Pearl Harbor: Dark conspiracy or bureaucratic incompetence?
Byline: Albert B. Southwick COLUMN: ALBERT B. SOUTHWICK A Japanese politician recently blamed President Franklin D. Roosevelt for causing the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. His idea was that FDR had somehow lured the Japanese fleet into launching the assault. For our...

Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amies.
Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amies. By Tony Martin. The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 4. (Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 2007. Pp. 450. $40.00, ISBN 0-912469-06-4.) Tony Martin, who has devoted his lengthy scholarly career to...

Berkeley Prime Crime.
Berkeley Prime Crime 375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com Diane A.S. Stuckart's THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT (9780425219232, $23.95) opens a limited new mystery series featuring Leonardo da Vinci and his young apprentice, who take on the role of sleuths. A living chess...

Focus On Syrian Moves.
Like most other rulers in the GME, President Assad has fallen into the trip of "hiding behind his finger". As a result of frequently repeating what he says which proves to be untrue, his critics call him a "pathological liar" or a "man never to be trusted". His latest...

James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the craft of counterintelligence.
9781558496507 James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the craft of counterintelligence. Holzman, Michael Howard. U. of Massachusetts Press 2008 399 pages $29.95 Paperback JK468 This is a biography of James Angleton...

Penguin Audio.
Penguin Audio 375 Hudson Street, New York NY 10014 www.penguin.com Jane Green's THE BEACH HOUSE (9780143143277, $39.95) enjoys actress Cassandra Campbell's extensive theatre skills and voice as it tells of sixty-five-year-old Nan who lives in a rambling house alone and decides to take...

One family's response to terrorism; a daughter's memoir.
9780815608738 One family's response to terrorism; a daughter's memoir. Van de Ven, Susan Kerr. Syracuse U. Press 2008 183 pages $22.95 Hardcover Contemporary issues in the Middle East HV6433 ...

Gorbachev honored with Liberty Medal.
Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was welcomed to Philadelphia as the conquering hero on September 18 to receive America's Liberty Medal. Former President George H.W. Bush presented the medal to Gorbachev at a star-studded ceremony at the National Constitution Center on...

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy.
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy Produced, directed, and edited by Shane O'Sullivan; cinematography by George Dougherty; archive research by Maxim Koslov; original music by Pyratek. Color and B&W, 102 mins. A Dokument Films release. www.dokument-films.com. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the assassination...

LEBANON - Sept 11 - Lebanon Assassination Raises Tensions.
The assassination of a pro-Syrian politician has heightened tensions in Lebanon, less than a week before talks begin aimed at reconciling deep divisions between the country's rival factions. Saleh Aridi, a senior member of the Lebanese Democratic Party, which is allied to the militant Shi'ite group Hizbullah, was killed...