U.S. Armed Forces

Porn Ban For U.S. Armed Forces?

The porn industry has had a rough five years, from an online migration of content that has pirated its products to a drive in its hometown of L.A. to require condoms on-set. Now a conservative group wants to cut off one of adult media's key constituencies -- the military:

Helicopter Noise Law Would Protect Westsiders From Noise Endured By The Rest Of L.A.

Sick and tired of helicopters flying low over your neighborhood? California-based federal legislators, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, today introduced the "Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act" to restrict flight paths and limit how low choppers can fly. ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2012: Documentaries

'Stop AB 131': Long Beach Council Candidate Robert Wideman Runs on Anti-DREAM Act Platform

Robert Wideman via FacebookRepublican on a last-minute mission.​Even in the weird, weird world of final-hour indie City Council candidates, Robert Wideman is a real gem. Not to be confused with that SEO-friendly Robert Wideman currently serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania, of "FREE AN INN ... More >>

Black Women Are Scientifically Proven to be Less Attractive to Other Females?

Psychology Today​When we saw links to this piece on Facebook we wrote it off as a hoax or a hack. The headline read, "Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women ... ?" Didn't make sense to us in the age of Beyonce and all her womanly features, which seem to be admir ... More >>

Sarah Goes Hawaiian

Somali Pirates: America Started It!

​It's easy to characterize hijackin', ransomin' third-world pirates as old-fashioned Disney fiction. But the Los Angeles Times, who apparently has some speed-dials in dangerous waters, proves -- in today's "Deaths of Americans at hands of Somali pirates a troubling escalation in violence, exp ... More >>

LA Weekly In Alleged Cover-Up Of Mystery Missile Trail Over SoCal Skies

CBS2Contrails or just a con job by the government and media?​As far as conspiracy theories go, this one is huge, because it requires the cooperation of not only the U.S. Armed Forces, the Federal Aviation Administration and major airlines, but it also requires little old us to be in on the dea ... More >>

After 64 Years, Filipino World War II Veterans Say It's About Time They Get Their Benefits

VA Benefit Blog64 years is a long time​ Filipino World War II veterans and their supporters are making their way down Temple Street in LA as part of today's rally, urging US lawmakers to give them their military benefits after 64 years of waiting. Participants from 16 schools joined the even ... More >>

Talking Books Keep Visually Impaired Veterans Happy and Engaged

World War II veteran Peter Hobbs has listened to 630 talking books​ Vision impairment have become an increasingly common health problem among US military troops, 158,000 of whom are currently visually impaired or have poor vision. Such eye ailments make it close to impossible to enjoy activi ... More >>

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

Summer of Tough Love: Iraqi Double Agent Remains in Limbo

Stage Raw: Miss Translation

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this the latest NEW REVIEWS and this week's THEATER FEATURE on the 2009 Pacific Playwrights' FestivalDenise Uyehars and eggs: Photo courtesy of HighwaysMISS TRANSLATION Performer Denise Uyehara presents her "interactive evening o ... More >>

The Man in the Mirrored Sunglasses: From El Salvador to D.C.'s Oliver North Hearings, the Weekly Far From Home

Dances with detached strangers

Dexter Filkins' The Forever War: Eight Years (and Counting) in Iraq and Afghanistan

Restrained writing brings power to writer's firsthand accounts of Middle-East conflict

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Administration’s case against Iran sounds hauntingly familiar

Run, Rummy, Run!

Could the Pinochet precedent keep Donald on the lam?

In Defense of Defenders

The 13th Festival of Preservation

All Finked Up

The Military Games People Play

And the artists who play right back

Letters

Misspeak No Evil

Make War, Not Breasts

War by Numbers

Top Ten Bush Administration Outrages

The Killing Years

Death in El Salvador, bloody hands in Washington

Queers in the Military

Ten years later, the casualties of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” may be nearing an end

Ending the Silence

Finally, 9/11 detainees get their day in court

Afghanistan Revisited

The Weekly’s Ben Ehrenreich reports from Kabul

Weapons of Mass Compliance

Now at a tech lab near you, agony-inducing tools that will control your disorderly tendencies and blast those riotous urges

Fascinating Fascism

Letters

Saving Dugongs

The U.S. military faces a battle of another kind in Japan

The Back Story

Why we fight

The Back Story

Shock and Awe

Pro-war propaganda

Hold the Missiles — Please

L.A.’s Iraqi community opposes Bush war march

Mission Creep

Bush finds his Vietnam

Axis of Insanity

George, the war’s history

America's Most Unwanted

Letters

Who’s Bin Smokin’ What?

Their blowback . . . and ours

Al-Jazeera All the Time

The Case for a Cease-fire

It’s the Oil

For all of punditry’s hot air, the root cause remains the same

Southern Front

The Bush administration’s shell game in Colombia

The War at Home

Local Progressives Talk About Kosovo

Local anti-war groups struggle to mobilize opposition