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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Writes Scathing 35-Page Dissent In Birth Control Case
HP | Laura Bassett | 06/30/14

The Supreme Court delivered a blow to universal birth control coverage on Monday, ruling that closely-held corporations can refuse to cover contraception in their health plans for religious reasons. But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sharply disagreed with the five conservatives on the court, delivering a scathing, 35-page dissent and defense of mandatory contraception coverage.

"In a decision of startling breadth, the Court holds that commercial enterprises, including corporations, along with partnerships and sole proprietorships, can opt out of any law (saving only tax laws) they judge incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs," Ginsburg wrote. She said she feared that with its decision, the court had "ventured into a minefield." ... Read more

The First Iraq War Was Also Sold to the Public Based on a Pack of Lies
Bill Moyers | Joshua Holland | 06/27/14

... Across the ideological spectrum, there's broad agreement that the first Gulf War was "worth fighting." The opposite is true of the 2003 invasion, and a big reason for those divergent views was captured in a 2013 CNN poll that found that "a majority of Americans (54%) say that prior to the start of the war the administration of George W. Bush deliberately misled the U.S. public about whether Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction."

But as the usual suspects come out of the woodwork to urge the US to once again commit troops to Iraq, it's important to recall that the first Gulf War was sold to the public on a pack of lies that were just as egregious as those told by the second Bush administration 12 years later. ... Read more

How DC's Political Intelligence Biz Made Fat Cats Fatter
Bill Moyers | Michael Winship | 06/30/14

Looking over the last few weeks of news, if you would seek a single headline that sums up the Hulk-like grip in which corporate America holds the US Congress, this might be it: "Eric Cantor's Loss a Blow to Wall Street."

So wrote The Wall Street Journal, that Pravda of the One Percent, on the day after House Majority Leader Cantor lost his Virginia GOP primary to tea party upstart David Brat. "Since he was first elected to Congress," the Journal noted, "Mr. Cantor has been Wall Street's go-to guy on issues big and small… he was a top recipient of Wall Street donations and he regularly stood up for the banks, securities firms and insurance companies."

So it's actually somewhat heartening that Cantor's loss was due in part to those very same connections. His opponent David Brat told a campaign rally, "All the investment banks up in New York and DC, whatever, those guys should have gone to jail. Instead of going to jail, where'd they go? They went onto Eric's Rolodex."

Brat made particular reference to the Stock Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act -- the STOCK Act -- passed into law in 2012. That's the legislation, authored by Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York, which requires members of Congress and their staffs to disclose all of their stock transactions -- an effort to make sure they're not trading on insider information gleaned from their governmental wheeling-dealings. (This is the bill that languished on the Hill for years until a 60 Minutes report embarrassed Congress into passing it.)

Unfortunately, before it became law, stripped from the legislation were requirements that family members publicly reveal their stock trades as well as disclosure requirements for companies engaged in gathering political intelligence. And guess who was singlehandedly responsible for gutting the bill of these provisions? Yep, Eric Cantor, with the heavy hands of lobbyists pushing from behind. ... Read more

Noam Chomsky: Our Govt. Is Capable of Creating Total Catastrophe for Humankind
AlterNet | Noam Chomsky | 07/01/14

The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide a few hints as to how I think the subject can be productively explored, keeping to the United States for several reasons. First, the U.S. is unmatched in its global significance and impact. Second, it is an unusually open society, possibly uniquely so, which means we know more about it. Finally, it is plainly the most important case for Americans, who are able to influence policy choices in the U.S. -- and indeed for others, insofar as their actions can influence such choices. The general principles, however, extend to the other major powers, and well beyond. ... Read more

