Map, above: Mexican drug cartels operating in the United States. The U.S. and Mexican Narcos Are Smoking the Peace Pipe -- or so purports a cache of leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor. The correspondences cite a Mexican diplomat who claims that not only is the U.S....
Photo, above: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C), Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and head of the Russian army's main department of combat preparation Ivan Buvaltsev watch military exercises at the Kirillovsky firing ground in the Leningrad region, March 3, 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host...
Photo, above: Sites where typical Neanderthal fossils have been found JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 2 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Andrew Lawler, in re: Mesopotamian cities Sunday 2 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Sid Perkins, Science magazine, in re: geoengineering. Sunday 2 March 2014 /...
Photo, above: Papua New Guinea, World War II cemetery at Bomana, Port Moresby (Photo: B. Ludin, courtesy of Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 1 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a...
Photo, above: Barricades, rue Soufflot, Paris, 1789, by Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863) a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. He was born in the Paris Louvre while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. JOHN BATCHELOR...
Photo, above: Ariel Sharon at his beloved Sycamore Ranch in the Negev (Photo: Yossi Rot) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 27 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Susanne Craig, NYT, in re...
Photo, above: Aberdeen, Kings College. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 26 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at RAND, in re: Virgin and the latest round of Branson...
Photo, above: Red and Black Flag of the OUN JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 25 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: Energy independence, Keystone Pipeline, shipping oil by train. North Dakota. Tuesday...
Photo, above: Saint Catherine's Monastery, founded by the Emperor St. Justinian the Great, sits at the foot of Mount Sinai in Sinai, Egypt. (Hussein Talal/ AP ) . . . A violent insurgency and military crackdown sweeping across Egypt’s northern Sinai peninsula have brought an unwelcome quiet to...
Photo, above: . . . The year was 1951. Mohammed Mossadegh captivated the world with his struggle for independence from the British. He was charismatic and forceful. He was also eccentric. He greeted visitors, even foreign dignitaries, while in bed. He had fainting spells in Parliament. He...