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The Harper Government Is Derailing a NAFTA Investigation into Tar Sands Pollution
If this is Environment Canada's attempt to deflect attention away from Alberta's pollution record, um, it's not working.
Sarah Berman
1.14.15
Politics

GOP Senators Are Gearing Up to Fight Obama Over Guantanamo
Republicans unveiled the Detaining Terrorists to Protect America Act of 2015, which calls for a moratorium on the transfer of medium- and high-risk detainees from the camp at Guantanamo Bay.
Jason Leopold
1.14.15
Stuff

It Doesn't Matter That Islam Inspired the 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks
What's imperative is to demonstrate that those who believe it was an act of "true" Islam are wrong.
Simon Cottee
1.14.15
Narcomania

The Truth About Britain's Looming 'Middle-Class Heroin Crisis'
All the talk about rising oxycodone prescriptions in the UK causing a middle-class heroin crisis is gold-plated baloney.
Max Daly
1.14.15
The Film That Made Me...

'Blue Is the Warmest Color' Is the Film That Showed Me What I Fear
It wasn't the graphic sex scenes that made me uncomfortable, but how it forced me to confront my fear of heartbreak.
Charlie Graham-Dixon
1.14.15
Comics!

Talking to Brian K. Vaughan About the Future of Privacy
"I have a fear, particularly now that I have children, of how the internet has eliminated our ability to forget entirely."
Jessica Holland
1.14.15
the piotr principle

The Extremely Lucrative Failure of Mikhail Prokhorov
As he prepares to cash out on the Brooklyn Nets with a 10-figure profit, it's clearer than ever that all Mikhail Prokhorov does is win. That's not a compliment.
Colin McGowan
1.14.15
Europe

VICE News Capsule - Wednesday, January 14
Shelling kills at least 11 civilians in eastern Ukraine, Russian government bans transgender and transexual people from driving, Disneyland measles outbreak spreads to other US states, and more.
VICE News
1.14.15
asia & pacific

Hong Kong Leader Warns Concessions Could Lead to 'Anarchy,' as Scuffles Break Out in Parliament
In his first policy address of 2015, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying also suggested that a revised school curriculum could help Hong Kong students regain their interest in China.
Sally Hayden
1.14.15
Culture

I Rode a Train While Playing this Game About Trains
And another game about not getting hit by trains.
Zack Kotzer
1.14.15
Words

Nuyorican Soul's "Runaway" Sends Tim Green Rushing Back into the Past
A laid back New York classic takes TG back to the halcyon days of early electronic exploration.
Tim Green
1.14.15
Puerto Rico

Testing Illegal Weapons in the Jungle (Excerpt from 'Locked and Loaded in the Tropics')
In this excerpt, VICE News correspondent Kaj Larsen meets up with one of Puerto Rico’s top assassins in the jungle outside Río Piedras to see where he tests out his fully automatic weapons.
VICE News
1.14.15
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