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Senior Reporter Dale Hurd uses his global reporting experience to uncover trends in the news and share some of the interesting stories behind the headlines.
december 5 , 2006
Stop Dangerous “Global Warming Deniers”
The Wall Street Journal has re-printed a letter from Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. It warns ExxonMobil to stop financial support to ALL scientific and public interest groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who say that the Global Warming scare is a lot of hype. More...
dECEMBER 4, 2006
Darkness Falls over Venezuela
Hugo Chavez’ defeat of democratic challenger Manuel Rosales in Sunday’s presidential election will open a new dark chapter in Venezuelan history. Chavez will now begin the next phase of his Bolivarian project to turn Venezuela into a near clone of Cuba. More...
october 30 , 2006
Global Warming Hysteria Threatens Life As We Know It
British leaders continue to get hysterical over the global warming “threat.” Prime Minister Tony Blair is warning that a new study out today proves that the world faces “disastrous” consequences from “climate change.”More...
October 23, 2006
BBC Admits It Loathes America
If you’ve ever experienced the hair raising hostility and knee jerk anti-American bias in a lot of European news coverage, a piece in the London Mail on Sunday newspaper is a must read. More...
october 17 , 2006
Why North Korea Will Fall
When you walk into David Yonggi Cho’s mega-church in Seoul, South Korea, you’ll find what a 2003 Christian Science Monitor story describes as “…artists' renderings of 12 different contemporary churches and prayer-meeting complexes - all labeled with North Korean addresses.More...
October 16, 2006
Homeschoolers Jailed in Germany
In southern Germany last week I met members of 4 home schooling families who are being punished by the German government for home schooling. 
Watch my video blog for more.More...
october 12, 2006
America vs. the World
I work overseas fairly regularly, and I have had to endure a lot of conversations with foreigners that quickly turned into venting sessions. The United States gets ripped as the world’s biggest problem. I always tried to keep my composure while they emptied themselves of their anger, not wanting a shouting match or feeling like I could not in that moment reverse years of anti-American conditioning by foreign media coverage.More...
october 11 , 2006
The End of North Korea
After the big bang out of Pyongyang, there’s been a lot of hand wringing in the journalistic and pundit classes about a new nuclear-armed era for the weird and terrible North Korean regime of Kim Jong-Il. Having just returned from Germany and seeing all this shallow analysis, I’m wondering if there might be something to the German stereotype of Americans as superficial. More...
september 19 , 2006
Drunk on Conspiracy Theories
Leading atheist and leftist thinker Sam Harris has rattled the left this week with his piece in the left-leaning Los Angeles Times on liberal’s state of denial over the war on terror with a sub-theme on how the belief in conspiracy theories could destroy the left.
september 13 , 2006
Falling Oil Prices: Big Trouble for Troublemakers
A global oil price limbo dance could mean political upheaval or even revolution in two key enemies of the United States, Venezuela, and Iran, but also in a former superpower which, while not an outright enemy, wants to see the U.S. fail: Russia.
september 6, 2006
Massive Rise in British Anti-Semitism
A parliamentary enquiry will report Thursday to Prime Minister Tony Blair that “Anti-Zionism has fueled an explosive rise in anti-Semitism in the UK.”
september 6, 2006
Is Mexico Set to Explode?
As I reported from Mexico City in June, the nightmare scenario in the Mexico presidential election has turned out to be the narrow defeat of the leftist candidate with the messiah complex, Andres Manual Lopez Obrador.
More...August 31 , 2006
Leftist Fantasy: Bush Assassinated on Screen
A new British TV docudrama called “Death of a President” revolves around the assassination of President Bush. More...
july 26, 2006
More Signs Hezbollah is Getting Pounded
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suddenly wants a cease-fire in Lebanon and peace talks without conditions. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suddenly wants a cease-fire in Lebanon and peace talks without conditions.
july 24, 2006
A West Gone Mad
In Australia, an Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner tells school kids she’s non-violent, but she’d still kill President Bush.
