Photo, left: Syrian Kurds from Kobane in the refugee camps of Suruc, Turkey. US B1B bombers hovered over Kobani, protected the impressively aggressive Kurdish fighters by bombing everything ISIS that moved, including motorcycles, leading to a clear victory in that battle. The children above in a...
Photo, left: Cuba's Ladies in White walking home peacefully from Sunday Mass. See Hour 2, Block A, Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ, on Cuban dissidents beg to see the Pope. On the morning of March 18, 2003, Cuban officials stormed the homes of 75 dissidents on the grounds that they were undermining...
Image, left: Shakedown culture - the Chinese Communist Party. See Hour 2, Block A, Alan Tonelson, economic policy analyst blogs at RealityChek; @AlanTonelson; on Xi Jinping in Seattle at the Paulson Institute. 勒索 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr David Livingston, The...
Image, left: Due to a lapse in EXIM Bank’s authority, as of July 1, 2015, the Bank is unable to process applications or engage in new business or other prohibited activities. For more information, please click here. To Customers and Stakeholders of the Export-Import Bank of the United States: Due...
Painting, left: Signing of the Peace of Westphalia (Westfälischer Friede), a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 20 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, by Robert L. O'Connell (1 of 8) Sunday 20 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, by...
Photo, left: Assassination Attempt on President Reagan: 1982 Pulitzer Prize, Spot News Photography, Ron Edmonds, Associated Press. On March 30, 1981, AP photographer Ron Edmonds waited for President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. John Hinckley Jr. joined the crowd. Both men...
Photo, left: Sukhoi - Su-24M of the Russian Air Force in May 2009. See this video*: A Tu-95 Bear strategic bomber videotapes interception by Royal Air Force Typhoons and French Mirages. The words Наш эксклюзив in the upper left of the frame mean "our exclusive." Further: what it's like for a...
Photo, left: The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-124 "Руслан") (NATO reporting name: Condor) is a strategic airlift jet aircraft. It was designed by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union (USSR). Until the Boeing 747-8F, the An-124 was, for thirty...
Photo, left: KC10 refuelling with a boom. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 16 September 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Charles Burton, Brock University, in re: Xi Jinping's state visit. China's opaque economy is...