accuracy.org

Board of Directors:

Beth Schulman, President, is the Senior Strategist for Institutional Advancement at Public Campaign’s Every Voice Center. For over three decades, she has helped develop and nurture progressive policy and media organizations.

Pia Gallegos is a trial lawyer representing plaintiffs in discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, whistleblower and overtime class action cases. She also represents activist organizations in not-for-profit and issue advocacy law.

Robert McChesney, Presente! is the author of six books on media and politics, Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, and cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press.

Deborah Toler, a former Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), has worked in Africa and has written extensively about international trade and development issues.

Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network.

  • Covid Behind Bars Project Finds Failure of Geriatric Parole Reform

    Since the start of the pandemic, UCLA Law’s Covid Behind Bars Project has tracked, collected and analyzed public information about Covid-19 in prisons, jails, youth facilities and immigration detention centers. Now, the project has released analysis showing Nevada’s emergency medical use mechanisms failed to provide a single geriatric parole hearing during the pandemic. 

  • Blinded by “Russiaphobia”

    Professor of Political Science at University of Arizona, John “Pat” Willerton says, “The Russian economy is stronger than westerners thought and it shows minimal stresses from sanctions…outside of the West, most of the world refuses to apply sanctions.”

  • * After Roe in Alabama * Counterpacking the Court

    “Regarding the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, Francis Boyle, Professor of Law at the University of Illinois said, “The Democratic Party should embrace counterpacking the courts.”

  • Calls for U.S. to Unfreeze Afghan Funds

    Co-founder of Food Not Bombs said today, “how can we cut the school lunch program yet add $45 billion in military spending above President Biden’s already criminal $813 billion request? As the economy crashes millions more children are sure to go hungry. I get calls everyday from desperate families seeking food.”

  • Billions to Military While School Lunch Program Expires

    Co-founder of Food Not Bombs said today, “how can we cut the school lunch program yet add $45 billion in military spending above President Biden’s already criminal $813 billion request? As the economy crashes millions more children are sure to go hungry. I get calls everyday from desperate families seeking food.”

  • Biden’s Saudi Trip: For Cheaper Gas — or for Israel?

    “Biden isn’t just forgiving Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his direct role in the beheading of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in return for a Saudi promise to pump more oil. As Biden admitted last week, this Middle East trip is about regional security — and that of Israel in particular,” says Trita Parsi, executive…

  • Leftist Petro Wins Colombia Presidential Election

    Leftist Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Marquez win Colombian elections. Forrest Hylton says, “Now Colombia is largely urban, and Petro’s margin of victory in Bogotá alone was enough to account for his victory over Hernández.”

  • Assange Case: Persecution for Exposing War Crimes

    British Home Secretary has approved extradition of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to the U.S. where he would face a 175 year sentence after being in prison for over three years in Britain. A news conference is being held with Assange’s lawyers, wife and press freedom groups. JOHN SHIPTON, [email protected] GABRIEL SHIPTON, [email protected] John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton, who…

  • Saudi: The Death of One is a Tragedy; the Death of Millions is a Statistic

    Dr. Aisha Jumaan, regarding the war Saudi Arabia has waged on Yemen, writes in her latest piece, “News outlets in the United States give prime coverage to the war in Ukraine but mostly ignore the devastating war that the U.S. has supported.”

  • 338,000 U.S. Lives Could Have Been Saved from Covid, Study Finds

    A new study has found that between the beginning of the pandemic until mid-March 2022, universal health care could have saved more than 338,000 lives from Covid-19, and demonstrates that a significant share of Covid mortality in the U.S. is “due to our reliance on a system of market-driven health care.” 

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