Review: Matt Skow’s TruHistory Films’ four-part docuseries on the USS Liberty by Brian R. Wright, 8.5×11-inch PDF version of review located here One is at a loss for superlatives in reviewing this stellar work, Sacrificing Liberty. First, it’s a state of the art, full audiovisual-impact documentary, finely honed by one director-editor-cinematographer-archival-artistic-retrievalist Matthew Skow under auspices... Read More

The June 1967 conflict was launched to destroy Gamal Abdel Nasser and eradicate Arab nationalism. The latter posed a serious threat to Western interests in the middle east. Nasser was not responsible for the outbreak of war and took significant steps to prevent it. He was aware that Egypt was in no position to defeat... Read More

The latest Steven Spielberg film, The Pentagon Papers, made me wonder about the historical significance of this glorious episode of whistleblowing and victorious struggle for freedom of the press. The leaking and publishing in 1971, by the New York Times then the Washington Post, of excerpts from this 7000-page classified report on the Vietnam War... Read More

On May 2, James North and Phil Weiss talked with Norman Finkelstein in his Brooklyn home about the Six Day War, its history, its mythology and its impact on US Jewish life. Finkelstein then revised the transcript of that conversation. Weiss: How important was the Six-Day War in your neighborhood when you were a kid?... Read More