Susan Webb
LATEST ARTICLES BY Susan Webb
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U.S.
Desperate measures? Bishops and Republicans continue fight against birth control
February 15, 2012One would have thought that the Obama administration last week put a solid end to the fight over women's access to birth control.
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World
Saudi Arabia going nuclear – why no uproar?
February 10, 2012Saudi Arabia recently announced its intention to launch its own nuclear program, saying it needs to diversify its energy sources.
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World
Talk of military intervention in Syria recalls Iraq debacle
February 7, 2012The talk of covert action, "no fly zones," and military involvement via proxies has ratcheted up following the Russian and Chinese veto of a UN Security Council resolution.
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U.S.
Victory for women: Komen reinstates Planned Parenthood funding
February 3, 2012The reversal came after a firestorm of protests over the cutoff, including charges that it was a cave-in to Republican/right-wing pressure.
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U.S.
U.S. information center named for Paul Robeson
February 1, 2012In a ceremony last week, the U.S. Embassy in Jamaica named its Information Resource Center for the African American singer-actor-activist Paul Robeson.
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World
“Bread, freedom, human dignity”: Mass protest returns to Tahrir Square
January 26, 2012Hundreds of thousands rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in other Egyptian cities Wednesday on the first anniversary of the Jan. 25, 2011, uprising that led to the ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak.
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U.S.
Will Twinkies, Kodak wreck the American dream?
January 24, 2012It seems another American icon is being chiseled away.
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Opinion
David Brooks peddles snake oil on race, class, Santorum
January 4, 2012"The Republican Party is the party of the white working class," David Brooks, the New York Times' resident conservative "intellectual," declared.
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