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The Pentagon

  • News

    May 2, 2012

    Our Military Has a Gambling Problem

    Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate--where's the military when the chips are down?

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Robert Bales May Have Been Psychotic, Says Army's Former Top Psychiatrist Elspeth Ritchie

    UPDATE: The Huffington Post revealed on Sunday that the Pentagon has launched an investigation into the military's use of the anti-malarial drug Larium, whose possible connection with the Bales' massacre was raised by this post last Tuesday. The Pentagon subsequently denied that the investigation i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    New Gulf War Illness Findings Reflect Difficulty Troops Have Proving Injuries Aren't Imaginary

    ​As this week's 393-obituaries-long print edition underscores, death is one of the ways of keeping score in America's wars. But as we reported in 2004 and detailed in a book, Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers, it's the lesser-noticed post-war toll that truly determines the country' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    How UW's Angry Birds Almost Became the Secret Weapon Against Osama Bin Laden

    ​An interesting study was carried out at the University of Washington a few years back. Wildlife Sciences Professor John Marzluff and his team of researchers would wear caveman masks while they captured and tagged crows. The crows quickly recognized the caveman masks and what they represented ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Can We Now Get Back to Being Human?

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.​By now there is scant little that I could possibly add to the actual detail of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Well, nothing at least, that hasn't been said or printed hundreds of times by now. This column of mine started a coup ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Rolling Stone Publishes New Gruesome Afghan "Kill Team" Photos and Video, Links Other Soldiers to Murders

    ​Early last week, when the German magazine Der Spiegel published three graphic photographs of dead Afghan civilians killed for sport by drug-addled soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord's 5th Stryker Brigade, there was a sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop. It was only three photograp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Seven Food Technologies I Wish Existed Right Now

    Better living through chemistry!​So earlier today, I wrote a brief piece about this cool new map gizmo for folks looking to navigate Portland's maze of street food trucks and carts. And that was all well and good--a cool toy that I now covet like the neglected step-brother on Christmas morning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Daniel Ellsberg Takes the Stand in Tacoma, Testifies in Case of Anti-War Demonstrator

    ​The war in Iraq "is a clear-cut crime against the peace," said 79-year-old Daniel Ellsberg yesterday, dropping in for a brief appearance before a Pierce County jury attempting to determine if an Olympia anti-war protester broke the law by standing in front of a military vehicle. Civil disobe ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    Watching the Protesters

    These spies may have known too much.

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    We Musicians Can Do Better Than an Arizona Boycott

    Krist Novoselic's column on music and politics runs every Tuesday on Reverb. Check back on Friday when he writes about what he's been listening to.​Sound Strike, a group of musicians--led by Rage Against the Machine, and including Kanye West, Sonic Youth, and Massive Attack--are calling for a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Rock in Rio, Billy Idol, and Loving What You've Got

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.​As our flight took us somewhere above Central America, the pilot came on to tell us the United States had just attacked Iraq in something that the Pentagon dubbed "Operation: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    It's Force-Feeding Time, and Someone's (Not) Hungry for Some More Boeing Planes

    How you like them transport planes, birdie?​The Air Force said it already has enough Boeing C-17s. The Pentagon said it didn't want anymore C-17s. (These are not entities known for their fiscal restraint, mind you.) So what did Congress do? Give them some more C-17s! Thus, the military/industr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    And Then There Were Six: New Mayoral Challenger Wants to Build Giant Viaduct

    Campbell's proposed viaduct. And a giant sailboat.Elizabeth Campbell is having difficulty collecting signatures for her "Yes Viaduct!" campaign, but she nevertheless wants to run for mayor. (Perhaps to collect more signatures?). The 56-year-old Magnolian is best known for wanting to build a mega-meg ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2008

    The Army’s Brain Lives in Seattle

    Cray Inc. is improving soldiers’ armor, tanks, and supercomputers, thanks to millions in government contracts.

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    No Retirement For Pentagon's Gates?

    Gates and son Brad, a Wazzu grad Skagit County resident and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apparently won't be returning in January to retire at his Big Lake home. The word from D.C. is that Gates, a Bush appointee, will be staying on under the Obama administration to head the Pentagon. He ... More >>

  • Music

    June 18, 2008

    The RZA’s Edge

    Wu-Tang’s ayatollah once again drops his sword for some digital bullets.

