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Staples Plucks Postal Jobs
Across the country, local delegations visited Staples stores in January to threaten a boycott unless the retailer's new “postal units” are staffed by actual postal employees.

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Cut Off the NSA’s Juice
This is a struggle for power over what kind of future can be created for humanity; it's time to stop giving juice to Big Brother.

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State of the Union Only Tells Half the Story on Women
It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a “Mad Men” episode.

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Sustainability Squared
How we can sustain both the environment and the people.

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Over-the-Top Victims
An ugly outbreak of whiny victimhood is ravaging some of America's most exclusive ZIP codes.

Latest Human Rights Watch Report: 30 Lies About Venezuela
In the six pages that Human Rights Watch dedicates to Venezuela in its World Report 2014, released this week, it manages to tell at least 30 serious lies, distortions, …

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Obama’s Aversion to Income Inequality Doesn’t Extend to TPP
President Obama touted his fight against income inequality, but his administration is fast-tracking a trade agreement predicted to cut pay for 90 percent of American workers.

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Problems of Eurozone, European Integration Stem From Deeply Unpopular Elite Economic, Social Policy
The imposition of deeply anti-democratic neoliberal austerity policies - not the Eurozone per se - undermines the political legitimacy of the European Union.

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Why George Lucas, Eric Schmidt, (and Yes, Steve Jobs) Should Go to Jail: Conspiring to Reduce Wages of 100,000 Tech Pros
Silicon Valley's royalty occupy a class of their own, the toast of TED talks and the model for aspiring entrepreneurs the world over.

US “Dismantling” Rhetoric Ignores Iran’s Nuclear Proposals
Tough US rhetoric toward Iran may be adding new obstacles to the search for a comprehensive nuclear agreement.