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

World

Oil looming large in battle over Iraqs future
July 22, 2009 By Susan Webb
About the only reports out of Iraq in U.S. major media these days are about suicide bombings and other attacks. Meanwhile, though, Iraq is working to re-emerge as a major global oil producer. How this will...
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U.S.

Cost of health reform becomes new battleground
July 21, 2009 By Susan Webb
Opponents of real health care reform are now zeroing in on how it will be financed. They are arguing that universal health coverage, especially a public plan, is too expensive or, if they can’t block a...
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World

Hillary Clinton outlines new mindset for U.S. foreign policy
July 16, 2009 By Susan Webb
WASHINGTON — In a wide-ranging speech at the Council on Foreign Relations today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined how the Obama adminstration’s foreign policy aims to reshape the U.S. role in the world.
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Labor

Main source of their income was us Colibri workers continue struggle
July 15, 2009 By Susan Webb
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — David Correia and Alda Bonin were among a crowd of workers who jammed a tiny courtroom here last week, pressing a six-month struggle for pay and benefits they say are owed them.
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U.S.

Keep fighting for justice, says Lincoln Brigade veteran, 93
July 14, 2009 By Susan Webb
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Seventy-two years after he went to Spain to defend its republic against fascism, John Hovan was honored here by the government of Spain.
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Opinion

McNamara and wars lessons which way do we go now?
July 10, 2009 By Susan Webb
On July 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, Twittered, “Wondering how many who watched fireworks on July 4 did so because it's fun, forgetting that it commemorates exploding bombs during warfare.” That same...
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U.S.

Coalition will battle banks over new consumer protection agency
July 8, 2009 By Susan Webb
“Some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen,” Woody Guthrie sang in his 1939 song “Pretty Boy Floyd.” These days an unappetizing alliance of finance companies, banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders...
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World

Moving to a no-nukes world? Obama, Medvedev agree on nuclear weapons cuts
July 7, 2009 By Susan Webb
In a turn away from years of stalemate and heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia over nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Monday to reduce U.S. and Russian stockpiles of...
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