Southern Europe Is Becoming One Big Surveillance State
(Photo via) Since Edward Snowden's NSA revelations came to light, the "surveillance state" alarm bells are back in full, ecstatic jubilation. The paranoid ramblings of retreatists, survivalists and...
View ArticleMunchies: Daniel Castaño
When Colombians get together, they roll deep. So when we went to Bogotá to sample former Mario Batali-pupil Daniel Castaño's classical Italian fare at his restaurant, Emilia Romagna, we brought a...
View ArticleThe 2016 Presidential Campaign Has Begun, God Help Us All
The 2012 presidential campaign was a series of gruesome sideshows that lasted two years and made everyone unhappy. Americans thought the campaign had gone on too long and wanted it to end… in 2011,...
View ArticleVICE News: Colombia's Hidden Killers - Full Length
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was founded five decades ago as a Marxist people’s army fighting against capitalist imperialism and Colombia’s often-brutal government. And they’ve...
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American Freedoms GEORGE ZIMMERMAN WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDERING TRAYVON MARTIN Another fine day for the US justice system (Photos via and via) (via) George Zimmerman – the man who shot dead an...
View ArticleMost Gang Members Have a Diagnosable Mental Illness
Most Gang Members Have a Diagnosable Mental Illness
View ArticleWhy Is Anti-Muslim Violence Only Now Being Classed As Terrorism?
(Photo by Tom Johnson) Last Friday, a nail bomb exploded outside a mosque in the West Midlands town of Tipton. The blast came about an hour after the funeral of army drummer Lee Rigby – the latest in...
View ArticleAnother Year of Booze and Bruises at the Belfast Twelfth
The 12th of July is probably the biggest date in Northern Ireland’s political calendar. Each year, hundreds of Orangemen and loyalist marching bands descend upon Belfast to parade around the city in...
View ArticleLots of People Protested for Trayvon Martin in Los Angeles
Yesterday evening, thousands of people across the country took to the streets to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of Trayvon Martin. There were reports of demonstrations in New...
View ArticleVICE News: Egypt After Morsi - Part 1
On the 30th of June, exactly one year after the Egyptians voted for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi to become their first-ever democratically elected president, millions of protesters filled...
View ArticleGreg Palast's Column: My War On Stupid Is Facing Defeat On Every Front
Greg Palast is an investigative reporter and author of several New York Times bestselling books including his latest, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. Go ahead and shoot me. It’s hopeless. My War on...
View ArticleConfessions of a Taliban Fighter
“If I met you a few years ago, I would’ve killed you. Killing [was] the first option, because we were really angry with the foreigners. We would use a Kalashnikov (AK-47) to kill you. And we would be...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What Would Someone Have to Do to Stop You Being Friends...
Jón Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavik, dressed in drag at the head of the 2010 Reykjavik Gay Pride. (Photo via) Jón Gnarr, the mayor of Reykjavík, has said he wants to formally review or break off...
View ArticleZimbabwe Has Its Own Anti-Mugabe Whistleblower
Baba Jukwa's avatar A taste for whistleblowing, recently reignited by Edward Snowden, has spread down to the bottom of Africa, into the corrupt corners of Zimbabwe. With less than a fortnight to go...
View ArticleCleveland's Streets of Fire
When the media talks about the city of Cleveland, it's always a negative narrative. We're sure you've heard it all before, from the jokes about losing Lebron James to South Beach to talks of the...
View ArticleAngry Squatters and Burning Barricades Aren't Halting the Yuppification of...
A street in south London was left a mess of scorched debris and broken glass yesterday as police and bailiffs battled with squatters among DIY barricades and burning wheelie-bins. At 6.30AM – when...
View ArticleMy Life Online: Space Barbie - Trailer
The world knows Valeria Lukyanova as the girl who turned herself into a real-life Barbie doll. Controversy has surrounded her every move since her computer-perfect visage went viral last year....
View ArticleBrazilian Soldiers and Native Tribespeople Are Clashing in the Amazon
(All photos courtesy of Munduruku Denúncia) Brazil is a country that is on the rise and to sustain that it's desperate for renewable energy sources to keep its industrial and economic growth buoyant....
View ArticleWhy Are the Millennials Screwed Up?
Baby Boomers love to shit on the Millennials. They say we’re lazy narcissists who are fucked up because we have Instagram applications on our iPhones. This is obviously stupid, but it’s also obvious...
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