Sam Husseini
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Sam Husseini is a writer and political activist. He is the communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy
Institute for Public Accuracy
The Institute for Public Accuracy is a Washington, D.C.-based organization that encourages mainstream news media to interview alternative sources. It was founded in 1997 by Norman Solomon, who serves as executive director; its communications director is Sam Husseini....

, 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
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee states that it is the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States. According to its web page it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and has over 40 chapters in 24 states and members in all...

 and at the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting is a progressive media criticism organization based in New York City, founded in 1986.FAIR describes itself on its website as "the national media watch group" and defines its mission as working to "invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity...

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He founded the webpage VotePact.org which encourages disenchanted Democrats to pair up with disenchanted Republicans and both vote the third parties and independent candidates.

He founded the webpage WashingtonStakeout.com which features him pointedly questioning political figures as they leave the Sunday morning talkshows.

Writing

Husseini has written about U.S. media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflicthttp://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1395http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1509 and of religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

.http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2692 http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1310 In 1994, he suggested that General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

'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.

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