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Celebrating Easter Sunday with Dynamite
Christos Anesti – Greek for "Christ is risen" – is a religious celebration-by-dynamite that takes place every year on Orthodox Easter, towards the end of March, on the small island of Kalymnos, which...
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Bad Cop Blotter: The Unknown Unknowns of the NSA
A fake drone carried by protesters during Obama's second inauguration. (Photo via Flickr user Debra Sweet) According to investigative journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill – writing today in...
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How Egypt’s January 25 Revolutionaries Became Enemies of the State
All photos by Abdalla F Hassan Speaking in an incensing lisp that ordinarily would have side-lined him from a job in television, the host of night-time talk show Black Box, Abdul-Rahim Ali, tells an...
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Watching Swiss Nationalists Celebrate the Closing of Their Borders
Luzi Stamm giving his speech After getting Swiss voters to back a ban on the building of minarets, as well as doing fantastic work on a strict deportation initiative, the right-wing populist Swiss...
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The Man Whose Body Produces Its Own Alcohol and Makes Him Drunk
Matthew Hogg enjoying a glass of water with a friend Imagine if your body produced its own alcohol – pretty great, right? You'd always have a buzz on, meaning you'd be one up on most people in the...
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Are Eritrean and Egyptian Officials Profiting from Torture?
"Awet" displaying his torture wounds It was four days since he'd left Sudan, hidden under blankets in the back of a pick-up truck. Five days since he had first been chained to the others under a tree...
View ArticleVICE Special: Apocalypse, Man - Part 5
In the penultimate episode of our six-part documentary, Michael C. Ruppert examines the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Here is an accompanying statement from Michael: "Two weeks after VICE...
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The Polish Hairdresser Pampering Athens' Homeless Population
Judy Protsnal dyeing Maria's hair Judy Protsnal is a Polish woman who, at the age of 19 and after the fall of the Soviet Union, emigrated to Athens. She worked as a cleaner for years, but her dream...
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Totalitarian Tourism in Phnom Penh
From a tuk-tuk, we see droves of military police going into action on the 3rd of January, just before the alleged unlawful assassinations. My girlfriend and I recently returned from a holiday in...
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Romanian Prisoners Don't Believe in Friendship
Aiud prison in Transylvania, Romania (Photo via) The first time I entered a prison was two years ago, when I was interning with the justice department. Besides an unsettling feeling in the pit of my...
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Italian Activists Are Standing Up to Police Brutality
All photos of Italian police by Mattia Marinolli Since the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy's police have been under permanent scrutinisation. And for good reason; during the event, over 250 activists...
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Is This the Beginning of a Bosnian Spring?
Graffiti on the ransacked cantonal government building in Tuzla where protests began last week. Photo by Edis Jasarevic Recently, it has smelled of smoke in Sarajevo. Last week, Bosnians took to the...
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A Town in Florida Has Made It Illegal for Homeless People to Cover Themselves...
There’s a new Tumblr blog making the rounds called Selfies with Homeless People. Apart from the rare picture in which the homeless person is complicit in the act, the majority of the photos are posed...
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Shia LaBeouf Is Currently Doing Some Kind of Super Artsy Thing in Los Angeles
As you've probably heard by now, Shia LaBeouf – actor, director and mirror to our tortured souls – is doing a piece of performance art in Los Angeles. The exhibition/performance/whatever is called...
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Saudi Religious Police Don't Like Being Filmed Beating People Up
Ashraf Fayadh (Screen grab via) Ashraf Fayadh is a poet and curator in one of the most conservative authoritarian states on Earth. But while Saudi Arabia's hardline conservatism makes it hard for...
View ArticleMillennials Have Been Permanently Scarred by the Financial Crisis
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View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: Atlanta: Strip City - Trailer
Until last year, twerking was the preserve of strip clubs and south London dancehall nights. Now, it's a word that your great-aunt has probably said out loud, thanks to Miley Cyrus dry-humping that...
View ArticleStare at These Photos and You Might Spot a Killer
If you've ever played Call of Duty online, you'll know that snipers are very sneaky bastards. But that's kind of the point. They hide in the distance, camouflaged into their surroundings, and pick you...
View ArticleNoisey: Chiraq - Part 4
In the fourth episode of Noisey's Chiraq, we catch up extensively with Lil Durk, the next superstar of the Drill scene, and then go to a show with fellow 300 / OTF member Lil Reese. It's the night of...
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