Photo, left: Wars around the world (list). See: Michael Ledeen, FDD, Hour 3, Block D: WARS (1000+ battle-related deaths in year): Syria Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan Nigeria Ukraine South Sudan Israel/Gaza Somalia Yemen SERIOUS ARMED CONFLICTS (200-999 battle-deaths in year, 200 being my own cutoff)...
Photo, left: Greater Zab River near Erbil, capital of Kurdistan. See Hour 4, below, anent the Battle of Gaugamela on the Nineveh Plain. Note that the John Batchelor Show reported from near Gaugamela in Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, in late December 2014. Here's how amateur historians who...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 6 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H.W. Brands (1 of 4) Sunday 6 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H.W. Brands (2...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 5 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race, by Graham Farmelo (1 of 8) Saturday 5 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 4 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, economist, senior writer for Barron's Washington, and author, Crapshoot Investing, in re: US economic reports. Blurry Job Picture Poses Test for Fed U.S. employment growth slowed in August but...
Photo, left: Su-35S Super Flanker. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 6 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; in re: What's going on in Europe is a global, civilizational dilemma, Thursday 6 February 2014...
Photo, left: The cover of the book, The Will of the Universe. The Unknown Intelligence [or: The Volition of the Universe], by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, 1928, considered to be a work of Cosmist philosophy. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 1 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, in re: Larry Kudlow is shocked at Sen Blumenthal's intention to vote in favor of the Iran deal, which will...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen Hour One Monday 31 August 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn Long War Journal, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal ; in re: ISIS snuff film is so violent, LongWarJournal...
Photo, left: Interior of the opera house in Manaus, Brazil: the city that sprouted from the outside world's first discovery of rubber. (Interieur de l'opéra de Manaus © timuge Octobre 2008; "C'est incroyable de trouver un tel décor et de telles richesses en plein coeur de l'Amazonie...