The John Batchelor Show

Thursday 27 July 2023

Air Date: 
July 27, 2023

 
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#KeystoneStateReport: The Capital of Harrisburg is a tie. SalenaZito.com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/democrats-lose-their-precarious-hold-on-power-in-the-pennsylvania-house

915-930

#KeystoneStateReport:.  Who are the "Moms for Liberty?"  SalenaZito.com

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/07/16/moms-liberty-philadelphia-protest-abortion-education-salena-zito/stories/202307160027?cid=search

930-945

#Ukraine:  The Counteroffensive slows in comparison to what? Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/27/47th-brigade-colonel-oleksandr-sak-young-ukrainian-troops/

945-1000

#Ukraine:  The Russian-PRC threat in the Sea of Japan & What is to be done? Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-russia-conclude-drills-us-south-korea-japan-deepen-security-ties-2023-07-24/

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

 

#Russia: What about the global arms market after the war?  Grant Rumley- Grant Rumley is the Goldberger Fellow with The Washington Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East, where he specializes in military and security affairs in the Middle East.

 
 
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-russias-invasion-ukraine-reshaping-global-arms-market-implications-middle-east
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/6560

 

 

 

1015-1030

#Iran: Bomb-building.Saeed Ghasseminejad- Dr. Saeed Ghasseminejad is a senior Iran and financial economics advisor at FDD specializing in Iran’s economy and financial markets, sanctions and illicit finance.

 
https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-program-iaea-answers-uranium-49d750f406b9321b266f9641b00fed75
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-752385
https://jcpa.org/is-iran-retuning-its-relations-with-the-african-continent/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/18/iran-drought-water-shortage-heat/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/middleeast/rob-malley-sidelined-iran-talks-mime-intl/index.html
 

 

 

1030-1045 

#Iran: The protection racket. Richard Goldberg- Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor @FDD. 

 
 
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/iraq-iran-gas-for-oil-barter-would-likely-violate-us-sanctions-2023-07-14/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/07/14/iraq-to-pay-iran-with-oil-for-billions-of-dollars-in-debt/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sanctions-14-iraqi-banks-in-crackdown-on-iran-dollar-trade-33ef9f35
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-issues-new-waiver-allowing-iraq-pay-iran-electricity-2023-07-18/
 

 

1045-1100

#Israel: The Knesset votes on judicial reforms & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/moodys/
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/morgan-stanley-cuts-israel-sovereign-credit-dislike-stance-after-judiciary-2023-07-25/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/moodys-warns-israel-facing-negative-economic-fallout-after-overhaul-bill-passes/#openwebComments

 

 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#SouthCaucasus: Yerevan and Tbilisi  watching the Ukraine war closely for their own fates.  Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://asbarez.com/yerevan-denies-bakus-claims-of-a-brussels-agreement-on-aghdam-road-to-artsakh/
 
1115-1130

#Ukraine: Collapse of the grain deal. and back to war-war.  Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/26/ukraine-russia-war-counter-offensive-zelensky-weapons/
 
1130-1145

#ScalaReport:  Unrelenting property and debt and manufacturing and employment troubles in China; unrelenting Commercial real Estate troubles in the USA. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-youth-unemployment-xi-jobs-522028c5

 
 
1145-1200

#MrMarket: What use "national industrial policy?" Is the Fed done after 11 hikes? Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Centerhttps://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/07/23/why-were-asking-the-wrong-question-about-the-industrial-policy-push

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#NewWorldReport:  Guatemala election in jeopardy. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-urges-guatemala-ensure-no-interference-election-after-raid-2023-07-24/

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/guatemalan-police-raid-party-offices-presidential-candidate-arevalo-2023-07-21/

1215-1230

#NewWorldReport: The rise of opposition to the all powerful Morena.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-presidents-fiery-barbs-fuel-maverick-rivals-campaign-2023-07-20/

1230-1245

#NewWorldReport: Ecuador in chaos for the election.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuadors-lasso-declares-state-emergency-across-prison-system-2023-07-25/

 

1245-100 am

#NewWorldReport: BRICS for Argentina and Venezuela.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-says-he-may-need-surgery-treat-femoral-pain-2023-07-25/

