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We Spoke to a Former Crack Addict About Rob Ford

"Usually people don’t move right to crack cocaine. People like the mayor don’t decide to have a glass of wine with dinner and then go buy a bag of crack. It doesn’t usually go that way. You aren’t just trying it with your friends out of nowhere when you’ve never touched another drug."

What Does Terrorism Mean in 2013?

Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, lawyer, and security expert who was partly responsible for former CIA official John Brennan not being made the Director of the CIA and forcing a UN investigation into the treatment of Bradley Manning. I called him up to see if he thought the whole "terrorism" thing had just become a label used to exaggerate crime committed by Muslims.

Facebook and Censorship's Slippery Slope

You're not in America when you're on Facebook—you're on the internet, where the Constitution is just another thing someone wrote that other people get mad about. Facebook and other privately owned platforms are under no obligation to support free speech, and they pick and choose what to censor.

Director Alex Gibney on Hackers and Julian Assange

If Michael Moore is obsessed with outrage and Herzog is obsessed with dreams, Gibney is a master of moments. His style of circular storytelling punches the paradigm straight in the face, especially in his new documentary about Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and Wikileaks.

May 24 2013 Daniel Stuckey Motherboard

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George's Fun Happy Place

George is ill and has a huge scar on the side of his body from surgery. He is in constant pain, but for whatever reason, the pressure of being buried in the sand or walked on gives him temporary relief. He has a lot of problems to overcome, but he's also capable of an incredible lightness.

MMA's Greatest Moment (and Ben Henderson's Worst) Makes Its Way into the Mainstream

As long as he lives, Ben Henderson—who is the UFC lightweight champion of the world—will never be free of Anthony Pettis’ mind-scrambling, sport-redefining, iconic leaping-off-the-cage head kick that capped off their championship fight, especially since it has been immortalized in the first MMA video game commercial.

May 24 2013 Josh Rosenblatt Sports

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Spanish Bombs: Granada Unveils Joe Strummer Plaza

Punk rock was never meant to gain municipal recognition, but with time it often occurs that what was once rebellion becomes part of the establishment. Joe Strummer of the Clash has been no stranger to public acknowledgement, and yesterday the city of Granada, Spain, named a plaza in his honor.

Speaking with Adam Kokesh, Before He Was Detained by the Feds

Kokesh is an Iraq War veteran and the guy trying to organize an armed march in Washington, DC. On Saturday he was arrested at a Smoke Down Prohibition rally, and is currently being held in federal custody. I spoke to him about his march and other stuff the day before he was detained.

In Search of Tim Dog, the Rapper Turned Con Artist Who Probably Faked His Own Death

This February, the legendary rapper turned grifter Tim Dog died. So why is there a warrant out for his arrest? We spoke to several people close to him who think he's still alive, and after some digging, we think so too.

May 23 2013 Drew Millard Music

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We Photographed the Drunk EDL Hate Mob That Attacked London's Police Last Night

Yesterday, a British soldier was murdered in South London by Islamic extremists. Later, the far-right English Defence League descended onto Woolwich in a drunken horde to spread Islamophobia and achieve absolutely nothing. I was there to take photographs of 60 to a hundred angry, confused men.

Stoya on Peeking Behind the Porn Curtain

As a culture, we are fascinated by what entertainers and public personalities do when they aren't at work and how they became who they are. This is why demand for biographies, interviews, and backstage/on-set photographs exists. The superficiality in these projects rubs me the wrong way.

Murderous Fanatics and EDL Idiots Brought Darkness to Woolwich, London Yesterday

Yesterday afternoon in Woolwich, South London, two men ran over a soldier from the local army barracks, before getting out of their car and hacking at his body with machetes, while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" We spent the day there trying to make sense of it all.

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Triple Hate

'Triple Hate' is a four-part documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, the Crips, Ulysses S. Grant, racism, and the specter of history. In part two, we hear from Confederate enthusiasts and a Ulysses S. Grant impersonator about what they think of the KKK rally.

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'Leviathan,' I Love You

How did the filmmakers achieve this poetry? Because, if anything, this movie exemplifies the art of poetry without words, the art taking real life and framing it in such a way that it becomes greater than fiction. It holds up a mirror to nature, but this mirror came from a fun house and in its distortions reveals a deeper truth.

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The VICE Reader is a series in which we publish original fiction—mostly. We will also feature the occasional poem, essay, book review, diary entry, Graham Greene-style dream-diary entry, Zemblan fable, letter to the editor, letter to a fictional character, and anything else that is so good we feel it must be shared among the literary-minded and the internet at large.