The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday April 19, 2017

Air Date: 
April 19, 2017

Photo left: Reported Russian armor moving toward the North Korean border.
 
Hour One: Gordon Chang; Lee Sung-Yun; Rick Fisher; Chris Chappell.
Hour Two: Jean Lee; Gregory Copley.
By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs.  Several major determinants of the global architecture are now being revived or re-evaluated. Issues of governance, economics, technology, national identity, and where and how global power is moving geographically — issues which have for decades been regarded as “settled issues” — are suddenly, fluid and vital again. 
Sovereignty and the nation- state (and therefore “nationalism”), and governance and politics (and therefore the question of the centrality of whether, for example, “democracy” can be reinvigorated and what it means) are now under review. Above all, geopolitics and history are being dusted off for discussion. 
Even our macro-economic models are being seen as inadequate to the new era. The role of such measurement standards as gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP), and even the evolution to the measure of “purchasing power parity” (PPP), is changing. Because it has to; human society has changed its shape.  
Hour Three: Gordon Chang; Arthur Waldron; Lara Brown; Monica Crowley.
Hour Four: Thaddeus McCotter; Joseph Wheelan.
The Susan Rice Echo Chamber & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @WJR
http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/the-continuing-fallout-from-trump-and-nuness-fake-scandal
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/the-susan-rice-scandal-is-based-on-nothing-report.html
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/19/devin-nunes-worked-with-trump-administration-to-create-a-fake-scandal-about-susan-rice-report/