Dr. Jerome Corsireceived a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including the No. 1New York Timesbest-seller,Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. His latest best-seller wasThe Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada. He is a senior staff reporter for WorldNetDaily.com and the author of two books on contemporary Iran:Atomic IranandShowdown with Nuclear Iran. In his 2005 bookBlack Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil, which he co-authored with Craig. R. Smith, Dr. Corsi predicted oil prices at over $100 a barrel.