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News ReleasesBlogNews ItemsAbout UsBoardStaffSubscribeExposeFactsCalendar Latest News Release – Interviews AvailableAnalysis of White House Decision to Declare Monkeypox a Public Health EmergencyAugust 4, 2022Analysis of White House Decision to Declare Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency –– Interviews AvailableThe White House announcement Thursday declaring the monkeypox outbreak a state of emergency was made by Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who has come under fire in recent weeks for what activists see as his “lack of urgency” with regard to the virus.Several states––including those that made up a significant portion of the nation’s cases, such as California, Illinois and New York––had already declared their own states of emergency in recent days. STELLA SAFO, MD, MPH; [email protected], @AmmahStarr    Safo is an HIV primary care physician and the founder of Just Equity for Health.Safo told the Institute for Public Accuracy today: The state of emergency declaration is “one of the best and most helpful things we’ve heard in the last few weeks. We’ve been watching a slow moving train wreck. The concern is that if you don’t declare a state of emergency for a new infectious disease [in the U.S.], we won’t get the resources and the attention we need to really control it. The resources piece is very important because we’re seeing that we’re having a hard time diagnosing among certain groups.     “It’s very good news that the federal government has declared a state of emergency and that other individual states continue to do so. My hope is that it’s going to mark a turn in the response––which has been, if anything, lackluster––toward something more robust.”Blog PostsInternships and Volunteer Positions AvailableJuly 15, 2022 by journalist · Noam Chomsky: "The Institute for Public Accuracy has been regularly providing the media with informed and expert commentary on the crucial events of the day, compensating for the inevitable distortion and significant omissions that trace to reliance on official sources and on a narrow spectrum of opinion, among other factors. Apart from its constructive contributions to media comprehensiveness and accuracy, for individuals who are seeking a better understanding of evolving world events IPA has been an incomparable source of critically important news that had escaped notice or received inadequate or misleading coverage, as well as acute analysis that is hard to find or completely missing in the mainstream. Speaking personally, I have found it invaluable as a source of insight and information, and for leads to pursue that I would otherwise have missed."[more]Amazon Union VoteApril 9, 2021 by sam · MIKE ELK, [email protected], @MikeElkElk i…[more]Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian MessageMarch 17, 2020 by journalist · U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the U.S. “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, causing hardship and tragedy while contributing to the global spread of the pandemic. On March 12, 2020, Iran’s Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif urged member states of the UN to end the United States’ unconscionable and lethal economic warfare.[more]Timeline: How DNC Manipulated 2016 Presidential Race February 13, 2020 by journalist · April 25, 2017: In class action lawsuit alleging DNC fraud, DNC attorney argues the party has the right to ignore primary voters: “The party has the freedom of association to decide how it’s gonna select its representatives to the convention and to the state party. Even to define what constitutes evenhandedness and impartiality really would already drag the court well into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs. The party could have favored a candidate. I’ll put it that way... We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.’” (See Newsweek: "Was the Election Rigged Against Bernie Sanders? Dnc Lawsuit Demands Repayment for Campaign Donors.")[more]News ItemsScrutinizing Mueller and RussiagateJuly 26, 2019Following being on a pair of accuracy.org news releases, FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley and journalist Aaron Maté appeared on several programs just after Robert Mueller's long-anticipated testimony on Capitol Hill. See Rowley on The Real News, where, among other things, she gives critical background on Mueller. And see Maté on the Jimmy Dore Show and CGTN's "The Heat"scrutinizing much of the conventional wisdom on Russiagate.[more]Manuel Pérez-Rocha in “New York Times”July 5, 2018After appearing in a recent IPA news release, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, was quoted in the article "Trump and Mexico’s New Leader, Both Headstrong, Begin With a ‘Good Conversation’."[more]Activist Kathy Kelly talks Afghanistan on Democracy Now!June 8, 2018After appearing on an IPA press release, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, was interviewed by Democracy Now! today to discuss the significance surrounding Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's announcement of an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban.[more]ExposeFacts Panel Discussion on War, Journalism and Whistleblowers on “Flashpoints”March 23, 2018Thomas Drake, Katharine Gun, and other key 21st century whistle blowers featured in a special panel discussion sponsored last week by the Institute for Public Accuracy, on the radio program "Flashpoints," 15 years after Katherine Gun blew the whistle on U.S. dirty tricks to try influence the UN on the invasion of Iraq.[more]Pat Elder on JROTC and the NRA in U.S. Schools on Democracy Now!February 21, 2018After appearing on an IPA news release, Pat Elder, author of Military Recruiting in the United States and director of National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, @studentprivacy (studentprivacy.org) was interviewed this morning on Democracy Now! He spoke about the role of JROTC and the NRA in U.S. Schools, including the one that trained the Parkland Shooter, Nikolas Cruz.[more]From the NYT: Robert Parry, Investigative Reporter and Founder of ConsortiumNews, Dies at 68February 1, 2018Robert Parry, a tenacious investigative reporter and author who exposed details of the Reagan administration’s secret support for Nicaraguan rebels in the 1980s, died on Saturday in Arlington, Va. He was 68.[more] Recent News ReleasesLong Covid: Activists Disappointed in Two New Reports from Biden AdministrationAugust 4, 2022The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services released two new reports about long Covid on Wednesday, sparking a critical response from activist organizations. [more]“How Israel Made AIPAC”August 3, 2022Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Grant Smith says, "In 1962, AIPAC was the lobbying and foreign propaganda division of an umbrella group (the American Zionist Council) that triggered the Department of Justice order to AZC to register as an Israeli foreign agent.. AIPAC should still be seen as a creation of Israel, no matter what its current funding flows and framing."[more]Drone Assassination: Inconvenient FactsAugust 2, 2022Author Laurie Calhoun says, "We have been assured by President Biden that Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed alone, and no one else was injured by the strike, not even his family. What a curious claim to make, given that family members were considered fair game for attack throughout the 'war on terror.'"[more]Pelosi “Playing with Fire” Regarding ChinaAugust 1, 2022James Bradley, author of many bestsellers concerning U.S. policy in the Pacific and Asia says, "Pelosi is indeed ‘playing with fire’ as Xi says... military conflict regarding Taiwan will happen if the U.S. government starts or provokes it."[more]77 Years After Hiroshima, Public “Shockingly Oblivious” to Threat of Nuclear WarAugust 1, 2022Co-founder of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area, John Steibach says, "The public is shockingly oblivious to the threat of global nuclear war. This is the most dangerous period, even exceeding the Cuban missile crisis."[more] National Office 1714 Franklin Street #100-133 Oakland, CA 94612-3409 Voice 510-788-4541 ipa[at]accuracy.org Washington Office (journalist contact)Voice 202-347-0020 Fax 615-849-5802 ipa[at]accuracy.org