“I swear to God, who is the only God, that Sharia can only be established with weapons.”
We’ve partnered with Nitehawk Cinema for a series on journalists in film. Things kick off on May 27th with Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool featuring a special recorded introduction by Robert Forster!
Dozhd is the only news station not owned by the state or strong supporters of the government in Russia, according to their editor-in-chief. We spoke with Dozhd TV’s editor–in-chief, Mikhail Zygar, as the staff fights to keep their station alive in Russia.
Al Jazeera journalists were refused bail in Egypt.
VICE News Capsule - Thursday, March 13
The VICE News Capsule is a daily roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Colorado pot taxes, Ultra-Orthodox conscription, North Korea evading sanctions and protests escalate in Turkey.
Welcomes to the VICE News Private Beta
Behold, dear reader: a message from VICE founder and CEO Shane Smith about our new news website, VICE News, which is now in Private Beta. Join now at vicenews.com.
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Since we haven’t fully launched yet, there won’t be the depth of content that you will see when we’re out of Beta, but we will be adding more every day. Soon, there will be enough in there to get lost in, bathe in, and fall down 100 different newsy rabbit holes.
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Stay tuned for breaking stories from Venezuela, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Central African Republic, Mexico, Thailand, and Brazil, as well as stories from Western Europe, the USA, and China.
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We couldn’t be more excited to launch this site, and hope that you will help us make VICE News as good as we can possibly make it. We are in this together, and as they say in French, “L'Union Fait la Force,” or “Unity Makes Strength.” So let’s go out there together and change the world.
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Revolution in Ukraine: A VICE News Dispatch
With protests in Ukraine turning deadly last week, VICE News went to Kiev’s Independence Square to document the Euromaidan movement’s struggle for the fate of the nation. In addition to the smoldering avenues littered with sniper fire, and protesters tending to their dead and wounded, our crew chronicled the toppling of Viktor Yanukovych. As Ukraine prepares for its future, here’s a look at how the revolution unfolded.
Lebanon’s Illegal Arms Dealers
With Lebanon’s security situation worsening every day, business is booming for the country’s illegal arms dealers. With a porous border with Syria next door and vast stockpiles of weapons left over from the country’s civil war, anyone with enough cash can buy any weapon they want, no questions asked - so VICE News went window shopping to see what’s availableG
Global News Matters: The People Speak (Part 1/5)
VICE News crossed the globe to ask people how news affects the way we understand our world. From Beirut to Mexico City, turns out we care about a lot of the same things. Subscribe now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News
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VICE News: Meet Aris Roussinos
VICE News is launching soon. Meet Aris Roussinos, a Rory Peck Award-winning journalist who covers not only traditional hot spots like Mali, Syria and South Sudan, but from the front lines of social movements and urban conflicts that are changing the face of the world as we know it.
VICE News: Meet Ben Anderson
VICE News is launching soon. Meet host Ben Anderson, whose award-winning reporting from the world’s crisis and conflict zones gives us a new perspective on the cost of war and the price of politics as usual.