Ex-Workers Have Hijacked Greece's Former Public Broadcaster
The Athens Polytechnic school Every November the 17th, Greece gathers to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the 1973 student uprising against the country's military dictatorship. The...
View ArticleLondon's Tamils Want to Share Their Horror Stories with David Cameron
Tamil protesters in central London If you've heard anything about the persecution of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, it's likely you've only been exposed to the tip of a very large, very depressing...
View ArticleThe Sperm Selling Business Is Super Competitive
Pretty much every guy at some point thinks about participating in a cum-for-cash scheme. Guys cum all the time. In fact, I bet you're cumming right now. So why not get paid for it? After some...
View ArticleI Lived Like It Was 1996 for a Week
(Photos by Michael Sedbon) During the past year, magazines have bombarded us with "the return of the 90s". Clothes, art, music: all of it rolls through the rotating door of style. What's with this...
View ArticleAndres Serrano’s Cuban Odyssey
All photos by Andres Serrano. Andres Serrano is perhaps best known for peeing on Jesus Christ, or rather submerging a plastic crucifix figurine in his own urine and photographing it. His 1987 work...
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: What Happens After the Police Shoot Innocent Bystanders?
David Perdue, who was shot at by the LAPD while they were hunting for Christopher Dorner last February. On Wednesday, a judge ordered the city of Torrance, California, to release the name of the...
View ArticleInside Bosnia's Bleak Zenica Prison
Human rights work means helping people and hearing lots of different stories, often told by the kind of people your parents warned you about or hoped you wouldn't become. I'm a sucker for stories...
View ArticleChemical Valley's Children Have Banned Chemicals in Their Blood
Chemical Valley from the air. (Photo by Michael Toledano) Canada’s Chemical Valley is an area of 15.5 square miles in Sarnia, Ontario where 40 percent of the world's petrochemical industry is located....
View ArticleLincoln Clarkes's Vintage Photographs of Vancouver's Female Addicts Are...
In 1997, Toronto photographer Lincoln Clarkes began shooting for his stunning, albeit shocking photo series of over 300 female heroin addicts in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. A year later, when the...
View ArticleInterrogated by Hezbollah at Beirut's Bombed Iranian Embassy
The Lebanese army at the site of the bombed Iranian Embassy Yesterday, at around 9.30AM, two suicide bombers attacked the Iranian Embassy in Beirut. The building is in Bir Hassan, a...
View ArticleHackers Leaked 42 Million Plaintext Dating Site Passwords
Hackers Leaked 42 Million Plaintext Dating Site Passwords
View ArticleI Went Looking for Love at the Tinder Launch Party
Like Dr Oetker, supermarket bomb hoaxes and patricide, Tinder is one of those things that only gets more popular the more lonely people there are in the world. Largely capitalising on the solitude of...
View ArticleInto the Valley - PMR Records: Feat. Jessie Ware, Disclosure and Julio Bashmore
Into the Valley - PMR Records: Feat. Jessie Ware, Disclosure and Julio Bashmore
View ArticleGangs of Migrants Are Being Detained High Up in the Swiss Alps
The Asylzentrum Lukmanier asylum centre in the Swiss Alps Since July, the most remote asylum centre in Switzerland has been housed in an abandoned military bunker high up in the Swiss Alps. Standing...
View ArticleEgypt's Mohamed Mahmoud Anniversary Protests Were Pretty Surreal
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Cairo The second anniversary of the 2011 Mohamed Mahmoud Street clashes was a confusing day of demonstration. Hundreds gathered in Cairo...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Hey, Boris Johnson: We Asked a Homeless Man, Some...
Boris Johnson after ringing the NASDAQ opening bell in 2009. (Photo via) If there's one group of people we all need to ease up on a little, it's the super rich. I mean, how do you think it felt for...
View ArticleCryptozoologists Would Like to Be Taken Seriously Now
Members of the CFZ outside of Myrtle Cottage. Photo via In the idyllic English countryside of northern Devon, on Back Street in the little town of Woolsery (nee Woolfardisworthy, population 1,123),...
View ArticleCorrespondent Confidential: I Was Kidnapped by a Colombian Guerrilla Army
Journalists go deep. Sometimes they go so deep into a story they lose track of where the story ends and their private life begins. Correspondent Confidential is a series of illustrated documentary...
View ArticleCyprus' University Is the World's First to Accept Tuition in Bitcoin
Cyprus' University Is the World's First to Accept Tuition in Bitcoin
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