Links to commentary from Consortium News and Middle East Eye; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA,  UKRAINE, and SYRIA entries for this date, so far, are HERE, HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM DEC. 6  The Biden family of liars, by Patrick Lawrence | Special to Consortium News  Peter Baker, that inimitable (thank goodness) clerk The New York Times posts as its chief White House correspondent, tells us in Wednesday’s editions, “We don’t really know how history will remember Joe Biden. It’s too early to say, obviously.” READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 5  For the New York Times, antisemitism has a name but genocide does not, by Hamid Dabashi | Middle East Eye  I read the New York Times daily as a barometer — as a farmer would heed a bellwether, or an old-fashioned European anthropologist would stare at the behaviour of a faraway tribe — to see which way the liberal Zionist wind is blowing. READ MORE . . .

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FROM DEC. 4  The war on Consortium News, by Joe Lauria | Consortiun News  In an age of growing censorship and suppression of news, Consortium News is not exaggerating when it says it has abundant evidence of efforts to marginalize or silence us. November 2016: At Thanksgiving eight years ago, a . . . READ MORE . . .