News | Economy & Labor New Koch-Funded Group Aims to Promote the “Positives” of Fossil Fuels Fueling US Forward wants to talk not about statistics, facts and figures, but to reach people's emotions. By Sharon Kelly , DeSmogBlog August 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Did Federal Agents Spy on Offshore Oil Lease Protesters in New Orleans? An advocacy group wants to know if federal officials worked with local law enforcement and oil and gas industry insiders to spy on environmentalists. By Sue Sturgis , FacingSouth August 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Immigrant Family Detention Center Made For-Profit Prison Company $1 Billion in No-Bid Deal The deal was made to deter the arrival of asylum seekers. By Sam Knight , TheDistrictSentinel August 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Human Rights Trump Vows Ideological Test for Immigrants and Return to McCarthy-Era Repression Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump invoked the Cold War in a speech he recently gave in Ohio. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 16, 2016 Truthout
News | War & Peace As Clinton Slams Trump for ISIS Speech, We Look at Her Own Positions Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump's foreign policy positions on Syria and fighting ISIS. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Fuera Trump: Choice Words for “The Donald” From Mexico City Some predicted that Trump will win in November. Others called his campaign a joke, but not a funny one. By Bert Johnson , EastBayExpress August 15, 2016 Truthout
News | The "$500 Million Club” of Colleges Tends to Be Stingy With Aid to Low-Income Students Endowment funds could be invested in students, Education Trust argues. By Mikhail Zinshteyn , TheHechingerReport August 15, 2016 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Stark New Evidence on How Money Shapes US Elections Oversights of two generations of social scientists have weakened democracy. By Lynn Parramore , InstituteforNewEconomicThinking August 14, 2016 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor A Surprise Shill for Big Pharma? Patients groups are the focus of a new report that asks questions about ties to corporate pharmaceutical companies. By Sarah Lazare , AlterNet August 14, 2016 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Thousands of Pages of Confidential Think Tank Documents Detail Corporate Ties, New York Times Reports The emails are evidence that corporations that donated to non-profit think tanks were promised specific receivables in return. By Sharon Kelly , DeSmogBlog August 14, 2016 Truthout