Loyalists Spent Friday Night Fighting Police in Belfast
A loyalist protester, whose sign reads, "Our only crime is loyalty!!!" at Friday's republican march in Belfast. Northern Ireland's loyalists are pissed off. On Friday night they injured more than 50...
View ArticleThe Greatest Summer Jam Since 1980 - Round One
The Greatest Summer Jam Since 1980 - Round One
View ArticleWhen Are We Going to Finally Colonize Space?
Image courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada The Earth is doomed, and the only question is how long humanity has left. Fortunately, we have options: in the past few years there’s been a flurry of potentially...
View ArticleLong Live the New Flesh
Slate and Stone jacket, Benson shirt, Richard Chai pants Photos By Richard Kern, Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Photo Assistant: Max Dworkin; Hair and Makeup: Tayler Treadwell; Set Design: Scott...
View ArticleCompetitive Eating’s Next Great Rivalry Is Chestnut Versus Stonie
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie battle it out for the World Gyro Eating Championship in Houston, Texas, on May 19. Joey won by eating 22 1/4 gyros in ten minutes, while Matt finished second, with 20....
View ArticleRight-Wing Canadian Women's Group Insulted by Human Rights
Photo via Flickr O Canada, the land of free health care and legalized same-sex marriages. Sometimes, from up here on our porch of “progressiveness,” it can be fun to look down on our American...
View ArticleThe US Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown
Image via Nikki Loehr Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year. In case you haven’t followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time...
View ArticleReading 'Born Again' in Jail
I’ve spent the last year or so in a federal lock-up awaiting trial on charges that have been duly analyzed elsewhere. Long story short: I’m facing decades in prison. This is inconvenient in some...
View ArticleAre US Cops in Canada Another Step Towards a North American Union?
Photo via Wikicommons You know that conspiracy theory they threw out in Zeitgeist and on CNN about the US absorbing Canada and Mexico into a North American Union without borders? While it may seem...
View ArticleIntelligent People Are Just as Racist as the Rest of the Big Stupid World
Intelligent People Are Just as Racist as the Rest of the Big Stupid World
View ArticleGet All Up in Our Hot Box
When photographer Giles Clarke saw the “gang cages” that members of San Salvador’s warring street criminals were imprisoned in—sometimes for months at a time—it was as if he encountered something out...
View ArticleIs Twitter Superhero Cory Booker in Silicon Valley’s Pocket?
Cory Booker laughing it up at TechCrunch Disrupt, a tech-industry conference, in 2012. (Photo by Max Morse/Getty Images) and via TechCrunch's Flickr account Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New...
View ArticleVICE News: The Chemical Valley - Full Length
NEWS I Left My Lungs in Aamjiwnaang Breathing the Most Polluted Air in Canada By Patrick McGuire One of the many unintentionally ironic signs in the Chemical Valley. The first thing you notice about...
View ArticleThe Place Women Go to Get Raped
All Photos By: David Degner, Just off Tahrir Square, Mohammed Mahmoud Street is where Yasmine El Baramawy was beaten and raped. I t was almost 11 PM on Friday, November 23, 2012, when from the window...
View ArticleIs This The First Music Video Filmed at an EDL Rally?
Is This The First Music Video Filmed at an EDL Rally?
View ArticleIsraelis and Palestinians Think the Israel-Palestine Peace Talks Are Boring...
It seems the entire internet is extremely pessimistic about the new round of John Kerry-brokered peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. But seeing as most people online don't have a decent...
View ArticleManchester's Muslims Threw a Wild Street Party for Eid
There are various ways to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The most common procedure for celebration involves gathering your family early in...
View ArticleWe're Live Blogging from the Sammy Yatim Protest Today
Photo by Nicky Young for VICE Canada from the first Sammy Yatim protest. It's been just over two weeks since a Toronto Police officer named James Forcillo shot 18-year old Sammy Yatim on an empty...
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Psycho, Psycho, Psycho
Image by Courtney Nicholas What’s in an adaptation? What’s in a remake? How does the transference of material from life into art differ from the transference of material from one piece of art into...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: Eric Holder Speaks Out Against Mandatory Minimums, Gives Us...
Eric Holder, who announced a helpful policy on Monday. Photo via After over 1,600 days in office, one rhetorical but unreal end to the war on drugs, and scores of state-law-violating, promise-breaking...
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