The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 18 November 2021

Air Date: 
November 18, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR  

9-915  
The Belarus migrant tragedy empowers Lukashenko. Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/news
Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  Georgetown University 

915-930 
Ukraine is Armageddon-scale perilous.  Anatol Lieven, @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst  
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-donbas-russia-conflict/
 
 
930-945 
#TheScalaReport: Are we too gloomy about the virus and the recovery?  Chris Riegel, CEO @scala CEO,  @STRATACACHE,  #TheScalaReport
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gloom-over-holiday-sales-looks-inflated-11637078625?st=rjmdh1qlpxhtfw3&reflink=article_gmail_share
 

945-1000 
Elbridge Colby's defense of Taiwan. Peter Berkowitz @HooverInst @ElbridgeColby 
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/14/denying_chinas_quest_for_regional_--_and_global_--_hegemony_146735.html

 

SECOND HOUR 

10-1015 
#NewWorldReport: Chile choosing a young man and an old Marxism. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/chile-s-peso-extends-losses-as-pre-election-selloff-picks-up
 

1015-1030 
#NewWorldReport: Argentina again votes for change.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis  @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Argentine-midterms-could-make-president-a-lame-16620032.php
 

1030-1045 
#NewWorldReport: Narcotrafficking Honduras falling into the hard left. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/honduras-president-is-in-taiwan-for-a-surprise-state-visit/
 

1045-1100 
#NewWorldReport: The Cuban regime crushes the dissenters. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis  @revanellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/americas/cuba-protest-clampdown-intl/index.html
 
 

THIRD HOUR  

1100-1115
Antisemitism plagues social media.  U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D) Nevada. 
 https://www.rosen.senate.gov/senator-jacky-rosen-completes-bipartisan-codel-middle-east-europe
 
1115-1130
Tehran regime vulnerable.  Mohsen Sazegara,  @sazegara, is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. 
·         https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/11/iran-parliament-rejects-raisis-pick-education-minister
·         https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iranian-president-claims-countrys-frozen-assets-abroad-were-released-685154
·         https://www.ft.com/content/a331c157-3c91-4bec-9972-35716bc4788e
·         https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-did-iran-wait-rejoin-nuclear-talks-ask-hardliners-195793
·         https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/11/members-irans-parliament-seek-prosecution-rouhani#ixzz7CaKtXZxN
Mohsen Sazegara   @sazegara,  Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist; held several high-ranking positions in the government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi
 

1130-1145
Erdogan promotes hate-speech thinking.  Dr. Aykan Erdemir, @aykanerdemir  @aykan_erdemir  @FDD  @ADL Task Force on #MidEast, senior director of FDD’s Turkey program, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. 
·         https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/11/15/erdogans-veneer-blatant-antisemitism/
·         https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/after-israeli-couple-release-dont-fall-into-turkey-appeasement-trap-analysis-685339
·         https://nationalinterest.org/feature/turkey-about-assault-syria%E2%80%99s-kurds-196297
 
1145-1200 
What is the Biden Administration Plan B for Tehran?  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/11/18/un-atomic-watchdog-iran-further-raising-nuclear-stockpile.html

 

FOURTH HOUR  

12-1215   
The unknown Fed plan for the rocky inflation road ahead. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus
https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/11/21/pouring-fuel-on-the-spending-fire
 

1215-1230  
Recognizing Sovereign State Candor about Coal.  @ConradMBlack National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black
 

1230-1245 
#HotelMars: All nominal reports from James Webb, Lucy and ISS.
William Harwood   @CBSNews. David Livingston, SpaceShow.
 

1245-100 AM  
The Poisoners and the Russian State. Dr Boris Borisovich Volodarsky, @BorisVolodarsky @BVolodarsky, Royal Historical Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal
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