Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling “The art of war is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War,” 4th Century BCE. During confirmation hearings for the next U.S. Defense Secretary, it was appalling to observe several senators haggling with Chuck Hagel…
This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire, Noam Chomsky’s new interview book with…
A year after David Choe became the most surprising multimillionaire to emerge from Facebook’s IPO, the bad-boy graffiti artist is making the publicity rounds with a new pornographic podcast featuring porn star Asa Akira. He talks to Lizzie Crocker about anal sex, his new gig, and more anal sex. Tits, ass, and goblins. Bare-chested…
Just over eight minutes after getting onto the table, Becky is crying. “Let your goddess out,” says Ben Rode, the 29-year-old man rubbing down her naked body with oil. “This is your goddess ceremony.” Meanwhile, Ben’s 31-year-old wife, Jen, who is five months pregnant, performs Reiki, floating her hands over Becky’s head and neck, asking…
News Flash: The Power Lunch — where deals are made, influence is peddled and relationships are forged — is alive and swell. That might be surprising, given a decade that saw the midday meal leveled by corporate downsizing, rocked by the recession and undermined by an increasingly digital mind-set that often regards a constant…
Since the death of Italian anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone 20 years ago, how much has organized crime spread internationally? The trans-continental dimensions of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, was already clear to the legendary prosecutor in 1980 when he took up the “Pizza Connection” case against Salvatore Inzerillo and the boss of the Gambino…
Anonymous hacks U.S. government site Revenge for prosecution of web activist Email Aaron Swartz, seen here in 2008, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment on Friday. The Reddit co-founder was facing federal charges for allegedly stealing millions of scientific journals. (Noah Berger/Reuters)The FBI has launched an investigation after hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked…