News Releases

  • Private Equity Firms Pocketing Money for Autism Services

    Between 2017 and 2022, PE completed 85 percent of all buyouts of autism service providers––the highest rate of buyouts in any industry. 


  • Research on Coping with Long Covid

    A new paper by the Patient-Led Research Collaborative looks in depth at a variety of factors associated with psychiatric outcomes in patients with Long Covid. 


  • Huge Hospital Firm Reaping Profits From Dubious Transfers to Hospice

    The largest hospital corporation in the country, HCA Healthcare, may be inappropriately transferring patients to hospice care to boost profits and executive compensation. 


  • Whitewashing the Azov Battalion: “Our Neo-Nazis”

    Lev Golinkin, author of “A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, a Memoir of Soviet Ukraine”, recently wrote, “Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has already resulted in millions of losers… but there are also winners: the neofascists whom Putin’s war has turned into heroes.”


  • Model for Local Governments to Cancel Medical Debt

    The mayor of Washington, D.C. announced a $900,000 grant to buy and cancel medical debt for thousands of residents. Because one penny can be spent for every $1 of debt, the city could use that money to cancel $90 million in medical debt.


  • “Asians Want to Do Business; the U.S. Government is ‘War, War, War’”

    James Bradley, expert on U.S. policy in the Pacific and Asia and author of multiple bestsellers regarding the subject, says,”Today, Asians want to do business…using a number of means, the U.S. government can coerce different governments to build more bases — the Philippines, Japan and so on. But there’s no public desire for this…they will use whatever means they can to prevent strong bonds throughout Asia.”


  • “Daniel Ellsberg Has Passed Away. He Left Us a Message”

    Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, published two articles today commemorating the impacts made by Pentagon Papers whistleblower and peace activist Daniel Ellsberg, who passed away on Friday.


  • Biden Rebuilds Ties with Saudi Arabia, Sanders Silent on Stopping Yemen War

    The Biden administration has recently made efforts to reconcile with Saudi Arabia. The US has been complicit in the war Saudi Arabia has waged on Yemen, being the former’s largest weapons supplier. Sacc Evans-Frant, a member of Action Corps said, “Bernie’s apparent silence — as the historic leader on the Yemen War Powers Resolution in the Senate — is providing cover for other members of Congress to fail to act.”


  • A Tale of Two Espionage Act Defendants: Trump and a Drone Whistleblower 

    Institute for Public Accuracy’s executive director Norman Solomon, and whistleblower Thomas Drake who was indicted in 2010 under the Obama administration, commented on Donald Trump’s recent indictment and the use of the Espionage Act. Speaking in regards to Daniel Hale, a drone whistleblower serving a 45 month sentence, Drake said, “Daniel Hale held faith to the highest ideals of our country and human rights… the deep irony is that the Espionage Act, in its contemporary use, can’t tell Trump and Hale apart.” Solomon said, “For Trump, it will be irrelevant that the 106-year-old Espionage Act does not allow defendants to testify…


  • NATO Playing with Fire

    Benjamin Abelow, author of “How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe” said recently, To say that the U.S. and NATO provoked the war could mean two different things. Do I mean that they wanted a war, and that they knew their actions would start one? That is one possible meaning of ‘provoked.’ But ‘provoked’ can also mean that their actions caused the war unintentionally.”


  • Perspectives on Mideast Crisis

    MARC ELLIS Director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University in Texas and author of Oh Jerusalem: The Contested Future of the Jewish Covenant, Ellis said today: “The escalation of the Israeli helicopter gunships firing into civilian areas is just appalling…. Justice would mean a shared real sovereignty of all of…

  • Interviews Available on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    ALLEGRA PACHECO An Israeli Jewish human rights lawyer who represents Palestinians in the West Bank, Pacheco is now a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe. She wrote in The New York Times last week: “Since 1994, Palestinians have seen the influx of 50,000 new Jewish settlers into the West Bank and Gaza, the paving…

  • Revolution in Yugoslavia?

    ROBERT HAYDEN Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Blueprints for a House Divided: The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflict, Hayden said today: “The army has broken with the regime. The state media has been taken over by the opposition. It’s a real…

  • Beyond Debate for Bush and Gore

    STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER Co-director of the Center for National Health Program Studies at Harvard University, Woolhandler said today: “On Medicare, Gore supports what is happening now — seniors slowly being forced into HMOs — while Bush supports accelerating the process. Bush cloaks his privatization of Medicare as ‘choice,’ but it means choosing between restrictive HMO ‘A’…

  • Debate Commission Says Gore-Bush Only: Responses Available

    The Commission on Presidential Debates has formally announced that it intends to exclude all third party candidates from the presidential debates. Phil Donahue (who is a member of the Committee to Elect Ralph Nader President) wrote in the Sunday Los Angeles Times: “If Ralph Nader is excluded from the presidential debates, many issues important to…

  • Key Economic Issues: Oil, IMF, Euro

    WENONAH HAUTER Director of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy Project, Hauter said today: “Oil interests have used their enormous political power — which has increased with Exxon-Mobil and other mergers — to stop public policies that advance energy efficiency and conservation. Lehman Brothers reported recently that profits from the four largest oil companies are expected…

  • Analysts Available on National Association of Broadcasters

    The National Association of Broadcasters, which lobbies for the commercial broadcast industry, is holding its annual radio convention in San Francisco through September 23. Nonviolent protests are planned. These analysts are available for interviews: ROBERT McCHESNEY Professor at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois and author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy:…

  • Welfare: Bipartisan Success?

    LIZ ACCLES Accles is national coordinator for the Welfare Made A Difference National Campaign, which today launched a public education drive. Accles can arrange interviews with current and former welfare recipients; some of their stories are available on the web page. More Information FRANCES FOX PIVEN Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology…

  • Analysts on UN Summit

    NOAM CHOMSKY Author of a number of books on international relations, most recently Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, and Institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky said today: “The UN Millennium Summit has a nice wish list — it calls on governments to do lots of good things like…

  • Debating the Debates: Who to Include?

    JAMIN RASKIN Law professor at American University, Raskin represented Ross Perot in 1996, chairs the Appleseed Citizens’ Task Force on Fair Debates and has also advised the Nader campaign on the debate issue. Raskin said today: “While the two major parties are squabbling over details of what kind of debates they want, the full breadth…

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