- Scott Klinger: $9.54 a second: Why CEOs fight on wages
- 12 arrests made at St. Louis fast food protests
- Walmart Workers Plan 'Widespread, Massive Strikes and Protests' for Black Friday 2013—21 were arrested last Thursday for civil disobedience.
- Mall Employees Resign With Very Public Note—"Dear Jamie, since you decided to say 'Cancer is not an excuse' and think it's OK to swear at your employees like you do all the time, we quit."
- Unpaid Internships Must Be Destroyed
- August jobs report: Hiring continues as unemployment falls—"Only 63.2% of Americans now participate in the labor force -- meaning they have a job or are looking for one. That's the lowest rate since August 1978."
- Flipside: Lenovo chief shares $3.25 million of bonus with staff
- Bernie Sanders: Billions for 'Another War,' but No Money for Needs at Home
- Rangel: Let's Fight a War Against Joblessness Instead
- The Grand Bargain Is Dead, Dead, Dead
- Fox News guest: 'That's a teaching moment' when hungry students don't get school lunches
- Death (certificates) took holiday in wake of bankruptcy filing—"City couldn't issue death - or birth - certificates because skittish vendor wanted cash to supply paper."
- The Domino Defect: Five Years After Crisis, Banks No Better Off—"The collapse of Lehman Brothers shook the global financial system to its core five years ago. Nevertheless, lawmakers continue to shy away from making the necessary reforms."
- 16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters—"Whistleblower complaint alleges that certain customers received data anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour ahead of the rest of the markets."
- Criminal Charges Unlikely in Case of Wrong Repossession Mistake
- How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash
- Edinburgh landlord ordered to pay tenants three times deposit—"[T]he landlord had failed to pay the cash into a fund set up to protect tenants."
- Flipside: Wendy's Customers Defend Server Against Bully, Get Frosties and Food—Consumer doing the protecting.
- Amazon's Funniest Reviews—As selected by Amazon.
- Bed bugs, bad service banished thanks to online trip review sites like Yelp, Tripadvisor
- Where not to eat: researchers turn unhappy tweets into a map of risky restaurants
- Hotel Sues Guest for 95K over Bad Review, Bedbugs
- "Aweful food and dire complaint handling"—Judging by the restaurant owner's rebuttal, in this case the customer isn't right.
- McDonalds closing all restaurants in Bolivia—They weren't a cultural fit.
- McDonald's Franchisees Rebel as Chain Raises Store Fees
- Horse in McDonald's: Rider fined after 'drive-thru' refusal
- On the Latest Bogus NYT Plane-in-Peril Story
- Open Letter to Flight Attendants
- Man Buys Promoted Tweet to Complain About British Airways
- President Obama Urges Congress to Vote Conscience on Syria, Even If Public Opposed
- Pro-strike lawmakers mum as startling videos surface of Syrian rebels
- U.S. Support for Action in Syria Is Low vs. Past Conflicts
- How TIME Deceitfully Tries to Make You Believe You Are In the Minority If You Oppose Attacking Syria
- Arizona Voters Savage John McCain’s Syria Support at Town Hall
- Rep. Alan Grayson: U.S. Has to Stop Focusing on Sending a Message on Syria
- Republicans Supported Attacking Syria, Now They Don't. Guess Why
- NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure—"The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe."
- NSA Defends Encryption Backdoors By Promising It's Only Used To Spy On All Of Us—In the meantime, they want to shoot the messenger.
- NSA's pipe dream: Weakening crypto will only help the "good guys"—"Ruining the foundation of online trust? Just collateral damage to spooks." My trust in Kevin Drum has nosedived since he thinks this undisputedly civil rights violating revelation doesn't benefit the public debate.
- The NSA never takes "no" for an answer—"When the government really wants something, it can be temporarily denied [NYT] but rarely foiled."
- Greenwald: NSA encryption story, Latin American fallout and US/UK attacks on press freedoms
- Yes, Internet: Your citizens still want their anonymity—"A study from Pew Research Center finds we're giving up too much of ourselves."
- Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying—And yet they say "scanning text of your emails to sell ads is perfectly legal." Cognitive dissonance, ouch.
- Spain challenges Google with 'right to be forgotten' in EU
- Yahoo Releases Its First Government Transparency Report—"... showing the number of requests about Yahoo users that it has received from global government agencies."
- Vietnam internet restrictions come into effect—"A controversial law banning Vietnamese online users from discussing current affairs has come into effect."
- Australia: Malcolm Turnbull says Coalition will not introduce opt-out internet filter after earlier supporting it—They wanted the internet filter on by default.
- UK Internet Filter Blocks VPNs, Australia to Follow Soon?
- Tor Is Less Anonymous Than You Think
