Pets: Innocent Victims of Financial Crisis | Can Obama Make Up His Mind About Pot? | Serial Job-Killer on the Loose

Headlines Newsletter April 28th, 2009 All stories, blogs, and video »

Foreclosure Pets: Soaring Rate of Abandoned Animals Are the Latest Sign of a Deep Economic Crisis By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Abandoned animals and "foreclosure pets" are the innocent victims of our financial downward spiral. Read more »   America's Schizoid Pot Culture -- 4 in 10 Have Smoked It, and Millions Are Still Getting Busted By Joshua Holland, AlterNet The Obama administration is giving mixed signals on its pot policies despite a tidal shift in social views on legalizing marijuana. Read more »   Obama Has Amassed Enormous Political Capital, But He Doesn't Know What to Do with It By Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post Public approval of a president is not like a stock of savings. Obama has yet to decide what to invest in. Read more »   Unclenching the American Fist Toward Iran By John Tirman, AlterNet Obama's taken a step toward freeing the U.S. from 30 years of coercion, sanctions, covert action, and relentless insults against Iran. Read more »   Equal Pay Day! Women Catch Up With Men on 2008 Wages By Jocelyn Samuels, AlterNet Here's to hoping that someday, my daughters will be celebrating Equal Pay Day on December 31. Read more »   The Stomach-Turning Truth About Bush's Torture Programs By Scott Horton, The Daily Beast Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we're far from closure. Read more »   A Serial Job-Killer Is Stalking America By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality With Barack Obama's election, real reform has once again become politically viable. And America's anti-union business leaders know it. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Could Anti-Immigrant Bloggers Be Any More Ignorant? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet It's a rhetorical question. Read more »   GOP Pigs Stripped 'Flu Pandemic Preparedness' From Stimulus By Jason Linkins, Huffington Post Republican politicking continues to put the whole nation at risk. Read more »   '60 Minutes' Blows it on Coal Segment By Tara Lohan, AlterNet They missed the boat entirely. Coal isn't the answer to our climate woes, it is the problem. Read more »

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