In London, thousands of British Leftists and Muslim radicals, all of them citizens of a democracy that safeguards their rights, march in support of the terrorist group Hezbollah and against the democratic states of Israel and the U.S.
July 18, 2006
Is this Israel’s Prelude to Attacking Iran?
Israel’s attack on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon may be much more than it seems; more than just about the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers; more than just the actions of a democratic nation tired of being pecked to death by terrorists on its borders. It’s more likely the result of what I’ll call a strategic perfect storm.
july 5, 2006
The Predictable Results of America-Bashing
One of the biggest unreported stories of our time is the incredible hostility toward the UnitedStates in the foreign press, especially Europe’s, and the effect this relentless America-bashing is having on public opinion.
july 3, 2006
Mexico’s “Nightmare Scenario”
The results so far from Sunday’s Mexican presidential election were described to me weeks ago by Mexicans as the worst possible outcome, their “Nightmare Scenario.”
May 16, 2006
U.S. Chopper Downed by Iranian Missile
The U.S. military says Iraqi Terrorists shot down a U.S. helicopter south of Baghdad yesterday, killing two U.S. soldiers. Debkafile, a Web site with military and intelligence sources in the Middle East, says Iran had just supplied Iraqi terrorists with as many as 1,000 SA-7 Strela ground-air missiles made in Iran, and a number of new, more powerful roadside bombs.
may 11, 2006
Ugly Americans?
How bizarre is this? A Reuters story with the headline “Behavior Guide Aims at Demise of ‘the Ugly American.’” It begins, “Alarmed by the relentless rise of anti-Americanism around the world, a business-backed group is trying to change the behavior that spawned an enduring stereotype of Americans abroad -- loud, arrogant, ill-dressed, ill-mannered and lacking respect for other cultures.”
april 26, 2006
Mexico's Military Invasion
Here’s a good reason to fix the fence on the Mexican border:
The Department of Homeland Security says that suspected Mexican military units have crossed into the United States 216 times since 1996: 75 times in California, 63 in Arizona, and 78 in Texas. In some cases, shots have been fired and U.S. citizens threatened.
april 17, 2006
Anti-War Media Makes U.S.-Iran War More Likely
Thanks to the constant partisan anti-war coverage by the liberal media on Iraq, Iranian leaders are stumbling toward a military confrontation with the United States, confident that we’re powerless to stop them. Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a major figure in that country said Sunday that the United States is "incapable of taking a risk or engaging in a new war in the region” over Iran’s nuclear program.
april 7, 2006
Why They're Doomed
In the CBN Newsroom I sometimes exchange news articles through email with colleagues on the topic of the ongoing social, political, economic, and moral meltdown in Western Europe. The subject headings of these emails often simply read “Why They’re Doomed,” and everyone knows what the e-mail is about.
MARCH 27, 2006
Russia Disappears
Between 1993 and 2005, Russia’s population shrank by the approximate size of Denmark.
5.8 million people… gone.
February 10, 2006
Sources: Hugo Chavez Wants the Bomb
Highly placed sources inside Venezuela have given me detailed information about a top-secret Venezuelan government program called “Operación Yellowcake.”
It’s apparently a clandestine, Iranian-style nuclear program.
My sources say Venezuela has assembled a team of nuclear scientists from Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, Libya, Cuba, Vietnam, India, and Japan. This team is working to exploit domestic Uranium deposits.
january 31, 2006
Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Russia?
Eight Jews were wounded a few weeks ago at Moscow's Chabad Synagogue by a knife-wielding attacker described in one press account as an “alienated young loner.” The attack led to a flurry of news reports over fears that hate crimes are growing in Russia.
january 27, 2006
al-Qaeda in Columbia: Be Very Afraid
This is the story I’ve both feared and expected. AP reports that Colombia has dismantled a false passport ring with links to al-Qaida and Hamas terrorists.
