The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 23 January 2018

Air Date: 
January 23, 2018

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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio
 
Hour One
Tuesday  23 January 2017 / Hour 1, Block A:.  Steve Moore,  Heritage, in re:
Tuesday  23 January 2017 / Hour 1, Block B:   Steve Moore,  Heritage, in re:
Tuesday  23 January 2017 / Hour 1, Block C:   David Henderson, Hoover, in re:
Tuesday  23 January 2017 / Hour 1, Block D:   Larry Kudlow, in re:
 
Hour Two
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:  The astounding Foreign Affairs article, “Containing Russia.”   [Riddled with analyses resting on air, asserting non-facts.   --ed.] https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/CSR80_BlackwillGordon...
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 2, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:  “Containing Russia.”   
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:  “Containing Russia.”   Why would the US policy elite want to stir up a fantasy hornets’ nest and race toward possible hot war? Why now?
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 2, Block D:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin; in re: “Containing Russia.”   
 
Hour Three
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 3, Block A:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re:
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 3, Block B:  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re:
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 3, Block C:  Bill McGurn, WSJ, in re: the memo
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 3, Block D:  Eli Lake, Bloomberg, in re:  The YPG in Rojava, northern Syria. I interviewed a YPG member from Afrin who’d received an ultimatum: if you leave now and let Syrian/Iranian militias take your land, you’ll be safe; otherwise, you’ll be subject to air attacks from Turks. . . .  Scary that Turkey is supposed to be a NATO ally.  . . . A quick deterioration of American influence.
 
Hour Four
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 4, Block A:  Harlow Giles Unger, John Marshall
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 4, Block B:  Harlow Giles Unger, John Marshall
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 4, Block C:  Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, by Hendrik Meijer
Tuesday 23 January 2018/ Hour 4, Block D:  Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, by Hendrik Meijer