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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.

  • Deal with Iran?

    SELIG HARRISON Available for a very limited number of interviews, Harrison is director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy and author of five books on nonproliferation and Asian affairs. He said today: “What Iran’s going to say is that they agreed to suspend their uranium enrichment before because the European Union…

  • Iraq and Afghanistan: Turning Point or Going in Circles?

    KHALIL BENDIB Bendib is a cartoonist; his first collection of cartoons is titled “It Became Necessary to Destroy the Planet in Order to Save It!” His latest cartoon depicts Bush repeatedly claiming to be reaching a “turning point” in Iraq while in fact he is just going around in circles; see it here. Bendib said…

  • Exit Strategy

    MOUNZER SLEIMAN Sleiman is Washington bureau chief for the magazine Almustaqbal Alarabi, which is published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies, based in Beirut, Lebanon. The director of the Center for Arab Unity Studies, Dr. Kheir deen Haseeb, an Iraqi native, recently proposed a 21-point plan to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and…

  • · Iran and Israeli Nukes · Iran Peace Offer Rebuffed?

    “Iran has followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent letter to President Bush with explicit requests for direct talks on its nuclear program, according to U.S. officials, Iranian analysts and foreign diplomats,” the Washington Post reported in a front-page article on May 24. “The eagerness for talks demonstrates a profound change in Iran’s political orthodoxy, emphatically erasing…

  • Memorial Day

    CELESTE ZAPPALA ELAINE JOHNSON NANCY LESSIN “It serves no purpose to have more and more servicemen and women die in an unjust and unjustifiable war, and have more families experience the unbearable and unending pain that my family has experienced,” said Celeste Zappala, mother of Sgt. Sherwood Baker, the first Pennsylvania National Guardsman to die…

  • Enron Convictions

    GREG PALAST Palast is an internationally recognized expert on regulation of power markets and coauthor of the book Regulation and Democracy. He said today: “Just like Al Capone, who went to jail for failing to file his taxes, Lay is convicted merely of stock fraud. This is nothing compared to the manipulation by Lay and…

  • Mr. Olmert Goes to Congress

    The Jerusalem Post is reporting today: “Amid a lengthy round of applause, including a standing ovation from U.S. lawmakers, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addressed the U.S. Congress…” EDWARD L. PECK EUGENE BIRD Peck, a former chief of mission to Iraq, was deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration.…

  • Why Won’t the U.S. Acknowledge Israel’s Nuclear Weapons?

    Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets with U.S. President Bush today and speaks to a joint meeting of both chambers of Congress on Wednesday. The U.S. government does not publicly acknowledge Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal. MORDECHAI VANUNU Vanunu is a former Israeli nuclear technician who in 1986 revealed through The Sunday Times of London the…

  • Rep. Murtha and Haditha

    JOHN SIFTON Sifton is a researcher with Human Rights Watch. He said today: “Rep. John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine colonel, has provided key new facts about the Haditha incident. If what Rep. Murtha is saying regarding the Haditha incident is indeed true, this can only be considered a serious war crime. Retaliations…

  • Hayden and Warrantless Surveillance

    CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON Professor of Communication at American University and author of the books Blowback, Science of Coercion and National Security Directives of the Reagan and Bush Administrations, Simpson said today: “There are two problems here: One is that the capability to collect this type of information is built into the networks involved. The other is…

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