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DemocracyNow Daily News
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Monday, July 01 [11:20]
DN | "It's a Basic Healthcare Issue": Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards Reacts to Birth Control Ruling (07/01/14) [7:20]
*DN | Exclusive: WikiLeaks Editor Sarah Harrison on Helping Edward Snowden, Being Forced to Live in Exile (07/01/14) [9:46]
TRNN News
*TRNN | The Forces Behind SCOTUS Anti-Union Ruling (07/01/14) [7:12]
*TRNN | SCOTUS Reinterprets Religious Liberty to Justify Corporate Discrimination (07/01/14) [9:27]
Bill Moyers
*Bill Moyers | Investigative journalist Charles Lewis talks about why facts, logic and reason are often missing in the rush to war.. (06/29/14) [26:46]
No End in Sight Iraq's Descent Into Chaos by Charles Ferguson (who also did "Inside Job")
No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson (2006) [1:41:53]
Ring of Fire
Papantonio: Another Bush Goes To Washington (07/01/14) [7:10]
Papantonio: Turd Blossom Rewrites History to Smear Obama (07/01/14) [5:05]
Papantonio: Dick Cheney and the Shameless War Pimps (07/01/14) [10:48]
60 Minutes
*60 Minutes | Disability, USA (06/29/14) [13:26]
PBS Frontline
*PBS Frontline | United States of Secrets Part 1 The Program (05/15/14) [1:54:11]
*PBS Frontline | United States of Secrets Part 2 The Program (05/21/14) [53:41]
What's New On Netflix In July?
TV Shows:
  1. "Animorphs: Seasons 1 & 2" available on July 1
  2. "Knights of Sidonia" Season 1 available on July 4
  3. "Hemlock Grove" Season 2 available on July 11
  4. "Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures" Season 1 available on July 17
  5. "Baby Daddy" Season 3 available on July 18
  6. "Melissa & Joey" Season 3 available on July 18
  7. "Hell on Wheels" Season 3 available on July 19
  8. "Lost Girl" Season 4 available on July 24
  9. "Continuum" Season 3 available on July 26
Movies:
  1. "12 Angry Men" available on July 1
  2. "A Raisin in the Sun" available on July 1
  3. "Bad Santa" available on July 1
  4. "Basic Instinct" available on July 1
  5. "Boyz N the Hood" available on July 1
  6. "City of God" available on July 1
  7. "Dead Man Walking" available on July 1
  8. "Fever Pitch" available on July 1
  9. "Funny Face" available on July 1
  10. "Gandhi" available on July 1
  11. "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" available on July 1
  12. "Legends of the Fall" available on July 1
  13. "Patton" available on July 1
  14. "Philadelphia" available on July 1
  15. "Primal Fear" available on July 1
  16. "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" available on July 1
  17. "The Karate Kid" available on July 1
  18. "The Karate Kid II" available on July 1
  19. The Karate Kid III" available on july 1
  20. "The Manchurian Candidate" available on July 1
  21. "The Parent Trap" available on July 1
  22. "Under the Tuscan Sun" available on July 1
  23. "Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo" available on July 1
  24. "American Ninja" available on July 1
  25. "Ararat" available on July 1
  26. "The Babysitter" available on July 1
  27. "Best Defense" available on July 1
  28. "Blue Chips" available on July 1
  29. "Body of Evidence" available on July 1
  30. "Can't Buy Me Love" available on july 1
  31. "Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke" available on July 1
  32. "Crimson Tide" available on July 1
  33. "Croupier" available on July 1
  34. "The Dark Half" available on July 1
  35. "Don't Look Now" available on July 1
  36. "Eight Men Out" available on July 1
  37. "Halloween: Resurrection" available on July 1
  38. "The Hunt For Red October" available on July 1
  39. "Jersey Girl" available on July 1
  40. "The Keys of the Kingdom" available on July 1
  41. "Madeline" available on July 1
  42. "Mean Girls" available on July 1
  43. "My Girl" available on July 1
  44. "My Girl 2" available on July 1
  45. "People I Know" available on July 1
  46. "Phantoms" available on July 1
  47. "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" available on July 1
  48. "Venus" available on July 1
  49. "Renoir" available on July 6
  50. "Homefront" available on July 9
  51. "Out of the Furnace" available on July 9
  52. "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" available on July 11
  53. "Sleeping Beauty" available on July 12
  54. "The Master" available on July 14
  55. "Hitch" available on July 14
  56. "The Last Days" available on July 15
  57. "Christmas with the Kranks" available on July 26

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