Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

The House just reached 218 votes on the final passage of the Health Care Reform bill. Congratulations Madam Speaker for pushing hard to get this done.
Final vote tally is 220-215 as the House passes HR 3962. Well done.

A funny thing happened on the way to the exhibition.
On Sunday, Bangladeshi police descended upon Drik Gallery in Dhaka to prevent the launch of a photo exhibition on Tibet. BDNews24 reports:
Dhaka, Nov 1 (bdnews24.com)—Police prevented Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi from launching an exhibition, titled ‘Into Exile: Tibet 1949 – 2009′, on Sunday.
The exhibition was organised [...]

NBC News (3/29/1971): Attack On Dhaka
NBC News report from 3/29/1971 shows video taken from the Intercontinental Hotel in Dhaka on 3/26/1971 by a French video crew before they were expelled from Bangladesh by the Pakistan army. This is rare smuggled video of the Pakistan army crackdown that launched 9 months of genocide in Bangladesh.
All foreign [...]

ABC News (11/30/1971): Village Massacre
Viewer Discretion Strongly Advised
Video of the aftermath of a massacre in a village near Dhaka. 75 villagers - men, women, children - were killed by the Pakistani army. Many bodies were burned, women were raped, and babies were bayoneted before the village was burned.
As the Pakistan army started to lose its grip [...]

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls [...]

 
A few nights ago I was watching Al Jazeera television’s live interview of John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for the UN Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA). Mr. Ging was on the phone from the main UN compound in Gaza city. While he was being interviewed, Israelis shelled the UN compound injuring three UN workers and lighting on [...]

Shihab Rattansi of Al Jazeera tries to make some sense of the nonsense coming out of the mouth of Democratic Congressman from New York, Eliot Engel.
This week, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution supporting Israel’s actions in Gaza. Not to be outdone, the US Senate passed by unanimous consent a resolution offering [...]

[H/T The Heathlander]
Britain’s Channel 4 does the kind of reporting that the U.S. media refuse to do.
In this report, the ICRC describes how the IDF would not allow ICRC ambulances to evacuate four starving children in Gaza who were clinging to their dead mothers. At the end of the report, Israeli government spokesman Mark [...]

The International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a written release demanding immediate access to Gaza after the discovery of weak children laying next to their dead mothers.
In the release, the ICRC states:

The ICRC/PRCS team found four small children next to their dead mothers in one of the houses. They were too weak to [...]

Up to sixty members of one family in Gaza were rounded up into one house and then bombed to death by the IDF:

In what the United Nations fears could be the bloodiest single attack of the Israeli assault, as many as 60 members of the extended Samouni family were killed near their homes in the Gazan [...]