In news conference, President Obama answers critics who recite Israeli talking points, makes strong case for approval of multilateral deal….
--Israeli think tanks—J Street in US, Molad in Israel, support the deal as moderates--and some conservatives--in Israel fear Netanyahu has gone too far
--Gareth Porter’s analysis: Iran used nuclear threat to force superpowers to negotiate, lift sanctions
--Prof. Bill Beeman notes that Iran agreed to stop something it wasn’t doing
--Greek tragedy drama continues, as Tsipras faces revolt from his Syriza party and IMF makes good move for debt reduction that can delay a resolution
--new Snowden doc reveals intelligence reports on Israeli assassination of top Syrian general in 2008
--HUD changes language on loan forms to enable criminal banks to continue to write mortgages
--Ukrainian hackers leak footage grabbed from cellphone of a McCain staffer that shows IS executed James Foley on a TV set in front of green screen
--Obama talks criminal justice reform in speech to NAACP, says of prisoners “they could be me”
--cops in Vallejo, CA recant their accusations of kidnap hoax, as ex-Marine with Harvard law degree is named suspect
--New Horizons space explorer sends us cool pix of Pluto
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