accuracy.org

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.

  • Medicare Advantage Overpayment Tops $100 Billion

    Medicare Advantage results in a “$100 billion annual payoff for attracting inexpensive enrollees, upcoding disease severity, and biased price-setting procedures.”

  • Censoring Pro-Palestinian Speech; Attacks on Muslims

    “The contradiction at the heart of Israel has been that a state founded by victims of racism was itself a racist state. For some time, that meant Israel had to carry out a difficult balancing act: an apartheid system with the rhetoric of liberal values, tolerance, and antiracism. And it became necessary to distort the…

  • Hezbollah Expert: Hamas Trying to Follow in Hezbollah’s Footsteps, Israel Pursuing Exodus of Palestinians

    “How good is Israel at ‘defending itself’? We’re not seeing it significantly inflicting damage on Hamas’ infrastructure, only deliberate large-scale targeting of civilian areas. Those brandishing this ‘right’ must be fully aware that all Israel does is punish a population? In reality, all Israel seems to be doing is taking this opportunity to pursue a…

  • Noted Nonviolent Activist Deported by Israel on the Way Forward

    “I have spent my life advocating for Palestinians and Israelis to use nonviolent means to resolve their conflicts. Because Israel feared Palestinian unity and mass nonviolent action, I was expelled by the government in 1988. Since then, I have, on several occasions, personally advocated with Hamas leaders to abandon armed struggle and embrace nonviolent campaigns.…

  • Israeli “Intent to Kill in the Thousands”: * International Law * Ethnic Cleansing

    “Israel plans to flatten Gaza. This is beyond comprehension. There’s no irony that in the name of battling ‘barbarism,’ Israel with the backing of the U.S. and most European capitals, will unleash a genocidal campaign.”

  • Minimizing Gaza Deaths; Disinformation from Israel on Iran; Falsehoods on Baby Beheadings

    The Intercept reports: “‘Beheaded Babies’ Report Spread Wide and Fast — but Israel Military Won’t Confirm It.” The Electronic Intifada reports: “Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded Israeli children.”

  • Israel and Palestinians in Gaza: Current Disaster and Roots

    “If Israel had fulfilled the conditions it undertook at its 1949 admission to the United Nations, that ‘refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date,’ the Gaza Strip would not exist today as a ghetto of suffering and…

  • Israel: “War Crimes” and “Genocide”

    “Israel has been imposing a land, air, and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades, impoverishing much of the crowded enclave’s population and denying millions sufficient access to clean water and other necessities. Children, who make up roughly half of Gaza’s population, have been disproportionately affected.”

  • Beyond Israel vs. Hamas

    Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative — which is independent of both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority — was on GPS with Fareed Zakaria on CNN and gave an overview with critical context about the conflict.

  • Nobel Peace Prize Watch Faults Award’s Selection Process

    “In his latest book, The Real Nobel Peace Prize, to be released on Nov. 11, he explains how Alfred Nobel, “over 50 years before the first nuclear bomb, understood what was coming and established his peace prize for a global co-operation to end war.”

Mastodon