Left Side of the Aisle #208

Left Side of the Aisle
for the week of June 18-24, 2015

This week:

Good News: Net neutrality upheld in first court case
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/search?q=net+neutrality&max-results=20&by-date=true
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2889656/fcc-passes-net-neutrality-rules-reclassifies-broadband-as-utility.html
http://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-wins-early-battle-in-net-neutrality-legal-war/
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/appeals-court-declines-block-net-neutrality-rules-n374001

Footnote: GOPpers trying to prevent FCC from enforcing Net neutrality
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/10/1392153/-House-Republicans-sneak-net-neutrality-attack-into-appropriations-bill
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/11/1344160/-New-poll-Conservatives-overwhelmingly-support-net-neutrality

Good News: SCOTUS will not hear appeal of decision striking down part of North Carolina's draconian anti-choice law
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/06/15/usa-court-abortion-idINL1N0Z111U20150615
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-courtnorth-carolina-abortion-mandatory-ultrasound-law
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-15/abortion-curbs-voided-as-u-s-high-court-rejects-north-carolina

Footnote: North Carolina not the only state doing this
http://www.guttmacher.org/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-courtnorth-carolina-abortion-mandatory-ultrasound-law
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/15/1391598/-New-Study-Reveals-Americans-Taking-A-Different-Stance-On-Women-s-Reproductive-Choice

Update on fast-track for TPP
http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=a16dceb74f&e=73f9e7c46a
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/06/12/3669258/tpp-defeat/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/house-moves-to-delay-action-on-trade-bill-for-6-weeks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/government-pessimistic-over-bigger-trans-pacific-partnership/story-fnu2pycd-1227402046433
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/us-credibility-in-asia/1921082.html

Footnote: White House may endorse plan to remove Trade Adjustment Assistance from bill for fast-track authority
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/house-moves-to-delay-action-on-trade-bill-for-6-weeks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-11/the-trans-pacific-partnership-is-making-for-strange-political-bedfellows

Our Lovely Little War: new US base in Iraq could be "model" for more
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/06/2076-obamas-lovely-little-war-grows.html
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/06/11/general-new-us-hub-in-iraq-could-be-model/21194718/
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/iraq-barack-obama-us-military-combat-forces-islamic-state-118842.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/11/us-mideast-crisis-usa-congress-idUSKBN0OR2LC20150611
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-agrees-to-send-instructors-to-train-troops

Clown Award: Tim Hunt
https://twitter.com/connie_stlouis/status/607813783075954688/photo/1
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0611/Nobel-laureate-resigns-after-controversial-remark-Is-academia-sexist
http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/33D4FF44-CEF5-45F7-8845-00E5D40525BB/0/Tab11.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html?_r=1

Outrage of the Week: US sabotages conference on Non-Proliferation Treaty
http://www.un.org/en/conf/npt/2015/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/03/world/nuclear-weapon-states/
http://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2015/jun/02/nuclear-disarmament-forget-it
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31010-obama-administration-sabotages-nuclear-nonproliferation-conference#
http://afsc.org/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/23/netanyahu-thanks-us-blocking-middle-east-nuclear-arms-ban