[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues for March 6 2022

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group is meeting at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in the RE
building next to the church and on Zoom at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09
 This Sunday we will beginby continuing continuing our discussion of the
crisis in Ukraine.  I am suggesting a couple of readings, but there are
many other good things out there, so don't feel obliged to do these.

1.  Thomas Friedman, I see Three Scenarios for how This War Ends
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_OIf7Rkb_F8W6arTyDi6t-O1wo0FP3xpA0yZbqvoF5w/edit?usp=sharing>,"
NY Times.  NY Times March 2.  The three scenarios are:  “the full-blown
disaster,” “the dirty compromise” and “salvation.”  We  can discuss the
likelihood of each.  Or we can pray for salvation ��  Posted in Docs

2.  Paul Krugman, "Russia is a Potemkin Superpower
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ULWGVoJlbOKf2kE9pU22A1ttOyiyXR3hQK4lhkE0fUY/edit?usp=sharing>,"
NY Times Feb 28.  .  This one is more optimistic, probably looking longer
term.   Posted in Docs.

3,  Fiona Hill:  "Yes He Would, Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes.  This is a
longer piece in Political Magazine. It was sent to us by Paul Haupt, our
only member from the UP of Michigan.  I'm linking to it on Politico, I
think anyone can open it there.

We also have two readings we were going to discuss last week but postponed
because of the Ukraine War.  We will probably  have time to go on to those
for the second part of the session this week.  They are:

>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>,
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