Enslaved by Oil and the Jewish Problem By Rachel Neuwirth, World Jewish News Agency Columnist

The world has become critically dependent on fossil fuels. Prominent among those fuels is oil. This critical dependency is placing the entire world at great risk in at least three ways. Having failed earlier to take remedial action on energy independence we now find ourselves backed into a corner with few options and running out of time to fix the problem. We are drifting towards a global catastrophe because of long-standing government energy policy...

Prof. Juan Cole Finds Himself a Source By Professor Steven Plaut, World Jewish News Agency Senior Commentator and Syndicated Columnist. Every once in a while we run across someone who still thinks of Juan Cole as a scholar, as opposed to being just a shallow anti-American Israel-bashing moonbat.   So just to remind everyone that he is NOT a scholar to be taken seriously, Cole is gracious enough to cite on his personal web page this week the neofascist Justin Raimondo.   Cole clearly regards Raimondo as a credible source, and indeed Cole continues to publish his own columns on Raimondo.s ultra-moonbat web site, thus proving that Cole himself is not a credible source and certainly no scholar, Senator...Read the full article

Bush Declares War on Radical Islam By Daniel Pipes A courageous speech by George W. Bush last week began a new era in what he calls the “war on terror.” To comprehend its full significance requires some background. Islamists (supporters of radical Islam) began their war on the United States in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran and later that year his supporters seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. For the next twenty-two years, however, Americans thought they faced merely a criminal problem and failed to see that war had been declared on them. For example, in 1998, when Islamists attacked two U.S. embassies in East Africa, Washington responded by unleashing detectives, arresting the perpetrators...Read the full article