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  • Media Advisory: Whistleblowers to Speak About Surveillance and Cyber Issues

    “President Barack Obama is set to sign an executive order on Friday aimed at encouraging companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each other, a response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment. … Obama will sign the order at a day-long conference on cybersecurity at Stanford University in the…

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  • Delegation of U.S. and UK Whistleblowers in London: News Conference on “Special Surveillance Relationship” — News Advisory

    Whistleblowers from four American and British “national security” agencies will hold a news conference in London on November 21 in a direct challenge to surveillance policies of the U.S. and UK governments. The whistleblowers — from the NSA, FBI, State Department and GCHQ — will speak about the effects of their governments’ policies on freedom…

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  • In Response to the Government’s Lynching of James Risen

    It has been a sharp learning curve for Jim Risen, but by having numerous grand juries and two administrations relentlessly hounding him, he has learned how deeply the government’s malevolence descends. But there was always one steadfast assertion he wound not compromise, Jim Risen assured his sources, from the very start of their first encounter,…

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  • Militarization of U.S. Police: Ferguson, Mo.

    Community policing reforms came about as a corrective to the 1950-60s professional police model which created a large gulf between police and citizens. Few noticed that underlying all the CP rhetoric was a little noticed yet foretelling trend of para-militarism as found in SWAT teams. What we’re witnessing today, though, with the influence of the…

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  • Unconstitutional acts of war in Iraq

    President Obama ignored the wise direction of President George Washington when he casually told the nation — and Congress — that U.S. military forces will engage in acts of war in Iraq for an extended period of weeks and maybe months. Bombing, he said in a brief statement last week, is needed here and there,…

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  • News Conference: Edward Snowden’s Passport, Political Asylum and Related Issues

    Ray McGovern, Coleen Rowley and Norman Solomon spoke at this news conference, sponsored by RootsAction.org and hosted by the Institute for Public Accuracy.

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  • NSA Veterans and Whistleblowers Respond to Obama Speech

    Minutes after President Obama’s major address on NSA surveillance on Friday, Jan. 17, the Institute for Public Accuracy held a news conference with noted NSA veterans and whistleblowers.

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  • The War on Poverty at Fifty

    Fifty years after Lyndon B. Johnson made it the centerpiece of his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964, the War on Poverty remains one of the most embattled—and least understood—of Great Society initiatives.

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  • Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage

    Edward Snowden may go down in history as one of this nation’s most important whistleblowers. He is certainly one of the bravest.

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  • Obama’s Economic Race Legacy

    From the start, President Barack Obama has shown little interest or loyalty in the issues that affect the poor, working class and people of color in the United States. For almost his entire first term he didn’t utter the words poor or poverty. Early on he reminded African Americans: ‘I’m not the president of black…

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  • * New Israeli Government * Hakeem Jeffries’ AIPAC Funding

    New House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is an outspoken advocate for Israel. According to Open Secrets, three of his top five contributors — Pro-Israel America PAC, NorPAC and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — are pro-Israeli government.

  • Virgin Islands AG Who Litigated Against Jeffrey Epstein and JPMorgan Is Fired

    Ettinger notes: “About a week ago, George filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank, alleging that the financial institution had essentially served as a bank for Epstein’s criminal human trafficking enterprise.” The suit [PDF], which has extensive redactions, charges: “In addition to having actual knowledge that it was participating in and facilitating the Epstein sex-trafficking…

  • Musk, Twitter and Pandemic Misinformation

    Elon Musk has restored the accounts of several prominent spreaders of pandemic-related misinformation, including Simone Gold.

  • Ukraine: * Congress as War Prop * Christmas Truce

    “The posture of Biden and the Congress plays directly into the Russian narrative: They are at war with NATO. This escalates the risks of nuclear war”,says Professor Boyle, author of ‘Foundations of World Order’.

  • As Zelensky Speaks to Congress: Core Facts

    “The U.S. and allies have worked against the negotiation of peace. Unlimited free weapons works against the negotiation of peace. No total victory is possible in the foreseeable future, and the U.S. has been preparing for another endless war.”

  • Argentina is Taking the World Cup Home from Qatar. Why Isn’t the U.S. Leaving?

    The issue of U.S. bases and troops in Qatar and U.S. support for the Qatari government was supremely overlooked during reporting on the World Cup. If this was a World Cup ‘soaked in blood,’ as many rightly said, what does it mean that the U.S. government has been one of the Qatari government’s biggest backers…

  • Why Did FTX Spend So Much on Politicians?

    “Money in politics today is a Category 5 hurricane. Just when you think you have finally absorbed the worst punch the storm has to offer, some other eddy comes blasting down. We have tried to pull together the many streams of political money from SBF, his senior associates, and all other employees of FTX, together…

  • Is Medicare Advantage Worthless?

    By 2018, Medicare Advantage was not providing “meaningful health advantages” for people experiencing heart attacks compared to traditional Medicare.

  • After the World Cup, the U.S. Isn’t Leaving Qatar

    With all the outrage over Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup given the ruling regime’s human rights record, few have asked why the U.S. government has been such a supporter of that very regime for decades. https://accuracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/base-nation-200×300.jpeg” alt=”” width=”200″ height=”auto” />

  • U.S.-Africa Summit

    The Black Alliance for Peace “has launched an anti-imperialist week of actions in Washington to raise public awareness about the cynical intentions of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit by the State Department.

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