Links to reporting and commentary from Playboy, via ScheerPost, and Substack; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA, SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date, so far, are HERE,  HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM NOVEMBER 1976 and DEC. 29, 2024  Jimmy, we hardly know y’all, by Robert Scheer | Playboy / ScheerPost  On one level, the man is simply preposterous. On another, he seems reasonable, sincere, and eminently sensible. It is difficult for me to believe that after four months of following him around the country, listening to the same speech five or six times a day, and after many hours of one-on-one conversation . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JAN. 2  Jimmy Carter’s mixed legacy, by Seymour M. Hersh | Substack  Carter was a weak president and more of an instinctive hawk than he let on. He named Cyrus Vance, who had been McNamara’s deputy and fellow liar about the Vietnam War, as his secretary of state. His secretary of defense was . . . READ MORE . . .

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MAY BE CONTINUED