Will the past continued to be ignored in the future?

I just read a convincing article where the author noted that Mohammad may never have been to Jerusalem, and the pretensions that Islam may have about the past.

Is it Just Islam, or are other faiths and/or governments also guilty?

the power of green

I was just reading "The power of green" at the New York Times. I was very impressed by the logic presented by Thomas Friedman in that article, and the concept that we need a new "New Deal" to change our economic dependence on oil and petrochemicals.