PREVIEW: HYPERSONIC: Conversation with colleague Jerry Hendrix of the Sagamore Institute re the "test to failure" trials now underway on Wallops Island to build a glide vehicle weapon that can maneuver on target and deliver a non-nuke punch to the adversary. More later. 1940By John Batchelor

1/2: #POTUS: Superseding Special Counsel Smith Indictment of Trump and SCOTUS https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/08/smiths-superseding-indictment-returns-trump-case-to-square-one/ 1876 SCOTUSBy John Batchelor

#HEZBOLLAH: The war of the North. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol 1870 JERUSALEMBy John Batchelor

#Ukraine: The Kursk Salient and the Storm Shadow. Colonel Jeff McCausland USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol 1918 UKRAINEBy John Batchelor

PREVIEW: CORRUPTION: Conversation with colleague Professor Evan Ellis of the Army War College re how reformers campaign and win the palace in Latin America, and then, frustrated by the defiance of the institutions and the sluggishness of the apparatus, make a deal with the thieving status quo. More of this tonight. 1948 Venezuela…

PREVIEW: UKRAINE: STORM SHADOWS: Conversation with colleague Jeff McCausland, CBS News, re the US insistence that Ukraine not use the full range of the arsenal it possesses and a corresponding fear by Russia that its aircraft and fields are vulnerable. More later. 1951By John Batchelor

PREVIEW: JANUARY 6 2021: INDICTMENT: Conversation with colleagues Andrew McCarthy, NRO, and Thaddeus McCotter, re the superseding indictment against Donald Trump filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith to do with insurrection on January 6, 2021. More tonight. 1920 SCOTUS BuildingBy John Batchelor

PREVIEW: PRC: CANADA: USA: TARIFFS: Conversation with colleague Alan Tonelson re what is to be done about PRC dumping of overcapacity and subsidized products such as steel, aluminum and EVs on the US through subterfuge and other schemes. More later. 1949By John Batchelor

PREVIEW: KOREAS: Colleague David Maxwell reports a dialogue between US and ROK and Japan public intellectuals looking to a unification of the Korean peninsula as an answer to the torment of the North Korean people and an end to the security threats. More tonight. 1951 USS St. Paul fires on North Korean forces.…

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Berlin, where immigration dominates the political news after muderous conduct by a man from Eastern Europe said to be acting for jihadists...... 1910 Berlin CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #BERLIN: Olaf Scholz condemns immigrants. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Ed…

#JUICE: Lunar fly-by of a hostile landscape. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com 1963By John Batchelor

#STARLINER: COMING HOME ALONE. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM 1950By John Batchelor

2/2: #WESTERN SAHARA: Francophone Africa and the tangle of post-colonial anarchy. Ronan Wordsworth, @GPFutures 1900 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICBy John Batchelor

1/2: #WESTERN SAHARA: Francophone Africa and the tangle of post-colonial anarchy. Ronan Wordsworth, @GPFutures 1770By John Batchelor

#KingCharlesReport: Winston Churchill and FDR discussed moving the US into the Commonwealth. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 1922 PRINCE OF WALESBy John Batchelor

#UKRAINE: KYIV wastes resources at high risk for no reward. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 1882 UKRAINEBy John Batchelor

#INDO-PAC: What is REFORPAC 2025? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign AffairsS 1930 PELAUBy John Batchelor

TONGA: #Pacific Island Forum and PRC aims to freeze out Taiwan. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 1875 FIJIBy John Batchelor

#IRAN: Another IAEA showdown in Vienna and Tehran offers to talk. Andrea Stricher, FDD 1906 PERSIA POLICE. TURKOMEN HEADS.By John Batchelor

#RUSSIA: Electricity starved and getting worse with data centers. Ekaterina Zolotova. @GPFutures 1856 RUSSIABy John Batchelor

#LondonCalling: "PAINFUL" TAX HIKES, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion 1905 GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARYBy John Batchelor

#LondonCalling: It wasn't Truss & Kwartung who panicked the market September 2022. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion 1881 STRATFORDBy John Batchelor

#LEBANON: Hezbollah must be driven north. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD 1881 CASTLE BEIRUTBy John Batchelor

#GAZA: Egypt and the Philadelphi Route. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD 1912 CAIROBy John Batchelor

#PARIS: Macron DISPLAYS anti-digital prejudice. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.\ 1910 PARISBy John Batchelor

#BERLIN: Olaf Scholz condemns immigrants. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin. 1900 POTSDAMBy John Batchelor