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The author at his leaving party, the night before he left Ireland for Germany October 4, 2010: In Iraq, a journalist for the US-owned Alhurra TV station is assassinated on his way to work by a bomb...
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2013 was a bad year for the Syrian rebels. While the mainstream rebels struggled to defend their frontlines from the resurgent Assad regime, a renegade al Qaeda offshoot—the Islamic State of Iraq and...
View ArticleHow a Former Senior SEC Official Manipulated the System for His Clients' and...
Spencer Barasch. Photo by James Nielsen/AFP/Getty Images Two years ago, Spencer C. Barasch, a former high-ranking Securities and Exchange Commission official based in Fort Worth, Texas, paid a $50,000...
View ArticleFlowertown, USA
Hello Young Comic Lovers, This is the premier of VICE's new weekly comic, Flowertown USA, by Rick Altergott. Rick is best known for his series Doofus, which is one of the funniest comics about two...
View ArticleRiding Shotgun to Murder Scenes with Guatemala City’s Overworked Volunteer...
Photos by Giles Clarke/Getty Images Earlier this year, I met Dr. Jorge Chiu at a murder scene while I was documenting the Bomberos Voluntarios, the volunteer paramedics of Guatemala City. A man had...
View ArticlePlease Kill Me: Dirty Water: The Story of the Standells
Larry Tamblyn is one of the original members of the Standells, a group that recorded what many consider to be the first punk song, “Dirty Water,” a 1965 ditty about how Boston is a shit hole. Larry is...
View ArticleHow Teens Are Making Money Off Novelty Twitter Accounts
How Teens Are Making Money Off Novelty Twitter Accounts
View ArticleAn Inside Look at the Making of Wes Anderson's 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
An Inside Look at the Making of Wes Anderson's 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
View ArticleThe OPG Wants to Bury a Bunch of Nuclear Waste Right by Lake Huron
The WIPP team surveying the conditions of the Salt Shaft Station. Photos courtesy of WIPP. Canada’s federal government is in the process of reviewing a proposal by the Ontario Power Generation to...
View ArticleDonald Sterling's Been Banned for Life, but He'll Be Dead Soon Anyway
The NBA finally applied sanctions to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Sterling has been fined $2.5 million (the maximum he could be fined) and banned for life for the racist rhetoric his...
View ArticleSperm Whale Shit Will Make You Rich
A sperm whale shitting in the ocean. Photo by Strange Ones; all other photos by Christopher Kemp Between 7 billion human asses and countless bird, fish, and animal butts, our planet pumps out an...
View ArticleIt's Hard Out Here for a Male Belly Dancer
Photo courtesy of Zorba, "the Veiled Male" A few years back, a young man walked into a dance studio in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan and started offering belly dancing lessons to women. The...
View ArticleCanadian Law Enforcement Is Sharing Questionable Mental Health Profiles with...
If you've ever been clinically depressed or have attempted suicice, the US may refuse you. Photo by Chris Connelly via Flickr. Ellen Richardson was enroute to her dream vacation when her world came...
View ArticleBritish Teen Dies After Indigenous Yage Ritual in Colombia
British Teen Dies After Indigenous Yage Ritual in Colombia
View ArticleMission-Style Burritos Are the Best Skateboarding Food
Mission-Style Burritos Are the Best Skateboarding Food
View ArticleThe Church of Scientology Had Its Own Teen Pop Band (and They Were Amazing)
For 20 years, the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Center in Hollywood, California, had its own all-singing, all-dancing children's pop group called Kids on Stage for a Better World. The group...
View ArticleWe Spoke to Miss Cleo About Her Allegedly Fake Patois and Getting Ripped Off...
Youree Dell Harris AKA Miss Cleo. All photos by Kadeem Ellis. If you looked at or were ever near a television in the late 90s or early 2000s, you'll remember buoyant and boisterous television psychic,...
View ArticleAbortion Affects Men, Too
Photos via Wikimedia Commons Abortion is often treated exclusively as a women’s health issue. Most of the research on the topic deals with the female party involved in an unwanted pregnancy. This is...
View ArticleComics: Blobby Boys - Part 9
Check back next Wednesday for the next episode of Blobby Boys!
View ArticleOklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs
Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs
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