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.

  • Emergency Powers “Impeachable”: “All You Need is One Brave Member”

    “This should be initiated immediately. All you need is one brave member of the U.S. House of Representatives to meaningfully assert that body’s Power of the Purse. Trump’s indications that he will override that legislative power and the seeming acquiescence by some Democrats is illegitimate and dangerous and subverts a fundamental premise of the Constitution.”

  • Sanders-Khanna Bill on Saudi Assault on Yemen and War Powers Clears House

    “House passes measure to pull troops from Yemen war, a rebuke of President Trump’s alliance with Saudi Arabia.”

  • U.S. Government Propaganda on Venezuela

    A bill to “prohibit the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities with respect to Venezuela” has received virtually no media attention.

  • Rep. Omar and the Truth About AIPAC

    “Ilhan Omar under attack for telling truth about Israel lobby.”

  • AIPAC: Power and Origins

    “Rep. Ilhan Omar faces backlash over AIPAC comments.”

  • You Paid More to Netflix Last Month Than It Paid in Taxes Last Year: $0

    “The popular video streaming service Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018­­ — $845 million — on which it didn’t pay a dime in federal or state income taxes. In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal tax rebate.”

  • Shouldn’t Green New Deal Proposals Address Fossil Fuels?

    “Missing from that proposal was any mention of fossil fuels or a phaseout in fossil fuel consumption, despite the fact that fossil fuels are at the heart of the problem the Plan proposes to address: climate change.”

  • Former UN Official on Venezuela: “Nothing More Undemocratic Than a Coup”

    “There is nothing more undemocratic and corrosive to the rule of law than a coup d’état. Members of the United Nations are bound by the Charter, articles one and two of which affirm the right of all peoples to determine themselves, the sovereign equality of states, the prohibition of the use of force and of…

  • Trump’s Attack on Socialism

    It is significant that Trump, while showing his indifference to popular needs, chose to denounce socialism.

  • Pacific Northwest Shows Path to Green New Deal: End Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

    “Saying no to new fossil fuel infrastructure is the first step to saying yes to real climate action, yes to a just transition and yes to a healthy climate future for all. Now it’s time for our elected officials working on a Green New Deal in Washington, D.C. to do the same.”

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