Photo, left: cotton JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 7 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert (1 of 12) Saturday 7 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert (2 of 12) Saturday 7 February 2015 / Hour...
Caligraphy, left: "Where are the moderate Imams? Their silence is deafening." See Hour One, Block C, Liz Peek. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 6 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Daniel Henninger, WSJ WONDER LAND, in re: An Empire of Taxation Friday 6 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: ...
Photo, left: The principal feature of Yazdânism is the belief in seven benevolent divine beings that defend the world from an equal number of malign entities. While this concept exist in its purest form in Yârsânism and Yazidism, it evolves into "seven saints"/spiritual persons, which are called "...
Photo, left: Michael Pillsbury and Board member Susan Pillsbury at the Washington National Opera's 2010 Opera Ball. Photo by Tony Powell. See Hour 1, Block B, Michael Pillsbury, senior East Asian analyst, in re: his just-released book, The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to...
Photo, left: Dr. Vadim P. Lukashevich, the "Russian space expert [who] was fired from his job at a hi-tech operation outside Moscow after he publicly criticized the Putin government’s consolidation of Russia’s entire space industry into a single government-run corporation. Vadim Lukashevich worked...
Photo, left: Hezbollah Brigade convoy in Iraq with US Army equipment, likely handed over to the militias by Iraqi military under direction of Iran. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen. Hour One Monday 2 February 2015...
Photo, left: U-boat JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 1 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, by Ed Offley (1 of 4) Sunday 1 February 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Turning the Tide: How a...
Photo, left: The Progressive Party of 1912 was an American political party formed by the former president Theodore Roosevelt, after a split in the Republican Party between him and President William Howard Taft. The party also became known as the Bull Moose Party after journalists quoted Roosevelt...
Photo, left: Yazidi refugees driven from their homes by ISIS, now in UN-sponsored and other camps in northwestern Iraq (in Kurdistan). Entire families live in 12' x 15' tents. Because the Yazidi religion requires everyone to be clean – immaculate, if possible – and perfectly neat at all times, even...
Photo, left: An example of how things generally looked in New York City after Gov Andrew Cuomo's and Mayor Bill de Blasio's "possibly worst storm in our lifetimes." All public transportation was shut down and ii was illegal to drive a car or a bicycle. The whole city was hammered to a standstill...