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War and Conflict

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Silent Protest Against Turkey's Armenian Genocide Denial Campaign to Happen Tomorrow at UC Irvine

    ​Earlier this week, the French Senate passed a resolution making it a crime in France to deny the Armenian genocide, a historical reality accepted by everyone except the Republic of Turkey and many of its citizens. As a result, many Turkish-American organizations in this country are already blasti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Dana Rohrabacher and Loretta Sanchez Joined at the Hip on Afghanistan

    ​There was a time during the unresolved county redistricting process when it appeared the congressional districts of Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) might melt into one.Maybe that explains why these Members of Congress are starting to sound like one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Osama Bin Laden's Death Praised by Mother of Fallen Navy SEAL

    ​Debbie Lee and Danny Gonzalez of Cypress are the spokespeople for Sacramento-based pro-troops organization Move America Forward. To reach Lee, a Gold Star mother who tours the country on behalf of the group, you go through Gonzalez.Late last night, the mother of Marc A. Lee, a Navy SEAL who was k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Edina Lekovic, SoCal Muslim Official, Relieved and Grateful Osama Bin Laden was Taken Out

    ​Edina Lekovich, director of policy and programming with the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Los Angeles, is married to an Egyptian-American who grew up in Orange County.While she agrees with Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) leaders who say their faith forbids them from "dancing on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Armenians Beginning to Protest Kobe Bryant Over Endorsement Deal with Turkish Airlines

    ​A couple of weeks ago, the Los Angeles sports radio airwaves burned with anger as Southern California's massive Armenian-American community expressed their anger with a hero: Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant. Seemed that Bryant had signed an endorsement deal with Turkish Airlines, a company p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    OC's Adam "Goat Boy" Gadahn Still Alive, Now Hates Obama

    ​The last time we heard from Adam Yahihe Gadahn, the American voice of Al Qaeda, was four months ago, when he was reported to have been arrested in Karachi, Pakistan. Within a day, those reports had been retracted in keeping with previously discredited reports that Gadahn, better known in the Nave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Dana Rohrabacher Is Now A Sage? Hehehehe

    Broken clock is right more often than Dana​"Sending 30,000 more combat troops to Afghanistan will not make us any safer. Focusing a strategy around the central government in Kabul will not work, especially with a government as corrupt as the Karzai regime. Sending more American combat troop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Irvine Mosque Speaks: OC Weekly World Exclusive!

    On Feb. 21, FBI agents arrested Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, an Afghan immigrant, and charged him with lying about his brother-in-law's status as an alleged Al Qaeda terrorist. A few days later, Craig Monteilh, a convicted con artist, held a press conference to announce that he was an FBI informant and ha ... More >>

  • News

    April 30, 2009

    The FBI, the Islamic Center of Irvine and Craig Monteilh: Who Was Conning Whom?

    On Feb. 21, FBI agents arrested Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, an Afghan immigrant, and charged him with lying about his brother-in-law's status as an alleged Al Qaeda terrorist. A few days later, Craig Monteilh, a convicted con artist, held a press conference to announce that he was an FBI informant and ha ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    In Darfur

    Waltmar Theater

  • Calendar

    January 1, 2009

    Code Pink

    Waltmar Theater

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Local Armenian Genocide Denier Demands Apology...From Armenians

    *Updated, with new information on the bottom...In the Department of WTF comes this: local Armenian genocide denier Ergun Kirlikovali is circulating an online petition demanding an apology from, amongst other groups, the Armenians that the Ottoman Empire genocided in the early 1900s!In his most recen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Local Armenian Genocide Deniers Trying to Influence Congressional Race

    *Moved up, because the conversation is fun. Non-Armenians and non-Turks encouraged to comment! The Los Angeles Times had a fascinating story yesterday about how Turkish businessmen held a fundraiser last month in Orange County for the opponent of Glendale-area Congressman Adam Schiff. They don't li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    Goat Boy: Not So Dead Edition

    With the global economy teetering on the brink of self-destruction, America still fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Pakistan, the LA Times about to fire the 75 people who somehow haven't been fired yet, and the Angels out of the race for the pennant, it's about time for a feel-good human int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    Pentagon Flyover Hysteria Rocks the Internets

    Ever since my cover story last Thursday hit the online conspiracy websites, my inbox has been bombarded with emails from folks obsessed with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as they pertain to the U.S. Pentagon and an American Airlines jet that either did or didn't hit the building, depending on what th ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    Do You Believe a Passenger Jet Hit the Pentagon on 9/11? These Men Say You've Been 'PentaConned!'

