Sam Husseini

Sam Husseini is a writer and political activist. He is the communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a D.C.-based nonprofit group that promotes progressive experts as alternative sources for mainstream media reporters. He formerly worked at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and at the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

He founded the webpage [http://www.VotePact.org VotePact.org] which encourages disenchanted Democrats to pair up with disenchanted Republicans and both vote the third parties and independent candidates.

Writing

Husseini has written about U.S. media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1395] [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1509] and of religion. [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2692] [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1310] In 1994, he suggested that General Electric's repeated felony convictions should make the corporation ineligible to hold broadcast licenses. [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1254]

Husseini wrote the article "Follow the Policy: Why So Long for Iraq to Comply?" shortly before the invasion of Iraq. [http://www.counterpunch.org/husseini03082003.html] The piece purported to explain why Iraq hadn't complied with the United Nations' disarmament demands. It ignored the possibility that Iraq had actually complied. This was the case even though Husseini in other instances had questioned the U.S. government claim that Iraq had not complied.

External links

* [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=10&author_id=127 "Extra!" articles by Sam Husseini]
* [http://www.husseini.org Sam Husseini's blog]
* [http://husseini.org/2006/02/a-political-confessional.html Husseini's blog entry about starting this wiki-entry with self-criticism]
* [http://www.accuracy.org Institute for Public Accuracy]