Photo, above: DEATH TOLL AND MASS KILLING FROM CULTURAL REVOLUTION The Cultural Revolution claimed the lives of several million people [over years: 70 million Chinese people killed by the regime] and inflicted cruel and inhuman treatments on hundreds of millions of people. However, 40 years after...
Photo, above: Map of Texas wind speeds. See: Hour 2, Blocks C & D, The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State... by Kate Galbraith and Ashe Price JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and...
Photo, above: al Shebaab in Somalia JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 23 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: (1 of 2) al Shebaab (the youth) swore allegiance to al Q in 2012. July 2013 UN...
Photo, above: Yale crew team of 1880, featuring Chung Mun Yew in the center (Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University) See: Hour 1, Blocks C & D -Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization... by Liel Leibovitz and...
Photo, above: The Nomonhan Incident and the Politics of Friendship on the Russia-Mongolia-China Border The summer of 2009 in Ulaanbaatar was unusually bustling for an otherwise sleepy city at a time when almost half of its one million strong population were out in summer camps drinking koumiss (Mo...
Photo, above: Judith Tebutt - Armed men shot dead her husband, David, after bursting into their cottage at the luxury Kiwayu Safari Village, north of Lamu island in Kenya. Mr Tebbutt, 57, a finance director for publishers Faber & Faber, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest. His wife,...
Photo, above: In San Francisco Bay, the J105 fleet in the Rolex Big Boat Series showed off the iconic visuals that America's Cup planners hoped would seal San Francisco's bid to host America's Cup racing. Photo: C. Rolex / Daniel Forster JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Mary Kissel, Wall Street...
Photo, above: Demonstrators march with banners and flags during a protest against the government's nuclear policy in Taipei on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Thousands of Taiwanese marched through the capital Taipei on Sunday urging the government to halt construction of a nearly completed nuclear power...
Photo, above: Prince Bandar, head of Saudi intelligence, with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in the Kremlin. See: Hour 3, Blocks A & B, Stephen F Cohen, NYU & Princeton Russian Studies Prof Emeritus. Soviet Fates & Lost Alternatives, on, "Russia is a country such that no matter what...
Photo, above: ancient minaret in Herat. See: Hour , Block A, Bill Roggio and Thomas Joscelyn. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 16 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, and Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: in Syria, chem. weapons suggest...