Photo, above: Ethiopia’s Contested Dam Project on the Nile River: in March 2011, when Egypt was consumed by domestic unrest, Ethiopia announced it would soon begin construction on a hydroelectric dam along the Blue Nile River, one of two main tributaries for the Nile. The Grand Ethiopian...
PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHOCKS ACADEME AND POLITICAL CIRCLES Photo, above: John Sexton, president of New York University - see: Hour 1, Block B, Bob Fu, president of China Aid, in re: Chen Guang-chen, a blind freedom-fighter who fled to the US, was received warmly by NYU, and now . . "...
Fifty-five million years ago, a fossil thought to be the earliest-discovered ancestor of small tree-dwelling primates called tarsiers; even at that early time, the tarsier and anthropoid [i.e., our human] groups had split apart. Picture above: how the ancient primate might have looked, in its...
Photo, above: In Ireland at G8 meeting, Presidents Obama and Putin share an icy encounter over Syria. See: Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 17 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, and Thomas...
Photo, above: The famous Harvey Girls; here, in Somerville, Texas. The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the western United States. The company traces its origins to the 1875 opening...
Photo, above: Detainee escorted by guards at US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Photo By: Getty Images JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 15 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay by Jess Bravin (1 of 4) Saturday 15 June 2013 / Hour 1,...
Photo, above: Participants at the Festival Ergav celebration in Chukotka, Russia. See: Hour 1, Block C: . Adm Gary Roughead, World Affairs Council of Northern California, in re: The Opening Arctic - Challenges and Opportunities JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 14 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A...
Photo, above: How to make sarin gas at home. It looks as though any sarin gas in Syria was brought in by the al Nusrah Front (= al Qaeda) "rebels" – i.e., Islamist anti-Assad forces. See: Hour 2, Block A, Danielle Pletka, AEI. "I was reading up on nuclear proliferation when our editorial...
Photo, above: In Trabzon, in Turkey on the Black Sea - a small global crossroads - people demostrate against the authoritarian, Islamist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show Hour One Wednesday 12 June...
Photo, above: Jabbar Collins, with family, has now filed a $150 million lawsuit for wrongful conviction. The long-time Brooklyn, New York, District Attorney Charles Hynes is accused of running a private jail system where witnesses were illegally interrogated and forcibly detained indefinitely. The...