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The 10 Obama Policies and Failures that Make Us Angriest

AlterNet Editorial Staff

Obama's sweet talk has begun to turn sour—he has a long pattern of soaring rhetoric and empty promises followed by some fundamental failures to deliver.  It is the lack of action, the hypocrisy, the talking the talk without walking the walk, that have made many progressives and liberals frustrated and angry.

http://www.alternet.org/visions/10-obama-policies-and-failures-make-us-angriest?akid=11444.9992.pmaPzk&rd=1&src=newsletter951695&t=3

America’s Biggest Crises are Rooted in the Fact That the Economy is Rigged for the Wealthiest

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/activism/americas-biggest-crises-are-rooted-fact-economy-rigged-wealthiest?akid=11444.9992.pmaPzk&rd=1&src=newsletter951695&t=15

Matthew Rothschild: Rest in Peace Pete Seeger, A True Progressive Hero
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/28-12

Tim Koechlin: Our 'Winner Take All' Economy Is Destroying Us
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/28-0

Bill Moyers on the Dark Money Assault on Democracy and How Racism Still Drives Our Politics

Democracy Now

http://www.alternet.org/media/bill-moyers-dark-money-assault-democracy-and-how-racism-stills-drives-our-politics?akid=11448.9992.5yzTUT&rd=1&src=newsletter951969&t=9

Harvey Wasserman: So Long, Pete & Toshi Seeger, It’s Been Amazingly Great to Know You
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/28-2

Pete Seeger (1919-2014): Peace Activist and Folk Legend Has Died
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/28

Pipeline Protesters Urge Obama: 'Be A Climate Champion'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/28-7

State of the Union: Obama’s Underwhelming Plan to Tackle Inequality

Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/economy/state-union-america-land-small-opportunity?akid=11454.9992.9QZ4rJ&rd=1&src=newsletter952411&t=3