War and Conflict

Unmasking the Anarchists: Occupy Oakland Returns

Occupy Oakland to Protest in Downtown Again Tonight

Debris still lingers in downtown Oakland and the stench of tear gas remains in the air after police fought off hundreds of protesters last night. Still, Occupy Oakland protesters are promising to hit the streets of downtown again tonight even after a violent and chaotic Tuesday evening when they sto ... More >>

9/11 Conspiracy Movie Festival Brings "Truthers" to Herbst Theatre

Or was it?​The details may vary, but the premise behind almost all the 9/11-conspiracy films this weekend is roughly the same: Government investigations such as the 9-11 Commission report are inadequate and may be covering up other details. Beyond that, theories vary, and the Northern California ... More >>

BART Jams Cell Phone Service to Shut Down Protests

No-speech zone?​This might just be a first in the annals of Bay Area transit agencies' political suppression (such as those annals are). BART has fessed up to jamming cell-phone signals yesterday at downtown stations in San Francisco in order to disrupt protests over the death of Charles Hill, who ... More >>

Jack Grandcolas, Husband of Flight 93 Passenger, Says Bin Laden's Death Is "As Raw as It Gets"

Lauren Grandcolas​It's been nearly a decade since the harrowing September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks masterminded by Osama bin Laden. The memory of that day became fresh again after President Barack Obama delivered the news of bin Laden's death Sunday night. A mix of shock and joy spread across t ... More >>

Life During Wartime

Lauren Grandcolas​It's been nearly a decade since the harrowing September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks masterminded by Osama bin Laden. The memory of that day became fresh again after President Barack Obama delivered the news of bin Laden's death Sunday night. A mix of shock and joy spread across t ... More >>

Reinventing the past

The head of the park patrol has some explaining to do.

"The Oath": Ghosts of 9/11 with two of bin Laden's own

The head of the park patrol has some explaining to do.

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

The head of the park patrol has some explaining to do.

GOP Senate Hopefuls Fiorina, DeVore: Give Guns to Terrorists!

Carly Fiorina wants no suspected terrorist to go unarmed​Republicans aren't generally big on respecting the constitutional rights of suspected terrorists, but -- as The New York Times' Gail Collins pointed out in a funny column yesterday -- they seem to have found their voice on one thing they don ... More >>

If BART reopens its public restrooms, then the terrorists win

Carly Fiorina wants no suspected terrorist to go unarmed​Republicans aren't generally big on respecting the constitutional rights of suspected terrorists, but -- as The New York Times' Gail Collins pointed out in a funny column yesterday -- they seem to have found their voice on one thing they don ... More >>

MSNBC's Ed Schultz Predicts: Sheehan Unseats Pelosi in 2010

Cindy Sheehan​MSNBC's second string liberal yakker Ed Schultz predicts Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war protester who took a failed shot at Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat in 2008, will make a go again in 2010 -- and possibly win.In response, Sheehan did some speculating of her own: "Is Ed Schultz sm ... More >>

Cindy Sheehan to Install Anti-Obama Camp at Washington Monument

Camp Casey at Crawford, Texas, will be erected in Washington​ Looking back at the aughts, who can forget indelible images of a war and a president that should never have been, and the makeshift camp set up outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch at Crawford Texas that challenged them ... More >>

Al Qaeda’s experimental noise attracts members of the Minutemen and Pinback

Camp Casey at Crawford, Texas, will be erected in Washington​ Looking back at the aughts, who can forget indelible images of a war and a president that should never have been, and the makeshift camp set up outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch at Crawford Texas that challenged them ... More >>

Movie Night With the 9/11 Truthers -- Conspiracy Theories, Bad Music, and, Hey! Free Popcorn!

​An evening at the 9/11 Film Festival -- sponsored by, among others, the San Francisco Bay Guardian -- which commenced last night at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. The vibe here is mild, friendly, and decidedly Baby Boomerish. The guy who takes my ticket jovially announces that there's "fre ... More >>

No End In Sight For Cindy Sheehan's World Tour

Oh, we've still got Cindy to kick around...Though George W. Bush may be out to pasture, his nemesis, San Francisco's Cindy Sheehan, shows no sign of slowing down as she campaigns for an Oregon bill that would keep National Guard troops home, appears in a documentary film honoring an AWOL anti-war so ... More >>

Anti-War Smackdown: Baez vs. Sheehan on Whether Obama Deserves His Own Camp Casey

She's closed Camp Casey outside George W. Bush's Crawford ranch and recently lost her bid to unseat Nancy Pelosi in Congress. Now Cindy Sheehan is taking on Barack Obama, claiming the U.S. president is the same sort of warmonger as her previous foes. But no less an anti-war authority ... More >>

Guantánamo's Last Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

Iraqi Shoe Guy Disses San Francisco

By Matt Smith When Muntadar al-Zaidi of Cairo-based al-Baghdadia TV threw his size 10 shoes at President George Bush, San Franciscans were thrilled. It now appears, however, that it's not just George W. Bush who was knocked down a notch by Zaidi's impressive pitching. His filthy flying apparel ma ... More >>

Tortured Reasoning

By Matt Smith When Muntadar al-Zaidi of Cairo-based al-Baghdadia TV threw his size 10 shoes at President George Bush, San Franciscans were thrilled. It now appears, however, that it's not just George W. Bush who was knocked down a notch by Zaidi's impressive pitching. His filthy flying apparel ma ... More >>

Hearts and Minds

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

Hearts and Minds

Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

Get Out of Jail Free

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

Vantage Point Blocks View of a Good Terrorism Movie

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

San Jose Merc 'Downsizing with Dynamite': Washington Post

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

Armenian Genocide Resolution Blog Posting at SFWeekly.com Draws Armenian Ire

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

Aftermath of War

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should

Pacifists for War

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

The Black Eyed

A powerful vision of four Palestinian women in the afterlife

Surprise!

If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

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.

Regime Changing

This all-American kid from Monterey is now one of the foremost experts on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Where does he go from here?

Risk Reassessment

As the Bush administration scares America witless, San Francisco might offer a model for living well in the shadow of apocalypse

Letters to the Editor

Week of November 6, 2002

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

Rude Awakening

Major news organizations need to snap out of 9/11 emotionalism and ask impolite financial questions about Saudi elites and President Bush

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?

Hope Springs Eternal

A touching exhibit of missing-persons posters that sprang up after 9/11

Peace Wars

The bitter battle over piloting a campus peace movement that hasn't even left the ground

The Spybots Among Us

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

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

The Call of Afghanistan

Young Afghan-American professionals pledge to return to their homeland to rebuild a war-ravaged nation

Caught in the Storm

A Peace Corps volunteer describes his sudden evacuation from Uzbekistan as U.S. troops arrived for an assault on Afghanistan

Letters to the Editor

More on Maher; Striking Back; Assertive. Opinionated. We Bet You're an Aries.; Editor's Note

Amused to Death

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

Earlier Warning

Hijacking on the East Coast. It was predicted.

Amused to Death

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

Body and Soul

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?