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on Thursday October 08 2015, @06:44PM
from the known-unknowns-of-collateral-damage dept.
from the known-unknowns-of-collateral-damage dept.
A Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital was bombed by the US. Result, 12 dead staff members and 10 dead patients. The coordinates of the hospital had been communicated to the US forces before to avoid mistakes. The US admits the attack was a decision. MSF is now seeking an independent inquiry.
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Afghan Hospital Bombing: MSF Demands Investigation Under Geneva Conventions
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 09 2015, @01:14PM
I wouldn't say it's the direction SN is heading. The vast majority of the article submissions are scientific/technological, with a smattering of lifehacking and political topics. Even most of the political topics are related to technology and science policy (such as net neutrality, government surveillance, telecommunications monopolies, etc). There were a handful of pure political submissions today so it's probably why it felt like a "direction," but that sort of thing is not typical. That, too, is probably driven in large part by a current Presidential campaign season in the US.
That said, I don't mind the occasional pure political discussion because it's the only place I know of where you get people of all stripes chiming in. Every other place I frequent (Drudge, RedState, DailyKos, etc) are echo chambers and there nobody is allowed to express opinions that are outside their particular memespheres. You do get the ideological catchphrases hatched elsewhere and repeated here, but they nearly always draw robust counterargument that withers the weakest parts of their theses. Generally the folks that start out spouting ideological trollish comments return with re-cast, stronger positions because they must. That is as it should be; It is how the agora [wikipedia.org] is supposed to work.
Washington DC delenda est.