The John Batchelor Show

MONDAY 25 March 2024

Air Date: 
March 25, 2024

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-9:15 #ISIS-K: The Moscow attack and Tajikistan. Bill Roggio, FDD; Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-25/moscow-concert-hall-attack-brings-isis-return-into-global-focus?srnd=homepage-europe&sref=5g4GmFHo

9:15-9:30 #AFGHANISTAN: The connections between Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS-K. Bill Roggio, FDD; Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-25/moscow-concert-hall-attack-brings-isis-return-into-global-focus?srnd=homepage-europe&sref=5g4GmFHo

9:30-9:45 1/2: #REAGAN: #TRUMP: A recommendation for blending the foreign policy of the First Cold War with the Second Cold War's demands. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/24/trump-reagan_fusion_can_win_the_new_cold_war_150693.html

9:45-10:00 2/2: #REAGAN: #TRUMP: Recommending a blend of the foreign policies from the First Cold War with the demands of the Second Cold War. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/24/trump-reagan_fusion_can_win_the_new_cold_war_150693.html

 

SECOND HOUR

10-10:15 #GAZA: The Shifa Hospital gun battle continues. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/al-shifa-hospital-raid-one-of-the-single-largest-operations-in-the-war-sources/ar-BB1ksyMs

10:15-10:30 #IRAN: Gun-running to the West Bank. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness. 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israel-says-it-stopped-advanced-weapons-from-being-smuggled-into-west-bank-from-iran/ar-BB1kuZqi

10:30-10:45 #PRC: Hong Kong crushed again with Beijing's threats. Mark Simon, Jimmy Lai's long-time deputy and director at the now-closed Apple Daily. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-national-security-law-slams-shut-space-for-dissent-in-hong-kong-critics-say/ar-BB1kpD25

10:45-11:00 #PRC: MOON IS THE HIGH GROUND: Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-could-attack-us-satellites-from-moon-warns-general-2024-3

THIRD HOUR

11:00-11:15 #PUTIN: #BIDEN Will POTUS Biden call President Putin to offer aid and condolence for the attack? Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/moscow-terrorism-isis-ukraine-putin/

11:15-11:30 #GAZA: #IRAN: Israel needs to construct its own Defense Industrial Base. Brad Bowman, FDD. 

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/14/how-to-ensure-israel-has-the-weapons-it-needs/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-228854

11:30-11:45 #NIGER: The US drone base in West Africa—monitoring jihadists destabilizing West Africa—ordered out. What is to be done? Bill Roggio, FDD. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/niger-us-troops-coup.html

11:45-12:00 #DOD: Rebuilding the US Defense Industrial Base with the allocations at hand. Michael Baskin, Hoover Institution.

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-budget-neglects-the-military-huge-gap-in-american-strength-and-readiness-142ccc30

FOURTH HOUR

12-12:15 #NewWorldReport: AMLO and "diplomatic blackmail" on 60 Minutes. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc and Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister of Brazil, discuss. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-levies-fentanyl-related-sanctions-sinaloa-members-mexico-based-entities-2024-03-22/

12:15-12:30 #NewWorldReport: Discussing Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and the US border. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc and Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister of Brazil, provide insights. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-opposition-leader-machado-names-corina-yoris-successor-election-2024-03-22/

12:30-12:45 #NewWorldReport: Brazil remains bitterly divided between Lula Da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro. Analysis by Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc and Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister of Brazil. 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-seek-three-arrests-tied-2018-murder-rio-councilwoman-2024-03-24/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/approval-brazils-lulas-government-falls-march-poll-2024-03-21/

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/madonna-hold-copacabana-beach-concert-brazil-2024-03-22/

12:45-1:00 AM #NewWorldReport: Reflecting on the 1976 Argentine coup and the 1964 Brazilian coup. Discussion with Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc and Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister of Brazil.

 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentines-commemorate-coup-milei-sows-doubt-about-dictatorship-past-2024-03-24/