanup regime relies on expert use of votive candles, flowers

Anchors Awry

Up Close and Personal sinks lower than the intellectual wasteland of the TV news it depicts

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

Dog Bites

Dog Bites