The John Batchelor Show

Tuesday 31 August 2021

Air Date: 
August 31, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-1000     #LondonCalling. Does a Strong Dollar Equal Strong America?   The Fed Speak.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dollar-fed-chair-jerome-powell-jackson-hole-inflation-federal-reserve-emerging-markets-11630012468
 
2.  Pandemic closes America to Europe. Europe open to Americans.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/covid-travel-news-live-us-uk-europe-holidays-airports-tests/
 
3.  Boris Leaving Kabul; US leaving Kabul.  The London media.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/afghanistan-dominic-raab-blames-ministry-of-defence-over-clearly-wrong-intelligence-6fzsc3rnb
 
4.  Extinction Rebellion blocks London Bridge @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

SECOND HOUR

10-1030   White House raises inflation estimate 100%.   Liz Peek @TheHill 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/jobs-are-jerome-powells-number-one-job/2021/08/30/9289ea6c-099f-11ec-a7c8-61bb7b3bf628_story.html
 
Saigon again. Liz Peek @TheHill 
https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/saigon-all-over-again-biden-crit...
 
1030-1045   After Afghanistan for Moscow and Beijing.   John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-china-biden-iran-retreat-afghanistan-withdrawal-jihadist-taiwan-jcpoa-nuclear-11630336971?st=c8dajml60y6645t&reflink=article_gmail_share
 
1045-1100    The long, long failure of New York City jails.  Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel  Daily News and The Daily Beast.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-where-decency-went-to-die-20210828-7xpt27a7sre5biif7b4eqbt73i-story.html?utm_source=siegeltown&utm_medium=email

 
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1130 
 
 Europe Ecologie Les Verts! (The Greens!).   Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist
https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/08/28/frances-greens-prepare-to-pick-a-standard-bearer?frsc=dg%7Ce
 
Macron the new DeGaulle.  Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/emmanuel-macrons-grand-plan-to-be-the...
 

1130-1200   #StateThinking: @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
 
1/2. #StateThinking: Escape to Doha. #StateThinking: @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

2/2. #StateThinking:  Islamabad Delhi Beijing and Moscow after the US departure.  #StateThinking: @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

FOURTH HOUR

12-1230 Alliances after Afghanistan .  Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  

1230-100 AM   Oliver Morton @TheEconomist
https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2021/08/21/making-your-way-in-the-world?frsc=dg%7Ce