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If you believe a new survey, Germans are turning to China in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. “Germans view the United States less positively since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis while their attitudes toward China have improved,” the German public broadcaster DW News reported citing the survey. The broadcaster added that “73% stated that their opinion about the United States had deteriorated due to the current health crisis caused by the novel coronavirus,” compared to only 36 percent who looked more unfavorably towards China since the outbreak. “Coronavirus turns Germans more critical of US,” the DW News...

WASHINGTON — The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) denounced a number of popular media organizations and Americans as “Islamophobic” in a report released Thursday. The Muslim advocacy group calls out such entities as Fox News, The Rush Limbaugh Show, the Washington Times, National Review, The Mark Levin Show, and The Savage Nation as part of the “outer core” of the so-called “Islamophobic Network.” According to the report, the 32 “outer core” groups are comprised of “[g]roups or individuals whose primary purpose does not appear to include promoting prejudice against or hatred of Islam and Muslims but whose work regularly...

GUNNY BOB SELECTED AS "WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD" MSNBC's Olbermann Declares; Too Bad Almost No One Saw It Ratings disaster host Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, whose program is thrashed by FOX News Channel and even CNN programs, declared Gunny Bob the "Worst Person in the World" on 3 August, beating out Olbermann's arch-nemesis, Bill O'Reilly. Olbermann, after hearing his colleague Chris Matthews be destroyed and humiliated by the Gunny, refused to have the Gunny on his low-ratings train wreck. Olbermann refuses to appear on the Gunny Bob Show, of course. Gunny noted that Olbermann selected the Gunny for this...

Greenpeace Int'l Ranks Apple Last for Environmental Friendliness, While Lenovo Group Tops ListAMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Greenpeace International placed Apple Inc. last in its rankings of major electronics makers for their environmental friendliness, while Chinese manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd. jumped to the top of the list. An Apple spokeswoman said the company rejects Greenpeace's ranking system and that its products are among the "greenest" on the market, pointing to more technical ratings used by the Green Electronics Council. Greenpeace ranked 14 computer and mobile phone makers according to their efforts to limit the use of hazardous chemicals in production and...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2006 – The morale of American GIs serving in Iraq continues to be high, regardless of the danger, difficult conditions and family sacrifices they face, the Army’s top enlisted leader said yesterday. In a joint interview with the Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston recalled the stoic attitude displayed by soldiers and family members of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, after learning the unit’s Iraq tour was being extended. Preston, the senior enlisted advisor to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker,...

Posted: June 24, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Bill Clinton is taking his act on the road. It's not just about selling books. That's a done deal. He's got the full cooperation of the establishment press and media monopolies behind that agenda. No, the agenda goes far beyond simple greed. Bill Clinton is shooting his mouth off again in high-profile forums for a much bigger purpose – and one far more challenging. He's trying to rehabilitate his tarnished image as a morally corrupt, self-righteous leader. That appears to be the central goal of "My Life." How else can...

<p>NEW YORK (CNN) -- John Kerry's combat experience in Vietnam is central to his bid to become the next commander-in-chief, but Kerry's outspoken opposition to that war drew the personal attention of the president of the United States and FBI agents 33 years ago, documents reviewed by CNN reveal.</p>

Over the past week, the New York Sun and the Kansas City Star have been reporting another unsavory story about John Kerry's antiwar past. Witnesses and FBI meeting minutes conclusively place Kerry at an event he has always denied attending: The November 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Kansas City, in which a plan to assassinate pro-war senators was discussed. How seriously the plan was debated is in dispute; some veterans say it was nothing more than "guys ticked off and talking big at midnight," while others remember a bitter confrontation over the idea. All agree,...

ETCHUM, Idaho, March 22 — A yearlong F.B.I. surveillance of John Kerry's antiwar activities in the early 1970's was "a badge of honor" and an encroachment on civil liberties that has echoes in the presidential race, a Kerry spokesman said on Monday. Newly disclosed F.B.I. files reveal that the bureau's agents and informants closely followed Mr. Kerry and other leaders of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, infiltrating meetings, recording speeches and filing reports to Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Richard M. Nixon. Advertisement Mr. Kerry, who joined the antiwar group's leadership in late 1970 — months after leaving the...

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — Reports that the FBI monitored John Kerry's anti-war activities in the early 1970s highlight the need "to be vigilant about civil liberties," the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said Monday. In a radio interview Monday evening on WBZ-AM in Boston, Kerry said the reports are "such ancient history." "It's just sort of in the past, but it underscores to everyone of us why we have to be vigilant about civil liberties, why we have to have an attorney general who respects the Constitution, and why our Bill of Rights is so important in the United States," said...

<p>KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) -- Reports that the FBI monitored John Kerry's anti-war activities in the early 1970s are both "a badge of honor" and a troubling example of government intrusion into peaceful and legitimate protest, a Kerry spokesman said Monday.</p>