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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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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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Good evening: The show begins with a European debate, should we acquire a Eurobomb?

4/3/2025
Good evening: The show begins with a European debate, should we acquire a Eurobomb? 1953 NEVADA CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor FIRST HOUR 9-915 3 Eurobomb: Fantasy or Next? Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute 915-930 #NATO: Can Europe Rally Without the US? Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute 930-945 1/2: Remembering Baroness M. Thatcher, Charlie Cooke, Civitas Institute, NRO 945-1000 2/2: Remembering Baroness M. Thatcher, Charlie Cooke, Civitas Institute, NRO SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #Canada: Green PM Mark Carney. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ 1015-1030 #MrMarket: Tariffs Cost Manufacturing Jobs. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus 1030-1045 #PPRC: Tariffs Crush the CCP Export Driven Model. #ScalaReport: Chris Riegel CEO, Scala.com @Stratacache. 1045-1100 #Canada: Premier Doug Ford of Ontario Offers a Deal to the Trump Administration. Conrad Black, National Post THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 1/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Manhattan-Extraordinary-Created-America/dp/0393881164/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York―that brash, bold, archetypal city―came to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland's canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories―of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York's origins―boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement―reflects America's promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as "astonishing" (New York Times) and "literary alchemy" (Chicago Tribune), has once again mined archival sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings. 115-1130 2/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author) 1130-1145 3/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author) 1145-1200 4/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author) FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #NewWorldReport: Tariffs and Mexico and Brazil. Trouble in Panama. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis 1215-1230#NewWorldReport: Mexico and the Cartels, Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis 1230-1245 #NewWorldReport: SecState Rubio Visits Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @RevAnEllis #NewWorldReportEllis 1245-100 AM #NewWorldReport: Good News in Buenos Aires. Latin...

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#NEWWORLDREPORT: GOOD NEWS IN BUENOS AIRES. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

4/3/2025
#NEWWORLDREPORT: GOOD NEWS IN BUENOS AIRES. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS2900 BUENOS AIRES

Duration:00:04:56

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#NEWWORLDREPORT: SECSTATE RUBIO VISITS JAMAICA, GUYANA, SURINAM. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

4/3/2025
#NEWWORLDREPORT: SECSTATE RUBIO VISITS JAMAICA, GUYANA, SURINAM. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS 1930 GUYANA

Duration:00:14:44

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#NEWWORLDREPORT: MEXICO AND THECARTELS, LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

4/3/2025
#NEWWORLDREPORT: MEXICO AND THECARTELS, LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS 1909

Duration:00:03:38

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#NEWWORLDREPORT: TARIFFS AND MEXICO AND BRAZIL. TROUBLE IN PANAMA. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

4/3/2025
#NEWWORLDREPORT: TARIFFS AND MEXICO AND BRAZIL. TROUBLE IN PANAMA. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS 2866 PANAMA

Duration:00:14:12

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4 /8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author)

4/3/2025
4//8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author) 1883 https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Manhattan-Extraordinary-Created-America/dp/0393881164/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York―that brash, bold, archetypal city―came to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories―of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York’s origins―boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement―reflects America’s promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as “astonishing” (New York Times) and “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune), has once again mined archival sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings.

Duration:00:08:23

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3/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author)

4/3/2025
3/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author) 1854 PENN'S GRAVE https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Manhattan-Extraordinary-Created-America/dp/0393881164/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York―that brash, bold, archetypal city―came to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories―of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York’s origins―boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement―reflects America’s promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as “astonishing” (New York Times) and “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune), has once again mined archival sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings.

Duration:00:11:17

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c2/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author)

4/3/2025
2/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author) 1696 PENN AND CALLOWHILL https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Manhattan-Extraordinary-Created-America/dp/0393881164/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York―that brash, bold, archetypal city―came to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories―of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York’s origins―boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement―reflects America’s promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as “astonishing” (New York Times) and “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune), has once again mined archival sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings.

