Roqayah Chamseddine

Roqayah Chamseddine is a Lebanese-American writer, published poet, and journalist, whose work can be found at Roqchams.com.

Whitewashing Bush and Obama’s Anti-Muslim Policies to Attack Trump

In every instance that Trump target Muslims, the reanimated corpse of the Bush presidency is forced into the public arena again, and a parade of commentators tell a story that is pure fiction about an administration that only exists in their heads.

13 декабря, 2017

От Roqayah Chamseddine

Whitewashing Bush and Obama’s Anti-Muslim Policies to Attack Trump

Opinion -- President Donald Trump’s fervent Islamophobia, which will likely surge again now that the Supreme Court has blessed the travel ban, is viewed as a kind of unique hostility towards Muslims. Jennifer Williams, Vox’s deputy foreign and national security editor, and a Muslim herself, published a widely shared piece which

#HURESIST Is Anti-Racist Student Activism That Goes Beyond Trump

What #HUResist represents is genuine resistance against not just the symptom that is Donald Trump, but the disease of white supremacy.

28 ноября, 2017

От Roqayah Chamseddine

#HURESIST Is Anti-Racist Student Activism That Goes Beyond Trump

In the wave of movements and trends of the Trump era, #HUResist is a powerful and often overlooked student-led initiative at Howard University that goes beyond anti-Trump organizing. The student movement for administrative transparency started not long after President Donald Trump was elected. Students became aware of the cozy

Paul Ryan’s ‘Cindy’ Is a Cruel Figment of Capitalist Imagination

The Republican Speaker, who has an estimated net worth of $6,453,040, wants people to believe that what amounts to an extra $58 a month will allow for “Cindy” to save money.

20 ноября, 2017

От Roqayah Chamseddine

Paul Ryan’s ‘Cindy’ Is a Cruel Figment of Capitalist Imagination

Paul Ryan used Twitter to introduce “Cindy,” a fictional mother of one who works as an assistant restaurant manager making $30,000 a year. https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/931600555927105536 “Meet Cindy: a single mom, making $30,000 per year, who hopes to one day get beyond living paycheck to paycheck,” Ryan

Империализм, вмешательство, «Война с террором» взорвали в Могадишо

Недавняя разрушительная бомбардировка автомобилей в Могадишо была обвинена сомалийскими официальными лицами в террористической группе «Аль-Шабаб». Но насилие (и голод), охватившее Сомали, имеет более глубокие корни — десятилетия империализма и интервенции и использование Сомали в качестве отправной точки для «войны с террором».

27 октября, 2017

От Roqayah Chamseddine

Империализм, вмешательство, «Война с террором» взорвали в Могадишо

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA -- In the Somali capital of Mogadishu, nearly 400 were killed, hundreds more were injured, and dozens are still missing after a car bomb was detonated at a busy intersection.

Obamacare Failures Push Patients To Rely On Urgent Care Centers

Urgent care facilities, though they have their benefits, do not rectify the failings of the government to take care of people. In the words of Pete Volk, it is “single-payer or bust.”

19 октября, 2017

От Roqayah Chamseddine

Obamacare Failures Push Patients To Rely On Urgent Care Centers

In the United States, where health care costs are bankrupting Americans more than any other type of debt, urgent care centers (UCC) are on the rise, and more Americans are leaving their primary care physicians behind in favor of them. At John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) in Fort Worth, Texas, there’s a program for low-income

Культура насилия: парад степных паддок с огромной кучей орудий

Похороны среди статистических данных о прибыли от пушек и лоббировании — это ужасающая реальность того, насколько уникальны одержимость оружейного оружия Америки и связанное с этим насилие. И столь же ужасающий план НРА «нормализовать» владение оружием почти в каждом уголке американской жизни.

12 октября, 2017

От Roqayah Chamseddine

Культура насилия: парад степных паддок с огромной кучей орудий

In the aftermath of the horrific attack in Las Vegas, during which 64-year-old Stephen Paddock rained bullets on concert-goers from inside his hotel room, the gun violence epidemic in the U.S. has come back into focus. Paddock, who left behind an arsenal of

СМИ о Северной Корее: проще демонизировать, чем пытаться понять

Кампании США за смену режима характерно сосредоточить внимание на «безумии» «диктаторов», которые будут свергнуты. В случае с Северной Кореей повествование оплодотворяется развивающимся ядерным потенциалом страны, который Северная Корея рассматривает как свою главную линию обороны. , , смена режима.

05 октября, 2017

От Roqayah Chamseddine

СМИ о Северной Корее: проще демонизировать, чем пытаться понять

The media's demonization of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, especially in the realm of American news, continues a pattern seen in years past. From Iraq to Venezuela, the corporate media's depiction of inhabitants of foreign territories is meant to remove their autonomy and humanity, and this is exactly what's happened in