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.

  • Warren: “Which Side Are You On?”

    Norman Solomon is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. He recently wrote the piece “A Profound and Historic Question for Elizabeth Warren: Which Side Are You On?” and appeared on “Democracy Now!” this morning. Solomon wrote: “For much of the past year, in many hundreds of speeches and interviews, Warren has denounced the huge leverage…

  • New Report: Medicare for All Would Create Jobs While Freeing Up Workers

    The Economic Policy Institute just released a report: “Fundamental health reform like ‘Medicare for All’ would help the labor market.” The report finds that Medicare for All would: * “Lessen the income loss, stress, and economic shock of unemployment and job transitions by eliminating the loss of health care that accompanies job-loss. * “Support self-employment…

  • Biden Record: * Pro Wall Street, War, Incarceration * Anti-Anita Hill

    “The practitioners of bipartisanship conveniently gloss over the more evident reality: that the system is under sustained assault by an ideology bent on destroying the remnants of the New Deal to the benefit of a greed-driven oligarchy. It was bipartisan accord, after all, that brought us the permanent war economy, the war on drugs, the…

  • Barron’s: “Real Super Tuesday Winners” are Health-Insurance Stocks

    “Joe Biden, the former vice president, outperformed expectations in key primary states on Super Tuesday, setting up a rally in the stocks of the health-insurance companies threatened by Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan. Shares of UnitedHealth Group (UNH) were up 8.9 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday, while shares of Cigna (CI) were…

  • Will Biden Get Serious Scrutiny?

    Branko Marcetic, author of the recently released book Yesterday’s Man: the Case Against Joe Biden, has written extensively about Biden’s congressional record for Jacobin, and corporate media bias against Sanders for In These Times. See links to his articles on the accuracy.org website.

  • Biden and Bloomberg Iraq War Lies — And Future Wars

    “Biden had been calling for a U.S. invasion of Iraq since 1998, pushed the war authorization through the Democratic-controlled Senate, and abused his role as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to suppress testimony by scholars, former U.N. inspectors, and other knowledgeable authorities opposed to the war. However, it is his support for the…

  • Joe Biden: “Yesterday’s Man”

    “Biden launched his 2020 campaign boasting about his liberal bona fides, and now stresses that he is a ‘proud’ and ‘lifelong Democrat.’ Yet not only did not become a Democrat until he was 27, for much of his career, Biden has run away from the ‘liberal’ label, telling the press in 1972 he was ‘not as liberal as most…

  • Debate Moderators Frame Questions to Define Acceptable Politics

    Julie Hollar, senior analyst for the media watch group FAIR’s Election Focus 2020 project, just wrote the wrote the piece “Debate Moderators Frame Questions to Define Acceptable Politics,” which analyzes how the corporate networks have dealt with the three most frequent topics: Healthcare, Military Intervention, and Electability.

  • Can Medicare for All Help Deal with Pandemics?

    “Having Medicare for All would encourage promptly seeking needed medical treatment for individuals with symptoms that may indicate a disease like coronavirus. This means that cases would be detected earlier, speeding treatment and epidemic control. Some candidates and commentators have argued that any method to achieve universal coverage would work. However, this misses the mark.…

  • Biden’s Record Serving Credit Card Companies

    While Joe Biden is continuously depicted as a friend of working people, the piece documents many aspects of his actual record, including: • “An earlier iteration [of the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act] had passed Congress in 2000 with Biden’s support, but President Clinton refused to sign it at the urging of…

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