CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Ukraine: #SaudiArabia: MBS A -List Peace parley in Jeddah. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-insider/2023/08/02/why-saudi...

915-930

#Canada: The Trudeau Government of fads. Conrad Black, National Post

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/justin-trudeaus-great-liberal-death-wish

930-945

#Ukraine: The African Summit and Russian ambitions. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://apnews.com/article/russia-africa-putin-ukraine-grain-food-be35ba...

945-1000

#Ukraine: #Russia: The BRICS and Russian ambitions. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/07/28/diplomacy-watch-putin-fight...

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#SaudiArabia: Oval Office goal. Barak Ravid is a Contributing Correspondent at Axios. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/27/saudi-arabia-mbs-israel-normalization-biden-push
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/31/israel-mossad-cia-biden-saudi-arabia-normalization
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/saudi-arabia-normalization/
 

1015-1030

#Yemen: Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at FDD. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-grant-yemen-12-bln-economic-aid-saudi-source-2023-08-01/
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/08/china-uae-to-hold-first-ever-joint-military-drill-likely-a-message-to-us-analysts/
 

1030-1045

#Hezbollah: Back-door. Tony Badran is a research fellow at FDD, where he focuses on Lebanon, Hezbollah, Syria, and the geopolitics of the Levant

/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/in-lebanon-israel-america-opposite-sides
 
 

1045-1100
#Lebanon: What drives the fighting in the camps? Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-palestinian-camp-ein-el-hilweh-clashes-7ea1ab956e65d6c61d0bdce8606f4227
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66354364
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/1/hezbollah-chief-urges-halt-to-palestinian-camp-clashes-in-lebanon

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

##Australia: US: NewZealand: Canada: Britain: What is Five Eyes? George Friedman, @GPFutures

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/five-eyes-in-our-time/

1115-1130

#Poland: NATO enforcer.   George Friedman, @GPFutures

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/poland-as-a-great-power/

1130-1145

#Mexico: PEMEX fail. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amlo-plays-a-shell-game-with-pemex-mexico-e...

1145-1200

#HotelMars: #PRC mission to the Moon 2029. Rick Fisher, International Assessment & Strategy Center, David Livingston, SpaceShpw.com

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215 

#Market: Congress and the Executive ignore their own budget rules & What is to be done? Veronique deRugy, Mercatus Center

1215-1230

#Russia: Wall Street scores Billions on the 2022 Ruble trade.Michael Bernstam, Hoover.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-02/wall-street-traders-made-ruble-rub-usd-fortune-via-kazakhstan-armenia

 

1230-1245

#SEC: And climatology. Richard Epstein, Hoover

https://www.hoover.org/research/secs-pointless-climate-disclosures

 

1245-100 am

#Israel: Turmoil and politics. Richard Epstein, Hoover.

https://www.hoover.org/research/israels-crisis-democracy