Medicines sans Frontieres: “civilians in Gaza have nowhere safe to go…”

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Tuesday July 29, 2014 · 8:42 AM PDT

2014/07/29 · 08:42

Medicines sans Frontieres, popularly known as Doctors Without Borders have been on the ground in Gaza, attempting to treat casualties from the war. Today, the organization released a statement condemning the attack on Al Shifa Hospital and described how civilians in Gaza have nowhere safe to go. The full statement is below as are other reports by the UNHWR, NBC News and Haaretz in Israel. These reports provide an accurate description of the horrific situation for people, particularly children, in Gaza.

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Friday October 18, 2013 · 8:24 AM PDT

2013/10/18 · 08:24

The Tea Partiers are hopping mad and they're not afraid to let Speaker Boehner know it. They have been posting furiously on the Speaker's Facebook page and the folks at Cloture Club have created a real time-waster for the rest of us to enjoy. If you want to take a break and enjoy the spoils of a beautiful Friday (at least it's beautiful in the Virginia Piedmont) check out the Tea Party Insult Generator created from random musings of Tea Party posters on Speaker Boehner's facebook page.

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 9:46 AM PDT

2012/09/18 · 09:46

For the past three weeks, I have spent Saturday mornings canvassing neighborhoods in southern Fauquier County, Virginia for President Obama. Fauquier County is a very conservative county. In 2008, Fauquier County went for McCain even though the surrounding counties in Loudoun, Prince William and Culpeper went for the President. Our Democratic Committee in Fauquier is very active even though we are a pretty small group. People like hosting tables and handing out leaflets and registering voters. We love our yard signs and we also get quite a few phone bank volunteers. Canvassing is another story.

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Tuesday June 07, 2011 · 10:20 AM PDT

2011/06/07 · 10:20

There is a diary on the rec list right now which uncritically promotes a meme of right wing Republican propaganda. As context, the diarist was at one time an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton and wrote his first diary criticizing the economic policies of President Obama in February 2009 barely a month after he was inaugurated. But more importantly, we need to be aware of the ways in which the disinformation technique utilized by media propagandists influences news sources. Vague identities and vague claims are a hallmark of disinformation pieces as is is the practice of making loose connections between people absent direct and unequivocal statements. Other techniques that should make us wary include the star power and the bandwagon techniques which encourage us to get on the bandwagon of opinion about a particular situation or policy because many influential and intelligent people are in agreement about it. The diary on the rec list and the HuffPo article on which that diary is based use a combination of the disinformation, bandwagon and star power propaganda techniques to promote the right wing meme that the Obama administration is confused, conflicted and inept in handling the financial crisis. Their springboard for this disinformation is the departure of Austan Goolsbee from the Obama administration to return to academia.

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Friday June 03, 2011 · 5:10 PM PDT

2011/06/03 · 17:10

The world is a poorer place today. Albertina Sisulu, a shero of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa died in Johannesburg at the age of 92 yesterday. To say that she lived a full life and represented all that women everywhere might strive to accomplish is an understatement. African women in South Africa have a saying about women, Basus’iimokodo, bawel’imilambo “They remove boulders and cross rivers.” This is said with a truly wonderful sense of irony. Historically African women in South Africa have been continually exploited and often considered least valued. And yet, the history of the long struggle against white domination and particularly the struggle against apartheid demonstrates that the courage, strength of character, endurance and perseverance of African women in their struggle for liberation is unrivaled (though often overlooked by white, predominately male Western historians and movie producers). This is the story of one such woman.

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Monday May 02, 2011 · 10:27 AM PDT

2011/05/02 · 10:27

I don’t disagree with the sentiments of some who suggest that we should not celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden or chant USA! USA! in triumph considering the myriad costs of the “Global War on Terror.” But there are nuanced responses to this event depending on one’s circumstances and proximity to the attacks on 9/11. “Celebration” might not be the best word for what many people are feeling today.

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Monday March 21, 2011 · 2:42 PM PDT

2011/03/21 · 14:42

There has been much hand-wringing on the left over the legality of the decision to participate in creating a “no fly” zone in Libya as a result of UN Resolution 1973. Most of the arguments rely on the musings of Pundits rather than historical analysis to support their claims that President Obama continues in his fall from leftist grace by waging an illegal and unconstitutional military action. In particular, arguments rely on Michael Lind's article in Salon to justify the claim that this President is stretching the boundaries of executive power beyond his predecessors (and thereby giving credibility to the Republican meme of Obama as a dangerous, Muslim-loving dictator). I have many reservations about the decision by the President to participate in the Anglo-Franco coalition to establish a no-fly zone, but the record needs to be set straight about whether or not the action is unconstitutional and whether, as some of the usual critics on the left suggest, the President is going beyond even the Bush administration in engaging in an extra-legal act of war.

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Friday February 04, 2011 · 1:45 PM PST

2011/02/04 · 13:45

You are in the the 63rd Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our Egyptian friends and their courageous struggle for freedom.

DO NOT REC THIS DIARY! Rec the Mothership here.

(The idea is to keep the Mothership visible on the rec list, with links therein to the child diaries where we can discuss the events. This prevents multiple liveblog diaries taking up slots on the rec list.)

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Monday January 10, 2011 · 3:29 PM PST

2011/01/10 · 15:29

I haven’t seen any diaries about the people who were killed in Tucson. When I read about their varied backgrounds, ages, religious faiths, and political persuasions, I was moved to write something by which we might pause and remember to send thoughts, good wishes, prayers, and blessings to their families. I checked to see if there had been another diary about them but could not find one. If this is a duplicate, I’ll delete.

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 1:09 PM PDT

2010/11/05 · 13:09

After hearing the news that MSNBC suspended Keith Olberman indefinitely for making political campaign contributions, I decided to do some quick research on the contributions of Executives at Comcast Cable, new corporate overlords at NBC with a controlling interest in what news we hear and see. The list below is not surprising but that's only what we know about. Since they can give anonymously, you can be sure this is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Thursday April 15, 2010 · 3:10 PM PDT

2010/04/15 · 15:10

This is the 109th diary on the earthquake disaster in Haiti. The first diary was by Dallasdoc and previous diaries are linked below. The idea is to keep resources visible and easily available for those wishing help.

ShelterBox: TexMex is busy moving, but carolina stargazer has posted Today's ShelterBox diary.

Join us in the comments for today's news roundup and more. Be sure to also see diaries by Bev Bell for informed ground-level information on Haiti's needs. Action alerts and links below the fold.

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Friday March 19, 2010 · 11:00 AM PDT

2010/03/19 · 11:00

Despite the number of people who worked for him in 2008 to squeak out a victory against his Republican opponent, Representative Gerry Connolly is now saying he is on "the fence" about whether to vote in favor of HCR.

UPDATE I hear that he is getting more calls and the areas where he is getting them are surprising.

This just came in:

Please call, especially from Haymarket. His office was very surprised (shocked) that Haymarket constituents were calling in favor of health care legislation.

Haymarket VA is considered to be a very conservative place. Please call him. Calling your congressman makes a big difference.

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