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Conservative Australia ex-PM: Assault weapons ban is public safety, ‘not a left/right issue’

John Howard, the conservative former prime minister of Australia, says that pro-gun advocates in the United States are wrong to oppose an assault weapons ban like the one he pushed for after a 1996 mass shooting because public safety is not a “liberal/conservative issue.” On Sunday, Howard told CNN’s Fareed…

CNN host Fareed Zakaria accused of plagiarism

UPDATE: Politico reports that both CNN and Time suspended Zakaria this afternoon despite his apology. CNN host and Time columnist Fareed Zakaria appears to have plagiarized several passages of a recent column on gun control — an ethical lapse caught by an editor working for the National Rifle Association (NRA).…

Zakaria destroys Rumsfeld’s Iraq war talking points

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld isn’t letting go of his talking points that support the U.S. invasion of Iraq following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Exactly 10 years after those attacks, Rumsfeld suggested to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday that Iraq had been “hospitable” to al Qaeda before the…

Newsweek editor asks: ‘Why are we fighting a major war in Afghanistan?’

International editor questions war in country with ‘fewer than 100 al Qaeda fighters’ Since the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal as the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and CIA Director Leon Panetta’s admission a week ago that there may be no more than fifty to a hundred al-Qaeda members…