VICE News: Egypt After Morsi - Part 1
On June 30, exactly one year after Egyptians voted for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi to become their first-ever democratically elected president, millions of protesters filled central Cairo...
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Why 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 a...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Asset Forfeiture, the Cash Cow of the Drug War
US Marshals make arrest during a 2011 operation targeting gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Officers made 129 arrests and seized nearly $20,000. Photo via Flickr account for the US Marshals During a July 9...
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New York State of Mind: A$AP Ferg and A$AP Nast Got Jiggy in Great Britain,...
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: The Collective Mood of China Expressed as Monumental...
It's not often that ancient Chinese texts about divining the future and social media meet. It's even less common that they meet in the form of a giant light show that takes place on the facade of a...
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Another Year of Booze and Bruises at the Belfast Twelfth
July 12 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 ArticleMatty Matheson's Hangover Cures: Hakka Style Comfort Food with Nick Liu
For the premiere episode of VICE Canada's first original food show, we took our host Matty Matheson out to Markham—a Toronto suburb known for excellent Chinese food. After an insane night out on St....
View ArticleRule Britannia: Debt Collector - Part 1
Ten years ago Shaun Smith was an enforcer for one of the biggest crime families in Liverpool and embroiled in a war against a rival drug gang. Shaun introduced urban terrorism to the British...
View ArticleInsane Clown Posse Release the Infomercial for 2013's Gathering of the Juggalos
Insane Clown Posse Release the Infomercial for 2013's Gathering of the Juggalos
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....
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VICE Loves Magnum: Bruce Gilden Takes Street Photos Like You've Never Seen...
JAPAN. Asakusa. 1998. Two members of the Yakuza, Japan's Mafia. The Yakuza's 23 gangs are Japan's top corporate earners. They model themselves on American gangster fashion from the 1950s. Magnum is...
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Ray Kelly’s Path to Becoming America’s Big Brother
Ray Kelly at an awards banquet for employees of New York's MTA. Photo via Flickr user MTAPhotos On Friday, Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat who’s been in the Senate for 15 years and in Congress...
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How Kiyoshi Izumi Built the Psych Ward of the Future by Dropping Acid
Photo via He walked into a warp. As Kiyoshi "Kiyo" Izumi toured a select few of post-war Saskatchewan's aging mental hospitals, absorbing the wards' layouts and interviewing patients along the way,...
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The LAPD Doesn't Want You Protesting the Trayvon Martin Verdict After Last Night
Last night, protests in Los Angeles against the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial—which had been mostly nonviolent, though there were occasional fights—turned ugly. A peaceful...
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Afghanistan's Great Wall of Bones
Everyone knows that walls are more metaphor than impenetrable brick and mortar. This is especially true in Kabul, where concrete blasts slabs and giant, stone-filled wire baskets called Hesco barriers...
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Dodge the NSA with This Fancy Encrypted Messaging Service
Peter Sunde, smiling because he loves encryption. Image via WikiCommons A lopsided chunk of the talk pinging back and forth around the interwebs in the ongoing Snowden coverage has been largely...
View ArticleJack Shelton’s California Love
Jack Shelton is a tall, attractive kid from Melbourne’s beachside suburbia with a fetish for California and weed—or “spinach” as he calls it. He recently spent some time at San Jose State as part of...
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Pen Pals: Some Advice for a Sex Offender on His Way to Prison
Photo via Flickr user Tim Marshall Since I got out of prison almost two years ago, I’ve been fielding many questions from individuals on their way to prison and inmates’ loved ones. In a way, I’ve been...
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How Our Stupidity On Climate Change Will Cost Us More Money
Image via Kevin Rudd today announced he would bring the Emissions Trading Scheme forward by a year. Currently, around 500 big businesses pay about $25 for every tonne of carbon dioxide they emit. This...
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