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.

  • Social Security and CBO’s Odd Numbers

    The 2010 Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Report is scheduled to be released on Thursday. The 75th anniversary of Social Security is on Aug. 14. DOUG HENWOOD Henwood is editor of Left Business Observer. He writes regularly at http://doughenwood.wordpress.com. His books include Wall Street. He said today: “Though what little economic recovery we saw earlier…

  • Hiroshima After 65 Years: Disarmament or Nuclear Buildup?

    MARYLIA KELLEY Kelley is executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) located in Livermore, California. She said today: “This August 6, at 8 a.m., I will join hundreds of people of peace who will gather at the Livermore nuclear weapons Lab in California in solemn remembrance of the 65th anniversary of the…

  • Questions to EPA on Gulf and Dispersants, from Expert at EPA

    HUGH KAUFMAN A noted expert at the Environmental Protection Agency, Kaufman today produced a list of questions for EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development Paul Anastas, whose testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee is currently on C-SPAN: 1) Do you believe EPA had enough technical and scientific information, in April, to…

  • Veterans and Military Families: Pentagon Statements on WikiLeaks Cloud Real Issues

    Three organizations representing veterans and military families have released a joint statement on the Pentagon’s response to the Afghanistan WikiLeaks documents. They said today: “Obama administration officials are trying to spin events in their favor. On the one hand, in an effort to downplay the significance of the release, we are told the documents contain…

  • Obama Speech and Iraq Realities

    Today, Obama made remarks about Iraq to a veterans group convention in Georgia. The New York Times today published a piece titled “A Benchmark of Progress, Electrical Grid Fails Iraqis.” Obama made no mention of it, but today is the 20th anniversary of Iraq invading Kuwait and the beginning of the buildup to the early…

  • Education: “Chicago Model a Disaster”

    PAULINE LIPMAN Lipman is professor of policy studies at the College of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her books include High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform. She said today: “President Obama’s speech Thursday, in which he touted the performance of ‘Race to the Top,’ is now the prime example of equating…

  • Time Magazine, U.S. Government Using Afghan Women to Sell War?

    The new Time magazine cover featuring a young Afghan woman with her nose missing and the headline “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan?” has been challenged by many critics, including: * FAIR — “Time Magazine: We Cannot Leave Afghanistan” * Greg Mitchell — “What ALSO Happens If We Leave Afghanistan” * Feminist Peace Network —…

  • WikiLeaks: A Soldier and a Veteran Comment

    BROCK McINTOSH An Army specialist who did a recent 10-month tour in Afghanistan, McIntosh said today: “It is a surreal experience looking at the WikiLeaks reports. I searched on date and region and then our unit, Dragon Hammer, unit 333. You can follow our steps as we sent out SITREPs [situation reports] as a situation…

  • Obama Going After Whistleblowers

    COLEEN ROWLEY Rowley, whose May 2002 memo described some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures, was named one of Time Magazine’s people of the year in 2002 along with Enron and WorldCom whistleblowers Sherron Watkins and Cynthia Cooper. Rowley said today: “The Obama administration is detaining Bradley Manning in Kuwait. It is prosecuting Thomas Drake [formerly…

  • After the Big Leak: More Escalation?

    NORMAN SOLOMON Solomon today wrote the piece “State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War,” which states: “Washington’s spin machine is in overdrive to counter the massive leak of documents on Afghanistan. Much of the counterattack revolves around the theme that the documents aren’t particularly relevant to this year’s new-and-improved war effort. ……

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