    Ever since my cover story last Thursday hit the online conspiracy websites, my inbox has been bombarded with emails from folks obsessed with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as they pertain to the U.S. Pentagon and an American Airlines jet that either did or didn't hit the building, depending on what th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    First Team All-Americans

    When you think of soldiers and especially those killed in action, you generally conclude most came from the poorer parts of town. But with five young servicemen cut down in their primes, Irvine is the Orange County hometown with the most war dead from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's also ... More >>

  • Film

    March 27, 2008

    Iraq War Movie 'Stop-Loss' Does Its Best Not to Mention the War

    When you think of soldiers and especially those killed in action, you generally conclude most came from the poorer parts of town. But with five young servicemen cut down in their primes, Irvine is the Orange County hometown with the most war dead from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's also ... More >>

  • Film

    February 21, 2008

    Multiperspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

    When you think of soldiers and especially those killed in action, you generally conclude most came from the poorer parts of town. But with five young servicemen cut down in their primes, Irvine is the Orange County hometown with the most war dead from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's also ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2007

    Truthiness About Carona Revealed!

    Turns out our Scott Moxley had everything wrong about Sheriff Carona, according to the DC-based news source Prime Legitimate News. The pictures between Carona and Las Vegas mobster Rick Rizzolo? Carona "went undercover as a corrupt cop" in "an undercover police uniform pretending to party, accept la ... More >>

  • Features

    October 25, 2007

    OC's Scariest People

    Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2007

    Rohrabacher makes the Code Pink "Hall of Shame"

    On Sept. 17, the anti-war ladies from Code Pink visited the D.C. office of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Skipped Vietnam Combat Duty) to present him with a certificate inducting the congressman into their "Hall of Shame." The back of the pink piece of paper detailed an exit strategy for the war for polit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2007

    Hugh Hewitt is an Idiot (Part One Billion)

    Orange County's most prominent talk-show host (take a seat, Joe Escalante) frequently proclaims himself independent of the Republican Party, but everyone knows that's a damn lie. Hugh Hewitt's latest example, however, is particularly egregious not only because he spins for the GOP, but he also skewe ... More >>

  • Film

    February 22, 2007

    A Controlled Performance

    United 93s Ben Sliney, as played by an actor who understood the role

  • Film

    October 5, 2006

    Money for Nothing

    Iraq for Sale loads more anti-war cannon fodder

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    'I've Never Been to America. America Came to Me'

    Ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg recalls his three-year journey through Americas war on terror

  • Columns

    September 7, 2006

    Diary of a Mad County

    Aug. 30 - Sept. 5

  • Film

    August 17, 2006

    Fakes On a Plane

    Conspiracy buffs craft their own online WTC movies

  • News

    July 27, 2006

    Let's Roll Film

    Surf City activists host movies questioning what happened on 9/11

  • Film

    November 3, 2005

    No Future

    Paradise Now gets at what really provokes Palestines young suicide bombers

  • Features

    September 8, 2005

    A Terrorist Tool?

    Paradise Now gets at what really provokes Palestines young suicide bombers

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The Presidents Conservative Critics

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    The Vegas Line

    We call the Dornan-Rohrabacher race by Jan. 21

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Terrorist Blackout

    Dailies give Rohrabacher a pass on al-Qaeda ties

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history

    Death squads didnt work in Vietnam, but the CIA is betting theyll be great in Iraq

  • Features

    March 6, 2003

    War College

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Deadly Plants

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Film

    October 17, 2002

    Troubles Every Day

    Recalling Northern Ireland's derry disaster

  • Features

    September 12, 2002

    Rogue Statesman

    Congressman Dana Rohrabachers absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11

  • News

    April 25, 2002

    Victims of the Dragnet

    Congressman Dana Rohrabachers absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    Oy, No! We Won't Go!

    Congressman Dana Rohrabachers absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11

  • Music

    February 21, 2002

    New Music

    Congressman Dana Rohrabachers absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11

  • Columns

    December 27, 2001

    Terror Town, USA

    Congressman Dana Rohrabachers absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11

  • News

    December 6, 2001

    Islam-o-phobia

    Welcome to OC Muslims new world

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Ollie North: Not All Muslims Evil

    But only Christians will go to heaven

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Anthrax? Yawn

    Local abortion providers have been dealing with the threat for years

  • Columns

    September 27, 2001

    Letters

    Local abortion providers have been dealing with the threat for years

  • Columns

    September 27, 2001

    It Slices, It Dices, It Hijacks

    Local abortion providers have been dealing with the threat for years

  • News

    July 20, 2000

    The Terrorist Next Door

    The U.S. says a former Anaheim resident is trying to kill us all

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    The Ho Story

    The U.S. says a former Anaheim resident is trying to kill us all

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