Photo, above: The veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, head of the Mulathameen Brigade, is seen in a still image taken from the Mauritanian news website Sahara Media at an unidentified location on January 20, 2013 /Sahara Media website via Reuters TV. “We promise all the countries that...
Photo, above: Tuareg people, traditional sovereigns of the Sahara. Historical recounting: A precise date of birth cannot be given for Adrien Atiman but it is believed to have been between 1866 and 1868 in a village on the banks of the River Niger near Timbuktu, in present-day Mali. At that time...
(Photo: On 3 August 1804 an American Squadron, including USS Constitution, attacked Tripoli during the U.S. war against the Barbary corsairs. This oil painting entitled “Decatur Boarding the Tripolitan Gunboat,” by Dennis Malone Carter, depicts Lieutenant Stephen Decatur (lower right center) in...
SEE: rebelmouse.com/johnbatchelorshow Photo, above: "The Timisoara branch of the European Law Students Association (ELSA) invited me to give a space law lecture at the West University Law School. I was delighted to oblige! I spoke to the students about jurisdiction and about space property...
Photo, above: Malian music, among the best in the world, often is played on the djembe (drum) and kora (stringed instrument). JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 10 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Johnson, NoQuarter; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal,...
Photo, above: Tibetan monk self -immolates. The unelected tyrants of Beijing are thrown into confusion by the massive domestic and international opposition to Chinese Communist Party oppression of a people who deeply wish to be free and independent. See:Hour One, Block B, below: Lobsang Nyandak,...
Photo, above: Members of the Islamist terrorist organization Ansar al-Dine ("Defenders of the Faith") in Mali, where their brutality against Muslim Malians is stunning the world. See: Ten Hour, Blocks A and B.Summer 2012 article on Tuaregs: http://www.theird.org/issues/religious-liberty/13-07-...
Photo, above: At an after-action report (a "hotwash") on the bin Ladin mission, restricted to fewer than 70 people and beyond top secret, Leon Panetta, the US Secretary of Defense, walked in with a big smile and Kathryn Bigelow, director of Zero-Dark-Thirty, on his arm. SEALs present had quickly...
Above: a European artist's fantasy design proposal for a unit of global currency. More pertinent, see Hour Two below, UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos by Gregory R. Copley: an analysis of global politics in context of the Twenty-first Century - a stunning explanation of ...
Photo, above: US invades Mexico, 1846. See: A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg in Hour Two.JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour OneSaturday 12 Jan 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus...