Photo, above: PLA 2049? JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 31 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague Barron’s Poll: Voters want special prosecutor for IRS caseUSA TODAY - 1 day ago Most Americans want a special prosecutor to investigate possible abuses at the Internal Revenue Service,...
Photo, above: Bedouin men getting out of the searing sun, Sinai (Leanne Logan, © Copyright Lonely Planet Images 2011) See: Hour 2, Block B: Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 30...
Photo, above: Yang Jisheng is a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone (Mùbēi), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and was graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency,...
Illustration, above: Structural problems with the Bay Bridge, San Francisco. See: Hour 3, Block B: Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 28 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: DOJ...
Photo, above: a vector for ebola, in Congo Brazzaville JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 27 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (1 of 4) Monday 27 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the...
Photo, above: our boys in finance. From left: Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein, J.P. Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, and Merrill Lynch's John Thain leaving the Treasury in October 2008 after being offered a $125 billion bailout package. . . . I took a deep breath and walked into the...
Photo, above: Midway Island, 1941. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 25 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Phillipines John Gordon; 1 of 4 Saturday 25 May 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and...
Photo, above: The photographer Edward Curtis started off his career at the tail end of the Nineteenth Century, making portraits of Seattle's richest citizens. A preoccupation with Native Americans and a chance encounter on a mountaintop triggered an idea: Curtis decided to chronicle the experience...
Photo, above: Gaggle of aggressive fools - the eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits. ALI AKBAR VELAYATI: Top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on international affairs....
Photo, above: Karakorum highway; see: Hour 2, Block B, Nitin Gokhale, anchor at New Delhi Television, on Chinese and Pakistani friendship – "higher than the Himalaya and deeper than the ocean" – that is, linkages to rail and road networks in Pakistan so China can connect to energy supplies in...