 

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#KeystoneStateReport: The Capital of Harrisburg is a tie. SalenaZito.com

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/democrats-lose-their-precarious-hold-on-power-in-the-pennsylvania-house

915-930

#KeystoneStateReport:.  Who are the "Moms for Liberty?"  SalenaZito.com

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/07/16/moms-liberty-philadelphia-protest-abortion-education-salena-zito/stories/202307160027?cid=search

930-945

#Ukraine:  The Counteroffensive slows in comparison to what? Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/27/47th-brigade-colonel-oleksandr-sak-young-ukrainian-troops/

945-1000

#Ukraine:  The Russian-PRC threat in the Sea of Japan & What is to be done? Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-russia-conclude-drills-us-south-korea-japan-deepen-security-ties-2023-07-24/

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

 

#Russia: What about the global arms market after the war?  Grant Rumley- Grant Rumley is the Goldberger Fellow with The Washington Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East, where he specializes in military and security affairs in the Middle East.

 
 
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-russias-invasion-ukraine-reshaping-global-arms-market-implications-middle-east
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/6560

 

 

 

1015-1030

#Iran: Bomb-building.Saeed Ghasseminejad- Dr. Saeed Ghasseminejad is a senior Iran and financial economics advisor at FDD specializing in Iran’s economy and financial markets, sanctions and illicit finance.

 
https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-program-iaea-answers-uranium-49d750f406b9321b266f9641b00fed75
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-752385
https://jcpa.org/is-iran-retuning-its-relations-with-the-african-continent/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/18/iran-drought-water-shortage-heat/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/middleeast/rob-malley-sidelined-iran-talks-mime-intl/index.html
 

 

 

1030-1045 

#Iran: The protection racket. Richard Goldberg- Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor @FDD. 

 
 
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/iraq-iran-gas-for-oil-barter-would-likely-violate-us-sanctions-2023-07-14/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/07/14/iraq-to-pay-iran-with-oil-for-billions-of-dollars-in-debt/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sanctions-14-iraqi-banks-in-crackdown-on-iran-dollar-trade-33ef9f35
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-issues-new-waiver-allowing-iraq-pay-iran-electricity-2023-07-18/
 

 

1045-1100

#Israel: The Knesset votes on judicial reforms & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/moodys/
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/morgan-stanley-cuts-israel-sovereign-credit-dislike-stance-after-judiciary-2023-07-25/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/moodys-warns-israel-facing-negative-economic-fallout-after-overhaul-bill-passes/#openwebComments

 

 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#SouthCaucasus: Yerevan and Tbilisi  watching the Ukraine war closely for their own fates.  Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://asbarez.com/yerevan-denies-bakus-claims-of-a-brussels-agreement-on-aghdam-road-to-artsakh/
 
1115-1130

#Ukraine: Collapse of the grain deal. and back to war-war.  Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/26/ukraine-russia-war-counter-offensive-zelensky-weapons/
 
1130-1145

#ScalaReport:  Unrelenting property and debt and manufacturing and employment troubles in China; unrelenting Commercial real Estate troubles in the USA. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-youth-unemployment-xi-jobs-522028c5

 
 
1145-1200

#MrMarket: What use "national industrial policy?" Is the Fed done after 11 hikes? Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Centerhttps://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/07/23/why-were-asking-the-wrong-question-about-the-industrial-policy-push

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#NewWorldReport:  Guatemala election in jeopardy. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-urges-guatemala-ensure-no-interference-election-after-raid-2023-07-24/

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/guatemalan-police-raid-party-offices-presidential-candidate-arevalo-2023-07-21/

1215-1230

#NewWorldReport: The rise of opposition to the all powerful Morena.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-presidents-fiery-barbs-fuel-maverick-rivals-campaign-2023-07-20/

1230-1245

#NewWorldReport: Ecuador in chaos for the election.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuadors-lasso-declares-state-emergency-across-prison-system-2023-07-25/

 

1245-100 am

#NewWorldReport: BRICS for Argentina and Venezuela.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-says-he-may-need-surgery-treat-femoral-pain-2023-07-25/