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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.

  • Military Personnel Refusing War

    EHREN WATADA Available for a limited number of interviews, First Lt. Watada is the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse to deploy to the war in Iraq. He said today: “I am wholeheartedly opposed to the continued war in Iraq, the deception used to wage this war, and the lawlessness that has pervaded every aspect…

  • End of the Internet?

    The Senate has been hearing testimony about Network neutrality on the Internet and is expected to take up the subject in telecommunications legislation next week. MARK COOPER Director of research at the Consumer Federation of America, Cooper said today: “Network neutrality has existed throughout the history of the Internet and created the most dynamic environment…

  • · Rove Walks? · Bush and Permanent Bases in Iraq

    ROBERT PARRY Parry is the founder and editor of ConsortiumNews.com. He wrote the piece “Letting the White House Walk?” last October. Parry said today: “This decision shows that Patrick Fitzgerald has taken a very narrow approach to prosecuting crimes in the course of this investigation.” Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s…

  • Guantanamo and Suicides

    In the aftermath of apparent suicides by three men detained at Guantanamo Bay, Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., Commander of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo, stated: “They are smart, they are creative, they are committed. They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act…

  • Zarqawi

    LORETTA NAPOLEONI Currently in Rome, Napoleoni is available for a limited number of interviews. She is the author of the book Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and Al-Qaeda’s New Generation. She said today: “Al-Zarqawi is a man we created out of nothing, because, let’s not forget that Al-Zarqawi was presented to the world as the link between…

  • · Palestinian Authority · East Timor

    ALI ABUNIMAH Abunimah wrote the new article “Dangerous Dirty Tricks in Palestine,” in which he states: “Without consulting [Palestinian Authority] Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, [Palestinian President] Abbas announced that Hamas would have 10 days to accept the prisoners’ document without any changes or he would call a referendum. Hamas made clear that…

  • · Congo · Sudan

    MAURICE CARNEY Time magazine’s cover story last week noted: “Simmering conflict in Congo has killed 4 million people since 1998, yet few choose to cover the story.” Executive director of Friends of the Congo, Carney said today: “The central issue of the Congo has long been its enormous wealth and the nexus that exists among…

  • Beyond Haditha

    DAVID MacMICHAEL A disabled veteran of 10 years active Marine Corps service in Korea, MacMichael was a Defense Department consultant from 1965 to 1969 in Southeast Asia. During most of that period he was attached to the office of the Special Assistant for Counter-Insurgency at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok. In that capacity he reviewed…

  • UN Declaration on AIDS Causes Outrage

    The group ActionAid International is criticizing the declaration coming from the UN AIDS conference taking place in New York City. ActionAid International states that “the declaration does not commit governments to urgently fill the $10 billion funding gap … every year to finance the scaling up towards the goal of universal access.” Among those AIDS…

  • Blix Report

    Today the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission chaired by Hans Blix presented its report “Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms” to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The following nuclear disarmament specialists are available for interviews: JOHN BURROUGHS Burroughs, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy, said today:…

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