Got to the White House late for the XL Pipeline protests, but there was a lovely mass for Ash Wednesday

Art Laffin of the Dorothy Day House reminded us it was the "anniversary" of the Amariyah Shelter bombing in Iraq.

Sang lovely song "Ashes".

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.

See his CV.

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