CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915    
#COP26Glasgow: Not disappointed. Anatol Lieven @Quincy Inst
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-11/climate-talks-are-seen-running-into-overtime-cop26-update?srnd=green&sref=5g4GmFHo

915-930    
#COP26Glasgow: Reforestation works.  Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eu-vp-meets-brazils-bolsonaro-welcomes-pledge-to-end-deforestation/ar-AAQktm6
 

930-945     
#COP26Glasgow: China is 30% of emissions. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-10/china-signals-it-s-not-joining-pledge-to-cut-methane-emissions?sref=5g4GmFHo
 

945-1000    
#COP26Glasgow: The island states are gone. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-11/china-u-s-climate-pact-puts-massive-methane-leaks-in-crosshairs?srnd=green&sref=5g4GmFHo

 

SECOND HOUR    

10-1015   
Afghanistan is a threat forever.  #AfterAfghanistan: @AmbJohnBolton 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/how-bidens-afghan-blunder-is-already-endangering-us-security/

1015-1030  
Argentina votes for responsibility.  @Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/argentinas-welfare-warning-to-america-election-peronismo-socialism-11636310607

1030-1045   
#TheScalaReport: Back to the office, or the pursuit of happiness rather than work? Chris Riegel, CEO @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE #TheScalaReport
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/secular-shift-what-black-death-tells-us-about-labor-market
 

1045-1100 
#COP26Glasgow: India asks for $1 Trillion; & What is to be done? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, @TheEconomist
https://www.bloomberg.com/green?sref=5g4GmFHo
 

THIRD HOUR  

1100-1115  
Iraq shows evidence of sovereignty.  Michael Knights, @WashInstitute @FikraForum;   Jill and Jay Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute.   Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
·         https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/harrowing-mustafa-kadhimi
·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-backed-militia-launched-drone-attack-targeting-iraqs-pm-report/
·         https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/5/iraq-protesters-take-to-the-streets-and-clash-with-police
·         https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/attempted-assassination-iraqs-prime-minister-backfired-spectacularly/
·         https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/10/explaining-iraqs-election-results
 

1115-1130  
Iran looking for more US concessions to go back to the Vienna talks.  Danielle Pletka, @dpletka , distinguished senior Fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-nuclear-talks-need-to-see-us-sanctions-lifted-verified-and-guaranteed/
·         https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/03/iran-sets-date-to-resume-talks-on-nuclear-deal-after-five-month-gap
·         https://www.reuters.com/world/china/wielding-fresh-leverage-iran-play-hardball-nuclear-talks-2021-11-11/
·         https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-11/news-briefs/iaea-chief-supports-iran-censure

1130-1145   
Remember Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

1145-1200   
Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence* (I. B. Tauris, November 2021, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing).  Anna Borshchevskaya, senior Fellow at The Washington Institute.   Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
Putin approves of the Syria tragedy.
·         https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/future-putins-war-syria
·         https://www.fpri.org/article/2021/09/russias-forever-wars-syria-and-the-pursuit-of-great-power-status/
·         https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/israel-russia-share-common-goal-of-ousting-iran-from-syria-683814
 https://www.amazon.com/Putins-War-Syria-Russian-Americas/dp/0755634632
*      Putin intervened in Syria in September 2015, with international critics predicting that Russia would overextend itself and Barack Obama suggesting the country would find itself in a “quagmire” in Syria. Contrary to this, Anna Borshchevskaya argues that in fact Putin achieved significant key domestic and foreign policy objectives without crippling costs, and is well-positioned to direct Syria's future and become a leading power in the Middle East. 
      This outcome has serious implications for Western foreign policy interests both in the Middle East and beyond. This book places Russian intervention in Syria in this broader context, exploring Putin's overall approach to the Middle East – historically Moscow has special relations with Damascus – and traces the political, diplomatic, military and domestic aspects of this intervention. Borshchevskaya delves into the Russian military campaign, public opinion within Russia, as well as Russian diplomatic tactics at the United Nations. Crucially, this book illustrates the impact of Western absence in Syria, particularly US absence: and what the role of the West is, and could be, in the Middle East.
 
 

FOURTH HOUR   

12-1215   
1/2: The Constitution and the fair-share rhetoric.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.hoover.org/research/tax-schemes-wont-pay
 

1215-1230   
2/2: The Constitution and the fair-share rhetoric.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
https://www.hoover.org/research/tax-schemes-wont-pay
 
1230-1245   
Ransomware; & What is to be done?  Georgianna Shea @FDD 
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/11/08/how-to-free-business-ransomware-dystopia/
 

1245-100 AM     
The beginning of the end of denying inflation.  @ VerodeRugy @Mercatus
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rising-inflation-challenges-biden-agenda-11636651866