Jihad Selfies: These British Extremists in Syria Love Social Media
After being publicly sacked by al Qaeda leader Aymann al-Zawahiri and accidentally beheading a fighter from one of their main allies in Syria, it’s fair to say the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham...
View ArticleVICE News: Rojava: Syria's Unknown War
As Syria’s bloody civil war enters its third year, fighting has reached the country’s Kurdish-dominated northeast, a region until recently almost untouched by the conflict. The Kurdish PYD party and...
View ArticleA Big Night Out... at the Worst Club Night Ever?
If you live in a big city, you don't need to pay money to see a celebrity. There are tons of them just walking around, eating in tacky sushi restaurants and doing boxercise on Clapham Common as if...
View ArticleVICE News: Ukraine Rising - Part 2
For weeks, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian protesters have been flooding the streets of Kiev, occupying government buildings and taking over the city's Independence Square. Initially, the...
View ArticleA Bittersweet Love Letter to the London Suburbs
Is there any aspect of the British experience that comes in for more derision than suburbia? It's generally regarded as the jellied eel or the Sunday Sport of residential concepts: an acquired taste...
View ArticleI Was Arrested for Trying to Report On Saturday's EDL Rally
The author being led to the double-decker police wagons. Boredom is the British state's primary means of political repression. In Madrid, Athens and Rome, the cops hurl out the tear gas; in London,...
View ArticleShorties: The Showstopper
Shawn Valentino is The Showstopper: a self-styled international playboy who believes he can unleash the ladykilling superhero inside all of us. VICE's Clive Martin travels to Amsterdam to meet the...
View ArticleVICE News: Terminal Insecurity
The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) is supposed to prevent passengers from slipping anything that could be used as a weapon past its multiple layers of security personnel, scanning...
View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: Portrait of a Russian Oligarch
After the collapse of Communism in Russia, as state assets were divvied up and privatised, a few individuals stepped in to take the reins of this entrepreneurial experiment. Rewarded with massive...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: London - Part 2
In part two of Fresh Off the Boat - London Eddie takes us around the East End to have breakfast with former gangster Dave Courtney, get romantic with a sexy British photographer and discuss the global...
View ArticleThatcher's War on Acid House
First she came for the milk. Then she came for the mines. Then she ran out of things to come for, so she went after the football fans arranging recreational punch ups and acid house. It might sound...
View ArticleEnglish Fascists Took Their First Beating of the Summer in Brighton This Weekend
After seven months of windswept darkness, the citizens of Brighton woke up Saturday to the sort of weather that doesn't make you want to kill yourself. But if they thought that meant they could spend...
View ArticleRivals: The First Ever Derby
In September 2003, a cabal of businessmen moved Wimbledon FC from their London home to Milton Keynes, a so-called "new town" 50 miles away. Ultimately this led to the formation of MK Dons and AFC...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What Do Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK Think of the...
As 2013 kicks the bucket, most people will be looking forward to 2014 with the same mixture of hope and dread as they do any other year. If, however, you are one of the few remaining avid readers of...
View ArticleHackers Leaked 4.6 Million Snapchat Usernames and Phone Numbers
Hackers Leaked 4.6 Million Snapchat Usernames and Phone Numbers
View ArticleSex Tapes, Riots, Corruption and Maybe a Coup, Too: Things Aren't Great in...
Violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police broke out in the heart of Istanbul this weekend, following a series of revelations about corruption within the Turkish government, months...
View ArticleI Spent Six Months Inside Lebanon's Most Notorious Prison
"Khodr", a Syrian activist who spent six months in Lebanon's Roumieh prison Roumieh, Lebanon's most notorious prison, is not somewhere you want to find yourself. The facility regularly holds up to...
View ArticleAre Terrorists Intent On Destroying the Sochi Olympics?
The trolleybus that was bombed in Volgograd on Monday (Photo by Nikita Baryshev / Demotix) On Sunday the 29th of December, a bomb exploded in the entrance of the main train station in Volgograd,...
View ArticleColorado's Legal Weed Edibles Are High on Sophistication
Marijuana plant via. Yesterday was the historical marker for weed's first legal retail holiday. For the first time in US history, anyone over the age of 21 in Washington state and Colorado could...
View ArticleHappy 20th Birthday, Zapatistas!
Photo by Marco Antonio Cruz Today marks 20 years since a previously unknown army emerged from the rainforests of the indigenous highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, and declared war on the government. It was...
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