The report says “(t)he gang allegedly supplied an unknown number of citizens from Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and other countries with false passports and Colombian nationality without them ever stepping foot in the country. The counterfeited passports were then used to facilitate their entry into the United States and Europe.”
january 19, 2006
Big Trouble South of the Border
Watch for Latin America to become one of America’s top foreign policy problems later this year. On July 2nd, Mexico could elect as president an anti-American, pro-Castro leftist named Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The popular former mayor of Mexico City still leads in the polls, although his lead has shrunk. Add to that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez ...
january 16, 2006
Hugo Chavez Scapegoats the Jews
As the economy gets worse in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez needs more than the U.S. to blame for his nation’s problems, so he’s begun to scapegoat the Jews.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has condemned Chavez’ comments in a Christmas Eve speech to the nation in which he said that “…some minorities (read “Jews”), descendants of those who crucified Christ…a minority took the world's riches for themselves.''
january 13, 2006
Monitoring Mosques for Nukes
Some Muslim “leaders” are miffed about news reports that ever since 9/11 the feds have been secretly monitoring mosques for traces of nuclear radiation. The New York Times reported that, “F.B.I. officials met with Muslim and Arab-American leaders on Wednesday in an effort to dispel anger and concern over the bureau's secret monitoring of radiation levels at Muslim sites around the country.”
january 9, 2006
New Proof of Saddam's WMDs?
The Intelligence Summit, a terrorism research center connected to several important U.S. intelligence figures, says it will release audio tapes next week of Saddam Hussein talking about his Weapons of Mass Destruction. Its news release says “A former military intelligence analyst, who currently works as a civilian contractor, believes he has found a cache of extremely confidential--and very shocking--audio recordings of Saddam Hussein's office meetings. The audiotapes, which had apparently been overlooked, were found in a warehouse along with many other untranslated Iraqi intelligence files. These tapes are extremely significant, since they may be the best evidence yet of Saddam's secret intentions concerning weapons of mass destruction.”
january 4, 2006
Europe's Troubled Sleep
The death of Europe feels trapped in an abstract realm until the reality of it slaps you across the face. I’ve reported plenty on the subject in its various manifestations from different European capitals, but sometimes I have to ask myself if I’m exaggerating the severity of the crisis. After all, the United States continues to defy the prophets of doom, who seem to pop up in European news reports on a regular basis, by the way. And Europe is rich and modern like the U.S., so I tell myself surely it must be flexible and adaptable enough to survive.
December 14, 2005
Chinese Takeout
The Chinese military continues to hack into the Pentagon’s computer network. But what’s more interesting is the White House response--none.
AFP, the French News Agency, quoted Alan Paller of the SANS Institute, as saying the attacks have been traced to the Chinese province of Guangdong, and the hacking has all the signs of an ongoing military operation.
december 13, 2005
Europe Furious Over Tookie
The European elite, which sides with convicted murderers over their victims when it comes to the right to life, is outraged over California's execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. Politicians in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's native Austria have called for his name to be removed from a sports stadium in his hometown. A Christian political group went even further, suggesting the stadium be renamed the "Stanley Tookie Williams Stadium."
August 8, 2005
A
12 Step Program for the Left’s Hatred of “W”
Let’s
begin, shall we?
1. We admitted we were powerless over our hatred of (INSERT George W. Bush HERE) –and that our (INSERT “thinking, logic, and strategic vision” HERE) had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Power? Oops. The recovery effort begins to break down at this point, since many of the Bush haters in Europe and America don’t believe in a power higher than the human mind. But hey, I was concerned enough to try to help them.
August 4, 2005
Briefcase
Nukes Already Inside the U.S.?
Worldnetdaily.com has been running a series of articles that claim that al-Qaeda already has nuclear weapons inside the U.S. and is waiting to detonate them.