  • News

    November 7, 2007

    Inslee's Hot for Change; Local Soldiers Lost in the Other War

    Selections from the Daily Weekly, our news, politics, and media blog.

  • Diversions

    August 2, 2006

    Pramila Jayapal

    Best Foe of Hatred

  • News

    January 25, 2006

    Arson as Political Speech

    Best Foe of Hatred

  • Film

    November 9, 2005

    Winter Soldier

    Runs Fri., Nov. 10–Wed., Nov. 23, at Northwest Film Forum.

  • News

    September 28, 2005

    Future Minefields

    Runs Fri., Nov. 10–Wed., Nov. 23, at Northwest Film Forum.

  • News

    August 31, 2005

    Home Front Casualties

    Murders and suicides by military personnel might be part of the Iraq war toll.

  • News

    June 15, 2005

    The Few, the Recruits

    Murders and suicides by military personnel might be part of the Iraq war toll.

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Memo to Mainstream Media

    Murders and suicides by military personnel might be part of the Iraq war toll.

  • News

    April 6, 2005

    Mad as Hell

    And they're not going to take it anymore. But no one has a plan to reclaim the media.

  • News

    March 30, 2005

    Stopping 'Stop-Loss'

    The federal 9th Circuit Court is coming to Seattle to hear the case of a National Guard soldier forced to stay on.

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Iraq Flack

    Out of uniform, Control Room's military spokesperson has plenty to say, with even more candor, about how the Iraq war is being reported.

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    The Alternative War

    Out of uniform, Control Room's military spokesperson has plenty to say, with even more candor, about how the Iraq war is being reported.

  • News

    February 23, 2005

    Transfer of Wealth

    Out of uniform, Control Room's military spokesperson has plenty to say, with even more candor, about how the Iraq war is being reported.

  • News

    February 16, 2005

    Business, The Police, Media

    Out of uniform, Control Room's military spokesperson has plenty to say, with even more candor, about how the Iraq war is being reported.

  • News

    December 1, 2004

    'Embarrassing Don'

    New Air Force e-mails released by Sen. John McCain throw light on the Boeing tanker scandal.

  • News

    November 24, 2004

    How 9/11 Trumped N30

    Bush and bin Laden have changed the globalization game.

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Strippergate and Starbucks

    What the Colacurcios could learn from Seattle's leading companies.

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Censorship Begins at Home

    In the current climate, ignorance is seen as strength.

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Monorail Recall's Initiative 83

    In the current climate, ignorance is seen as strength.

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Airbus America

    The European plane maker wants to build aerial tankers in the U.S. So Washington state is wooing Airbus to locate here, as it did with Boeing, right? Right? Wrong.

  • News

    July 14, 2004

    The Home Affront

    They fight for us, obediently. Yet in conflict after conflict, American soldiers are injected, gassed, medicated, experimented on, exposed to chemicals, and given faulty weapons and equipment by their own government. Then they come home to vanishing veterans benefits and Pentagon stonewalling.

  • News

    March 26, 2003

    Never Enough Peace

    The politics of keeping a movement alive after the war.

  • Film

    January 15, 2003

    The Marxist Brothers

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    Mourning in America

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • News

    September 12, 2001

    Medium and massacre

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    Nuclear thaw

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • News

    January 3, 2001

    When The Seattle Times decided that employing a cranky thief was more

    Frenchman Chris Marker mourns the decline of the left, but Comrade Michael Moore is reraising the red flag.

  • Diversions

    September 6, 2000

    Evil empires

    He has met the enemies.

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    Target: Kaiser

    He has met the enemies.

  • News

    January 26, 2000

    The scam that won't die

    He has met the enemies.

  • Film

    November 17, 1999

    Last Night

    A Canadian take on the millennium.

  • News

    May 12, 1999

    Solid as an '88 Sable

    Boeing's Apache helicopters are lying low in Kosovo.

  • Arts

    March 3, 1999

    Books Quarterly: God Damn the Pusher Man

    And God bless the patron saint of America's only sane drug policy: Dick Nixon.

  • News

    November 4, 1998

    Something Kennewicked this way comes

    Boneheads gather as Kennewick man comes to town.

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