CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Markets:  Consumer spending happily at restaurants and airports. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-08-15-2023

915-930

#Markets:  How the 2024 melodrama rides into the sunset.  Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-courtroom-becomes-central-to-donald-trumps-2024-presidential-campaign-f6d21532

930-945

#StateThinking: Two years since the abandonment of Afghanistan.@MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/afghans-dreaming-of-us-refuge-feel-stuck-in-processing-limbo/ar-AA1ffrJw

945-1000

#StateThinking: The unemployed future of China & What is to be done? . @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-turns-to-well-honed-playbook-cut-rates-hide-data-bcfdd02?mod=hp_lead_pos2

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#SaudiArabia: MBS driving the Middle East to change profoundly.. Jonathan Schanzer

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/world/middleeast/saudi-envoy-palestinians.html

1015-1030

#Japan: Spending swiftly for cyber security. Mark Montgomery, FDD.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/08/10/japans-cyber-resilience-key-to-us-security-in-the-pacific/

1030-1045

1/2: #Russia: Growing under sanctions 2022; struggling 2023 & What is to be done?

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russias-economic-rebound-nears-its-limits/

1045-1100

2/2: #Russia: Growing under sanctions 2022; struggling under sanctions 2023 & What is to be done?

https://geopoliticalfutures.com/russias-economic-rebound-nears-its-limits/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#Niger: Russia and Turkey seek to gain from the coups.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://punchng.com/niger-interference-in-democracy-not-acceptable-to-ecowas-tinubu/

1115-1130

#Turkey: Erdogan more than doubles Ankara's embassies in Africa. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

1130-1145

#PRC: "Ticking time bomb" for a civil war and economic collapse. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-turns-to-well-honed-playbook-cut-rates-hide-data-bcfdd02?mod=hp_lead_pos2

1145-1200

KingCharlesReport:  Most popular heirs to the throne. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2023/08/09/prince-william-most-popular-public-figure-united-states/

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#Azerbaijan: Remembering Professor Thomas Goltz and Executive Producer Lee Mason. Ambassador Elin Suleymanov, Republic of Azerbaijan 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Goltz

1215-1230
#Nagorno-Karabakh: The 2020 War unresolved.  Ambassador Elin Suleymanov, Republic of Azerbaijan 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Goltz

 
1230-1245

#Iisrael: #SupremeCourt: #Knesset. Showdown in September, Peter Berkowitz, Hoover

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/13/averting_constitutional_crisis_in_israel_149620.html

 

1245-100 am
#DC: Veterans Affairs aims to be proactive not reactive. Francis Rose, #FedGovToday.

https://fedgovtoday.com/2023/08/10/dive-into-the-world-of-gov-cx/