Photo: Cuba returns to American ambition.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 1, Block A:  Mary Kissel & Janet Albrechtsen - Australia

Janet Albrechtsen 17 December 2014 The Australian

Australian English © 2014 News Limited. All rights reserved. 

The threat to the West will remain until the Arab world sorts out its intractable problems

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 1, Block B:  Kissel & Albrechtsen cont’d

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 1, Block C:  Mary Kissel & Ed Hayes - NY politics, NYPD vs. Mayor De Blasio

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/12/18/he-thinks-hes-running-a-f-g-revolution-nypd-fumes-over-lack-of-support-nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio/21118342/

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 1, Block D:  Mary Kissel, year in review

Hour Two

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 2, Block A:  Malcolm Hoenlein & Mathew Levitt, Hamas on terrorist list & Hezbollah’s Syria Problem

·         http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/eu-court-expected-to-annul-hamas-terrorist-designation

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 2, Block B:  Eli Lake - War in Pakistan, Cuba, Syria No-Fly Zone

  http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-17/us-is-getting-dragged-into-pakistans-new-war

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 2, Block C:  Ali Afoneh - Who in Iran is benefiting from the sanctions relief? Hamas/Iran revamping relations?

·           http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/ali-alfoneh-irans-supreme-censor/

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 2, Block D:  Nancy Spielberg - ‘Above & Beyond’

·         http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/Nancy-Spielberg-soars-into-Jerusalem-with-her-IAF-film-Above-and-Beyond-363164

·         http://aboveandbeyondthemovie.com/

Hour Three

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 3, Block A:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Murad Ismail, Yazidi activist, from Duhok, Kurdistan.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/us-pastor-who-supported-meriam-ibrahim...

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 3, Block B:  Ronen Bergman - ISIS view of Israeli intelligence, 1999 reference of Israeli court in CIA

·         http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4603420,00.html

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 3, Block C:  Sid Perkins - beer-bellied dinosaur

Nature News on a weird dino known only from its immensely long arms for 50 years; now they have found the rest of it à http://www.nature.com/news/fossils-reveal-beer-bellied-dinosaur-1.16203

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 3, Block D:  Josh Rogin - Hillary Clinton pushed for Cuba deal for years

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-18/hillary-clinton-secretly-pushed-cuba-deal-for-years

Hour Four

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 4, Block A:  Dan Henninger - ‘The New Stupid Party’

WONDER LAND By Daniel Henninger The New Stupid Party

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 4, Block B:  Veronique de Rugy - trade with Cuba

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394993/we-already-trade-cuba-lot-veronique-de-rugy

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 4, Block C:  Bruce Bueno De Mesquita - Soft power & Putin’s undoing

Soft Power Could Yet Be Putin’s Undoing By Josef Joffe The Russian president has military strength, but market forces and brain drain undermine his rule

Thursday  18 December   2014    / Hour 4, Block D:  De Mesquita, cont’d