Usamah "Sam" Husseini

Call to prayer in Amman Jordan today. Girls look on. Love the boxes as prayer rugs. No protests downtown.

Overpriced hotels on the Dead Sea don't bother clearing sharp rocks #Jordan

I took this pic in a courthouse in Amman and an officer told me it was illegal....

...after talking w other officers and commanders, was brought to head honcho, who said "no problem", so I took his pic.

Video: Laid off telco workers protesting for their pensions

Orange, a French telco company that bought Jordan Telecom several years ago, is accused of swindling older workers of their pension rights.

Lovely "abandoned" lots in Amman are disappearing

Concrete expressionism

Usamah Husseini

“Indefatigable” — Robert Parry (RIP). “Bomb thrower” — some Bloomberg reporter. “Cut his mic!” — Bill O'Reilly.

This is the personal (mostly political) blog of Usamah "Sam" Husseini, a writer and artist living in Riverdale, Maryland. Sign up to his Substack.

He is also an artist -- creating pieces that work with Nature: BeThatEmpty.org.

Bylines at CounterPunch, antiwar.com, The Nation, Salon, Consortium News, FAIR and elsewhere. He's founder of VotePact.org -- which helps break out of the two party bind.

He is also senior analyst for the Institute for Public Accuracy.

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Usamah “Sam” Husseini

After prayer: Boxes as prayer mats on the street

Before prayer: Selling flattened boxes as prayer rugs. #jordan #islam

After prayers in Amman, I thought there might be protests. Instead, bubbles and snake oil.