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Canadian UFO Sightings Have Doubled

So We Spoke to a Guy Who Saw a Flying Saucer on Acid

The Canadian Ufology Survey was just released and it has revealed some pretty shocking data. The report claims that in 2012 alone, the number of UFO spotting across Canada had doubled from the year before, reaching an all-time high of almost 2000 spottings in just one 365 day period. Full story

This Week in Racism

Former Italian Prime Minister Dressed up Strippers to Look Like Barack Obama

According to testimony given during the prostitution trial of his three former aides, Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was alleged to have dressed women up like Barack Obama, and had them perform stripteases. Now, I am not here to debate the erotic merits of Presid… Full story

Rob Ford Might Be a Crack Smoker

Somewhere in Etobicoke a Somalian drug dealer, allegedly, is holding onto a video tape of King Robbie smoking crack and calling Justin Trudeau a fag. What's the big deal? Full story

Dodging Water Cannons and Sound Bombs at Israel's Catastrophe Day

I arrived in Jerusalem on Nakba Day. Nakba (a word that translates as "catastrophe") Day commemorates the 750,000 Palestinians who were forced from their homes when Israel became a state in 1948. I expected shit to get wild, but the speed with which the demonstration went from ze… Full story

Who’s Getting Rich off of America's Prison-Industrial Complex?

Many of America's prisons are run by for-profit corporations, so clearly some people are making lots and lots of money off the booming business of keeping human beings in cages. But who are these people? Using some publicly-available data, I came up with a few names. Full story

“Fitch the Homeless” Is Backwards-Ass Activism

Please don’t “Fitch the Homeless.” This is all just some cheeseball stunt perpetrated by a guy who really wants attention and saw an opportunity to get it. Yes, it seems clever, but making fart noises with your armpits in seventh grade seemed clever, too. Full story

Horrible People Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans

Once upon a time, long before Angelina Jolie got a mastectomy, she adopted a Cambodian child. As a result, privileged Westerners of all nationalities flocked to the country's orphanages in the hope of simultaneously nurturing a child and their own sense of self-worth. It was only… Full story

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White Student Union - Trailer

We recently went to Towson University to speak with Matthew Heimbach, the founder of a group that advocates for “persons of European heritage." We also met the students who want him off campus... or at least muzzled. 'White Student Union' is a documentary about race, class, and s… Full story

Austerity's Drug of Choice

Sisa Is Destroying the Lives of Athens’s Homeless People

Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is basically meth and filler ingredients like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. The majority of its users are poor, often homeless, city dwellers reeling from the psychological and physical impacts of a country in the grip of e… Full story

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Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor

A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor. Full story

11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet

Remember SOPA? Well, that was basically an inconsequential victory for rationality and a free internet. 11 countries are meeting in Peru right now to decide how to lock the internet down and further prosecute online pirates. Full story

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Triple Hate - Trailer

'Triple Hate' is a documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, the Crips, Ulysses S. Grant, racism, and the specter of history. Part one premieres Monday, May 20, on VICE.com. Full story

The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again

Is a Park in Memphis, Tennessee, the Epitome of Racism in Modern America? The KKK Say It’s Just History, Many Others Disagree

In the middle of a park in Memphis, Tennessee, stands a statue of Confederate lieutenant general Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the most infamous and powerful racists in American history. When the Memphis City Council changed the name of Forrest Park, the KKK planned a massive pr… Full story

The Conservatives Don't Want Your Census Data

That's a problematic stance for about 100 reasons. Full story