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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 zero to full throttle shocked even me. Full story

Dancing Idiots, Rubber Bullets, and Candy Floss at This Year's Passover in Hebron

The city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank is a pretty bizarre place at the best of times. But the recent Passover festival held by Jewish settlers living on the Palestinian land was easily among the most surreal things I've seen in a region that seems to thrive on weird shit. Full story

World Peace Update

What with India and Pakistan risking a nuclear war by trading bullets all last week, it became obvious that the world would have no problem falling back into its comfort zone of terrorizing itself in the new year. Full story

World Peace Update

Last week's World Peace Update looked at the riots engulfing Slovenia, the trigger-happy Tunisian policemen who tried to blind the citizens of Siliana, and the looming possibility of Bashar al-Assad gassing what remains of his population to death with nerve agents. But Christmas Full story

World Peace Update

This week's World Peace Update doesn't veer too far from its default distress curve on the bruised and bloodied axes of planetary suffering: some Slovenians got really angry with their government, a group of Tunisian protesters were blinded, and the Syrians were booted off the in… Full story

World Peace Update

This week, milk was used as a weapon. I'm not sure we've ever been further from planetary harmony. Full story

Palestinian Youths Are Being Shot in the West Bank

Because bombing people in Gaza isn't enough. Full story

World Peace Update

Humans found a vicious, unsuspecting competitor in fucking the world up this week: Nature, who decided to fart out Hurricane Sandy and hog up all the limelight. So, as Kurds took on the streets of Turkey and shop owners beat up police in Peru, you all kept yourselves busy by runn… Full story

World Peace Update

Last week, the UK and France came so close to having a war about scallops you could almost smell the garlic. I polished my LARPing armor and began practicing my French, but alas, fighting never broke out. Thankfully a bunch of Mexican students, some Panamaniacs, and a cabal of Ko… Full story

World Peace Update

World Peace Update

This is our 10th instalment of watching the world continuously and without fail fuck itself up the ass. This week, the world's downtrodden citizens decided to fight back and give the man a taste of his own medicine. Well, at least that's what the Chinese, the Colombians, and the Full story