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Hollie Ainbinder, IPA’s director of program and development, has been with the organization since 1999. She was the associate director of the media watch group FAIR from 1988 to 1999. From 1984 to 1988 she was a media consultant to public interest organizations.

Layla Cooper is IPA’s CFO. With a strong background in finance, computer systems and administration, she first began working for IPA in 2002. Cooper has focused her education on the study of media and social change.

Sam Husseini is senior analyst and director of communications for the group. He’s written widely on politics, foreign affairs, public policy, media, and culture. He now writes regularly at husseini.substack.com and has been published regularly in such outlets as Salon, Consortium News, CounterPunch, AntiWar.com, TruthDig and The Nation. He founded The Washington Stakeout and VotePact.org. Email: sam at accuracy.org

Norman Solomon is IPA’s executive director. He is the author of twelve books, including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, and with Reese Ehrlich, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. A frequent guest on television and radio, he was featured in Bill Moyers’ recent documentary Buying the War and a full-length film adaptation of War Made Easy produced by the Media Education Foundation. Solomon is a recipient of the George Orwell Award, which honors distinguished contributions to honesty and clarity in public language.

David Zupan works as an independent contractor for IPA doing broadcast media outreach and database updating. He is also director of the Speakers’ Clearinghouse, which helps progressive policy analysts find speaking engagements at schools throughout the U.S. and Canada. Zupan is a veteran media activist and teacher.

  • More Bombing in Iraq and Afghanistan

    The Washington Post reports today in a piece headlined “U.S. Boosts Its Use of Airstrikes In Iraq” that: “The U.S.-led coalition dropped 1,447 bombs on Iraq last year, an average of nearly four a day, compared with 229 bombs, or about four each week, in 2006. … In Afghanistan, where U.S. and NATO bombings picked…

  • NBC Keeps Kucinich Out of Debate

    ISABEL MacDONALD Communications director for the media watch group FAIR, MacDonald said today: “NBC’s exclusion of Kucinich from the Jan. 15 Democratic debate represents a particularly egregious example of preempting voter choice by the GE-owned network. “After inviting Kucinich to the debate, the network arbitrarily changed the criteria for participation, and disinvited him. When a…

  • Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

    I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. … There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when…

  • White House for Sale?

    CRAIG HOLMAN Holman is government ethics lobbyist for Public Citizen, which has launched the web page White House for Sale that keeps tracks of money to candidates; they just updated their numbers Tuesday, below. He said today: “The practice of bundling, which allows candidates to take unlimited unregulated cash pulled together from connected operatives, has…

  • Suharto’s Legacy

    Reuters is reporting: “Indonesia’s ailing former President Suharto has pneumonia and is developing a blood infection which could lead to blood poisoning, causing a further deterioration in his health, his doctors said on Tuesday. Doctors have been battling to save the 86-year-old former strongman, who ruled the vast Southeast Asian nation for more than three…

  • Bush Trip — Interviews Available

    Bush is continuing his Mideast trip, meeting Tuesday with Saudi King Abdullah and Wednesday with the Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. MADAWI AL-RASHEED Available for a limited number of interviews, Al-Rasheed is author of A History of Saudi Arabia and Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a…

  • Lancet Study Author Assesses New Report on Iraqi Death Toll

    The World Health Organization reports on findings just published in the New England Journal of Medicine: “A large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi government and WHO estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006.” LES ROBERTS Roberts is co-author of a study published in October 2006 by the…

  • Former Legal Adviser to Palestinians Blasts Bush

    FRANCIS BOYLE Professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Boyle is author of Palestine, Palestinians and International Law. He said today: “Contrary to what many are saying — that Bush has not accomplished much in his trip to the Mideast — he has accomplished a great deal of harm. “Bush called for ‘new…

  • Iraq Airstrikes

    AP reports: “U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives on the southern outskirts of Baghdad within 10 minutes Thursday in one of the biggest airstrikes of the war, flattening what the military called safe havens for al-Qaida in Iraq.” Al Jazeera reports that “a local Sunni tribal leader told Al Jazeera that…

  • * Mideast: Bush and Presidential Race * Rallying against Iran * Elliott Abrams

    STEPHEN ZUNES Zunes is Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus and author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism. He said today: “The only way there can be real progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace is if President Bush is willing to pressure Israel to: 1) suspend its construction of additional…

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