Duration:00:04:09

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1/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto (Author)

4/3/2025
1/8: Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Hardcover – March 4, 2025 by Russell Shorto 1689 PENN AND CHARLES II https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Manhattan-Extraordinary-Created-America/dp/0393881164/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York―that brash, bold, archetypal city―came to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. The book draws from newly translated materials and illuminates neglected histories―of religious refugees, Indigenous tribes, and free and enslaved Africans. Taking Manhattan tells the riveting story of the birth of New York City as a center of capitalism and pluralism, a foundation from which America would rise. It also shows how the paradox of New York’s origins―boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement―reflects America’s promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as “astonishing” (New York Times) and “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune), has once again mined archival sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings.

Duration:00:13:41

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#CANADA: PREMIER DOUG FORD OF ONTARIO OFFERS A DEAL TO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. CONRAD BLACK, NATIONAL POST

4/3/2025
#CANADA: PREMIER DOUG FORD OF ONTARIO OFFERS A DEAL TO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. CONRAD BLACK, NATIONAL POST 1950 ONTARIO

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#PRC: TARIFFS CRUSH THE CCP EXPORT DRIVEN MODEL.. #SCALAREPORT: CHRIS RIEGEL CEO,SCALA.COM @STRATACACHE.

4/3/2025
#PRC: TARIFFS CRUSH THE CCP EXPORT DRIVEN MODEL.. #SCALAREPORT: CHRIS RIEGEL CEO,SCALA.COM @STRATACACHE. 1949 RED ARMY

Duration:00:10:54

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#MRMARKET: TARIFFS COST MANUFACTURING JOBS. VERONIQUE DE RUGY, MERCATUS

4/3/2025
#MRMARKET: TARIFFS COST MANUFACTURING JOBS. VERONIQUE DE RUGY, MERCATUS

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#CANA'DA: GREEN PM MARK CARNEY. MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY, WSJ

4/3/2025
#CANA'DA: GREEN PM MARK CARNEY. MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY, WSJ 1909 CALIFORNIA

Duration:00:09:12

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2/2: REMEMBERING BARONESS M. THATCHER, CHARLIE COOKE, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, NRO

4/3/2025
2/2: REMEMBERING BARONESS M. THATCHER, CHARLIE COOKE, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, NRO 1689. EXECUTION 1649.

Duration:00:11:53

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1/2: REMEMBERING BARONESS M. THATCHER, CHARLIE COOKE, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, NRO

4/3/2025
1/2: REMEMBERING BARONESS M. THATCHER, CHARLIE COOKE, CIVITAS INSTITUTE, NRO 1913 LONDON

Duration:00:07:52

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#NATO: CSN EUROPE RALLY WITHOUT THE US? ANATOL LIEVEN, QUINCY INSTITUTE

4/3/2025
#NATO: CSN EUROPE RALLY WITHOUT THE US? ANATOL LIEVEN, QUINCY INSTITUTE 1850 BRUSSELS

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#EUROBOMB: FANTASY OR NEXT? ANATOL LIEVEN, QUINCY INSTITUTE

4/3/2025
#EUROBOMB: FANTASY OR NEXT? ANATOL LIEVEN, QUINCY INSTITUTE 2957 NUKE AIR TO AIR MISSILE TEST

Duration:00:10:37

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Preview: Conversation with Charlie Cooke of National Review re his tribute to Baroness Margaret Thatcher for transforming his native Britain from managed decline to joyous capitalism, 1979-1990 and after. More later

4/3/2025
Preview: Conversation with Charlie Cooke of National Review re his tribute to Baroness Margaret Thatcher for transforming his native Britain from managed decline to joyous capitalism, 1979-1990 and after. More later. 1700 WINDSOR CASTLE

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Preview: Conversation with Russell Shorto, author "Taking Manhattan," re the character of the Governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, when the English invaded to conquer in 1664. More later and tomorrow

4/3/2025
Preview: Conversation with Russell Shorto, author "Taking Manhattan," re the character of the Governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, when the English invaded to conquer in 1664. More later and tomorrow.

Duration:00:02:35

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Preview: Colleague Conrad Black Comments on the Strangely Exaggerated Campaigning by PM Mark Carney as If Donald Trump Is Planning to Invade. More

4/3/2025
Preview: Colleague Conrad Black Comments on the Strangely Exaggerated Campaigning by PM Mark Carney as If Donald Trump Is Planning to Invade. More LATER. 1878 NWMP.

Duration:00:02:13