News Releases

  • 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.”


  • “Austrian Censorship of Peace Conference Is an Outrage”

    President of the board of World BEYOND War, Kathy Kelly, made a statement about the cancellation of the Summit for Peace in Ukraine conference in Vienna. She said, “This is not an isolated incident. Western liberal ideals have long asserted that the best answer to mistaken speech was wiser speech and more of it. We now have a rapidly growing liberal consensus in favor, instead, of censoring media outlets, canceling speaking events, and forbidding people with unwanted points of view from even gathering together.”


  • Globalization Without Representation?

    The following analysts, many in Seattle, are available for comment on the World Trade Organization: LORI WALLACH Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Wallach said: “President Clinton’s PR stunt on the child labor treaty is the height of hypocrisy, given he knows that absent major WTO changes – which he has refused to demand…

  • Clinton and Protests in Seattle

    JUDITH BARISH An editor of the World Trade Observer and former communications director for the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, Barish said: “In 1994, Clinton promised not to support the establishment of the World Trade Organization unless it addressed labor standards, but that was forgotten. Now the administration is again talking up labor standards. But their…

  • WTO vs. Democracy?

    REP. DENNIS KUCINICH A letter to President Clinton initiated by Rep. Kucinich (D-Ohio) and signed by 113 House Democrats says: “The WTO infringes on the sovereignty of nations to enforce worker rights. A proposed bill to ban products made with child labor is WTO-illegal…” Speaking to World Trade Watch, a daily national radio program co-produced…

  • WTO Rules: The Record

    SEATTLE – Since its founding five years ago, the World Trade Organization has consistently settled trade disputes in favor of corporate interests, frequently deeming labor and environmental regulations “non-tariff trade barriers.” Conflicts between countries are decided by three unelected WTO officials in Geneva in secretive proceedings. With each nation challenging or threatening to challenge each…

  • Road to Seattle: Key Battles on WTO

    WASHINGTON — In the lead-up to the World Trade Organization ministerial summit in Seattle next week, U.S. trade representative Charlene Barshefsky spoke at the National Press Club today. But critics charge that she is speaking on behalf of discredited U.S. trade policies. SCOTT NOVA Director of the Citizens Trade Campaign, Nova said Tuesday afternoon: “Barshefsky…

  • Road to WTO Summit in Seattle: Why the Protests?

    JUDITH BARISH An editor of the World Trade Observer and former communications director for the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, Barish said: “There will be thousands of people protesting in the streets in Seattle, but not because we oppose trade and economic globalization. We want to see the rules written to protect workers and citizens as…

  • Budget Debate: Public Vs. Politicians

    STEVEN KULL Director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes and co-author of Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism, Kull said: “When pollsters ask Americans how they feel about spending — on, for example, defense and foreign aid — they say to keep defense where it is and cut foreign aid. However,…

  • Human Rights, Trade and Foreign Policy

    While President Clinton visits Turkey and tries to bring China into the World Trade Organization, the following analysts are available for comment: BAMA ATHREYA Director of Asia Programs for the International Labor Rights Fund, Athreya said: “The U.S.-China negotiations on China’s entry into the WTO are certainly a boon for U.S. business, but will it…

  • Battles on Campaign Finance

    Mass. Legislature Tries to Loophole Reform; Judge Upholds Maine Initiative DAVID DONNELLY Campaign manager for Mass Voters for Clean Elections, Donnelly commented: “For years the legislature would not pass public funding of campaigns even though that’s what most people wanted. We put it on the ballot and it won by two-to-one a year ago. On…

  • Berlin Wall Anniversary

    MARTIN A. LEE The author of The Beast Reawakens, a recent book about neofascism and right-wing extremism in Europe and the U.S., Lee said: “Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany is a deeply troubled nation, vexed by high unemployment, a stagnant economy, acrimonious relations between eastern and western residents, a charged…

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