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Officer James Forcillo Has Been Charged with Second-Degree Murder for Killing...
A photo from last week's Sammy Yatim protest. By Michael Toledano for VICE Canada. Just over three weeks ago, a Toronto Police officer named James Forcillo shot 18-year old Sammy Yatim nine times (six...
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This Is My Driver's License
Photos by Valerie Phillips and Arvida Byström Retouching by Ben Pickett at Touch Digital Special thanks to Lark All images taken from Valerie Phillips's forthcoming zine This is My Drivers License...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Stop Tasering Us, Police Bros
Image via Flickr user Rébus Early in the morning of August 6, Miami Beach police fired a Taser burst into the chest of Israel Hernandez, an 18-year-old artist and skater who was running from a half...
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Translating the Tweets of Brainstorming Al Qaeda Fans
Original Osama bin Laden photo via Last week, it was brought to a lot of people's attention that al Qaeda were active on Twitter. This was slightly less surprising than it sounds. At a grassroots...
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Romanian Notes
Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind his own business. Thanks for a nation of finks. (William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer) * In Bucharest, the psychological damage inflicted on...
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Pen Pals: Phone Calls from Jail Are Criminally Expensive
Photo via Flickr user KOMUNews Sometimes phones are a pain in the dick even in the real world. I remember when cellphones turned into a necessity and you could no longer fall off the grid every day...
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You Can Shoot the Ashes of Your Loved Ones into Space for $2,000
The centre of the MIlky Way: soon to be used as target practice for flying canisters of human remains. via WikiCommons. Dying in and of itself comes with the usual long list of shit you gotta deal...
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Is Egypt Doomed to All-Out Civil War?
Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy. It's been just over a year since Egyptians, having thrown off the rule of Hosni Mubarak, voted in the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi as their first ever democratically...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Reggie Watts Wants to Make You Uncomfortable
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE...
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The Godfather of Mexican Drug Trafficking Has Disappeared
On Friday, August 9, at the unseemly hour of two o'clock in the morning, the main gate of Puente Grande prison opened, and a godfather in the Mexican narcotics trade walked out into the darkness a...
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What Happens When Hundreds of People Retweet Child Porn?
Slane Castle in Ireland, site of the concert in question. Via Wiki Commons. What do you do when hundreds, if not thousands, of people are sharing what technically amounts to child porn on social...
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The Magician's Retreat
Illustrations By: Cahill Wessel Montreal-based writer and former VICE editor Adam Leith Gollner is one of those seemingly regular Joes who continually finds himself in strange, almost unbelievable...
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House of Jealous Lovers
Arrow Brown at his desk in the Bandit office with his daughter Tridia, fourth from the right, and his son Deno, the little boy in the pink suit in the middle. Photo courtesy of Numero Group. Between...
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I Saw the Future of Pot at Seattle’s Hempfest
All photos by the author It’s been a good year for pot lovers. The new recreational weed laws Washington and Colorado passed last November have taken effect. Illinois just became the 20th state to...
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Come Into My Head: An Open Letter to the Guy I Went on Two Dates with and...
Girls are always accusing guys of being dicks for not calling them back after a few dates or a one-night stay in pound town. Girls do this too. I had my first foray in the age-old art of dropping off...
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What's the Frequency, Iasos?
If you’ve ever had a near-death experience, chances are you’ve been fortunate enough—depending on how you look at it—to hear music that sounds identical to the blissed-out tones produced by the...
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Here Be Dragons: Are You "Quirky" and "Interesting"? This Bullshit Dating...
The homepage of LoveFlutter.com Last week I was forwarded a press release for a new dating website called LoveFlutter.com. Interestingly, it promises to screen out people who are "boring": “To...
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Some Credible Scientists Believe Humanity Is Irreparably Close to Destruction
Presumably painted by a Near Term Extinctionist. via Flickr. If you were to zoom out and take a comparative look back at our planet during the 1950s from some sort of cosmic time-travelling orbiter...
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Stephen Harper Is Extending Parliament’s Summer Vacation
A protester protesting prorogation last time parliament was prorogued. via Flickr. Stephen Harper wants to hit the snooze button on the Canadian government’s summer vacation. While basically any...
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