The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.

Episodes

August 21, 2025 6 mins

CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor

Show Schedule 8-21-25

The show begins in Anchorage Alaska, watching the two principals seek a resolution for Ukraine, NATO, Trump administration and Russia.

1910 USS MASSACHUCETTS 

First Hour

9:00-9:15

Russia: Long road to resolution. Anatol Lieven, Quincy

9:15-9:30

Russia: Long road to resolution. Anatol Liev...
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Venezuela and Mexico: Military response on the table. Mary Anastasia O'Grady
1890 castro government
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Russia & Kazakhstan: Alleged laundering at Trump SoHo. Craig Unger, author



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Russia: Not trustworthy. Cliff May, FDD continued



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Russia: Not trustworthy. Cliff May, FDD



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Vietnam War 4/8: Military History. Geoffrey Wawro

Remarkable… the best overview of America’s misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard one-volume book on the war.” – Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times
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Vietnam War 3/8: Military History. Geoffrey Wawro

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.

Based on thousands of pages of military, diplomati...
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Vietnam War 2/8: Military History. Geoffrey Wawro

https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-War-Military-History/dp/1541606086

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever ...
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Vietnam War 1/8: Military History. Geoffrey Wawro

https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-War-Military-History/dp/1541606086

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever ...
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#NewWorldReport: Good news Paraguay. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis

1932 PARAGUAY


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#NewWorldReport: USN flotilla off Venezuela. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis
1900 VENEZUELA


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#NewWorldReport: Brazil lawfare and defiance. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis



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#NewWorldReport: Bolivia votes surprise. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis



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Hotel Mars: PRC Long March 9 booster for the Earth-Moon System. Rick Fisher, David Livingston

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Nvidia: And the smuggling PRC. #ScalaReport: Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache



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Russia: Long road to resolution. Anatol Lieven, Quincy continued
1919 estonia
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Russia: Long road to resolution. Anatol Lieven, Quincy



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Preview: Mexico. Colleague Mary Anastasia O'Grady of WSJ Editorial comments on the possible rift in the Morena Party over how the cartels were regarded in AMLO's review: Mexico: past time and today under Claudia Sheinbaum. More later.

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Preview: VENEZUELA. Professor Evan Ellis of the Army War College comments on the possible intention of the USN flotilla off Venezuela to follow the Noriega operation in 1989 off Panama. More later.
1930 CARACAS

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Author and historian Geoffrey Wawro, "The Vietnam War: A Military," comments on the revisionist opinion that invading Cambodia and Laos earlier in the war would have led to victory. More later and tomorrow.
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