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

[michael lang]

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.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:03 AM Ted Goertzel via Fuusm-l <fuusm-l at fuusm.org>
wrote:

> 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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