The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 17 August 2021

Air Date: 
August 17, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915    Josh Rogin, Washington Post.  @joshrogin
The first business is to get the Americans out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/16/biden-must-rescue-thousands-us-citizens-trapped-afghanistan/
 

915-930   Harry Siegel, Daily News and The Daily Beast.   @harrysiegel
A long history of abusing migrants as diseased.
https://www.ft.com/content/8138bbe4-3c45-469e-9a47-a67c7b0e3df5

930-1000   Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  @Gregory_Copley
#GreatGame : Pakistan is at major risk
https://www.ft.com/content/3ea7e87e-ab3a-4e14-8396-8061420942b0
#GreatGame : Russia gains
https://www.ft.com/content/3ea7e87e-ab3a-4e14-8396-8061420942b0

 

SECOND HOUR

10-1030 Vendeline von Bredow, @vahavb, The Economist
https://www.ft.com/content/3ea7e87e-ab3a-4e14-8396-8061420942b0

 
1030-1100  Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist
https://www.ft.com/content/3ea7e87e-ab3a-4e14-8396-8061420942b0

THIRD HOUR

1100-1130   Elizabeth Peek, Fiscal Times and Fox News.  @lizpeek

 
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-failing-crises-mount-americans-glo...  

1130-1200   Mary Kissel, @MaryKissel; Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.ft.com/content/3ea7e87e-ab3a-4e14-8396-8061420942b0?segmentId=3f81fe28-ba5d-8a93-616e-4859191fabd8
 

FOURTH HOUR
 
12-100 AM    Joseph Sternberg  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion
Inflation stalks the planet & what is to be done?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/4-5-trillion-financial-repression-savers-inflation-reconciliation-infrastructure-deficit-interest-rates-11628784622
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-officials-weigh-ending-asset-purchases-by-mid-2022-11629106200?mod=hp_lead_pos2Britain
Britain rushes to rescue   
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/race-to-escape-kabul-carnage-mss0p3h36
 
Vice Admiral Benjamin Key CBE, United Kingdom's Permanent Joint Headquarters commander; Joseph Sternberg  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion
All Europe is shocked 
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/taliban-could-force-us-out-of-afghanistan-at-any-moment-defence-chief-admits-g70z80kb3
Dominic Raab, @DominicRaab; Joseph Sternberg  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion
 
Life in London in Delta
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/race-to-escape-kabul-carnage-mss0p3h36