Greg Goldin

Retired General Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak, who commanded the U.S. Air Force during the first Gulf War in 1991, believes the Bush administration will pay a hefty diplomatic price for its handling of the buildup to war in Iraq. America, he says, is indisputably the world’s pre-eminent power, but that......

Anti-war protesters assembled last Sunday in the heart of downtown L.A. at Pershing Square, the park consecrated to one of America’s first true imperial procurators, John J. Pershing, the military commander who helped suppress the Philippine insurrection at the beginning of the last century. Pershing’s president, William McKinley, said of......

Photo byVirginia Lee Hunter On Saturday, a noisy, mostly young contingent of 3,500 anti-war protesters assembled at Hollywood and Vine, the site of January's impressively larger demonstration, to begin the fourth local march in as many days of war in Iraq. The rally, sponsored by ANSWER, was called not so......

Photos by Ted Soqui ON A RECENT SATURDAY, just a few days before President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, spoke of America’s imminent “liberation for Iraq,” two young men walked into an Army recruiting office located in a generic mini-mall, one block north of the......

The last word has finally been entered on the sordid history of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the paramilitary band that burst into the national spotlight with the February 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. Four former SLA members pleaded guilty last week to second-degree murder in the shotgun slaying......

The trial of Winona Ryder, who was found guilty of two felonies in a compromise verdict Wednesday, was never really about guilt or innocence. It was not a case of ”shoplifting,“ as Mark Geragos, the attorney for the 31-year-old actress, constantly asserted. Nor was it grand theft and felony vandalism,......

LAST WEEK THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based think tank, released its dossier, "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment." The report reviews what is known about Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs -- past, present and future. The evidence is, at times, scant and......

Photos by Gregory Bojorquez To the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay envelope and escapes responsibility. —Graham Greene It is just past midnight, within the first half-hour of Friday, July 26, and the Los Angeles Police......

Photos by Ted Soqui THE DECISIVE QUESTION TO ASK ABOUT the opening of The Grove at Farmers Market is, Why? The question was asked, in other forms, years before construction began on the 575,000-square-foot shopping center that now looms over Third Street, near Fairfax, like a penitentiary wall. Why build......

The sentencing of Sara Jane Olson last Friday to 25 years to life for her role in the attempted pipe bombings of two LAPD patrol cars might have permitted the 55-year-old defendant to slip back into the relative comfort of obscurity, and quietly deal with her private regrets, while the......