Photo, left: In October and November of 2005, a series of riots occurred in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities, involving the burning of cars and public buildings at night. The unrest started on 27 October at Clichy-sous-Bois, where police were investigating a reported break-in at a...
Photo, left: Operation Spider or Project Spider is a surveillance program by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to monitor Iranian internet users on social media such as Facebook.The operation was publicized in January 2015 with a statement by IRGC's "The Center for Investigation of...
Photo, left: The pad abort test will utilize a flight-like Dragon 2 and Trunk, departing from a truss structure under the power of its SuperDraco thrusters, rather than sitting atop of a Falcon 9 – as previously outlined by Crewed Dragon Program Lead Dr. Garrett Reisman. McGREGOR, Texas (NASA PR...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday 10 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Francis Rose, WMAL radio in Washington; in re: Good reason not to trust what the VA says – specifically, not what the head of the VA says – Robert McDonnell has made statements on TV of purported facts that...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes Hour One Monday 9 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Monday 9 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: ...
Photo, left: Prisoners farming cotton under the trusty system in Parchman Farm, Mississippi, 1911 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 8 November 2015/ Hour 1, Block A: Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert (1 of 12) Sunday 8 November 2015/ Hour 1, Block B: Empire of Cotton: A...
Photo, left: Greek government debt crisis: 100,000 people protest against the austerity measures in front of parliament building in Athens (29 May 2011). JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 7 November 2015/ Hour 1, Block A: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right...
Photo, left: See Hour 3, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 6 November 2015/ Hour 1, Block A: Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, in re: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-friends-money-progressive-politics-...
Miniature, left: Muslim and Christian playing lutes (ouds), miniature from Cantigas de Santa Maria by king Alfonso X. A harmonious scene not favored by the just-reelected Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm...
Photo, left: What is now coastal Libya was known under Roman rule as Tripolitania and Pentapolis, divided between the Africa province in the west and Creta et Cyrenaica in the east. In 296 AD, the Emperor Diocletian separated the administration of Crete from Cyrenaica and in the latter formed the...