The John Batchelor Show

Tues 17 December 2014

Air Date: 
December 17, 2014
The Interview

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

 

Co-host:  Gordon Chang, Forbes.com

Hour One

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 1, Block A:  Gordon Chang & Stephen Yates on North Korea’s cyberterror attack on Sony, Sony pulls ‘The Interview’ from theaters

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 1, Block B:  J. Michael Cole, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly in Taipei http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/16/us-china-taiwan-idUSKBN0JU11G20141216

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 1, Block C:  Jeff Foust & Dr. David Livingston on the year in space news  

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 1, Block D:  Michael Auslin, AEI on Japanese elections  http://www.aei.org/publication/japans-leader-gets-mandate-now/print/

 

 

Hour Two

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 2, Block A:  Charles Ortel, managing director of Newport Value Partners, on how the fall of oil prices are affecting Russia & China  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/16/checkmate-putin-russias-economy-is-stuck-in-a-catch-22/

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 2, Block B:  Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, on the Sony hacking & Kim Jong Un  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/16/are-kim-jong-un-s-kid-gloves-now-off.html

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 2, Block C:  Nitin Gokhale

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 2, Block D:  Parris Chang on Korean Air row  http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/world/asia/korean-air-nuts-scandal/

 

 

Hour Three

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 3, Block A:  Monica Crowley, Fox News on Jeb Bush’s Presidential hopes http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/jeb-bushs-presidential-hopes-are-bad-news-for-hillary-clinton/383853/

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 3, Block B:  Monica Crowley, cont’d

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 3, Block C:  David Grinspoon on organic material found on Mars  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4413

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 3, Block D:  Matt Kaminski, WSJ on Russian ruble  http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/17/us-russia-crisis-rouble-idUSKBN0JV0L520141217

 

 

Hour Four

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 4, Block A:  Mary O’Grady, WSJ on Cuba  

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 4, Block B:  Paul Gregory, Hoover Institution on Russian ruble  http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/12/16/ruble-hits-new-lows-putin-cant-keep-his-promise-to-russian-people/

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 4, Block C:  Larry Johnson, No Quarter, on CIA torture report http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/77714/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-cia-and-the-torture-scandal/

 

Tuesday   28 January    2014 / Hour 4, Block D:  Arif Rafiq, Foreign Policy on Pakistan school attack  http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/17/pakistan-peshawar-afghanistan-terrorism-ttp/?utm_content=bufferc73d7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer