The John Batchelor Show

WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY 2024

Air Date: 
January 17, 2024

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#RedSea: Tehran drives the attacks & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-17/us-designates-houthis...

915-930

#GOP: The more courtrooms, the more voter approval. Victor Davis Hanson. Hoover Institution
https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/15/lawfare-against-trump-is-running-out-...

930-945
#GulfWar: January 17, 1991 begins the air campaign for the 100 hour ground war of February.  Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

 

945-1000

#Ukraine:  Out of money, nearly out of air defense. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/16/russia-ukraine-zelensk...

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Taiwan: Years behind delivering weapons to Taipei & What is to be done? 

Blaine Holt, retired air Force general who served as deputy military representative to NATO, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.wsj.com/world/delayed-u-s-weapons-raise-taiwans-vulnerability-to-invasion-d98c6635

 

1015-1030

#PRC: Deflation, Decline. Determined. Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of the upcoming Wild Ride: China's Short-Lived Experiment in Capitalism, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.ft.com/content/00a5d925-bb54-4be8-ae8e-9f558d9ac86f

 

1030-1045

#NorthKorea: Threats and the arsenal of resistance. David Maxwell, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.38north.org/2024/01/is-kim-jong-un-preparing-for-war/

https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-launches-solid-fuel-missile-tipped-hypersonic-warhead-state-media-claims

 

1045-1100

#PRC: General officer Purges to what end? Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS Independent Research and a visiting fellow of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-jinpings-battle-with-chinas-military-could-drag-us-ww3-2024-1

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

1/2: #NewWorldReport: "The Ecuador Security Challenge: The Sky is not falling." Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://on.ft.com/47DYv0l

 

 https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-election-2024-01-10/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/dozens-prisoners-escape-ecuador-jail-amid-continued-military-operations-2024-01-15/

1115-1130

2/2: #NewWorldReport: "The Ecuador Security Challenge: The Sky is not falling." Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://on.ft.com/47DYv0l

 

 https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-election-2024-01-10/

https://www.reuters.com/world/a
 
 

1130-1145

#NewWorldReport: Troubled Central American democracy: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/reformist-arevalo-assumes-guatemalan-presidency-after-opposition-delays-2024-01-15/

 


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvadors-bukele-looks-set-cruise-controversial-presidential-reelection-poll-2024-01-16/

 

1145-1200

#NewWorldReport: Brazil tries State Capitalism again. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://on.ft.com/3vFJrlB

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#France: The inflation monster looms in the UK; the Post Office Scandal & What is to be done? Simon Constable, Occitanie

https://www.kornferry.com/insights/briefings-magazine/issue-62/taming-the-inflation-beast

 

1215-1230

#Russia: The PRC banks quit banking for the Kremlin for fear of secondary sanctions. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-deals-major-blow-russian-economy-1861079

1230-1245

#SpaceX: Why #Test2 failed and why Tes#3 will succeed. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/elon-m...

1245-100 am

#The slow death of the private Peregrine moon lander. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/peregr...