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

U.S.

Real grassroots organizes for health care reform
August 11, 2009 By Susan Webb
With polls showing the overwhelming majority of Americans want health care reform that covers everyone and lowers costs, progressive organizations are mobilizing to activate that real grassroots majority.
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U.S.

Arctic Ocean could be pollution sump in 60 years if warming not curbed
August 7, 2009 By Susan Webb
The Arctic Ocean could become a stagnant, polluted sea within 60 years if nothing is done to cut global warming, a scientific study warns.
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U.S.

Twitter silenced, hackers suspected
August 7, 2009 By Susan Webb
Hackers may have brought down Twitter this morning. The rapidly expanding new communications tool, which gained global attention in the Iran election crisis, was inaccessible for several hours Thursday. The company is blaming a “denial-of-service” attack.
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U.S.

Pa. shooters blog mixed racism, sexism, despair
August 6, 2009 By Susan Webb
The gunman who killed three women and then himself at a Pittsburgh-area fitness club yesterday had a blog in which racist and sexist comments mixed with constant talk of his failure to have relationships with women,...
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U.S.

Pollution causing cancer in animals, new report warns
August 5, 2009 By Susan Webb
Dumping of toxic wastes is contributing to cancer among wildlife, a new report says. Scientists say that tumors on beluga whales, sea lions and other animals are a warning signal. They call these animals “sensitive sentinels...
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U.S.

Stimulus money gives lifeline to states, communities
August 4, 2009 By Susan Webb
Federal stimulus money is now the number one income source for state and local governments, the latest statistics show. The infusion of federal money — under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed by President...
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U.S.

White House school reform plan draws mixed reaction
July 28, 2009 By Susan Webb
Teachers unions and advocates gave a mixed reaction to a $4.35 billion education reform initiative announced by President Obama and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan last week.
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World

Big turnout expected in hotly contested Iraqi Kurdistan vote
July 24, 2009 By Susan Webb
Special elections that began Thursday morning in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region are considered the hottest since the first Kurdish parliamentary elections in 1992.
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