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First Nations Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade On Ships Along Lake...
Apparently the women are sold for "parties" on American ships. via WikiCommons. Native women, children, and unfortunately even babies are being trafficked in the sex trade on freighters crossing the...
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This Week in Racism: "Paula Deen" Is Going to Kill "Trayvon Martin" on TV
Welcome to the Trayvon Martin Will Never Really Die edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most...
View ArticleVICE News: The São Paulo Protests in 7 Acts - Part 1
Back in October 2012, we covered a protest staged by the Free Pass Movement (abbreviated as MPL in Portuguese) for the National Free Fare Fight Day in São Paulo city. Earlier this year, we aired a...
View ArticleIs Pauly Shore Trying to Troll VICE?
A couple of weeks ago, we ran a piece by Jonathan Daniel Brown about the time he interned for Pauly Shore. As you would expect, the article was about how Pauly is a douche and interning for him was...
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Go See 'The Red Shoes' Tuesday Night
For the fourth feature in our screening series with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation at Nitehawk Cinema, we present Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes: an exquisite classic of...
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Meet the Gay Russian Teenager Using Twitter to Combat Homophobia
A screenshot of a photo Kirill recently tweeted. In the last few months, Russia has become notorious for its anti-gay stance. Vladimir Putin’s regime has passed “gay propaganda” laws that effectively...
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Bedbugs Made Me a Real New Yorker
Photo via Wiki Commons. There are certain fundamental things that scream “I just moved to New York.” Things like eating cheesecake at Junior’s or heading out to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone. Or...
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Atlanta's Drag Queens Don't Have Time for Your Drama
All this talk about human rights can get slightly boring, don't you think? I mean activism is important and all, but all the having to defend your community stuff leaves less to time to celebrate it....
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Invasion of the Cloned Horses
Image via Wikipedia. The American Quarter Horse Association is “the world’s largest equine breed registry.” Now they’re going to get even larger, because a court has ruled they must accept cloned...
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Taji's Mahal: Marco Hernandez: The Skate Life Photography King of Staten Island
For this week's Mahal, I caught up with skate life photographer, Marco Hernandez. A native of Staten Island, home to one of the world's largest landfills, Marco shoots photos both on and off the...
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No Matter What I Do, I Feel the Pain
Image invoking 'N Sync's pain via the author's father. Rumors are flying that 'N Sync will be reuniting tonight at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. It’s been a while...
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Twin Blasts in Lebanon Signal Intensifying Unrest
Sitting on a street corner about 60 feet from the Salam Mosque in the Al-Mina district of Tripoli, 21-year-old Yasser looked sorrowfully into the distance. His head and left hand were wrapped in...
View ArticleInside the CIA's Role in Pakistan's Polio Outbreak
Inside the CIA's Role in Pakistan's Polio Outbreak
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Weediquette: Jummy's Infinite Stash
Via Wiki Commons. Being young wouldn't have been the same if it were not for the struggles I faced while trying to find weed. Although I have been waiting for the (inevitable) legalization of weed for...
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Chelsea Girl
From left: the author, Chelsea Manning, and Lady Gaga. Image by the author. I didn’t know who Chelsea Manning was until she told everyone who she was. I don’t really follow current events outside of...
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Sweden’s Shitty Sewage-Sludge Debate
Illustration by Anette Moi In order for crops to grow, you need shit—literally, agriculture requires some sort of fertilizer. Traditionally, farmers have used cow manure because it contains tons of...
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The Nine-Year-Old Romanian Strongman and His Pissed-off Dad
Image via YouTube Giuliano Stroe is probably the strongest nine-year-old on the planet. The Romanian boy started lifting weights when he was two and has set world records for doing push-ups without...
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I Escaped Death in an Egyptian Police Van but Witnessed an Attempted Rape
Randel (left) and I between interrogations at the police station. At this point we still thought the ordeal would be over pretty quickly and were treating it as more of an adventure than a living...
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Activists Find No Place on Egypt's Streets
Photo by Wail Gozly In the heat of a Cairo summer, the battle lines have been drawn. In the tense standoff, Abdelazim Fahmy, better known as Zizo Abdo, finds no room on the street for...
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