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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.

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S8 Ep437: PREVIEW: John Batchelor speaks with Edmund...

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2026/02/09

PREVIEW: John Batchelor speaks with Edmund Fitton-Brown of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies regarding the ongoing tragedy in Iran. Fitton-Brown, a former UK ambassador to Yemen, discusses the regime's brutality and reports of hundreds of thousands dead or missing. The conversation critiques the US administration's approach, noting that while the president encouraged protesters with promises of support, that "rescue has been fatally delayed."1955

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S8 Ep437: PREVIEW: Peter Huessy joins the show to...

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2026/02/09

PREVIEW: Peter Huessy joins the show to discuss the end of the New START treaty and the modernization of nuclear arsenals since 2011. Huessy highlights the disparity in battlefield nuclear capabilities, noting that while the US assumes its systems work without testing, Russia and China are actively testing to develop "battlefield nukes." He warns that in military war games, once nuclear weapons are introduced, "nothing holds," and conventional US superiority becomes irrelevant.1958

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S8 Ep437: PREVIEW: Bill Roggio provides a grim...

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2026/02/09

PREVIEW: Bill Roggio provides a grim assessment of Al-Qaeda's status looking ahead to 2026, contradicting official narratives that the group has been "decimated" or "defeated." He explains that Al-Qaeda has grown significantly since 9/11, now effectively controlling two countries: Afghanistan in conjunction with the Taliban and parts of Syria. Roggio describes these areas as safe havens with training camps and weapons depots, noting that Somalia is also largely under Al-Qaeda control via

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S8 Ep437: PREVIEW: Bridget Toomey discusses the...

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2026/02/09

PREVIEW: Bridget Toomey discusses the resilience of the Houthis in Yemen following the end of active campaigns in Gaza. She explains that the Houthis are difficult to target due to their mountainous geography and their status as both an Iranian proxy and an indigenous movement. While Israeli strikes successfully targeted some political leadership, Toomey notes that the group has largely recovered and replaced those figures, though they have become significantly more paranoid and repressive

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S8 Ep437: PREVIEW: Journalist Craig Unger presents...

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2026/02/09

PREVIEW: Journalist Craig Unger presents allegations from his books regarding Donald Trump's relationship with the KGB in the 1980s. Unger cites Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major, who claims Trump was cultivated as an asset by Soviet state security. The discussion covers a timeline from 1980 to 1987, detailing how a trip to Moscow allegedly led to Trump publishing a full-page ad in the New York Times that echoed KGB talking points.1870 CASTLE GARDEN

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S8 Ep437: PREVIEW: Brandon Weichert of The National...

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2026/02/09

PREVIEW: Brandon Weichert of The National Interest critiques NASA's plans for the Artemis 2 mission and the Space Launch System. Weichert argues that the SLS is likely to fail to meet expectations and suggests that NASA may ultimately be forced to rely on Elon Musk's SpaceX and the Starship program to reach the moon, rather than continuing with the government's expensive, single-use rocket.

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S8 Ep436: Michael Vlahos as Germanicus compares...

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2026/02/09

Michael Vlahos as Germanicus compares the fall of the Roman Republic to modern American corruption, arguing that while Augustus and even Putin could contain oligarchic excess, American oligarchs possess unchecked power several orders of magnitude greater, with lawfare transforming crime into legal immunity in ways more dangerous than historical precedents.1900 CARTHAGE

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S8 Ep436: Michael Vlahos as Germanicus analyzes...

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2026/02/09

Michael Vlahos as Germanicus analyzes Polish Premier Donald Tusk's invocation of Jeffrey Epstein as a Russianintelligence asset, interpreting this as geopolitical warfare positioning Poland as Europe's bastion against Russia, potentially forming a central European bloc while ironically creating a symbiotic arrangement dividing Ukraine between Polish and Russian spheres. 1918 UKRAINE

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S8 Ep436: Michael Vlahos as Germanicus argues the...

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2026/02/09

Michael Vlahos as Germanicus argues the Russo-Ukrainian war has transcended material goals to become a mythic struggle like the Iliad, with Ukraine cast as Troy creating heroic sacrifice narratives while Russia achieves false transcendence through a phoenix-like resurrection story, as the United States fails to grasp the existential dimensions that transformed both societies.1940

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: Exotic Theories and the...

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Exotic Theories and the Ongoing Quest. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: The conversation explores anomalies like dark-matter-free galaxies and alternatives like primordial black holes, highlighting the enduring mystery of the universe's composition. 1952

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: Hunting Particles Underground and...

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Hunting Particles Underground and in Space. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: Schilling discusses Cosmic Microwave Background evidence and direct detection efforts, including underground xenon tanks and antimatter searches on the International Space Station.1956

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: The Rise of Dark Energy. GUEST:...

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: The Rise of Dark Energy. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: After ruling out MACHOs, astronomers discovered the universe's expansion is accelerating, revealing that mysterious Dark Energy dominates the cosmos alongside dark matter. 1959

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: Challenging Gravity: MOND vs....

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Challenging Gravity: MOND vs. Matter. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: Modified Newtonian Dynamics is discussed as a rival theory, though gravitational lensing and the Bullet Cluster strongly support dark matter's physical existence.

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: Cold Dark Matter and WIMPs....

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Cold Dark Matter and WIMPs. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: Neutrinos are ruled out for Cold Dark Matter as Schilling describes the WIMP search at CERN and how computer simulations validate the model.

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: From Big Bang to Radio Astronomy....

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: From Big Bang to Radio Astronomy. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: Schilling explains dark matter's essential role in cosmic structure formation and highlights Albert Bosma's radio astronomy work confirming galactic rotation anomalies.2023

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: Spinning Galaxies and Stable...

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Spinning Galaxies and Stable Halos. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: Ostriker's theory of galactic halos and Rubin and Ford's observations of flat rotation curves solidified the case for unseen matter stabilizing galaxies. 2023

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S8 Ep435: HEADLINE: Early Hints of the Invisible....

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Early Hints of the Invisible. GUEST: Govert Schilling. SUMMARY: Schilling introduces pioneers Kapteyn, Oort, and Zwicky, whose early 20th-century observations of stellar motions and galaxy clusters first hinted at dark matter's existence. ESA EUCLID, 2020

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S8 Ep434: HEADLINE: The Return: "There is a Santa...

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: The Return: "There is a Santa Claus." GUEST AUTHOR: Bob Zimmerman. SUMMARY: After a successful engine burn to leave lunar orbit, the crew navigates home using stars and a sextant, splashing down safely to conclude the mission. 1968 SFRIVING YORKTOWN

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S8 Ep434: HEADLINE: Earthrise and the Genesis...

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Earthrise and the Genesis Message. GUEST AUTHOR: Bob Zimmerman. SUMMARY: The crew captures the iconic Earthrise photo and, struggling to find words for the moment, reads from Genesis to the world on Christmas Eve.1968

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S8 Ep434: HEADLINE: Space Race in the Shadow of the...

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2026/02/09

HEADLINE: Space Race in the Shadow of the Cold War. GUEST AUTHOR: Bob Zimmerman. SUMMARY: Amidst the political turmoil and violence of 1968, NASA's civilian mission offers a positive contrast to the Cold War, striving to demonstrate American excellence.1968

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