It's time to save the children. Last week, a 3-year-old boy in Hopewell, Virginia accidentally shot his twin brother while playing on a playground, with a gun that had been left unattended in his home. The twin brother was taken to a local hospital for treatment, and is expected to survive, despite being listed in critical but stable condition. The 3-year-old shooter also sustained injuries to his hand, which police suspect are as result of the gun's action catching the hand.

 

While the idea of one 3-year-old shooting another 3-year-old seems unbelievable, it's part of a very disturbing trend in America today. The U.S. accounts for a staggering 75% of all children murdered in the developed world. And studies have shown that U.S. children between the ages of 5 and 14 are 17 times more likely to be murdered by guns than children in any other developed country in the world.

 

Similarly, U.S. children under the age of 15 are nine times more likely to die from a gun-related accident than those in the rest of the developed world. And in states where it's easier to get a gun, the rates of accidental gun deaths among children are even higher. From the playground to the classroom, all across America, our children are dying from completely preventable gun violence. But don't tell that to gun lobby groups like the NRA.

 

Read more here.

 

-Thom

 

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Iraq...the Case for Doing Nothing (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

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Big Picture Politics Panel:
- Marc Harrold, Observations of White Noise  
- Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator  
- Frank McCarthy, The Keelan Group    

 

 

The Far Right's Scary Myopic Vision
- Ari Rabin-Havt, The Agenda-SiriusXM Progress 127 / The Benghazi Hoax    

 

PLUS, Robert Bergdahl's Beard Is Not the Threat
- Jasjit Singh, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)  

 

  

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Article: "U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid" by Karen DeYoung, Adam Goldman and Julie Tate.

Article: "Guns Kill Children" by Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes.

Article: "Australia's Gun Control Law Caused A Drop In Gun-Related Deaths, And An Even Bigger Drop In Suicides" by Jeff Spross.

Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.

Article: "Someone finally polled the 1% - And it's not pretty" by Auriandra.

Article: "Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy" by Brendan James.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Law: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014.

 

The good: The United Church of Christ (UCC): "Church group latest to boycott Redskins over name" by Erik Brady.

The bad: "Lou Dobbs tells Bill O'Reilly: Obama orchestrated recent wave of immigrant minors" by Arturo Garcia.

The very, very ugly: "Randy Thomasson Says Marriage Equality Is 'A Form Of Slavery'" by Brian Tashman.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Washington State Coalition to Amend the Constitution (WAmend).

Book: The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution by David Wagner.

Article: "The Washington Asylum or "Poor House"", 1814 -1870 by Washington D.C. Genealogy Trails.

Article: "Veto Act on Incorporating the Alexandria Protestant Episcopal Church (February 21, 1811)" by James Madison.

Hour Two: Newsmax vs. Fox?
- Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax Media  

Book: The Strange Death of Vincent Foster by Christopher Ruddy.

Article: "Newsmax network debuts Monday on Dish, DirecTV" by Roger Yu.

Article: "NewsMax.com" by SourceWatch.

Article: "Don't Blame Obama for Iraq" by Christopher Ruddy.

Article: "Top Political 'Heavy Hitters' Give to Democrats" by Courtney Coren.

Article: "House votes to extend expired tax breaks" by Cristina Marcos and Bernie Becker.

 

Clip: Phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Everett Dirksen (R) Illinois, November 2, 1968.

Article: "Yes, Nixon Scuttled the Vietnam Peace Talks" by John Aloysius Farrell.

Article: "Cheap Labor Conservatives Issues Guide" by Conceptual Gorilla.

Article: "Highlights from LBJ's Telephone Conversations: May 1968 - January 1969".

Article: "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" by Wikipedia.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones 

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 7/16" [sic] by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 6/17" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "U.S. Captures Benghazi Suspect" by William McDonald.

Article: "Statement From President Obama on Capture of Suspect in 2012 Benghazi Attack" by Zeninjor Enwemeka.

Article: "U.S. Captures Top Suspect in Benghazi Siege, Pentagon Says" by David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Schmitt.

Article: "Fox News Wonders If Benghazi Suspect's Capture Is Really A Hillary Clinton Conspiracy" by Catherine Taibi.

Article: "Iraq: Signs emerge of reprisal sectarian killings, 44 detainees killed" by Qassim Abdul-Zahra And Sameer N. Yacoub.

Article: "Extremist Groups in Iraq Threaten Regional War, U.N. Panel Warns" by Nick Cumming-bruce.

Article: "Poll: 74% Oppose Combat Troops In Iraq" by TRNS.

Article: "Dem Rep.: The Media Should Stop Consulting John McCain On Iraq" by Catherine Thompson.

Article: "U.S. Sending Military Personnel To Iraq To Relocate Embassy Staff" by Justin Duckham.

Hour Three: Why Iraq is a mess and what we should do
- John Guandolo, Understanding the Threat 

Article: "Refusal by Our Leaders to Know the Enemy and Destroy Them Leads to Catastrophic Consequences" by John Guandolo.

Book: Raising a Jihadi Generation: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in America by John Guandolo.

 

Article: "Refresher Course: The Project for a New American Century (PNAC)" by William Rivers Pitt.

Article: "Tony Blair: 'We didn't cause Iraq crisis'" by BBC.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "The People Who Broke Iraq Have A Lot of Ideas About Fixing It Now" by Hayes Brown.

Article: "My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

 

Plus, will a giant ice wall contain Fukushima's radiation?
- Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear 

Article: "Fukushima operator struggles to build ice wall to contain radioactive water" by AFP.

 

Article: "Too Big To Comply? NSA Says It's Too Large, Complex to Comply With Court Order" by Patrick C. Toomey.

Article: "Vermont to raise minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.50 by 2018t" by Reuters.

Article: "4 Unexpected Benefits For States That Agree To Expand Medicaid" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "Senate Republicans block student loan bill" by Erica Werner.

Article: "Florida Governor Signs In-State Tuition Bill For Undocumented Students" by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee.

       

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