Susan Webb

Susan Webb is a retired co-editor of People's World. She has written on a range of topics both international - the Iraq war, World Social Forums in Brazil and India, the Israel-Palestinian conflict and controversy over the U.S. role in Okinawa - and domestic - including the meaning of socialism for Americans, attacks on Planned Parenthood, the U.S. as top weapons merchant, and more.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Susan Webb

Peace

Palestinians press UN recognition, Israel confronts political turmoil
January 19, 2011 By Susan Webb
With Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations broken down, Palestinian leaders are pursuing “plan B," Israel is in political turmoil, and the U.S. has not said what it plans to do.
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World

Thousands of Israelis march against “witch-hunt”
January 18, 2011 By Susan Webb
Center and left Israelis, including political parties and human rights organizations, warn that Israel hasn't learned the lessons of the 1950s McCarthyite hysteria in the U.S.
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U.S.

Blizzard blues? Relax: it’s hotter than ever
December 28, 2010 By Susan Webb
Guess what: this year is stacking up as one of the hottest since we humans started keeping thermometer-based temperature records 160 years ago.
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U.S.

FCC approves controversial Internet rules
December 21, 2010 By Susan Webb
The Federal Communications Commission approved first-time regulations on companies that provide Internet service, but Al Franken is upset about it.
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Peace

Obama walks fine line with Afghanistan plan
December 17, 2010 By Susan Webb
The 2012 presidential elections are undoubtedly playing a big role in President Obama's Afghanistan policies.
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World

WikiLeaks spawns OpenLeaks, global whistle-blowing community
December 14, 2010 By Susan Webb
The biggest story about WikiLeaks may not be the contents of the documents it is releasing but its upending of secrecy, whistle-blowing and journalism as we know it.
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World

WikiLeaks puts U.S. on the spot
December 1, 2010 By Susan Webb
The release of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables lifts the veil that cloaks the seemingly prim and proper world of international diplomacy.
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U.S.

TSA airport checks: making sense of the furor
November 23, 2010 By Susan Webb
Civil liberties advocates, libertarians and some passengers are protesting new airport security screening procedures, while some are skeptical about the furor.
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