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...
Photo, left: . . . In reality, Xi's attempt to tighten his control over China's vast and unwieldy bureaucracy reinforces global fears that China is starting to lose control of its foreign policy. This disturbing truth goes a long way towards explaining why the international community was so alarmed...
Photo, left: Cold War threats, 1955. Cold War threats, 2015 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 27 January 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: James Pethokoukis, AEI, in re: LK: early earnings were disappointing - MS, Caterpillar,...
Photo, left: Columbus Circle, Monday 26 January, waiting for the blizzard June that did not arrive. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 26 January 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: John Fund, National Review Online, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent, in re: In...
Photo, left: Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie (also known as Alexandre Dumas (25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking person of color of all time in a European army. He was the first person of color in the French military to become brigadier...