This Google Street View Car Drove Through a Tomato-Throwing Festival In Spain
Apart from the Running of the Bulls in San Fermin, Spaniards enjoy some other wild festivals from time to time. One of them is called “La Tomatina.” Once a year, locals in the small village of Buñol engage in a massive battle with 150 tons of tomatoes as their only weapon of choice. Doesn’t seem…
An Obsessive Disaster Fetish Turned This Man Into a Crazed Mass Murderer
Sylvestre Matuschka ranks among the most bizarre mass murderers in history. Way before World War II, he anticipated the great plane bombers of the 1950s and ’60s like Albert Guay and Jack Gilbert Graham, with a single-handed bombing campaign directed against the railways of Central Europe. But the clichéd motives of transit saboteurs were not…
Exclusive: Read Julian Assange’s Introduction to The Wikileaks Files
This essay by Julian Assange is taken from the introduction to The Wikileaks Files: The World According to the US Empire, a collection analyzing how Wikileaks’ release of US diplomatic cables impacted foreign policy. One day, a monk and two novices found a heavy stone in their path. “We will throw it away,” said the…
