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Doctors Without Borders Refutes US Version Of Kunduz Hospital Bombing

By Staff for TeleSur TV. Kunduz, Afghanistan – The international non-governmental organization Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) denied on Sunday that its hospital in Kunduz was used by the Taliban to launch an attack against U.S. military personnel, as the Pentagon asserted. “The gates of the hospital compound were closed all night so no one that is not staff, a patient or a caretaker was inside the hospital when the bombing happened,” MSF said through a statement. According to the U.S. military, air strikes were carried out “in the vicinity” after reports of Taliban fighters firing at U.S. troops from the bombed hospital. -more-

https://www.popularresistance.org/msf-refutes-us-version-of-kunduz-hospital-bombing/

U.S. airstrikes hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan

Latest US international mass shooting kills 19 and wounds 37

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/world/asia/afghanistan-bombing-hospital-doctors-without-borders-kunduz.html?_r=0

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/02/mass-shootings-america-gun-violence?CMP=fb_gu

The Oregon college shooting is the 45th school shooting in the US for this year alone, and the 142nd since the attack at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012.
President Obama said “Our thoughts and prayers are not enough” before asking, once again, for voters to demand changes to the nation’s gun laws while he continues to bomb 7 countries.
I would say, thoughts and prayers, and changes to US gun laws are not enough either.  The US needs to end it’s addiction to violence, including war.  You can’t keep invading country after country, dropping bombs, initiating regime changes, transforming local police into para-military units gunning down people in our streets, and not expect such violence to be repeated in our schools, churches, etc. The chickens are coming home to roost.  Violence is as American as apple pie.
As individuals, communities, and nations, we need to embrace nonviolence.  As Martin Luther King, Jr. said decades ago in very prophetic words: “It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence.  It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.”