[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Group to Discuss War in Ukraine on Sunday 2/27/2022

[Ted Goertzel]

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
   at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09


  I'm sure you have been following the news in various sources, but here
are some suggested readings.

Putin's Case for War
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HHhl3tcRzRJImrsuVUGqQjY8JiexlKotmVsc0c6E7l8/edit?usp=sharing>,
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.

Standoff Over Ukraine, Why This, Why Now
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19LCvZb6rum_5mnkpOsV9PCcsvFMMSU7Lr90vERCrcgM/edit?usp=sharing>,
from Le Monde Diplomatique.  This was published a few weeks ago, but gives
a good background to what is happening.

You don't have to have read these particular essays to come to the
discussion, we welcome your insights from other sources as we.

The previously announced topics will be postponed a week:

>From the New York Review of Books, March 10 edition, pp 19-20, Paul
Krugman, Covid's Economic Mutations
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DTXwUrtzauLnc5z1K_OsPfqIuPi9olp_IovOZP2meEg/edit?usp=sharing>.
"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.

>From the E&E News Climate Wire, February 2, 2022, Scott Waldman, How
Manchin used politics to protect his coal company
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bs8TmR9udSCVS7QUAlarF_VN5j-WIDeeFgPjLC4v4Ik/edit?usp=sharing>
,

Please  join our lively discussion.
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