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All I'm Saying Is, Give Violence a Chance
The writer, post gaybashing Aside from being a part of the Southern California Jewish Karate Boom of the mid-90s, I’ve been about as non-violent as a dude can be. I can count on one hand the amount of...
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The Enduring Art of Afghanistan
Art can reflect the soul of a nation. But for the past three decades, Afghanistan has been defined by the art of war that has painted its countryside in broad strokes of red and black. Despite both...
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Taji's Mahal: We Spoke to Wilsonman About the Night NYPD Officers Attacked Him
Photo by Cheney Orr. Recently, I caught up with my friend Wilsonman. A member of the rap group the Stone Rollers Stone Gang, he’s spending his golden years cruising the streets of New York, laying...
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Renegade Clerics Are Battling Hezbollah in Lebanon
Photo of recent war destruction in Lebanon by Flickr user Masser. Before war broke out in Syria, Lebanese Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Assir was a respected figure in his country. But as the civil war in...
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Eating Whale Steaks at Norway's Gorgeous Træna Music Festival
Photo by Wyndham Wallace. Everyone’s got a great sauna story, right? I’m sitting in the hold of a whaling ship on the cusp of the Arctic Circle, where the Norwegian Sea borders the North Atlantic,...
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The Egyptian Army Massacred 72 Egyptians This Weekend
Anti-Morsi demonstrators gather outside the presidential palace as helicopters fly overhead. The first bloodied victims began to arrive at the crude field hospital behind Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya...
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Meet the Only Westerner to Work for the North Korean Regime
Alejandro Cao de Benos holding a pin of Kim Il-sung. (All photos courtesy of Alejandro Cao de Benos.) This weekend saw the 60 anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. While you no doubt spent Saturday...
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A Few Days in Bulgaria
Thursday I dream I’ve been placed in an impossible situation in which suicide is the only appealing option. Not because of immanent physical destruction, as in the case of 9-11 when people jumped from...
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View ArticleArt Talk: CODA - Part 2
CODA is a studio for architectural and urban research and design established by Caroline O'Donnell in New York in 2008, and now based in Ithaca, New York. Caroline is currently the Richard Meier...
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Afghanistan's Game of Drones
Geography rules in eastern Afghanistan. Rugged mountains and rocky plains make it a difficult trek for people, but well-suited for donkeys and drones. And these days the region has its share of both....
View ArticleFringes: Teenage Exorcists - Part 2
Finding it hard to come to terms with the shitty things that have happened to you in your life? Help is at hand, in the virginal and strangely vacant form of three bible-bashing teenage exorcists from...
View ArticleWin Free Tickets to Saturday's Grove Festival in Toronto
If you're like us, this Saturday's Grove Festival at Fort York in Toronto is already making you crave the weekend for about 50 different reasons. One of which is, of course, Phoenix's triumphant...
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The Eagle and the Rat
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View ArticleHundreds of People Protested the Toronto Police's Killing of Sammy Yatim
Last night, nearly a thousand people marched in honour of Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old who was gunned down by the Toronto Police Saturday morning on an emptied streetcar. The crowd rotated through...
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Hanging Out with the Desperate People at Watford Jobs Fair Was Really Depressing
Conveniently for those who like to understand things through false dichotomies, and frustratingly for everyone else, the government has come up with a narrative that differentiates between the...
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Bad Cop Blotter: DEA Raids Legal Weed Dispensaries in Washington Again
Photo via Last Wednesday, at least four medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state—where even recreational use of pot is legal in small amounts—got quite a scare when the Drug Enforcement...
View ArticleWeediquette: Kings of Cannabis - Part 2
You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but you’ve probably smoked his weed. Arjan’s been breeding some of the most famous marijuana strains in the world—like White Widow, Super Silver Haze, and many...
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Canada's First Nations Reserves Have a Faulty System of Government
Three Chiefs from the Piegan Blackfeet, a tribe from Montana and Alberta. via WikiCommons. The current governing structure on First Nations reserves in Canada has done a very good job in keeping the...
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