Nicole Colson reports on the mass killing at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin--and explains that the broader climate of racism after 9/11 likely sparked this act of terrorism.

Read more: http://socialistworker.org/2012/08/07/racist-murder-at-a-wisconsin-temple

CLASSE calls on unions and other social struggles to join in the rejection of neoliberalism and build a different kind of future for students and workers

Read more: http://www.zcommunications.org/share-our-future-by-classe

Exactly 154 California colleges, 137 of which are for-profit schools, will no longer be able to offer students state aid for the 2012-2013 school year because those schools failed to meet new state regulations.

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/racewireblog/~3/PPXoY6VJZyA/california_kicks_for-profit_colleges_out_of_state_student_grant_program.html

As you likely know from this arid summer, America is suffering through the worst drought since 1950. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, half of all counties in the nation are officially disaster areas - a situation that has devastated the country's supply of agriculture commodities. Consequently, food prices are expected to skyrocket, and eventually, water-dependent power plants may be forced to shut down.

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InTheseTimes/~3/PohCVsWx3O4/

Anger over two fatal police shootings in Anaheim, Calif., the home of Disneyland, has led to the eruption of longstanding race and class tensions.

Read more: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9f332a70eda424c4fadc82cf94b1ec56

A new report reveals how wealthy individuals and their families have between $21 and $32 trillion of hidden financial assets around the world in what are known as offshore accounts or tax havens.

Read more: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/31/exhaustive_study_finds_global_elite_hiding

Twelve years after a too-close-to-call presidential contest in Florida ended in a divisive Supreme Court ruling, the country’s voting systems remain as deeply flawed as ever.

Read more: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c86449ed9543c00d84bc653701763e45

The Foro de Sao Paulo (FSP), a forum that brings together most of the Latin American left, had its 18th meeting in the Venezuelan city of Caracas

Read more: http://www.zcommunications.org/latin-america-moves-left-and-forward-by-carmelo-ruiz-marrero

Earlier this year the New Orleans Times-Picayune published an explosive series on Louisiana's status as the world's prison capital. Now there's more damning information on the injustices that happen inside of those prison walls. The paper reported late Sunday that 60 percent of the state's prison doctors have been disciplined by Louisiana's medical board for issues ranging from pedophilia to substance abuse.

Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/racewireblog/~3/Oe-i2aW_ny8/60_percent_of_louisiana_prison_doctors_disciplined_by_state_med_board.html

Police in Burlington violently suppress an environmental protest by firing pepper spray and projectiles at activists.

Read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/169144/burlington-riot-police-fire-pepper-spray-projectiles-protesters