Photo, left: Superb Afghan ruby mines are one main target of Taliban.* US bugs out on Afghans, leaves them to the mercy of the mass-slaughtering, gang-raping, Twelfth Century Deobandis: abandoned are Pashtun, Qizilbash, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashayi, Nuristani, Arab, Brahui,...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 25 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Lions of Carentan, by Volker Griesser (1 of 4) Sunday 25 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Lions of Carentan, by Volker Griesser (2 of 4) Sunday 25 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block C: Lions of Carentan, by Volker...
Photo, left: Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Nicholas Malone JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 24 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott (1 of 12) Saturday 24 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Target Tokyo: Jimmy...
. Map, left: The Arabian maritime trade route (750-1500 AD). See Hour Three, Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, on Egypt’s Return to Strategic and Economic Centrality. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 23 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz Peek, Fiscal Times...
Photo, left: The Great Kremlin Palace acts as the ceremonial residence of the President. Here, ceremonies are held for the President’s assumption of office, for presenting state awards, credentials, and receptions. The palace was built at the order of Tsar Nicholas I by renowned Petersburg...
Photo, left: An artist's conception of a human Mars base, with a cutaway revealing an interior horticultural area JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 21 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Cleo Paskal, Visiting...
Photo, left: A simplified map of Europe after the peace of Westphalia in 1648. As Dr Kissinger pointed out in a recent article, stability requires that sovereignty be defended. As the regional Sykes-Picot boundaries disappear under strain from warring nations and subgroups, so also do familiar...
Left: The Shahada flag commonly used by al-Qaeda, the parent organization of Khorasan. The writing has the shahadas, or two declarations of Muslim faith: “There is no god but God. Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 19 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom...
Photo, left: Gold Scythian belt buckle from Mingachevir, Azerbaijan. / See Hour 2, The Floating Kilogram: ... and Other Editorials on Money from the New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky and James Grant JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 18 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: The Eternal Nazi: From...
Photo, left: Kyakhta (Кяхта) banknote, from the early Soviet Union. Kyakhta is a town on the Russia-Mongolia border that for a period was the world’s largest repository of the world’s most expensive animal pelts. The town was renamed Troitskosavsk during the first part of the 20th century, but the...