Author: rootless2

(cross posted at Dkos) President Obama and AG Holder can do the USA and Israel both a big favor by blocking the flow of money from nutball American right wingers to nutball Israeli right wingers. Why does Israel have an...

Remember Maiden Lane II&III, the diabolical looting of the treasury by blood sucking squids, banksters, the evil Timmeh and Larry, and the hapless sucker Obama who just didn’t get it? Meanwhile, the assets,...

A year into the Obama administration, I can still say it exceeded my expectations the day that George W. Bush got into the helicopter and flew off over a bitter and disappointed John McCain. Everything since then has been gravy...

So MIT professor Simon Johnson writes that the naive simpleton Obama “still doesn’t get it” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/obama-still-doesnt-get-it_b_456408.html Paul Krugman is shocked that Obama...

Written about Ireland, but more generally true. It is remarkable how little attention is devoted to interrogating the political economy model that has led us into the present crisis; indeed, it is rare indeed to even find...