- "We Have Become a Nation of Hamburger Flippers": Dan Alpert Breaks Down the Jobs Report
- This One Tweet Reveals What's Wrong With American Business—"The real problem is that American corporations, which are richer and more profitable than they have ever been in history, have become so obsessed with "maximizing short-term profits" that they are no longer investing in their future, their people, and the country."
- Where Are Workers Most Underpaid: Apple, Walmart or McDonald's?
- Rep. Keith Ellison: Taxpayers 'are subsidizing' fast food corporations' minimum wage business model
- A Fast-Food Joint Thrives, Even by Paying $12 an Hour
- Henry Ford's 150th birthday: His fight for higher wages—"What good is industry if it be so unskillfully managed as not to return a living to everyone concerned?"
- Observations From A Tipless Restaurant
- Sen. Bernie Sanders: Wal-Mart Welfare
- John Fugelsang: What to say to people who still defend Wal-Mart
- Walmart Fight is About the Degradation of Work in America
- Walmart’s firings lead lawmaker to author worker protection bill—He better work fast.
- Walmart Allegedly Overtaxing On 2-For-1 Coupon Purchases
- U.S. economy adds 162,000 jobs in July—"The nation's unemployment rate dips to 7.4%, its lowest point since December 2008. But Americans worked fewer hours and their pay dipped."
- Companies won't even look at resumes of the long-term unemployed
- 4 Reasons Why Millions Of Americans Are Leaving The Workforce
- The next Federal Reserve chair shouldn't be Wall Street's servant—"Larry Summers brings too much Wall Street baggage to be the top economic policymaker in the United States."
- How the Execs Who Brought Down Bear Stearns Bounced Back—"Five years after their firm crashed and kicked off the financial crisis, these subprime mortgage managers hold top jobs at the most powerful banks on Wall Street."
- Over a Million Are Denied Bank Accounts for Past Errors—"Being rejected for a bank account can lead to a succession of fees for cashing checks, paying bills and wiring money." NYT
- Richmond's pioneering eminent-domain threat—"Taking a controversial plunge into uncharted waters, Richmond is poised to become the first city in the country to invoke eminent domain to address its foreclosure crisis."
- Michael Lewis: Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
- Ex-Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre liable in $1bn fraud
- Filing: Bank of America may face civil charges
- Corporate sell-outs exploit a secret new gimmick—"Craven senators Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch want to shield authors of toxic tax giveaways from the public view." Salon
- Call for constitutional amendment to end 'corporate personhood' on way to Maine Senate
- Welcome to ALICE—"The American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange... may be understood as a very partial antidote to ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), the corporate-backed group that has for nearly 40 years provided model state law and connection to corporate lobbyists to its nearly 2,000 state legislator members."
- Rent-a-Paramilitaries Freak Out Wisconsin—"... when the company [Gogebic Taconite] brought in what the Wisconsin State Journal calls 'masked security guards who are toting semi-automatic rifles and wearing camouflaged uniforms.'"
- Corporate Murder in Brazil: Landless Rural Worker Shot by Security Company Hired by Multinational Syngenta
- Groundbreaking Investigation Reveals Monsanto Teaming Up With US Military to Target GMO Activists
- Skechers pays up for Shape-ups—"Skechers is finally paying back the customers it's accused of deceiving with the false promise that its athletic shoes would magically tone their booties like reality TV star Kim Kardashian."
- Ayn Rand killed Sears—"How the me-first corporate structure installed by hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert helped ruin the retail giant." Salon
- Steep bar tab: Owner of 8 TGI Fridays to pay $500K for selling cheap liquor as premium brands
- United Airlines Employee, Girlfriend Reportedly Stole $6,000 Worth of Clothing From Luggage, Cops Said
- Delta accused of forcing paralyzed man to crawl off of plane
- Unfinished Berlin Airport BER Costs 20 Million Euros per Month
- Here’s what real reform of the NSA looks like—"[Rep. Rush] Holt introduced the Surveillance State Repeal Act. [...] It would repeal the 2001 Patriot Act, which the NSA has cited as the legal basis for its phone records surveillance program. It would also repeal the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, the legal foundation for the government’s PRISM program. And it would extend whistleblower protections to cover employees of intelligence agencies."
- NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst—Not just "metadata."
- Newly revealed NSA spy program monitors HTTP activity
- Want NSA Attention? Use Encrypted Communications—"Bad news has emerged for fans of PGP and other encryption services. The NSA is taking a gloves-off approach when you go this route."
- Why have so many liberals been silent about NSA spying?
- Germany Ends Cold War Spying Pact With US, Britain
- How the Snowden Saga will End
- "Senator Obama warned about Patriot Act abuses. President Obama proved him right."
- FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software—"CNET has learned the FBI has developed custom 'port reader' software to intercept Internet metadata in real time. And, in some cases, it wants to force Internet providers to use the software."
- Seven telcos named as providing fiber optic cable access to UK spies—"New Snowden leaks show Verizon, Vodafone, and BT share direct data."
- FBI can remotely activate Android and laptop microphones, reports WSJ
- Your TV might be watching you—"The flaws in Samsung Smart TVs, which have now been patched, enabled hackers to remotely turn on the TVs' built-in cameras without leaving any trace of it on the screen."
- You May Have 'Nothing to Hide' But You Still Have Something to Fear
- The Surveillance Society—"Secrets are so 20th century now that we have the ability to collect and store billions of pieces of data forever."