Joseph Farah writes, “At least two fully assembled and operational nuclear weapons are believed to be hidden in the United States already..."
August 4, 2005
CAIR’s
Alleged Ties to Terror
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is in the midst of a potentially embarrassing defamation suit that it filed against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR. Anti-CAIR is well, anti-CAIR, and accuses America’s most vocal Islamic organization of ties to terror, something a lot of people have done.
august 2, 2005
Does
Hugo Chavez Need an Exorcism?
The hands down winner for the category of he’d be hilariously funny if he weren’t so dangerous has to go to Venezuela’s aspiring maximum dictator Hugo Chavez. During his presidency, many a Venezuelan has uttered the words el hombre está loco.
August 1, 2005
Muslim
Terror: Bogus Fatwas, Mea Culpas, and Defiance
The London bombings and the Fatwa issued last week in this country against suicide bombings (see my July 28 entry) continue to emit all manner of intellectual fallout.
Terror expert Steven Emerson writes:
"…the fatwa is bogus. Nowhere does it condemn the Islamic extremism ideology that has spawned Islamic terrorism. It does not renounce nor even acknowledge the existence of an Islamic jihadist culture that has permeated mosques and young Muslims around the world."
july 28, 2005
Are
Suicide Bombings Coming to the U.S.?
There is a buzz among terror experts that the U.S could be the next address for a suicide bombing, and Muslim leaders here fear the backlash. Speaking to CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper a few months ago for a different story, he basically told me that all bets are off if there were ever another major attack on the United States by Muslim Terrorists. The phrase “internment camps” was discussed.
More...
july 27, 2005
Playing
Nuclear Chicken with North Korea
At the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks in Beijing today the U.S. told North Korea to dream on after Pyongyang demanded that we end our nuclear defense of South Korea as a precondition for negotiations over the North’s rogue nuclear program. Watch now for the predictable North Korean propaganda folderol about drowning us in a “sea of fire” or something.
july 26, 2005
Is
the War on Terror Headed to Pakistan?
For years, a confidential U.S. military source has told me repeatedly what has since become conventional wisdom: Osama bin Laden has been living across the border from Afghanistan in the mountains of Pakistan, and he has eluded capture with the assistance of Pakistan’s military.
His lair is a high altitude location that can be assaulted only by dropping commandoes from aircraft. The rugged terrain and high altitude environment would make such an assault an extremely difficult task. But my source says the biggest factor preventing the nabbing of bin Laden is that it would have to be a secret incursion into Pakistani territory without Pakistan’s knowledge.
july 21, 2005
Britain:
So I Guess There is an al-QaedaThreat?
Where are
all the Brits who used to make fun of the al- Qaeda threat?
They seem to have disappeared. Would it be a cheap shot
for me to bring up the fact that right up to the first London
Bombing, the British left and its allies, radical Muslims--including
those who say they oppose terror but who want to make Britain
an Islamic state-- were saying that the terrorism threat
and the war on terror was a White House-created fantasy
to facilitate the expansion of the American empire?
july 20, 2005
Did
I Say Oil Prices Might Fall?
Below I wrote of the possibility we could be paying a lot less for gasoline next year. But there’s also a nightmare scenario...
As you may have heard, the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia is warning that another terror attack on westerners inside the Kingdom might be in the works.
But some terror analysts still await the “big one”— a terror strike against Saudi Arabia’s huge oil pipeline network. The pipeline is heavily guarded and not easy to hit, but there are 10,000 miles of it.
july 20, 2005
China's
Economy, India as Ally, Britain's PC War
Hitting a Chinese Wall?
There are continuing rumblings that China’s economy will go into the tank big time in 2006, which would mean less energy demand worldwide. How might this help the Republicans? Because a major cooling in China’s overheated economy, along with an expected increase in oil production and more stability in Iraq, would drive down oil prices sharply, to levels not seen for years, which in turn could rev up the U.S economy during an election cycle and help the GOP.
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