News | Economy & Labor ITT Tech Shuts Enrollment After For-Profit College Disqualified From Federal Aid A troubled for-profit college has stopped accepting new applicants, after a Department of Education ruling. By Sam Knight , TheDistrictSentinel August 31, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | How Racism Has Shaped Welfare Policy in the US Since 1935 US welfare policies have, from their very inception, been discriminatory. By Alma Carten , TheConversation August 31, 2016 Truthout
Interview | Burkini Bans, New Atheism and State Worship: Noam Chomsky on Religion in Politics Leading public intellectual and linguist Noam Chomsky shares his views about religion and its link to politics. By Lily Sage & C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout August 31, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | How France Sets the Rules for Discussions About Racism, Terrorism and Islam Discussions around race and Islam have been preemptively funneled into “acceptable” channels by the French state. By Muriam Haleh Davis , Truthout August 31, 2016 Truthout
Interview | No Other Way Than to Struggle: The Farmworker-Led Boycott of Driscoll’s Berries When the farmworkers demanded a collective bargaining agreement, the supervisors sent in the police. By Felimon Piñeda interviewed by David Bacon , Truthout August 31, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | Why the TPP and TTIP Trade Deals May Now Be Dead in the Water German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said Sunday that “negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it.” By Kate Aronoff , InTheseTimes August 31, 2016 Truthout
News | Cables Reveal US Government’s Role in Herakles Farms Land Grab in Cameroon Cables reveal that US government officials pushed Cameroon to approve a deeply controversial oil palm development. By Mike Gaworecki , Mongabay August 31, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | How Billionaire Trump Is Missing Greener Pastures Instead of wallowing in nostalgia for coal mining, the GOP presidential candidate should be betting on renewable energy futures. By Emily Schwartz Greco , Moyers&Company August 31, 2016 Truthout
The Public Intellectual: Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson The Climate Catastrophe Cannot Be Reversed Within the Capitalist CultureThursday, 18 August 2016 August 31, 2016 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Against the Battalions in Blue: Challenging American Police, Their Racism and Their Imperial Violence Police violence and militarization is at the heart of a perpetual crisis in the US. By Simi Kadirgamar , Speakout August 31, 2016 Truthout