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William Hartung: Ukraine ‘No Fly Zone’ Could Ignite WW III; Nathan Taft: Amid Ukraine War, Climate Groups Call on Biden to Invoke Defense Production Act for Renewable Energy; Lise Van Susteren: Climate Anxiety: Addressing the Psychological Effects of Global Warming; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

It’s worth our while to think about why everyone we know is talking about Ukraine and Russia’s unlawful incursion—and equally worthwhile to ask why the same principles of concern don’t seem to apply in other cases. Yemen is not a rhetorical device. It’s a country of human beings in crisis. We talk about that with Yemeni activist and advocate Shireen Al-Adeimi, who is also assistant professor of education at Michigan State University. Also on the show: Sarah Bloom Raskin was up for a job at the Federal Reserve. Everyone was for her nomination, including the bankers she would oversee. So why did she withdraw her nomination, and what does it tell us about the possibility of making any advances at all in facing the reality of climate change?

... Varoufakis recommendations on how to bring about peace in Ukraine are widely supported in Europe. Since the future of NATO is crucial in negotiations for peace and there is so much disagreement over NATO’s history and the power plays in the background, this program ends with quotes from a twitter feed @RnaudBertrand. Arnaud Bertrand hosts a crowd sourced collection of critical comments on NATO under the title: How Western Strategic Thinkers Warned US-NATO over Ukrainian Conflict. ...

Did Russia’s President Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine to distract attention from his own political weakness at home? Sure, he was unhappy about NATO and obsessed with restoring the glory of the Russian empire. But the timing of this war and Putin’s expectation of a quick victory may be rooted in his own domestic political failures. This is the view of our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Robert Orttung, research professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. ...

We hear Hanan Ashwari, the first woman elected to the PLO governing council, who also served as its spokesperson for several years. She also has served in the Palestinian parliament. Here she is delivering a keynote address to the annual conference of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Before that, we discuss the Jewish establishment's knee jerk attack on Amnesty International's Apartheid report.They use language right out of the Israeli Hasbara talking points catalogue. They parrot words like antisemitic, fraudulent, or biased. But we have yet to see one critic to show he or she has even read the report. They fail to identify anything they find to be antisemitic, inaccurate, fraudulent, or unfairly biased.

Phil comments on NATO's drive towards war. ... Expansionist NATO has to retreat, and be broken up. ... America's bio-research labs need to be thoroughly examined.

Imagine you go to graduate school for a bunch of years, conscientiously studying the nuanced interactions of the variables that underlie the globe’s climate. Then, as you publish findings that demonstrate what’s happening to our planet, you hear your work debated and unheeded by legislators across the country who couldn’t tell a stratospheric temperature profile from a hole in the wall. ...