JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Colleagues: Sebastian Gorka, America First radio and Fox; and Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents
 
Hour One
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 1, Block A:  Conrad Black, Former newspaper publisher, financier, historian, commentator, columnist; in re: Canadian politics
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 1, Block B:   Conrad Black, Former newspaper publisher, financier, historian, commentator, columnist; in re:  US politics
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 1, Block C:  Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, in re: Top Australian and US military have one-day, in-person conference in Washington.   Much accomplished.  Highly likely that one topic was how to respond to the possibly imminent collapse of the Chinese Communist Party in the midst of China’s precipitous economic downturn.  A dispute between Xi Jingping and Li Keqiang, premier of the State Council—harbinger of major loss of support and power for Xi.
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 1, Block D:  Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, in re:  India and China: the confrontation in the high Himalaya, and India’s strategy to cut off China’s access to the Indian Ocean via Pakistan.
 
Hour Two
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael Doran, in re:
Michael Doran, Hudson Institute senior Fellow; he specializes in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Mr. Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council, where he was responsible for helping to devise and coordinate United States strategies on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and U.S. efforts to contain Iran and Syria.
●        https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/pompeos-warning-against-closer-china-iran-ties-highlights-dilemma-beijing
●        https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/china-middle-eastern-kingdom
●        https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-with-maria-bartiromo
●        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/us-examines-saudi-nuclear-program.html
●        https://apnews.com/b001ff286408a7b424c016840745f048
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 2, Block B:  Norman Roule: in re: KSA and UAE nuclear programs; Yemen; Iraq.
Norman T. Roule served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing significant programs relating to the Middle East. Mr. Roule’s service in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations included roles as Division Chief, Deputy Division Chief and Chief of Station. He has held multiple senior assignments in Washington as well as during more than 15 years of overseas work. He served as the National Intelligence Manager for Iran (NIM-I) at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from November 2008 until September 2017.
·         https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/egypt-role-riyadh-agreement-uae-south-yemen-turkey.html
·         https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/world/middleeast/uae-nuclear-Barakah.html
·         https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-with-chinas-help-expands-its-nuclear-program-11596575671
·         https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/iraq-shiite-militias-us-iran.html
·         https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraqs-prime-minister-announces-early-elections-which-will-be-held-next-year/2020/07/31/7075a272-d34a-11ea-826b-cc394d824e35_story.html
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 2, Block C:  Yoni Ben Menachem, in re:
Yoni Ben Menachem, veteran Arab affairs and diplomatic commentator for Israel radio and television, is a senior Middle East analyst for the Jerusalem Center. He served as director-general and chief editor of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. Yoni speaks four different dialects of Arabic, English, Hebrew. Japanese and Persian. Yoni has been an independent journalist and strategic consultant since 2015; and appears as a political and Middle East commentator on Israeli and foreign media.
●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/beirut-blast-may-see-lebanese-scrutiny-turn-to-hezbollahs-weapon-stores/
●        https://news.yahoo.com/hezbollah-not-escape-blame-beirut-115000724.html
●        https://www.gzeromedia.com/whats-next-for-lebanon
●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/nasrallah-threatened-to-blow-up-israel-with-same-chemicals-as-beirut-blast-637582
●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/08/04/crisis-in-lebanon/
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 2, Block D: Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:
 
Hour Three
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 3, Block A: Sebastian Gorka, Salem Radio program America First, and is national security strategist at Fox News; in re:  Not one case exists worldwide of a child transmitting the Wuhan virus to a teacher.  This is not SARS or the Spanish flu. Teachers’ Union and Democratic Party together slowing down the restoration of the economy until Election Day. Governor Cuomo desperately begging rich New York residents to stay in town in order to bolster desperately-needed tax income: bizarre offer of dinner and drinks.  Jerry Nadler said, “Antifa doesn't exist.”  Bizarre claim.  Nasrallah and the catastrophic Beirut explosion.
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 3, Block B: Sebastian Gorka, Salem Radio program America First, and is national security strategist at Fox News;  in re:  
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 3, Block C:  Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ editorial board, Americas column; in re:  Uruguay and the virus.
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 3, Block D: Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center; in re:  US tariffs on Canadian metals, called punitive by Canada.   Trade before and after the US election. Logjam.  Terrible partisanship on both sides.  Biden skews lefter and lefter. Both Warren and Sanders sound just like Trump on trade—destructive protectionism.  UK expects not to have a trade agreement with the US even by the end of the year. 
 
 
Hour Four
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 4, Block A: No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII. by Robert Weintraub.  Paperback – June 7, 2016
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 4, Block B: No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII. by Robert Weintraub.  Paperback – June 7, 2016
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 4, Block C: No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII. by Robert Weintraub.  Paperback – June 7, 2016
Thursday 6 August 2020  / Hour 4, Block D:  No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII. by Robert Weintraub.  Paperback – June 7, 2016
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