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U.S. Department of Defense

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Travel writer Edward Hasbrouck sues Homeland Security over travel data

    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 >>

  • News

    July 14, 2010

    Facial Profiling

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

  • Culture

    May 19, 2010

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

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

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2010

    Getting Carded

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

  • Film

    March 10, 2010

    The Green Zone: Mission finally accomplished

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

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    April 15, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • News

    June 20, 2007

    An Army of Uno

    Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    BART’s Radar Dreams

    Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    No $$ for Blood

    Struggling to find homegrown recruits, the military is persuading immigrants to enlist by dangling promises of U.S. citizenship

  • Film

    February 8, 2006

    Blood Business

    Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

  • Music

    June 1, 2005

    Protest Song

    What Are Words For?

  • News

    April 13, 2005

    Asymmetric Warfare: The Game

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

  • News

    February 9, 2005

    Chemical Welfare

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

  • News

    February 2, 2005

    Weekly Obsessions

    Things we were obsessing about on Feb. 2, 2005

  • News

    November 24, 2004

    The Dog Bites Interview: Robots That Protest

    An interview with men who make robots that protest.

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2004

    Arts Explosion

    Music, lit, and art collide

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2004

    Keeping Occupied

    Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

  • News

    October 1, 2003

    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

  • News

    August 27, 2003

    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.

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    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.

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    The World According to Bechtel

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

  • News

    May 28, 2003

    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.

  • News

    March 12, 2003

    Nervous in the Service

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

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of January 1, 2003

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    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?

  • News

    January 9, 2002

    A Test of Faith

    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

  • News

    December 19, 2001

    The Spybots Among Us

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

  • News

    January 31, 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?

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    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?

  • News

    July 5, 2000

    You Could Be Jammin'

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

  • News

    January 19, 2000

    Tapped Out

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

  • News

    October 13, 1999

    When Cesar Reigned

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

  • News

    May 26, 1999

    Military Might

    Stanford activists in fight against laws forcing campuses to accept recruiters

  • Music

    April 28, 1999

    Music.competition

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

  • News

    July 29, 1998

    No Fishin'

    The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    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.

  • News

    January 7, 1998

    Letters

    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.

  • News

    November 26, 1997

    A Pollution Breakthrough

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

  • News

    April 2, 1997

    Bus to Nowhere

    Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

  • Film

    February 28, 1996

    Anchors Awry

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

  • News

    January 10, 1996

    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

  • News

    July 5, 1995

    Dog Bites

    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

  • News

    June 28, 1995

    Dog Bites

    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

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