The John Batchelor Show

THURSDAY 30 MARCH 2023

Air Date: 
March 30, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915

#NYC: Mayor Eric Adams and the aim to tell the story of recovery without a script. Harry Siegel, New York Daily News. The City. 

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-eric-adams-just-keeps-trying-to-beat-the-press-20230325-ozmjvpzgpnggfe7rv23455ng6y-story.html

915-930

#MrMarket: George MCGovern, Joe Manchin and Government Regulation, 2023.  Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.

https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/03/23/are-more-progressives-coming-around-on-overregulation

930-945.

#ScalaReport: #PRC recovery remains brittle: the supply chain untangles due to a fall in demand. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

https://news.yahoo.com/supply-chain-issues-impede-mass-152440502.html

945-1000
#France: The anti-Macron demonstrations and the price of everything. Simon Constable, Forbes

https://www.barrons.com/news/france-s-macron-dismisses-unrest-promises-drought-action-plan-1ab6b37b?refsec=topics_afp-news

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

#NewWorldReport: Central America and #Taiwan. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/honduras-president-castro-visit-china-after-cutting-taiwan-ties-2023-03-29/

1015-1030

#NewWorldReport: The brutality of El Salvador dragnets.Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/salvadorans-demand-release-innocents-jailed-anti-gang-sweep-2023-03-29/

1030-1045

#NewWorldReport: #Brazil: Bolsonaro returns.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-lands-back-brazil-lead-right-wing-opposition-2023-03-30/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nine-colombian-soldiers-killed-eln-attack-throwing-peace-talks-into-question-2023-03-29/

1045-1100

#NewWorldReport: #Paraguay: Elections 2024. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cia-deputy-director-meets-paraguays-abdo-rare-visit-2023-03-29/

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115

#Iran: .  Show of force Gulf of Oman.  Assaf Orion: Israel-Sino relations in the wake of the Saudi-Iran Deal.  Brigadier general (Res.) Assaf Orion is a Senior Researcher at the INSS and Director of The Diane & Guilford Glazer Israel-China Policy Center. He is also the is the Liz and Mony Rueven International Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
 
https://apnews.com/article/china-russia-iran-naval-drills-oman-gulf-9f515b3246e4cbe0d98a35e8399dc177
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/03/23/xi-putin-visit-light-on-support-invasion/

 

1115-1130

#Suadiarabia: #Gulf: Sima Shine: Iran/Saudi Deal and China.      Sima Shine is currently the head of Iran program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-truce-with-saudi-arabia-heals-rift-but-not-its-reeling-economy-cfc23863
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/iran-saudi-arabia-2/
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/khamenei-attempts-restore-optimism-and-normality-nowruz-speeches
 

1130-1145

#Israel:  Internal security alarms. Jonathan Schanzer: Israel’s diplomatic relations with its neighbors, in the wake of the judicial reform drama of the past few weeks. And security considerations through Ramadan.
 
 Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power, a project on the use of financial and economic power as a tool of statecraft. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
 
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-735553
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uks-bp-teams-up-with-abu-dhabi-state-oil-group-to-buy-50-of-israels-newmed-energy/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-03-20/ty-article/.premium/jordan-condemns-smotrich-racist-statements-that-violate-peace-agreement-with-israel/00000186-ff79-d31e-a9ef-ff7bd2830000
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/03/26/interview-next-iranian-threat-israel/

1145-1200
#Turkey: Election toss-up.  Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street JournalWashington PostNew York TimesForeign Affairs, and The Atlantic
 
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/turkeys-disaster-and-erdogans-how-earthquake-could-spell-end-his-rule
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/03/27/erdogans-charm-offensive-will-not-satisfy-egypt-syria-israel/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/03/20/no-us-turkey-rapprochement-possible-under-erdogan/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/22/erdogan-turkey-uae-saudi-arabia-monarchy-islamism/
 
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

#UN: the modest Millenium Development Goals of 2000. Bjorn Lomborg, Hoover Institution

https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/commentary-17844434.php

1215-1230

#UN: The overmuch Sustainable Development Goals of 2015 Bjorn Lomborg, Hoover Institution.   Copenhagen Consensus

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/its-time-to-end-tb

1230-1245

#Ukraine: Nine days in ZAPORIZHIA hospital under ineffective Russian bombardment.Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.

1245-100 am

#Ukraine: The Russia threat on Crimea: the Ukrainian goal on Crimea. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.