[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Readings for June 20, 2021

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group is meeting from 9:30 to 10:45 in the parlor of the
Religious Education building next to the church.  For this Sunday, June 20,
we will discuss two topics:

1. Recent revelations about the leak of the Pentagon Papers and the issue
of secrecy.  There are several short articles in the June 13 NY Times about
this.

   - Andrew Bracevich, "Secrets that Were No Secret, Lessons that Weren't
   Learned
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CN957Yr7DIvYeHoD4LjlotTEZACH9-jUrnoef5GKG5s/edit?usp=sharing>
   ."
   - Gabriel Schoenfeld, "Leaking the Pentagon Papers was an Assault on
   Democracy
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hU4lexyBNWPHfQaZpFrmy2CdfwyPBsyWlNW7dHRnbjk/edit?usp=sharing>
   ."
   - Charlie Savage, "Garland Confronts the Challenge of Leaks and 21st
   Century Journalism
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Ii3AG6nbIVG8UHvErEWBkC222C4FrCXYFySuUWRhRU/edit?usp=sharing>
   ."


2. The latest round of violence in Gaza and its effects on the Israeli
politics discussed in the New York Review of Books, July 1,

   - "Cracks in the Israeli Consensus
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Am6FuzkkSkZNfqjjK9z1XYA4O-WiYVK-y-i19YghP68/edit?usp=sharing>,"
   by David Shulman


Convenient copies of all the articles are attached.  Please check them out
and join our lively discussion.
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