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‘All of our gun laws are extremely porous,’ Raw tells Russia Today

When Raw Story investigative reporter Brad Jacobson published his report on how 2 million dangerously mentally ill people are missing from America’s national gun register, Russia’s largest news network took notice. Appearing on Russia Today’s The Alyona Show, he told the interviewer that gun laws in the states have become…

Former Fox News employee: ‘Stuff is just made up’

A former employee of Fox News called the company a “propaganda outfit” that is determined to undermine the Obama administration and Democrats. “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up,” the employee, whose name was kept anonymous, told the liberal…

Assange abused my cat, WikiLeaks insider says

BERLIN — Daniel Domscheit-Berg accuses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of many things in his book presented Thursday, but perhaps the oddest allegation is that he abused the former insider’s cat. “Julian was constantly battling for dominance, even with my tomcat Herr Schmitt,” Domscheit-Berg says in his book “Inside WikiLeaks: My…

Anti-Assange book sparks WikiLeaks war of words

BERLIN – A war of words erupted on Thursday between WikiLeaks and a disgruntled former employee who published a tell-all book dishing the dirt on the whistle-blowing website and its founder Julian Assange. “Inside WikiLeaks” is billed as an account of Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s time as programmer and media spokesman for…

WikiLeaks insider dishes dirt on Assange

BERLIN – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was on the sharp end of some unwelcome exposures himself on Thursday as a former ally spilled the beans on the controversial Australian and his whistle-blowing organisation. “Inside WikiLeaks” is billed as a warts-and-all account of Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s time as chief programmer and media…

Hearing set in US request for Twitter accounts

WASHINGTON – A US judge is to hear arguments next week about the US government’s efforts to get Twitter to hand over information on the accounts of three people connected with WikiLeaks. The hearing is scheduled to be held on February 15 in a federal court in Alexandria, Virgina, according…

Bill Maher: O’Reilly ‘unpatriotic’ in his Obama interview

Comedian Bill Maher took on Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck in an appearance Tuesday night on MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.” The host of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” said O’Reilly’s interview with President Barack Obama before the Superbowl was “astounding” and disrespectful, and…

Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too

The purchase of the Huffington Post by AOL left many of the progressive writers and readers that made the site into a powerhouse looking for a new home. Adbusters magazine set out to unite those disaffected former supporters of Arianna Huffington’s flagship site by suggesting they use social media to…

Rumsfeld’s top regret: not quitting after Abu Ghraib

WASHINGTON – Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted in an interview that the country “would’ve been better off” if he had quit after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal and spared no criticism of his colleagues in his new memoir published Tuesday. In “Known and Unknown,” Rumsfeld defends his handling…

Huffington’s partner at AOL a ‘conservative’ who gave to GOP candidate: report

Progressive fans of the Huffington Post aren’t too happy about the site being acquired by America On-Line. Now, they may have another reason to lament the purchase. A source close to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, a former Google executive hired in 2009, told Business Insider that while he “calls himself…

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