Obama's Mistake: Rewarding Wall Street Looters | Food Nazi Moms | US Hypocrisy on Terror in Israel

Headlines Newsletter January 5th, 2009 All stories, blogs, and video »

Obama's Perilous Compromise with Wall Street Looters By Jeffrey Klein, Huffington Post President Obama has made a bad mistake: Instead of cracking down on serial looters and complicit regulators, he plans to reward them. Read more »   Why Big Finance Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank By Rob Larson, AlterNet Instead of making loans to help the economy, they're shoring up their own finances and buying up their competitors. Read more »   Can America Clean Up from Its Worst Environmental Disaster? [Contains Photo Slideshow] By Antrim Caskey, AlterNet With the breaking of a coal waste dam in Tennessee, environmental and human health is threatened by millions of pounds of toxic chemicals. Read more »   My War Against Food Nazi Moms By Laura Bennett, The Daily Beast It's madness: Feeding your child a sandwich made with white bread or a bag of Doritos could cost you custody of your children? Read more »   The Long and Bloody Hypocrisy of U.S.-Israeli Acts of Terrorism By Robert Parry, Consortium News Without an extreme double standard on terrorism, it's hard to see how today's bloodbath in Gaza would be possible. Read more »   Tragedy in Gaza -- Desperately Seeking Leadership from Obama By Sunera Thobani, rabble.ca Unfortunately, Obama is missing in action and silent on this first foreign policy challenge to his Presidency. Read more »   Shopaholics, Big Spenders and People in Debt, Getting Smacked by Economic Reality By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet This is the season for how-did-we-go broke books, stories of shopping hangovers and life ripped down to the basics. Read more »   Why Head Shop Raids Are Unfair and Unjust By Norman Kent, CounterPunch How a reckless mayor, heartless federal agents and a disorganized drug consuming public led to a pointless raid on head shops. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Bill Richardson Withdraws From Commerce Secretary Nomination By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress Richardson has withdrawn his name for the position citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state. Read more »   Cheney Calls Iraq 'Significant Success, Masterfully Done' By Blue Texan, Firedoglake In a classic example of a Dick who likes to place blame on others, Cheney blames the lengthy, bloody occupation on lack of Iraqi "get up and go." Read more »

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