CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#Russia: The knowns and unknowns of the Private Military Companies like Wagner. Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/prigozhin-putin-and-what-next/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%208.25.2023&utm_term=daily

 

 

915-930

#Ukraine: Zelensky speculates about running an Election in the third year of war. Brad Bowman, FDD.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-elections-could-happen-under-fire-if-west-helps-2023-08-27/

 

930-945

#PRC:  Reports of the decline are routine. Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, on the attached, which will run on Monday in the Globe&Mail. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-chinas-growing-economic-angst-is-another-political-threat-for-xi/

 

945-1000

#PRC: US joint exercises to retake Indo-Pacific islands. James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://apnews.com/article/us-australia-philippines-south-china-sea-9657e0a9816f22b6fd0dd6ee5817cb3d

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#Libya. Firing the Foreign Minister for meeting with Israel's Foreign Minister in Italy. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/libya-suspends-foreign-minister-over-meeting-with-israels-top-diplomat/ar-AA1fSJuZ

1015-1030

#Canaan: #IndianaHoenlein and the Lost Mysterious Mud Brick Arch. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-08-17/ty-article/archaeologists-find-perplexing-4-000-year-old-canaanite-arch-in-northern-israel/00000189-fcfa-d9d1-a79b-fffbab460000

1030-1045

#Afghanistan: What role for the Taliban in the massacre of August 26 2021? Bill Roggio, Long War Journal. FDD,

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2023/08/two-years-after-u-s-withdrawal-the-taliban-enjoys-an-iron-fisted-grip-on-afghanistan.php

1045-1100
#Pakistan: The Army prepares for postponing the Election and maintaining strong relations. Arif Rafiq, GlobelyNews.com

https://globelynews.com/south-asia/pakistan-ukraine-uk/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

5/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

 

https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Return-History/dp/1324051191

Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war―and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated.
Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault―on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament―the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia’s ideas and cultures, as well as domestic and international politics, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable, it was predictable.
Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.

1115-1130

6/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

 

1130-1145

7/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

1145-1200

8/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by  Serhii Plokhy  (Author)

 

 

 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#NewWorldReport:  #Haiti Abandoned Agai; Cuba embraved by #PRC  Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/least-7-killed-after-haiti-gang-opens-fire-church-led-protest-rights-group-2023-08-27/

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haitians-shelter-sports-center-fresh-attacks-displace-nearly-9000-2023-08-26/

1215-1230

#NewWorldReport:  #Brazil sponsors #Argentina for BRICS. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

https://www.reuters.com/world/brazils-lula-says-brics-pick-new-members-based-geopolitical-weight-not-ideology-2023-08-24/

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-reshuffle-cabinet-after-africa-trip-minister-2023-08-25/

1230-1245

#NewWorldReport:  #Argentina and #Iran join BRICS. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

https://www.reuters.com/world/new-scenario-opens-argentina-with-brics-invitation-fernandez-says-2023-08-24/

1245-100 am

#NewWorldReport: Ecuador and Guatemala on edge for assassination risks.  Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/guatemala-president-elect-vp-elect-facing-serious-death-threats-says-americas-2023-08-24/