Ted Rall: US Debt Crisis, Ransom of the Red Party

aNewDomain’s Ted Rall on the U.S. debt crisis. Ask yourself: What did the economy ever do for you? What has it done for you lately?

aNewDomain.net — Here’s our Ted Rall on the debt crisis. Call it the Ransom of the Red Party. It is a literary reference. And ask yourself, what has the economy done for you lately anyway?

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For aNewDomain.net weekend, I’m Ted Rall.

Based in Boston, Ted Rall is a nationally-syndicated columnist, editorial cartoonist and war correspondent who specializes in Afghanistan and Central Asia. The author of 17 books, most-recently published The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt, Rall is twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and is a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Follow him @TedRall, check out his Facebook fan page and definitely follow his Google+ stream here. Ted’s upcoming book After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan is due out in 2014.