Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Were it not for Amy Goodman’s program on Pacifica Radio – Democracy Now! – the Winter Soldier hearings at the National Labor College/George Meany Center in Silver Spring, Maryland (March 13-16) would have gone largely ignored. The remarkable testimony of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was disregarded by most of the mainstream media…

Iraq is costing trillions of dollars that should be invested in jobs, universal healthcare, education, housing and public works here at home. Our own Gulf Coast requires the attention and funds now spent on Gulf oil. • Iraq cannot be separated from our energy crisis. Progressives should support Obama’s sixteen-month combat troop withdrawal plan in…

…and, frankly, I stay worried. Despite the revelation by U.S. Intelligence agencies that Iran stopped exploring the possibility for nuclear weapons some years ago, the Bush administration has continued to engage in an amazing display of factual denial. The revelation resulted in a temporary toning down of the rhetoric of war because of the embarrassment.…

As unbelievable as it may sound, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center (reported in the Washington Post, March 13th), only 28% of the public realizes that nearly 4000 US troops have been killed in the Iraq war. Nearly half thinks that the number is 3000. It is unclear whether those polled were…

Over the last few weeks, a strange set of events have taken place in both South America and the USA revolving around Colombia’s attack on bases of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known by their Spanish acronym “FARC”) in Ecuador. The facts are rather straight forward. Military units of Colombia attacked a FARC base…