By John Batchelor on Jul 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 28 Comments
Her Crime?
Colleague Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), spoke on the floor of the House this news cycle to bring to history the name and face of a young Iranian woman, 19 year-old Taraneh Mousavi, who was arrested and abducted on July 9th by Basij thugs in Tehran.
There were witnesses to Taraneh [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 5 Comments
Best Tehran resistance source sends me to this new clip on Youtube from the resistance.
There are many groups in rebellion against the urusper Ahmadinejad, and no one group has the lead on media, leaks, tactics, massage. Tehran does more and more resemble Paris 1968, which I saw at first and used [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 23, 2009 in Current Affairs | 51 Comments
Humbuggery Skullduggery.
Far back in May, the question was why does the White House bloviate on an August 6 deadline for healthcare? Why push the Senate to do what it cannot do, which is to go fast when a minority rules? Why push the House to do what it cannot do, which is [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 20, 2009 in Current Affairs | 60 Comments
Out with the Old.
POTUS in New Jersey on a steamy day with Governor Jon Corzine, making a boilerplate speech that is heavy on blaming the old ways and crushingly heavier on the radiant future of clean energy and clean jobs and clean healthcare and clean education and clean financial regulations. The speech lacks [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 12, 2009 in Current Affairs, John Batchelor (author), Larry Johnson | 2 Comments
SWAG.
Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, embeds this wondrously pretentious video from South Waziristan in Bill’s rich resource of Long War Journal, showing the Jihad lads chanting and churning in the summer dust, with live-fire demonstrations of their prowess fighting the Martians or whoever else shows up.
What did show up at this rudimentary [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 12, 2009 in Current Affairs | 11 Comments
Larry Johnson will likely discuss Honduras tonight on The John Batchelor Show. Check our promo for audio link and times.
Bananas Split comedy continues with the Hugo Chavez stooge Manuel Zelaya rushing about making speeches on TV about how criminals have tossed him out of his beleaguered Honduras. [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 12, 2009 in Current Affairs | 58 Comments
Don’t miss The John Batchelor Show tonight with regular panelist Larry Johnson.
Africa Triumph.
Excellent wordless video of the arrival of the Obama family for the first state visit to continental Africa, this time in Ghana, with clear excitement, passion, fascination and revelation. Here is the pay-off for the US, when POTUS, [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 11, 2009 in Current Affairs | 4 Comments
Originally published July 9, 2009 at the blog for The John Batchelor Show.
First Cold War.
My sense of an unusually gloomy mood in the industrialized nations after the sour, feckless, routine G8 flop, moves me to my memory and this starkly credible Twilight Zone episode, Season 1, No. 14, “Third [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 10, 2009 in Current Affairs | 51 Comments
Originally published July 6, 2009 at the blog for The John Batchelor Show.
The Jewel in the Crown.
Steve Cohen, NYU, spoke Sunday 5 of a new cold war that is a dominant theme in Moscow since the early years of the Bush administration and that [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 9, 2009 in China, John Batchelor (author) | 14 Comments
The Uyghurs of East Turkistan have launched a wave of protest against the bullying, greedy, ineffective Beijing leadership, this time in the East Turkistan (called by the Beijing cadre Xinjiang Province) capital of Urumqi.
Over the last year, we have reported a deal on the Uyghur protests and the Uyghur [...]
By John Batchelor on Jul 5, 2009 in Current Affairs | 24 Comments
Plan B.
There are consistent reports of the continuing resistance of the Honduras Supreme Court to the demands of the OAS and the Obama administration to restore the disgraced stooge Manuel Zelaya. The OAS issued an ultimatum for Saturday July 4. On Sunday 5, the OAS claims its director [...]
By John Batchelor on Jun 5, 2009 in Current Affairs | 4 Comments
Posted To the Wall Street Journal.
I posted a comment to the Steven Waldman annotation of POTUS speech in Cairo in this news cycle: John Batchelor wrote: (your comment)
By John Batchelor on Jun 2, 2009 in Kim Jong Il, National Defense, National Security, North Korea | 9 Comments
From my blog for the John Batchelor Show.
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SecDef Robert Gates spoke unusually at Singapore this news cycle when he declared that the Kim regime was not acceptable as a nuclear power.
By John Batchelor on Jun 2, 2009 in Current Affairs | 26 Comments
Loves the Red Sox.
Brian Deese, 31 year-old policy flack for the Obama administration, is freshly named as the car czar’s point man on dismantling and rearranging the fallen GM.
By John Batchelor on May 15, 2009 in Dick Cheney, Torture | 19 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic junior senator from Rhode Island, wades thigh deep into the mighty partisan swamp of torture with back to back performances on cable, CNN followed by MSNBC, commenting on a peculiar and melodramatic revelation from Charles Duelfer, the Iraq WMD searcher. The story is told in the Daily Beast by Robert [...]
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