<div dir="auto">All, Today’s Issues is a good way to discuss news articles, gain knowledge, and clarify what is fact and what is opinion. I enjoy that. We meet at 9:30. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:03 AM Ted Goertzel via Fuusm-l <<a href="mailto:fuusm-l@fuusm.org">fuusm-l@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues group will discuss the war in the Ukraine this Sunday. The group meets at 8:30 on Sunday mornings in the parlor of the RE building next to the church and on Zoom</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> at <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> I'm sure you have been following the news in various sources, but here are some suggested readings.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HHhl3tcRzRJImrsuVUGqQjY8JiexlKotmVsc0c6E7l8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Putin's Case for War</a>, Annotated. Clip;s from Putin's speech justifying the war with annotations from the NY Times. PUtin's speech covers a lot of history as well as his designs for the future. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/19LCvZb6rum_5mnkpOsV9PCcsvFMMSU7Lr90vERCrcgM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Standoff Over Ukraine, Why This, Why Now</a>, from Le Monde Diplomatique. This was published a few weeks ago, but gives a good background to what is happening.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">You don't have to have read these particular essays to come to the discussion, we welcome your insights from other sources as we.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The previously announced topics will be postponed a week: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>From the New York Review of Books, March 10 edition, pp 19-20, Paul Krugman, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DTXwUrtzauLnc5z1K_OsPfqIuPi9olp_IovOZP2meEg/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Covid's Economic Mutations</a>. "The coronavirus has made fools of us all. Show me a commentator who denies any seriously bad calls over the past two years—predictions that look embarrassingly off in retrospect—and I’ll show you someone who is delusional, dishonest, or both" A review of two books about the economic and social impacts of the pandemic in the US, China and elsewhere.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">From the E&E News Climate Wire, February 2, 2022, Scott Waldman, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bs8TmR9udSCVS7QUAlarF_VN5j-WIDeeFgPjLC4v4Ik/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif">How Manchin used politics to protect his coal company</a>, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Please join our lively discussion. </div></div></div>
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